By Miriam Sorace, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Reading
The British public has moved beyond wanting to relitigate the Brexit referendum, making now a good time to reset relations with Brussels.
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By Alex Heffron, PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
In villages across the country, irate farmers have accused the government of trying to end the tradition of the family farm by scrapping agricultural property relief, a measure which previously sheltered farms from having to pay inheritance tax on farmland.
Since Brexit a consensus has emerged that farmers should have to produce public goods in order to receive public payments. These “goods” include enhanced biodiversity, which could oblige…
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By Catherine Wynne, Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, University of Hull
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his creation of the eccentric detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he was also interested in architecture and worked on several projects throughout his life, from his home in Surrey to a golf course in Canada. Now, a building designed by Conan Doyle, the Lyndhurst Park Hotel in Hampshire, is under…
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By Jacquie Gahagan, Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
Dale Kirby, Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Margaret Robinson, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Rasnat Chowdhury, Doctoral Student, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Former youth in care deserve equitable educational opportunities. Better longitudinal data is needed around how youth and adults successfully transition to and complete post-secondary education.
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By Kathy Holloway, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s proportion of domestically-trained nurses has fallen to just over half, making it a global outlier. We urgently need a proper workforce strategy like Australia has now introduced.
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By Yves Rees, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
Joanna McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
On Drag Race Down Under, Michelle Visage has become the authority who determines who sashays and who stays in the fierce contest.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The international community must continue to show solidarity with Ukraine, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday, marking 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the news that police in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, have violently dismantled a protesters’ tent camp, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The Georgian authorities must fully comply with their obligations to respect and protect the right to freedom of assembly. People have a right to peacefully […] The post Georgia: Authorities must respect the right to peaceful assembly following dismantling of protesters’ camp appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amaka Emordi, Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye unexpectedly called a snap legislative election which was held on 17 November. Faye was sworn in as president in April after a tumultuous period, triggered when former president Macky Sall postponed…
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By David Gallardo-Pujol, Catedrático de Personalidad, Universitat de Barcelona
Jordi Renom Pinsach, Profesor titular Departamento de Psicología Social y Psicología Cuantitativa, Universitat de Barcelona
Laura Viñals Vilà, Coordinadora de Investigación del IDLab-UB, Universitat de Barcelona
Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in its waters and felt that time stood still, that the noise and chatter of the world faded away to a distant whisper, or you have marvelled as the sun slid gently beneath its horizon.
In these moments, we often feel a sense of admiration or amazement, a feeling of smallness in the face of something so immense that it leaves us speechless. Maybe this is because we are ourselves 70 % water, or because the sheer scale of…
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