By David Turner, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Anglia Ruskin University
As a football coach, Thomas Tuchel has done things differently to many of his colleagues.
For example, it is extremely rare for lower league footballers to become the head coaches of top sides. But that’s what Tuchel did, playing as a defender in Germany’s bottom tiers, before going on to manage elite teams like Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.
It’s also unusual for youth team coaches to become coaches to senior sides, or to make the leap from coaching relatively small clubs to some…
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By Zoe Elisabeth Swann Baillie, Research Associate in Humanity and Space, University of Leicester
The UK Space Agency and space startup Vast just signed an agreement to send Paralympic sprinter and below-knee amputee John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. Most coverage framed it as a victory for inclusion. As a space health researcher, I think something far more interesting happened.
For 70 years, spaceflight has assumed a rigid archetype: a healthy white man with a military background. The assumption was that physical uniformity minimised risk. As we…
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By Henri Chevalier, PhD student at School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
New research shows that corporate concentration, the agricultural treadmill and export-driven policy have turned farm expansion into a survival requirement.
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By Human Rights Watch
Democratic Congressman of California Ro Khanna got a taste of Palestinians’ daily life under occupation on July 8. While visiting the occupied West Bank, Khanna said he and his team were stopped by armed Israeli settlers who were soon joined by four Israeli soldiers that proceeded to hold the group for over an hour. Khanna was visiting Khirbet Zanuta, a Bedouin village whose residents were forced to flee in late 2023 following a series of violent raids by settlers from a nearby outpost. Click to expand Image Israeli settlers blocking the convoy of U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA),…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Satellite Imagery of the Sawa military camp, including the Warsai Yikealo Secondary School, recorded in January 2015. Imagery © DigitalGlobe - Maxar Technologies 2019; Source: Google Earth Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other senior government officials presided over the 38th graduation ceremony of secondary school students from the Sawa military training center on July 11.Though graduation ceremonies are ordinarily a cause for celebration and the promise of a new future, for many young Eritreans, Sawa’s graduation ceremonies sadly mark the loss of both—and…
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By Marilyn N. Ahun, Assistant Professor,Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University
Research from Ghana, Mozambique and the United States sheds light on what a safe, healthy and nurturing environment looks like for children to grow and develop.
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By Amir Al-Azraki, Associate professor, Culture and Language Studies, University of Waterloo
As the 2026 World Cup draws to a close, the focus has been on packed stadiums — but in an Ontario city, connection grows on informal fields, where soccer turns diversity into shared belonging.
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By Alène Ngarura Kaneza, doctorante, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Burundi’s president Évariste Ndayishimiye made an official “friendship and working” visit to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in April 2026. At the time, Ndayishimiye was the rotating chair of the African Union.
The visit aimed to reopen dialogue between the continental body and the Alliance of Sahel States. The alliance brings…
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By Lori Lake, Communication and Education Specialist at the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
Early exposure to malnutrition from conception to a child’s second birthday can have an irreversible effect on their long-term health and development.
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By James Borrell, Research Leader in Agrobiodiversity and Conservation, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Bezawit Genanaw, Lecturer and Researcher
Sophie Jago, Researcher in agrobiodiveristy and conservation at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Wendawek Abebe Mengesha, Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University
Ethiopia’s protected areas conserve almost 10% of the country, but new research has found that people living near nature reserves may be more likely to go hungry.
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