'I've gone places others haven't'

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Lesley McCulloch, Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail in February 2003 after spending five months there for alleged visa violations, used her five months in jail to continue her research into military and police corruption in Indonesia. McCulloch, who could have been free in November 2002 if she had been prepared to pay a $6,000 bribe, collected information from over 60 fellow prisoners while she was in detention on the bribes that they were obliged to pay police in return for a quick investigation, to prosecutors for a quick process and to judges for a lower sentence. She believes that her work is important not because she is a better researcher than others, but that she has been to places where others do not get to go and has gathered evidence first hand.

International Affairs, Human Rights, Indonesia, Civil rights, Police corruption, McCulloch, Lesley

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'You don't give up your brain for a pension'

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Margaret Alexander, director of Queen Margaret University's (QMA) Centre for the Older Person's Agenda (COPA), discusses her role and her attitudes towards retirement. COPA was established with the aim of improving the quality of life of an increasingly aged population. Alexander notes that for many experts it is difficult to work with older people because they are less keen to be compliant than younger people.

United Kingdom, Personal narratives, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Old age, Alexander, Margaret

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Safe place for grateful dead to get some sleep

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Ronnie Scott, a PhD student at Glasgow University, has unearthed a wealth of history in the course of researching his PhD on Glasgow's Necropolis. The last full-length work on the Necropolis, in which 50,000 people are buried, was published in 1857.

Scotland, History, Cemeteries, Scott, Ronnie

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