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Real-world human rights impact. [Blog post] (2021)
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ARNELL, P. 2021. Real-world human rights impact. [Blog post]. Posted on RGView: connecting the RGU community [online], 17 September 2021. Available from: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/rgview/student-experience/4458-real-world-human-rights-impact

Dr Paul Arnell, of The Law School, writes about the real and important role human rights play in the practice of law in Scotland. He speaks of an interesting and life-changing example of a former RGU Law student.

A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post] (2021)
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WARRENDER, D. 2021. A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post]. Posted on CEMH Human Rights and Mental Health [online], 9 September 2021. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/yf835nph

Mental health nursing is a profession which is confined both between disciplines, and within nursing itself. Mental health care is often set up around psychiatrist-led diagnoses and medically-focused treatments such as medication, which can be compu... Read More about A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post].

Ghana’s electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge. [Blog post] (2021)
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ACHEAMPONG, T., MENYEH, B.O. and AGBEVIVI, D. 2022. Ghana's electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge. [Blog Post]. Posted on The Conversation UK, 9 June 2021. Available from: https://theconversation.com/ghanas-electricity-supply-mix-has-improved-but-reliability-and-cost-is-still-a-challenge-161762

Ghana has made significant progress over the past 10 years in increasing electricity generation and access. This has supported higher levels of economic growth. However, beneath these improvements lies inefficiencies, including extraordinarily high d... Read More about Ghana’s electricity supply mix has improved, but reliability and cost is still a challenge. [Blog post].

Supersets save time in the gym: which may help you reach fitness goals faster. [Blog post] (2020)
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CLARK, D.R., LANGAN-EVANS, C. and ERSKINE, R. 2020. Supersets save time in the gym: which may help you reach fitness goals faster. [Blog post]. Posted on The Conservation UK [online], 27 November 2020. Available from: https://theconversation.com/supersets-save-time-in-the-gym-which-may-help-you-reach-fitness-goals-faster-150344

Resistance training is an increasingly popular way to build strength, lose weight and get in shape. But despite its many benefits, it can also be time consuming – which is why many fitness enthusiasts have started incorporating "supersets" into gym r... Read More about Supersets save time in the gym: which may help you reach fitness goals faster. [Blog post].

Extradition between the UK and Ireland is at risk because of Brexit. [Blog post] (2020)
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ARNELL, P. and DAVIES, G. 2020. Extradition between the UK and Ireland is at risk because of Brexit. [Blog post]. Posted on LSE Brexit 2020: latest thinking and research about Brexit from LSE [online], 24 November 2020. Available from: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2020/11/24/extradition-between-the-uk-and-ireland-is-at-risk-because-of-brexit/

Extradition between the UK and Ireland after Brexit will be particularly affected by a No-Deal Brexit. In this post, Paul Arnell (Robert Gordon University) and Gemma Davies (Northumbria University) bring a closer understanding of the problems on the... Read More about Extradition between the UK and Ireland is at risk because of Brexit. [Blog post].

Resistance training: here's why it's so effective for weight loss. [Blog post] (2020)
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CLARK, D.R., LANGAN-EVANS, C. and ERSKINE, R. 2020. Resistance training; here's why it's so effective for weight loss. [Blog post]. Posted on The Conservation UK [online], 29 September 2020. Available from: https://theconversation.com/resistance-training-heres-why-its-so-effective-for-weight-loss-146453

Weight lifting, also known as resistance training, has been practised for centuries as a way of building muscular strength. Research shows that resistance training, whether done via body weight, resistance bands or machines, dumbbells or free weights... Read More about Resistance training: here's why it's so effective for weight loss. [Blog post].

Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
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GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between-1

This is the third and final article in the Writings Between series of correspondence between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke. These letters cross formal and informal borders, ‘writings between’ us, and things, marking a moment that has forced us to r... Read More about Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
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GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between

This is the second article in the Writings Between series of correspondence between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke. These letters cross formal and informal borders, ‘writings between’ us, and things, marking a moment that has forced us to rethink wh... Read More about Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
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GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58,(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between-correspondences-on-the-politics-of-hosting-and-hospitality

In Spring, Caroline and Jen planned to produce and publish a short dialogue for an exhibition by artists Juliane Foronda, Kirsty Russell and Tako Taal, A Spoon is the Safest Vessel, hosted by the Look Again Project space in Aberdeen. Working with Car... Read More about Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

A "whole-person" education: students innovating and reflecting with the Scottish Innovative Student Awards. [Case study] (2020)
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MARTZOUKOU, K., MOULE, C. and BREMNER, P. 2020. A "whole-person" education: students innovating and reflecting with the Scottish Innovative Student Awards. [Case study]. Held on SlideShare [online]. Available from: https://www.slideshare.net/martzoukou/a-wholeperson-education-students-innovating-and-reflecting-with-the-scottish-innovative-student-awards

This case study presents how the Scottish Innovative Student Awards (SISA) from the Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE) have been implemented at the School of Creative and Cultural Business within Robert Gordon University (RGU). RGU was the first... Read More about A "whole-person" education: students innovating and reflecting with the Scottish Innovative Student Awards. [Case study].

