Making the Vision a Reality: The University-Public Library Partnership at The Hive

Three years after opening, The Hive goes from strength to strength, offering new opportunities for innovation and partnership working. This article offers a brief overview of some of the success stories so far, from innovative ways of working with students, events and exhibitions held at The Hive, and new research opportunities

Taking Stock

Politisches System; Autoritäres System; Regulierung; Wirtschaftsordnung; Ungarn

Taking Stock of Tuna

The current demand for tuna is not sustainable. So what must we do to take tuna out of the can? Restaurants cannot continue to serve bluefin tuna as fishing fleets chase down the last fish. Retailers should no longer sell cheap canned tuna that masks a much greater cost to ocean life and coastal communities. Those trading in tuna must take responsibility for the future of the world's favourite fish, and for their own industries, by seeking out tuna species and fishing methods that are truly sustainable. Since 2005, Greenpeace has been campaigning for supermarkets to sell only sustainable seafood. One focus of Greenpeace's markets work has been on making retailers move to using only sustainable and equitable tuna sources. Taking Stock of Tuna reports on the current situation, and the achievements made so far

Taking Stock: U.S. Climate Engagement

Over the past few months, the Skoll Global Threats Fund undertook research and commissioned a number of studies to better understand the current state of public engagement around climate change in the United States. The goal was to explore how the philanthropic sector could empower a more targeted, effective, and evidence-based approach to public engagement on climate. This document is an overview of what we heard and what we learned. Our intent here is not to assess the campaign strategies and tactics that the climate movement has pursued. There have been many assessments of strategy and reflections on why we have been unable to pass comprehensive climate policy. Rather, we sought to characterize the approaches being used to engage people on climate change, and we began to explore how social science research and tools could strengthen these engagement efforts. We have chosen to focus on climate engagement because we see it as central to building the political will required for action. Today, most Americans believe climate change is real and at least partly human-caused. Yet few Americans are engaged around climate change -- cognitively, emotionally, or behaviorally, let alone politically. Over the last few months, we began investigating what social scientists and outreach specialists understand about how we can more effectively engage the public. We found many NGOs, funders, and analysts are exploring similar questions as they rethink priorities and approaches to mobilize the masses, activate the elite, and motivate decision makers. This discussion piece is an attempt to capture the conversation underway and facilitate further discussion about how social science can help build a stronger path forward

Taking Stock

In my frantic rush to catch up on the eight years of American history that I missed, I am often appalled by the studied, analytic approach to warfare taken by so many of the educated, well-intentioned individuals who directed our war in Vietnam. If my understanding of their reasoning is to remain lacking, so much the better. For he who supports the position that warfare and warriors are just other things to which the rational concepts of business and economics apply is missing the mark

Taking Stock

We shall be reflecting on the experience of the three recent upheavals in mental health and mental capacity law – the Mental Capacity Act 2005, most of which came into force on 1 October 2007, accompanied by a Code of Practice; the Mental Health Act 2007 amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983, most of which came into force on 3 November 2008, accompanied by its two Codes of Practice; and the Mental Health Act 2007 amendments to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, bringing in the so-called deprivation of liberty safeguards or DOLS, on 1 April this year, together with another Code of Practice. That is a huge amount of new law for us all to get to grips with. Things have changed a great deal since I first started teaching Mental Health Law to social workers and psychiatrists in this very City in 1971 – nearly 40 years ago

Taking Stock

Practical men tell us it\u27s a good idea from time to time to check our assets against our liabilities. Today we are long on technical knowledge, short on courage. For light on hard topics like courage I like to start with a ray of ancient wisdom