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Pride in Prejudice : Understanding Britain's Extreme Right
Get PDFPride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to extreme right cultures in Britain today, exploring the origins of this complex movement and the numerous groups and activists that make up Britain's contemporary extreme right. Showcasing the latest research, Pride in prejudice demonstrates that the movement has a long history in Britain. Jackson evaluates successes and failures in policy responses to the extreme right, and identifies the on-going risks posed by lone-actor terrorism. In order to tackle the extreme right, Jackson argues, we must not only make ourselves aware of the changing ways the movement operates, but we must understand how the extreme right legitimises its perspectives in mainstream discourses that can implicitly and explicitly support its racist and extremist views
Novel Quality of Experience Experimentation Framework Through Programmable Network Management
Get PDFThe demand for online distribution of high quality and high throughput content has led to non-cooperative competition of network resources between a growing number of media applications. This causes a significant impact on network efficiency, the quality of user experience (QoE), its technical measurements as well as a discrepancy of QoE across user devices. Within a multi-user multi-device environment, automating the measuring and maintenance of perceivable user feedback becomes as critical as achieving the QoE on individual user applications. This paper discusses network- and user-level QoE measurements and prediction over networked multimedia applications and how such techniques can be managed through novel framework designs using programmable networks such as software-defined networks (SDN)
Multi-stakeholder perspective on the role of universities in place branding
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to create a conceptual framework to demonstrate the role of universities as a knowledge partner in place branding networks. This research adopts a case study strategy to explore the perceptions of institutional and community stakeholders in Northamptonshire. The objective is to examine the regional activities and engagement of a single player university in a peripheral region and explore its potential for widening stakeholder participation. Qualitative data was collected through interviews and focus groups and thematically analysed. The university played a complementary ‘partnership’ role to other institutional stakeholders, particularly the public sector. As a knowledge partner, the university filled gaps in information (know-what), skills (know-how) and networks (know-who). The last two aspects are potentially unique to the university’s role in place branding networks and require further development. The conceptual framework demonstrates the potential of a single player university in a peripheral region to enhance the capabilities and skills of stakeholders in place branding networks and widen stakeholder participation. Future researchers can use the framework to develop recommendations for universities’ role in place branding based on their unique situation. There has been limited research on how universities participate and influence participation in place branding. The exploration of this topic in the context of a rural, marginalised region is also novel
Evaluation Report Delapre Cycling and Walking Social Prescription - Baseline Phase
Get PDFWest Northamptonshire Council, in partnership with Delapré Abbey Preservation Trust, secured £93,000 of funding to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a cycling and walking social prescription programme in the grounds of Delapré Abbey. This funding has been awarded by the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund – Active Travel Social Prescription Pilot. The objectives of the project were to deliver a pilot able to: 1. Address local community identified needs relating to underrepresented groups, high levels of deprivation and health inequalities. 2. Actively promote increased levels of physical activity through cycling and walking. 3. Demonstrate clear links between infrastructure development and the proposed social prescribing schemes. 4. Support modal shift to active travel providing people with travel choices and supporting changes in behaviour. The feasibility study was used to design and develop the social prescription pilot, which includes a Cycling and Walking Hub, cycle hire, volunteering and skills development, and Delapré Park pathway upgrades (Figure 1). The feasibility study was submitted to the Department for Transport on the 29th of April 2022 as part of the next round of pilot funding application to secure a grant, which will be used, in addition to locally sourced funding, to establish the Cycling and Walking Social Prescription Programme, Cycling and Walking Hub, and Delapré Park pathway upgrades. The University of Northampton was appointed to conduct a baseline evaluation, as part of the feasibility study, to determine current route use through Delapré Park and underpinning motivations, as well as public suggestions about the proposed delivery of the Cycling and Walking Social Prescription Programme and the Cycling and Walking Hub at Delapré Abbey
To record or not to record? That was the question
Get PDFThe approach to lecture capture at University of Northampton evolved during the Covid-19 pandemic both in terms of policy and practice. The changes made reflected proactive and responsive adaptations to support the needs of staff and students. This chapter provides a background to the nature of lecture capture including some of the issues arising during implementation. It then goes on to describe how the policy developed at Northampton to support Active Blended Learning and then was enhanced to incorporate the changes needed during Covid. The resultant changes on the use of core systems such as Blackboard Collaborate and Kaltura are discussed. Use of Collaborate initially increased by 1900%, with ongoing use mirroring the online academic teaching pattern. The chapter concludes with recommendations and management considerations for other institutions seeking either to implement lecture capture or introduce broad pedagogic and procedural changes
