Friday, 12 June 2020

Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: The Consultancy Racket

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Like many academics Matron is forced by the rules of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to show that her work has “impact”. Academi...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Snakes and Ladders: #blacklivesmatter, Covid-19 and why we must make the best of constitutional moments

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“ Do you feel bad or uncomfortable about us doing this?” “I do. But I’d also feel bad and uncomfortable if we didn’t do this. So it’s...
Monday, 1 June 2020

Of battles won and battles yet to come

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Today is the first day of what would usually be Pride month, a month of joy and celebration of battles won as well as a reminder of battl...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Tales from the Crypt: Just where is the line between “stockpiling” and doing a “big shop”?*

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This is normally the kind of blog post that Matron would leave to the people, who know better. Like actual chefs or sensible food writers l...
Thursday, 15 November 2018

Data protection in the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement - Are we being framed?

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A few weeks ago, TJ McIntyre of University Collage Dublin and Digital Rights Ireland, alerted us to a little-noticed section in the UK Infor...
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Monday, 23 July 2018

A fool and their data are easily parted: Is "data portability" really all it's cracked up to be?

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Last week, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Twitter announced  plans to introduce a new open source initiative for consumer data portability,...