by admin | May 26, 2022
Portrayals of gender in popular culture both construct and mirror a society’s ideals of women and men, in which case Chinese dramas are sending decidedly mixed signals, said Dr Song Geng of the School of Chinese, who explores the phenomenon in his new book Televising...
by admin | May 26, 2022
Making philosophy accessible to a wider audience has been a mission for Associate Professor Dr Joe Lau. He created the Critical Thinking Web a few years ago that has been accessed by thousands of schools around the world to help teach students this skill. More...
by admin | May 13, 2021
When a South Korean call centre decided to bring robots into the workplace, they asked Dr Sara Kim to study their employees’ response. The firm had told workers they would not be replaced, but it wanted to better understand their insecurities and perceptions of these...
by admin | May 13, 2021
Dr Laura Meek, Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, is studying what she terms the ‘grammar of leprosy’ – the ways in which leprosy has been framed as a disease of the past for nearly a century. This framing, she argues, leads to leprosy...
by admin | May 12, 2021
After Tōhoku was rocked by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011, many commentators were struck by the absence of violence, looting and chaos, which they attributed to the innate calmness of the Japanese character. To Dr Janet Borland, Assistant...
