By Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Curtin University
Despite consistent messaging ‘we all have a role to play’ when it comes to stopping violence against women, actual guidance on what parents should do can be difficult to find.
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By Kamran Mahroof, Associate Professor, Supply Chain Analytics, University of Bradford
Emilia Vann Yaroson, Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and Analytics, University of Huddersfield
New import checks on foods arriving from the EU could affect supplies at Britain’s local delis, high-street greengrocers or independent cafes. Worse, they could lead to shortages that affect the very viability of these businesses. So what are these new checks and what does it all mean for consumers in the UK?
Three years ago, the UK departed…
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By Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
James, the new novel by Percival Everett, is a stunning book which I relished long after finishing. It is the sort of book you need to tell all your friends about – and you know once they have read it, it will fundamentally change them. They can never unlearn what they discover once they’ve walked in James’s footsteps.
James is an incredible re-writing of Mark Twain’s 1884 American classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin that tells the story from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.…
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By Helen Wadham, Reader in Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University
Carlos Monterrubio, Researcher and Lecturer in Tourism, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico
Kate Dashper, Professor, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University
The extraordinary sight of five horses galloping through London, sweating and covered in blood, caused the hashtag #Apocalypse to trend briefly on social media last week.
Colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians, the military horses had been taking part in an exercise in the capital when they were spooked by noisy building works nearby. And while not exactly…
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By Karl Pike, Lecturer in British Politics/Public Policy, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Even though Keir Starmer is more comfortable being associated with the leaders of the last Labour government than Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband, this is not a return to the past.
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By Christina von Roemeling, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Florida
John Ligon, Assistant Professor of Hematology, University of Florida
Cancer vaccines have gained much interest among scientists but face a number of hurdles. A new mRNA vaccine for glioma offers a step forward in training the immune system to fight cancer.
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By Claire B. Wofford, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal scholar says they were just doing their job.
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By Thomas Gift, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
As hundreds of New York police officers in riot gear were called in to clear away a student protest at Columbia University on Tuesday night, the university president Nemat Shafik was saying she had “no choice” but to take this action.
Earlier that day, after defying administrative orders to disband their two-week encampment, a group of Columbia students had broken into…
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By Alejandra Marquez Guajardo, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Michigan State University
When its six-week abortion ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, Florida joined nearly two dozen other U.S. states that ban abortion or greatly restrict it.
These laws came into effect after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended nearly 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
Florida…
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By Kate McNicholas Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Westminster
Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Love Lies Bleeding.
The filmmakers behind Love Lies Bleeding (director Rose Glass and her co-writer Weronika Tofilska) are, as Glass describes “obviously … both film nerds”.
The film has a broad archive of references ranging from the works of influential queer filmmaker John…
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