Like many other arts organisations around Britain, Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is adapting to the unparalleled new landscape that COVID-19 has shaped. S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes discusses sustainability, new tech solutions and the changing role [… read more ]
It is now clear that the University of Portsmouth is planning to reduce its English Literature department from 12 to five full-time staff – a massive 58% cut. The UoP English Literature team share the [… read more ]
Hundreds of residents across Hampshire are to be asked how they think police officers have handled the challenge of enforcing new rules during the COVID-19 lockdown – with the results used to devise strategies for [… read more ]
COVID-19’s arrival in Portsmouth feels like a long time ago. University of Portsmouth creative writing student, Morgan Turner, recounts that unnerving time – and how he dealt with the challenges that followed. With a Co-op [… read more ]
Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]
In February, S&C reported on staff and student protests against cuts to the University of Portsmouth’s English Literature department. The consultation was paused when the COVID-19 lockdown began, but has now restarted, despite the English [… read more ]
Simon Kolstoe, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Healthcare and University Ethics Advisor, at the University of Portsmouth explores the science behind how effective cloth face masks are against Covid-19. Recent headlines suggest that mask wearing [… read more ]
Simon Kolstoe, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Healthcare and University Ethics Advisor, at the University of Portsmouth explains how your NHS data is being used by universities, government and private companies. You may not know [… read more ]
In light of a new survey indicating that half of British employees will likely be working more remotely and flexibly after the COVID-19 lockdown ends, S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes talks to Marc Cook about [… read more ]
Derek Swannson is a New York-based filmmaker who has recently collaborated with University of Portsmouth visiting lecturer and S&C regular Matthew Alford on an apocalyptic comedy, Oddfinger: Eagle Kill. Here, Matthew talks to Derek about [… read more ]
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