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March 2021
Body Positivity: A History of a (Once) Radical Movement
Vaughan Open Research Forum is series of talks, workshops and interactive sessions which are open to anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
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What’s it Like Writing a Novel?
Vaughan Open Research Forum is series of talks, workshops and interactive sessions which are open to anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
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The Lost Story of Part-time Higher Education
In this talk, Adam Matthews will look at several other perspectives as to why access to a part-time undergraduate degree may be in decline.
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Disruption for Good: Where Next for Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool?
Vaughan Open Research Forum is series of talks, workshops and interactive sessions which are open to anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
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Tackling Racial Inequalities in Higher Education (Rescheduled from May)
In this session, Dr Anil Awesti will analyse the reasons for the BAME attainment/awarding and experience gaps and, reflecting on his own research and practice in this area, how institutional racism in HE can be tackled.
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Not Just a Pretty Picture: Art as a Historical Source
Art galleries are full of artwork appreciated for their great artistic and aesthetic qualities, but what about the local art collection? This talk will look at the different ways that artwork can be used in local history research.
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Putting History on the TV and the Radio
Compared to other academic disciplines, History gets a lot of prime time TV and radio time. It's consistently popular, but what are the effects of the compromises needed to keep the viewers and listeners happy? This talk will give you an opportunity discuss how history has been broadcast.
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Muslims in Leicester
The session will cover a large ethnographic action research project – Muslims in Leicester – conducted for the Open Society Foundation and published in 2010. Dilwar Hussain, who coordinated the research, talks about this interesting project.
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Networking in the past: funerary networks in central Italy in the first millennium BC
An examination of tomb types in different communities along the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas and in the Apennines. What can this category of evidence tell us about identities and a sense of belonging to different social and political networks?
Find out more »April 2022
Dropped from Hell to Heaven: Internment in Switzerland during the First World War.
A talk on a more positive aspect of the wartime experience for prisoners of war who had already been through the hell of battle, wounding and incarceration - humanitarian internment in neutral Switzerland.
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