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‘It’ll all be over by next year’ − how Britain celebrated Christmas in 1943

Professor Tim Luckhurst, our Principal of South College, looks back at how Great Britain celebrated 25 December as World War Two raged on.
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Health and faith at COP28

Ghulam Mustafa Kamran from our Law School reflects on the heath and faith pavilions at COP28.
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Bringing coherence to tertiary education

Following a Policy Exchange and Durham University event on the topic, Iain Mansfield, Director of Research and Head of Education and Science at Policy Exchange, and Lucian Hudson, Professor-in-Practice, Leadership and Organisations, at our Business School, explore what we need to do to build a true tertiary education system.
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COP28 and the role of data and measurement for credible policymaking

COP28 in Dubai can well be an economist’s dream come true as the instrumental role of data and measurement for credible policymaking has been central to the conference agenda.
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COP28: The long-term goals of the Paris Agreement and the concept of Just Transition

This short piece reviews where the concept of just transition could be situated within the Paris Agreement’s architecture, an issue that is not well understood.
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How A.S. Byatt’s northern identity and anger over climate change informed her fiction

Dr Barbara Franchi a Teaching Fellow in our Department of English Studies explores how, in her later fiction, A.S. Byatt used northern locations as emblems of the climate crisis and how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
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