By Pascal Vrticka, Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
It’s crucial for healthy child development that children can form secure attachment bonds with their parents. Decades of research identified one key ingredient for this process: the coordination of parents’ and children’s brains and behaviour during social interactions.
Humans connect with each other by synchronising in many ways. Called bio-behavioural synchrony, this involves imitation of gestures…
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By Melanie Sloan, Researcher, Public Health, University of Cambridge
Nightmares are unpleasant, but perfectly normal – for most. However, my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus.
Our study, published in The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal, explored possible early warning signs of autoimmune disease flare-ups. We surveyed 676 patients with lupus and 400 doctors and carried out over 100 in-depth interviews.
We asked about the neurological and mental health symptoms…
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By Meg Kobza, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Newcastle University
The ladies and gentlemen of the ton would have known a lot more about sex than the show would have you think.
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By Augustine Kiptum, Research Student, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
Floods in Kenya in April/May 2024 led to the deaths of over 250 people and caused damage estimated at 4 billion Kenya shillings (US$35 million).
Not for the first time, Kenya’s lack of preparedness was apparent as flooding rampaged through rural and urban landscapes. There…
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By Tonny Nelson Matjila, Research Training and Development Officer, University of South Africa
Adjusting to university life tends to be tough no matter who you are. But what happens when deafness makes the usual demands even more difficult? Deaf students or those who are hard of hearing need extra accessibility measures to ensure they’re able to participate in even basic academic activities like lectures and tutorials. Tonny Matjila, who studied the experiences of Deaf and hard-of-hearing students at one large South African university, tells The Conversation…
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By Stephen Snow, Research Scientist, CSIRO
Aysha Fleming, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
Yuwan Malakar, Research Scientist, CSIRO
We developed My Climate View to help Australian farmers and producers better understand the risks and opportunities they face over the next 50 years. Road-testing with farmers was vital.
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By Ashwin Dhanda, Associate Professor of Hepatology, University of Plymouth
Demand for hepatitis C tests has surged in the UK following the publication of the infected blood inquiry findings in May 2024. According to the BBC, “1,750 people in the UK are living with an undiagnosed hepatitis C infection after being given a transfusion with contaminated blood.” Globally, there are thousands more unknowingly living with virus.
So what is this infection,…
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By Cath Davies, Senior Lecturer Visual Culture, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Fairytales have long woven magic with fabric. But this year’s Met Gala, the annual fundraiser for the the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York, took the connection between fantasy and fashion a step further.
Themed around the museum’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition, the dress code focused not on opulent displays of nature’s bounty but a more complex reality: the natural…
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By ManMohan S Sodhi, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City, University of London
Many would say that swappable batteries have had their day for EVs. But it’s time to face the fact that the charging model isn’t working either.
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By Mary Katherine Newman, PhD student, University of Oxford
Chile has the largest population of Palestinians outside of the Middle East, they have set up a series of community institutions including a football team.
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