By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.
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By Victor (Vik) Pérez, Associate Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting rituals, healing ceremonies and communal celebrations.
That balance began to shift with the industrial revolution, and the arrival…
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By Kevin Zapata Celestino, LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
When we think about school bullying, we often focus on victims given the emotional toll they endure, the academic disruption they face and the long-term scars that follow them into adulthood.
Victim-centred research has been critical in shaping strategies to prevent bullying. But there’s a perspective that would help us understand bullying that is too often ignored: that of the aggressors themselves.
There is a growing body of research that explores how students themselves understand and explain…
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By Donald Amuah, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of South Wales
Chibuzo Amadi, Lecturer in Accounting, University of South Wales
After 2008, tougher rules promised safer banking. Instead, they helped big lenders grow stronger, while choice on the high street shrank.
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By Elke Schwarz, Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
Neil Renic, Lecturer in Ethics, University of New South Wales; Fellow of the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen
At the heart of this dispute is how Anthropic’s large language model Claude is being used in a military context.
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By Libby John, Professor of Sustainability, University of Lincoln
Sandra Varga, Associate Professor in Life Sciences, University of Lincoln
A yellow disc with rays of white – an icon of childhood drawings and a flower with healing properties. We have picnics on it, play football on it and make daisy chains out of it.
The common or lawn daisy, Bellis perennis, is probably familiar to most people living in temperate climates. But there may be few things you do not know about this fascinating and perhaps under estimated flower.
A flower made of little flowers
Each daisy is actually an inflorescence – a multitude of…
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By Polly Rippon, University Teacher in Journalism, University of Sheffield
When someone is arrested and under police investigation, we usually don’t know their names. Police reveal only their gender, age and the crime for which they are under suspicion, and the media reports it.
The arrests of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson were a striking exception to this practice. When the police said they had “arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk” on February…
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By Christopher Terrell Nield, Lecturer, Chemistry and Forensic Science, Nottingham Trent University
British gardeners and farmers may remember 2024 with a shudder – it was widely referred to as “the year of the slug”. Vast numbers of slimy slitherers chomped their way through raspberries, laid waste to lettuce and toppled tomato plants.
Directly sown crops were demolished, early carrots did not germinate and main crop potatoes were damaged.
Will we see a repeat of the slugageddon in…
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By Tom Garner, Senior Lecturer of Human Computer Interaction, Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University
In 1997 I was 13 and decidedly not a gamer. I liked film, music and Stephen King novels – but I had been “blessed” with two parents who believed video games rotted your brain. They did, however, invest in a home PC, seemingly under the impression I would be drawn only to its educational functions.
Their faith was misplaced when I discovered Blade Runner (1997), an adventure game based on the 1982 Ridley Scott film that I had not seen. Before, I had understood games as “collect coins, jump on enemies,…
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By Luiz Leomil, PhD candidate, Political Science, Carleton University
The United States government recently announced it will allow companies to resell Venezuelan oil to Cuba amid a severe fuel shortage on the island. Earlier this year, the U.S. cut off oil shipments to Cuba from its main supplier, Venezuela, after American forces abducted that country’s president.
Cuba’s ambassador to Canada,…
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