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The mantle structure of North China Craton and its tectonic implications: insights from Teleseismic P-Wave Tomography
Get PDFTo study the mantle structure of the North China Craton (NCC) and its tectonic implications, in particular, the evolution of the rift systems in the Trans-North China Orogen (TNCO), we used teleseismic data recorded by 250 portable seismic stations to invert for the P-wave velocity (Vp) structures of the mantle beneath the NCC. Our results show a large-scale low-Vp anomaly in the shallow mantle and high-Vp anomalies in the deeper upper mantle beneath the eastern NCC, with fine-scale high-Vp anomalies at the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary, indicating multi-stage lithospheric delamination during the Cenozoic. In the Yan Mountains (YanM), an east–west striking high-Vp anomaly between 60 to 200 km depths and low heat flow suggest the preservation of a thick mantle root. In the TNCO, high-Vp bodies in the upper mantle and the upper part of the mantle transition zone (MTZ) are imaged. The shallower high-Vp anomaly located beneath the Shanxi–Shaanxi Rift (SSR), along with an overlying local-scale low-Vp anomaly, indicates local hot material upwelling due to lithospheric root removal. The India–Eurasia collision’s far-field effects are proposed to cause lithospheric thickening, subsequent root delamination, and the formation and evolution of the SSR
Diane Abbott's suspension highlights the complexity of different types of racism
No full textDiane Abbott–Britain’s first black woman MP and the longest serving woman in parliament, a veteran anti–racist with a large number of Jewish people in her Hackney constituency–has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time after a BBC interview in which she appeared to place anti-black racism above antisemitism in a hierarchy of racisms: “It's silly to try and claim that racism which is about skin colour is the same as other types of racism".
It’s hard to see how her new comments can be understood as antisemitic or that they merit discipline, but this is precisely the path Labour has chosen to pursue. On the eve of Abbott’s suspension, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner bluntly told The Guardian newspaper: “there’s no place for antisemitism in the Labour Party”, yet failed to explain how Abbott’s comments bear any relation to it. What did Abbott actually say–and, more importantly, is she right
Should I stay or should I go? A relational biopsychosocial perspective on neurodivergent talent, career satisfaction and turnover intention
Get PDFNeuroinclusion in human resources management (HRM) research and practice should go beyond the business case argument for neurodiversity (ND) to move to nuanced understanding of harnessing neurodivergent talent. We argue for a biopsychosocial HRM perspective from an explicit non-ableist stance, to illuminate in-work experience to inform employer positions as proactive carers. We conceptualize a model of relational biopsychosocial neurodivergent talent inclusion informed by Organizational Support Theory, comprising employee (person), environment and people characteristics, to guide a realist and co-creational investigation into (a) neurodivergent conditions and wellbeing (b) the role of tailored adjustment and (c) the influence of psychosocial support on what makes people stay (career satisfaction) and makes them go (turnover intention). We collected data from 985 ND employees across a range of UK-based organizations with existing interests in neuroinclusion. Neurodivergent condition co-occurrence was common (complex neurotypes), yet experience varied by condition across the study measures. The number of neurodivergent conditions, wellbeing, knowledge of neurodivergence, support from staff and the manager and psychological safety predicted career satisfaction. Support from the manager, psychological safety and career satisfaction predicted turnover intention. Tailored adjustment (to neurotype) became non-significant in each regression equation once other measures were added. We finally found support for a serial mediation where the association between psychological safety and turnover intention was sequentially mediated by wellbeing and career satisfaction. We discuss the need for a more holistic, ecological understanding of potentially vulnerable neurodivergent talent which considers wellbeing, the importance of the psychosocial environment and opportunity to realize career ambition in equal measures. We call for future research to develop our understanding of the role of the psychosocial environment in neuroinclusive HRM practices including domain-specific psychological safety
Project Bright Light: transforming the police response to domestic abuse - Findings report
Get PDFProject Brightlight, took place between January and May 2025, and aimed to lay the foundation for radically improving the police response to domestic abuse. It applied the ‘Six Pillar’ methodological approach established by Operation Soteria. This involved close police-academic co-production to collect, analyse and interpret a range of data sources to examine the following six topics: (1) investigation and safeguarding; (2) disruption and deterrence; (3) victim-centred response; (4) learning, development and officer wellbeing; (5) data and performance; and (6) digital evidence.
