By Michael Woods, Professor of Human Geography, Aberystwyth University
Reform UK and the Green party are expected to win their first seats in the Senedd, but they have contrasting views on the Welsh countryside.
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By Norman Sempijja, Associate professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
Mouhammed Ndiaye, PhD Candidate, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
The strength of armed groups doesn’t come only from weapons but also from how deeply they are embedded in local realities.
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By Nomalanga Mashinini, Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
The incident is being treated as an embarrassment. It’s something more serious: a failure of the very standards the revised policy must uphold.
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By Joshua Kumbani, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat de Barcelona
Rock paintings are found throughout Zimbabwe. They were made during the last 10,000 years by hunter gatherer groups and later by farming communities.
These came to the attention of the ERC Artsoundscapes project, based in Spain, in 2021. The project brings together experts in archaeology, ethnography, psychology and acoustic engineering to explore how humans understood sound in prehistoric times. Our team has studied some of the rock art of South…
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By Julie Wharton, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of Winchester
Sencos – special educational needs coordinators – play a vital role in maintained mainstream English schools, nursery schools and sixth forms. If you are a parent, you may encounter them if you have concerns about your child’s progress or the support available, or during review meetings. Children may meet them through assessments, pupil interviews or informal check-ins.
They are teachers who take on additional leadership responsibility for special educational needs and disabilities across the school. In many cases, they continue to teach classes, but in larger schools the role is increasingly…
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By Adi Imsirovic, Lecturer in Energy Systems, University of Oxford
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to leave the oil producers’ cartel Opec after 59 years is more than a symbolic break. It highlights a growing divide among major oil producers over how to respond to a changing energy landscape, and will weaken the group’s ability to manage global supply.
In the short term, the impact of the UAE’s exit will be limited. The world still needs every available barrel of oil, and the UAE accounts…
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By Melanie Denomme, PhD Student, Biological Sciences, Brock University
Captive reptiles such as beaded dragons will often scramble incessantly against the barriers of their enclosures. How can we get them to stop?
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By Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, with Cross-Appointment to Geography, Environment and Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A high-speed rail line could operate without producing significant emissions. But this doesn’t mean it would substantially help Canada’s mitigation efforts.
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By Guest Contributor
By grounding AI in the right to life, equality, speech, essentials and privacy, we ensure it serves as a mirror of our highest values, rather than a magnifier of our oldest biases.
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By Lucy Bray, PhD Candidate and Public Health Registrar, University of Southern Denmark
Søren T. Skou, Professor in the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
When we think about the causes of climate change, the usual suspects often come to mind: coal-fired power plants, traffic-choked roads, industrial agriculture. Rarely do we picture hospitals.
Yet if global healthcare were a country, it would be one of the world’s top five greenhouse gas emitters. With healthcare responsible for about 5% of…
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