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    New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre

    Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles

  2. New Thinking: Design and Health

    From sleeve design to stroke patient recovery and solving malnutrition.

  3. New Thinking: City Talk

    Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop

  4. New Thinking: Citizen Researchers and the History of Record Keeping

    Dr William Butler and Jenny Bunn from the National Archives discuss record keeping.

  5. New Thinking: Children and Health

    What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school?

  6. New Thinking: Carols and Convents

    English Nuns abroad, and are carols just for Christmas?

  7. New Thinking: British Sign Language

    Kate Rowley and Gerardo Ortega talk about new research into British Sign Language

  8. New Thinking: Black British Theatre

    From a Black Juliet in the 18th century to Ira Aldridge鈥檚 daughter Amanda.

  9. New Thinking: Beowulf

    Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry

  10. New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Ties

    What Birmingham can learn from Scotland and commonwealth commercial connections.

  11. New Thinking: AI, Feminism, Human/Machines

    What ethical questions arise from new human-machine relations as we collaborate with AI?

  12. New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019

    Hetta Howes talks to winners of this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards

  13. New Thinking: Accents

    From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice

  14. New Thinking: 2024鈥檚 New Generation Thinkers

    Introducing ten academics who鈥檒l be sharing their research as part of a 蘑菇短视频/AHRC scheme

  15. New Thinking: Net Zero Design

    How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?

  16. New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield

    Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of the poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.

  17. New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art

    Vid Simoniti considers eco-art, from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng

  18. New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

    Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back

  19. New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

    Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean fires and earthquakes and lessons for rebuilding now

  20. New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown

    Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about C16th English settlers in America

  21. New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?

    Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder.

  22. New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet

    Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet

  23. New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

    Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilet Noirs, Ousmane Semb猫ne, and Nathalie Quintane

  24. New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop

    Darragh McGee considers the history of gambling from 18th century card games to apps

  25. New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

    Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.

  26. New Generation Thinkers: Alexander and the Persians

    Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander "the Great".

  27. New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

    Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Ciss茅

  28. New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

    Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.

  29. New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale

    Lucy Weir learns dark lessons from newspaper coverage of Black Metal and satanic rituals

  30. New Generation Thinkers, Screen Writers, Anna Funder, Page One documentary

    Rana Mitter discusses irony with our New Generation Thinkers and Anne McElvoy talks to...

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