The overall aim of the research was to map the force’s current approach to domestic abuse to suggest evidence-informed, practical ideas to help transform how police operate in each of the six Pillar areas. Specific findings from each of the Pillars are described in sections of this report.
These findings coalesce into an overarching theme: the statutory definition of domestic abuse is too broad for effective operational policing. Conflating various victim-suspect relationships into a single domestic abuse category which challenges police operations and compromises the delivery of victim-centred, suspect-focused, and context-led policing. Consequently:
• There is a lack of clarity over how best to disrupt and deter suspects.
• Victims’ goals, interests and safety are subsumed, rather than central. The current response to victims often fails to deliver a procedurally just approach, compounding their negative experiences.
• Police data is distorted by flagging and recording requirements, obscuring the nature of the problem and how police respond to it.
• Compounding these challenges is the increasing volume of domestic abuse cases, particularly complex course of conduct offences, which existing police structures cannot effectively handle.
• A substantial proportion of this complex work stays with patrol, without officers being provided with the necessary training, time or resources to investigate them properly.
• Learning and development does not equip police officers and staff with the necessary skills and training to be able to tackle these investigations effectively, and these challenges are exacerbated when digital evidence is involved.
• Significant police time is expended on domestic abuse risk assessment, but the current tools and process-driven approach contribute to ‘incidentalism’, rather than assisting officers in identifying patterns of harm and responding appropriately.
These findings reflect significant and systemic issues affecting all police forces across England and Wales, leading us to propose national policy implications. In addition, they point to the need for a transformational change programme based on these findings to enable police to consistently deliver victim-centred, suspect-focused, and context-led responses to domestic abuse
The essence of cybernetics is nothing cybernetic: Manuel Felguérez and the aesthetic machine
No full textMexican painter Manuel Felguérez (1928–2020) devoted much of the 1970s to exploring cybernetic theory and collaborating with mathematicians and engineers to create an ‘aesthetic machine’, that is, a machine or programme capable of generating ‘balanced’ composition in the abstract style that characterised his painting. In this essay I discuss Felguérez’s project in relation to the techno-scientific epistemologies that permeated Cold War artistic creation, in particular cybernetics. Likewise, I explore the kinds of future(s) at stake in Felguérez’s temporal imagination, and the visions of technics and modernity that he forged through his art. My conceptualisation of Felguérez’s machine as both an ‘open machine’ (Simondon) and an ‘open artwork’ (Eco) emphasises the importance that the artist gave to feedback, evolution, chance, and indeterminacy in his project. This, in turn, allows us to understand his approach to abstraction as coextensive with his involvement in avant-garde performance in the 1960s (in collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowsky)
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No full textEvery love story has a final chapter.
Alfie and Julie's love story has been one of music, laughter, and heartache. On one early morning in June, they must write their ending.
Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge's trilogy exploring love and relationships.
This edition was published to coincide with the National Theatre production in November 2025, directed by Rachel O'Riordan (Romeo and Julie) and starring Clive Owen (Closer) as Alfie and Saskia Reeves (Slow Horses) as Julie in this touching and funny play on a life well lived
Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration Studies: Ethics, Politics and Practice in the Classroom
Get PDFMedia and the British General Elections of 2015–2019
No full textThis book brings together cutting-edge research on media in British elections. Chapters from a range of authors link extensive content analysis data from traditional and online media with survey data on political attitudes and behaviour in the three general elections between 2015 and 2019. The book examines a wide variety of topics that go well beyond the typical subjects of media effects research, including priming, intermedia agenda-setting, and media coverage of women and ethnic minority candidates and its impact. It provides the first comprehensive survey of media effects in contemporary British politics in 25 years. Many of the findings suggest more robust media effects in British elections than the conventional wisdom has allowed, and urge deeper engagement from scholars and practitioners with this strand of election analysis
Unchecked growth in publishing ‘threatens economic model’
No full textCambridge University Press report calls for “fewer, higher-quality papers” as libraries face “disproportionate rising costs
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