Porosity and protection. (2019)
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CLARKE, J. 2019. Porosity and protection. Posted on Fieldsights, blog of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Editors' forum: theorizing the contemporary [online], 25 April 2019. Available from: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/porosity-and-protection

The author first saw traces of destruction in the spring of 2014, when driving, with an art therapist friend, towards a coastal village north of the "difficult to return zone", near the Fukushima Diichi nuclear power plant. Known in Japan as 3.11, th... Read More about Porosity and protection..

Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article] (2018)
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ROBERTS, R. and FLIN, R. 2018. Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article]. Net Zero Technology Centre [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/487vk23p

The Oil and Gas Technology Centre and Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University (RGU) have launched a new research programme to identify the behavioural barriers to successful technology adoption and deployment on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), creating... Read More about Ground-breaking research supports technology adoption. [News article].

Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review] (2016)
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LEUZZI, L. 2016. Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review]. Posted on Arshake [online], 3 August 2016. Available from: https://www.arshake.com/en/overnight-24-hours-into-contemporary-art/

Dall'oggi a domani. Overnight. According to Tullio De Mauro's dictionary of the Italian language, "without warning, from one moment to the next". This expression, "stolen" from a small tapestry by Alighiero Boetti, provides the title for a fascinatin... Read More about Overnight: 24 hours into contemporary art. [Exhibition review].

Neighbourly murders, forced forgetting and European justice: Marguš v Croatia. (2014)
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LYONS, C. 2014. Neighbourly murders, forced forgetting and European justice: Marguš v Croatia. [Blog post]. Posted on Strasbourg Observers [online], 30 June 2014. Available from: https://strasbourgobservers.com/2014/06/30/neighbourly-murders-forced-forgetting-and-european-justice-margus-v-croatia/

On 27 May 2014, a Grand Chamber of the ECtHR, in Margus v Croatia, pronounced upon the contentious issue of the use of amnesties in post-conflict settings. The case concerned a Croatian army commander who had been convicted of several murders of civi... Read More about Neighbourly murders, forced forgetting and European justice: Marguš v Croatia..

What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? [Blog post]
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LAW, S.W. and MAK, C.H.W. 2022. What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? [Blog post]. Posted on the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative Blog [online], 16 August 2022. Available from: https://ccla.smu.edu.sg/sgri/blog/2022/08/16/what-should-come-after-implementation-mutual-recognition-and-assistance-cross

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong) has recently developed a new mutual recognition framework that permits Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China (Mainland China) courts to collaborate on cr... Read More about What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? [Blog post].

Competition law and blockchain in Hong Kong: regulating cryptocurrencies. [Blog post]
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MAK, C.H.W. 2022. Competition law and blockchain in Hong Kong: regulating cryptocurrencies. [Blog post]. Posted on the Kluwer Competition Law Blog [online], 19 December 2022. Available from: https://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2022/12/19/competition-law-and-blockchain-in-hong-kong-regulating-cryptocurrencies/

The blockchain industry is undergoing tremendous development and expansion, with new applications and technology constantly appearing. In Hong Kong, blockchain-based industries and activities, such as cryptocurrencies, are gaining popularity and atte... Read More about Competition law and blockchain in Hong Kong: regulating cryptocurrencies. [Blog post].

Navigating the multi-jurisdiction landscape of blockchain and competition law. [Blog post]
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MAK, C.H.W. 2023. Navigating the multi-jurisdiction landscape of blockchain and competition law. [Blog post]. Posted on the Kluwer Competition Law Blog [online], 18 February 2023. Available from: https://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2023/02/18/navigating-the-multi-jurisdiction-landscape-of-blockchain-and-competition-law/

Blockchain technology is a complex and innovative field that has raised questions about its potential impact on competition laws. As the use of blockchain increases, its unique characteristics - such as market power, interoperability, network effects... Read More about Navigating the multi-jurisdiction landscape of blockchain and competition law. [Blog post].

Managing sovereign debt through international tax cooperation. [Blog post]
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MAK, C. 2023. Managing sovereign debt through international tax cooperation. [Blog post]. Posted on the RGU Law School Blog [online], 2 June 2023. Available from: https://rgulaw.blog/2023/06/02/managing-sovereign-debt-through-international-tax-cooperation/

Historically, sovereign debt is a complicated and diverse issue, with substantial repercussions for governments, corporations and individuals. States may incur debt in the form of bonds or other instruments in order to support public expenditure, and... Read More about Managing sovereign debt through international tax cooperation. [Blog post].

Good food is good medicine. [Blog post]
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DOUGLAS, F. and GOODWIN, S. 2021. Good food is good medicine. [Blog post]. Posted on the Independent Food Aid Network website [online], 12 November 2021. Available from: https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/post/good-food-is-good-medicine

The growth of charitable food aid in the UK is a phenomenon that needs deep and persistent questioning. This was the reasoning behind our recent web-based Creative Conversation, and the motivation to co-write this piece as we reflected upon this expe... Read More about Good food is good medicine. [Blog post].