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Gender Matters: we all have to don our ‘gender goggles’
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Gender Matters is a report with personal resonance for us as women. We recognise the experience of ‘generic’ design (of services, research, products) actually being implicitly designed for men. We’re very lucky to work and thrive in a...
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Gender Matters
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Following Hard Edges (2015), we began a process to explore how disadvantages might cluster differently in the lives of women. This included consultation with women facing multiple disadvantage about the experiences most relevant to them. They...
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Katy
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Lisa Newman
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The mainstream is broken. But for who?
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“The Mainstream media is broken” this was the rallying cry of over 100 people in 2017 as The Common Sense Network crowdfunded over £50,000 in 50 days to build a new independent news outlet for and by ordinary people. Whilst the phrase was...
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Micheal Omoniyi
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It’s all about trust
Read moreAs a journalist that writes mainly on social issues, a major concern for me is how I tell the stories of the most disadvantaged people in society. A lot of my work is focused on the impact of austerity, and I've reported extensively on...
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Natalie Bloomer
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Why we need to tell different stories
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We commissioned ‘Telling a Different Story’ to create a more in-depth, collective understanding of how, and why the media currently reports on severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD) in the way that it does. Partly because we believe the media...
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Telling a Different Story: Understanding news media coverage of severe and multiple disadvantage
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Telling a Different Story: Understanding news media coverage of severe and multiple disadvantage is a research inquiry conducted between January 2018 to March 2019. It explores how print and online news media report on severe and multiple...