An Ageing-Aware and Temperature Mapping Algorithm For Multi-Level Cache Nodes
Get PDFIncrease in chip inactivity in the future threatens the performance of many-core systems and therefore, efficient techniques are required for continuous scaling of transistors. As of a result of this challenge, future proposed many-core system designs must consider the possibility of a 50% functioning chip per time as well maintaining performance. Fortunately, this 50% inactivity can be increased by managing the temperature of active nodes and the placement of the dark nodes to leverage a balance working chip whilst considering the lifetime of nodes. However, allocating dark nodes inefficiently can increase the temperature of the chip and increase the waiting time of applications. Consequently, due to stochastic application characteristics, a dynamic rescheduling technique is more desirable compared to fixed design mapping. In this paper, we propose an Ageing Before Temperature Electromigration-Aware, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) & Time-dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB) Neighbour Allocation (ABENA 2.0), a dynamic rescheduling management system which considers the ageing and temperature before mapping applications. ABENA also considers the location of active and dark nodes and migrate task based on the characteristics of the nodes. Our proposed algorithm employ Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to reduce the Voltage and Frequency (VF) of the nodes. Results show that, our proposed methods improve the ageing of nodes compared to a conventional round-robin management system by 10% in temperature, and 10% agein
Educational Technology: Opportunities and Challenges
Get PDFEmma Whewell shares the findings of Alastair Snook’s study on primary teachers’ use of educational technology, and the opportunities and challenges it presented during the pandemic
Deep Learning Approach for Real-time Video Streaming Traffic Classification
Get PDFVideo streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and YouTube continue to be of enormous demand in everyday peoples' lives. This enticed research into new mechanisms to provide a clear image of network usage and ensure better Quality of Service (QoS) for these applications. This paper proposes an accurate video streaming traffic classification model based on deep learning (DL). We first collected a set of video traffic data from a real network. Then, data was pre-processed to select the desired features for video traffic classification. Based on the performance evaluation, the model produces an overall accuracy of 99.3% when classifying video streaming traffic using a multi-layer feedforward neural network. This paper also evaluates the DL approach's effectiveness compared to the Gaussian Naive Bayes algorithm (GNB), one of the most well-known machine learning techniques used in Internet traffic classification. The model is promising to be applied in a real-time scenario as it showed its ability to predict new unseen data with 98.4 % overall accuracy
Spaces and Places (of shopping in the early modern era)
Get PDFIn 1573 Isabella Whitney, a woman of genteel birth from Cheshire who like so many of her female contemporaries had left north-west England to become a servant in London, produced a poem in which she mourned being forced to leave the metropolis. Written in the form of a will and elegiac in tone, Whitney provided a list of what she had ‘left to London’, including details of the extensive range of retailers which were to be found within the walls of the medieval city. These included butchers “that every day shall kill”; “brewers store and bakers at your will”; mercers “with silk so rich as any would desire”; and goldsmiths “with jewels such as are for ladies meet”. The mercers and goldsmiths, Whitney told her readers, were based in Cheapside, and she expounded on where other goods might be purchased too, noting that woollens might be bought in Watling Street and Candlewick Street; linens in Friday Street; hose in Burchin Lane; “boots, shoes or pantables” in St Martin’s; and beds in Cornhill, while tailors were to be found in Bow. “In many places, shops are full” observed Isabella, reassuring her readers with the promise that ‘I left you nothing scant”. (Whitney [1573] 2000: 13-15)
LGBT+ Education in Primary Schools : A collaborative investigation into teachers’ perceptions of why, how and when LGBT+ content could be taught in primary schools.
Get PDFThis poster will summarise the research project which links to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus (LGBT+) education in primary schools. With the ongoing changes in policy and law over the years regarding LGBT+ matters and the recent introduction of Department for Education guidance on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (DfE, 2019), this is a contemporary topic with issues and opportunities arising within primary schools. This poster will explore the year group in which teachers feel LGBT+ education should first be taught, the areas that impact teachers’ confidence, and the most effective strategies that can be used to deliver content. By exploring these three key areas through the triangulation of quantitative data, qualitative data and a thorough literature review, the overarching question of why, how and when LGBT+ content could be taught in primary schools will be summarised. This poster will reflect upon the current progress of the project and will detail the aims of the project and demonstrate the current practice taking place in primary schools. It will also highlight the key areas that possibly require recommendations on what can be changed and improved regarding LGBT+ education
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