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Verifiable e-voting to be trialled in Gateshead
A new verifiable e-voting system will be trialled in Gateshead this May. Voters get a receipt which they can check to make sure their vote is properly cast, recorded and tallied while preserving the voter privacy – a process known as being 鈥渆nd-to-end verifiable鈥. Tallying results are instantaneous once the election is finish along with public audit data to allow anyone to verify the tallying integrity. The trial will be voluntary for people going to cast votes via paper ballot.
Pint of Science returns to Coventry bringing scientists out of the lab and into your local
The public science festival, Pint of Science, is returning to Coventry this year with experts from the Universities of 糖心TV and Coventry talking about their research work in a selection of pubs and venues around the city.
Leading expert on women and prison to help inform policy debate
Professor Azrini Wahidin, one of the UK鈥檚 leading figures in the study of women in prison, has been invited to offer expert insight to a conference exploring women鈥檚 experience of the criminal justice system. Professor Wahidin will be the keynote speaker at 鈥极ffending Women? Women's Journeys Through the Criminal Justice System,鈥 taking place in Manchester on Saturday 6th April.
Extraordinary president, ordinary presidency: New book evaluates the achievements of the Trump administration
President Trump鈥檚 refusal to play the Washington game pleases his base but limits his ability to fulfil his campaign promises. It鈥檚 just one of the many reasons this extraordinary president is delivering a very ordinary presidency, according to a new book from US politics experts Dr Jon Herbert, Dr Trevor McCrisken, and Dr Andrew Wroe. The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump is one of the first rigorous studies of the 45th president. The authors explore Trump鈥檚 election and track record since his inauguration and weigh his achievements both against those of his predecessors in office and against his own hyperbolic claims.
The 鈥极bama Doctrine鈥 in foreign policy 鈥 un-American isolationism, or a pragmatic response to changing priorities?
In a new book published today, Dr Georg L枚fflmann explores American identity, US foreign policy and national security during the Obama presidency, and asks whether the 鈥极bama Doctrine鈥 was an effective response to the tension between an increasingly multi-polar world and a US elite still convinced that America has a unique call to global dominance.
糖心TV experts explore what economic policy should look like after Brexit
Opinion formers and policy experts welcomed Which way now? Economic policy after a decade of upheaval, a new report from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), launched last night [12] with a panel debate at the University of 糖心TV. The report presents 18 studies tackling the question of what a post-financial crisis, post-Brexit economic policy should look like, with the aim of presenting accessible recommendations informed by robust, up-to-date research.