POLICING: University offers three routes into policing
The Doncaster Chamber website has reported on the three new routes into the police service that Sheffield Hallam has introduced in the Department of Law and Criminology.
INDIA: Justice For Her project included in Government report
The Justice For Her project, led by Dr Sunita Toor of the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, is referenced in a Government report on Human Rights and Democracy [page 6]. The report features in part of a story for The Hindustan Times.
CRIME: Tackling sexual violence in India
Dr Madhumita Pandey, lecturer in criminology, spoke to Spanish magazine El Espanol about her experience interviewing convicted sex offenders in India for her research. The article examines ‘culture of rape’ in the country. [Open with Google Chrome for translation]
LANGUAGE: English expert on school’s word ban
Dr Peter Jones, reader in language, spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield [18:27] after a school in Bradford moved to ban the word ‘like’ as a filler-word. Dr Jones discussed how language and communication develops in children.
ALLEGATIONS: Lawyer speaks out after arrest of Platini
Dr Gregory Ioannidis has spoken to Sputnik News following the arrest and subsequent release of Michael Platini, the former president of UEFA, as part of a corruption probe into Qatar gaining the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Dr Ionaddis, is a senior lecturer in law and practising sports lawyer.
CRIME: BBC Radio 4 ‘Analysis’ programme
Mr Jamie Grace, senior lecturer in law, was featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Analysis’ programme talking about whether computer algorithms can identify future victims of crime and tell us where and when crimes will happen. You can listen to the feature here.
LANGUAGES: Teaching in foreign language can boost GCSE performance
Multilingual teaching experts will meet at the University for an international conference today and tomorrow, on Cross-Curricular Language Learning (CLIL). Ahead of the conference, organiser Dr Kim Bower, spoke to Tes, saying that pupils taught using CLIL approaches achieved a grade higher than expected in their GCSEs, not only in languages, but across all subjects.
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