The crisis in social care is connected to the gendered inadequacy of labour law

Lydia Hayes writes that social care is a feminist issue. Highlighting some of the appalling conditions that care workers tolerate, she explains how employment law fails to protect women's employment and to value feminised labour. She concludes that unless social care provision is revolutionised, women will have little choice but to serve as unpaid carers: stuck at home, excluded from public life, and denied life choices

8 good reasons why adult social care needs sectoral collective bargaining

In this booklet, Dr Lydia Hayes sets out the lessons learned from her interdisciplinary research into the social care sector, and builds upon the recommendations made in the Institute of Employment Rights' Manifesto for Labour Law: a comprehensive revision of worker’s rights to propose a sectoral collective bargaining structure for the negotiation of wages and conditions

University to Celebrate Green Week April 21-24

Events include lectures, a film and annual Sustainability Fai

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO STUDYING LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN AUDIOVISUAL TEXTS: EXTRAPOLATING A SYNERGY OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, SEMIOTICS, PERFORMATIVITY, AND MEMETICS TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

This paper explores the perceptual power of accent and dialect through an interdisciplinary prism, which renders the utterance of accent performative and the ideological load of accent memetic. The theoretical framework established synergises Neuropsychology, Semiotics, Memetics, Performativity, and Sociolinguistics and is extrapolated to the field of Translation Studies. In light of the performativity of accent and the existence of dialectal memes (often shared ideas around linguistic identities) in lingua-cultural communities, it is posited that speaking in any given accent triggers a chain reaction culminating in perception, whereby preconceived ideas or ‘memory’ associated with the speech variety is activated in the listener, from which point an image of identity is formed in his or her psyche. The use of accentual variation, therefore, to create audiovisual identities in original versions is illustrated and, in turn, the flattening out of cultural dimensions in dubbed versions is attributed to the levelling of accentual variation into a standard. Spatiotemporal and other practical constraints, as well as ideological questions, imposed on dubbing practices are considered with a view to translating linguistic variation. Audiovisual translation practices are considered in the context of English-language productions dubbed into Castilian Spanish

The suspension of routine inspections renders care homes invisible to scrutiny and costs lives

Alison Tarrant and Lydia Hayes explain how certain regulatory changes have led to legal standards being potentially contravened behind care homes’ closed doors. Researchers and regulators now face an urgent mission to stop such violations and save lives