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Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Dr Amanda Cole

15 September 2022

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Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Professor Paul Whiteley

05 September 2022

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Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Professor Paul Whiteley looks at polling and data around tax cut policies.

Professor Paul Whiteley

01 September 2022

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Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Dr Amanda Cole of the University of Essex and Emeritus Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics compare chavs, who personify contemptuous commentary on the working class in England, with a similar figure in The Netherlands: Haagse Harry (Harry from The Hague). It is remarkable how many of the associated characteristics and behaviours of chavs fit Harry like a glove, such as wearing bling and tracksuits, and supposed antisocial behaviour and laziness.

Dr Amanda Cole, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

25 August 2022

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Introducing BSc Business Administration and Supply Chain Management

Introducing BSc Business Administration and Supply Chain Management

BSc Business Administration and Supply Chain Management is a new undergraduate programme at Essex Business School Southend which has been introduced for October 2022.

Professor Niraj Kumar

11 August 2022

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As tech giants face a financial downturn, some new players are focusing on people over profit

As tech giants face a financial downturn, some new players are focusing on people over profit

Professor Peter Bloom

02 August 2022

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Transformative Teaching

Transformative Teaching

Dr Rebecca Warren

21 July 2022

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Living Wage Campaign

Living Wage Campaign

Brendan Smith, Matthew Mason, Martina Serafini

21 July 2022

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Working towards making misogyny a hate crime

Working towards making misogyny a hate crime

Anna Bigham

21 July 2022

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Transformative Teaching for students and the community

Dr Rebecca Warren

06 July 2022

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