By Manjeet Ridon, Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
Debra Benita Shaw, Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London
Diana Wallace, Professor of English LIterature, University of South Wales
Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
Inés Gregori Labarta, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University
Sarah Trott, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and History, York St John University
From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.
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By Meredith Ralston, Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
Donald Trump’s win answered several questions. Will America vote for a Black woman? No. Will Kamala Harris break the glass ceiling? No. Here’s how gender and race played big roles in the outcome.
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By Spencer Goidel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Auburn University
His return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.
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By Sally C. Harris, Distinguished Lecturer in English, University of Tennessee
Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides clues through a course that features novels about sleuths from a bygone era.
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By Jeremy David Engels, Professor of Communication, Penn State
If we considered people on the other side of a disagreement as not ‘evil’ but ‘mistaken’ or ‘ill-informed,’ it might create more room for dialogue, writes a scholar of mindfulness.
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By Fanny Christou, Chercheur spécialiste des migrations internationales et études sur le Moyen-Orient, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Migration dynamics in Cyprus are partly linked to conflicts in the Middle East and the 1974 war that divided the Mediterranean island. Anti-migrant hostility threatens asylum seekers and refugees.
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By DIRIS Jean-Pierre, Coordinateur interministériel IRS ² et GOVSATCOM, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)
Europe’s first multi-orbital satellite network aims to provide secure EU governmental communications. It will consist of some 300 satellites and is scheduled for full implementation by 2030.
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By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
There is nothing more dangerous than an autocrat who has managed to dupe the public into thinking that they are good at managing the economy, or are the key to maintaining security. That the Trump years saw reasonable levels of economic and job growth while inflation stayed under control, helped the public look the other way from the constant stream of warnings that Trump was the biggest threat…
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By Mitya Pearson, Assistant Professor, Politics of Climate Change, University of Warwick
The UK has historically had a cross-party consensus on the need to tackle climate change among most politicians and voters. Only five MPs voted against the Climate Change Act in 2008, and both Labour and the Conservatives have committed to the targets enshrined in it at each subsequent election.
However, the election of Kemi Badenoch as leader of the Conservatives is the latest…
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By Magda Osman, Professor of Policy Impact, University of Leeds
In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative.
While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to spot fake…
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