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Benjamin Jay Whitburn
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5zr9bx/doctor-ben-whitburn
Dr Ben Whitburn is Associate Professor of Education at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, Highfield campus. Through research and teaching, Ben concentrates on heightening equity across educational sectors by reorientating th...
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Myopic or Rational Financial Decisions? The Impact of Perceived Risks on Intertemporal Decisions
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/myopic-or-rational-financial-decisions-the-impact-of-perceived-risks-on
The present bias is a prevailing phenomenon when people prefer the (financial) option that has a smaller but more recent payoff over other options with larger but more distant payoffs. To prevent people from making myopic financial decisions, we need...
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MIgrant Medics:A social history of South Asians in the NHS (1950 to Present)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/migrant-medicsa-social-history-of-south-asians-in-the-nhs-1950-to-present
Narratives of migration into the UK have often been framed around anxieties about the increased burden on the NHS. Migrant Medics will interrupt this narrative of scarcity and deficit by exploring the pivotal role played by early medical migrants to ...
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Non-alignment and race in world history, literature and art
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/non-alignment-race-in-world-history-literature-art
Anglophone academic debates around race and racism are usually related to the Euro-Atlantic economic, political and cultural sphere. Critical literature on whiteness approaches it as a system of privilege generated by the violent histories of exporti...
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Roman Avebury: Time, Memory, the Sacred and the Forbidden
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/roman-avebury-time-memory-the-sacred-the-forbidden
From the Mesolithic to the Medieval, the monumental stone circle at Avebury has been meaningful for people who lived and died here. But there were times when the monuments and landscape at Avebury were neglected, and trees reclaimed the mounds and di...
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Living and Dying at Great Chesterford
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/living-dying-at-great-chesterford
Great Chesterford is the site of an early Saxon period cemetery, with a relatively large number of juvenile inhumations and several individuals with evidence of skeletal impairment or "difference". Burial is an expression of identity and social memor...
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Maritime Archaeology of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/maritime-archaeology-of-the-mexican-american-war-1846-1848
The Mexican-American War (1846-48) dramatically marked the future of both countries involved but it is relatively understudied by the archaeology of both nations, and the all-important maritime aspects only ever mentioned tangentially. The only excep...