By Stephen Khan, Editor
Alfred Hermida: ‘The scholars who write for The Conversation are taking on journalistic practices, guided and mentored by our team of professional journalists’
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By Katie Tonkiss, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Aston University
In being granted British citizenship, Paddington has fared far differently than most people arriving in the UK in need of help.
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By Oliver Heath, Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
Laura Serra, Postdoctoral Research Officer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.
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By Laura Hood, Host, Know Your Place podcast, The Conversation
Listen to the fifth and final episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics from The Conversation Documentaries podcast.
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By Sven Vanneste, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Elva Arulchelvan, Lecturer in Psychology and PhD Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Forgetting is part of our daily lives. You may walk into a room only to forget why you went in there – or perhaps someone says hi on the street and you can’t remember their name.
But why do we forget things? Is it simply a sign of memory impairment, or are there benefits?
One of the earliest findings in this area highlighted that forgetting can occur simply because the average person’s memories fade away. This comes from 19th century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, whose “forgetting curve” showed how most…
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Incumbent Maia Sandu won by more than 100,000 votes – but many of these were cast by citizens living abroad.
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By Martha McGill, Historian of Supernatural Beliefs, University of Warwick
In early modern Britons consulted diviners to find stolen goods, learn about the next harvest, or scrutinise their marriage fortunes.
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By Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University
Targets to restore global biodiversity were not accompanied by concrete plans for action or the financial commitments that many at Cop16 were hoping for.
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By Vanessa Newby, Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
After a month of heavy bombardment, and despite continuing its military campaign and clearing border villages in south Lebanon, Israel is reportedly indirectly negotiating a peace deal with Hezbollah leaders. The terms of a ceasefire require the full implementation of UN resolution 1701, with a presence of around 10,000 Lebanese armed forces (LAF) soldiers stationed along the “blue line” which divides…
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By Prachatai
According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, since the 2006 coup, at least 5,027 people have been prosecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
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