By Stephanie Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Susie Smillie, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Glasgow
When academic research has explored the impact of school summer holidays, it has often focused on the costs to parents and to children’s learning and health.
The childcare juggle, the costs of summer holiday activities and the potential impact of losses in learning or more sedentary behaviour by children in the holidays do have a real impact on families.
But research on the summer break often does not reflect how children and young people feel about school holidays. Children’s rights…
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By Hannah Marriott, Lecturer in Marketing & Strategy, Cardiff University
Fashion has always sold aspiration. Long before artificial intelligence (AI), it relied on carefully constructed images of beauty through styling, lighting, makeup and, more recently, digital retouching.
While consumers may have understood that these images do not reflect everyday reality, they continued to engage with them. They followed fashion trends and they bought the products being advertised.
The industry is now moving beyond enhancing images of real people, however. It is beginning to generate the people themselves.
AI-generated fashion…
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By Joe Sutliff Sanders, Associate Professor in Children's Literature in Education, University of Cambridge
Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.
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By Narmin Nahidi, Assistant Professor in Finance, University of Exeter
Wildfires are sweeping through parts of France and Spain causing havoc to many holidaymakers’ plans. Does travel insurance help with the extra bills?
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By Richard Toye, Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s decision to resign his Clacton seat and force a by-election, amid scrutiny over his personal finances, has produced one of the odder spectacles in recent British politics. With every other major party declining to stand and despite a record 34 candidates running, his most prominent challenger is Count Binface, the silver-caped “intergalactic space warrior” with a bin for a helmet.
Danny Kruger, the Reform UK MP for East Wiltshire, told…
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By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
Australians have seen a flurry of headlines announcing the arrival of blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease.
The news follows the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s approval of new blood tests for clinical use and the launch…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
With less than four months until the Victorian election, two polls that were taken after last week’s change of premier have the Coalition leading Labor after preferences by 52–48 or 53–47. One Nation’s primary vote has dropped 3–5 points since June to be at 22% in both polls.
In federal polls, a Redbridge poll had the combined primary vote for One Nation and the Coalition surging six points since late June to 53%. I believe this is a record high for the right vote in any poll this term.
However, in Morgan the right vote was unchanged since the previous week at 47.5%, suggesting…
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By Tamara Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer, Acting Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Monash University
Steve Kourabas, Associate Professor & Acting Director, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Monash University
Right now, you can’t advertise a stock market debut before filing a prospectus. Could loosening this rule give shrinking public markets a boost?
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By Audrey Mitchell, PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor in Film Studies, University of Sydney
The golden age of the Hollywood remarriage comedy featured pairings such as Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Now, these films are back with a psychological twist.
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By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.
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