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From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign (2020)
Journal Article
Wring, D., & Ward, S. (2020). From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign. Parliamentary Affairs, 73(Sup. 1), 272-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa033

From Twitter to the BBC, media platforms were perceived as having had ‘a bad election’. The story of the 2019 media campaign focussed primarily on the negative. There were continual claims of misinformation and deliberate disinformation spread via so... Read More about From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign.

An investigation of EFL female teachers’ and students’ beliefs about learner autonomy in Saudi secondary schools (2020)
Thesis
Alhejaily, N. An investigation of EFL female teachers’ and students’ beliefs about learner autonomy in Saudi secondary schools. (Thesis). University of Salford

The development of Learner autonomy (LA) is a key area of research within second language learning and teaching (Benson, 2001, 2008, 2010; Dam et al., 1995; Holec, 1981). The literature pertaining to LA is diverse; however, Benson’s (1996) technical,... Read More about An investigation of EFL female teachers’ and students’ beliefs about learner autonomy in Saudi secondary schools.

‘The magnetic pull of the metropolis’ : the Manchester Guardian, the provincial press and ideas of the north (2020)
Journal Article

The newspaper globally known as the Guardian began its life in Manchester as the Manchester Guardian. This paper examines the reactions of readers of the newspaper in the context of the decision to remove the word ‘Manchester’ from the its title in 1... Read More about ‘The magnetic pull of the metropolis’ : the Manchester Guardian, the provincial press and ideas of the north.

Participatory communication for community development : the Ghanaian experience (2020)
Thesis
Gbadago, F. Participatory communication for community development : the Ghanaian experience. (Thesis). University of Salford

This research pursued a better understanding of development communication in a range of Ghanaian programmes in the education sector. Its focus is the nature of engagements between a range of actors during formulation, implementation and evaluation of... Read More about Participatory communication for community development : the Ghanaian experience.

The counterinsurgency campaign of the Nigerian army : the fight against the Boko-Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria, 1999-2017 (2020)
Thesis

The emergence of civilian democratic governance in Nigeria in 1999, which came after three decades of armed forces rule, has been a watershed in the nation’s five decade history. This period is associated with recurrent crises, including militancy an... Read More about The counterinsurgency campaign of the Nigerian army : the fight against the Boko-Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria, 1999-2017.