By Josephine Bourner, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill with an undisclosed illness.
While reports of suspected plague have been circulating in the media, Russia’s consumer health watchdog has described the illness as pneumonia of unknown cause. The World Health Organization also stated the official…
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By Seth T. Kannarr, Visiting Honors Lecturer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Derek H. Alderman, Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
Katrina Stack, Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History, University of South Florida
Articles published in The Conversation go well beyond academics writing for a general audience – they can also serve as great content for educators to use in the classroom.
Our recent article in the academic journal The Professional Geographer explores how articles from The Conversation provide opportunities for public storytelling and authentic learning in university classrooms.
As geographers and experienced writers for The Conversation – having written or co-written 26 articles…
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By David Lees, Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick
The student demonstrations that have spread across France in recent weeks are not unprecedented. Indeed, commentators have been quick to point to comparisons with the events of May and June 1968, where, at their peak, more than 10 million students and workers took to the streets.
In 1968, as now, there were legitimate reasons for protest. The unrest began at the Nanterre campus of the University…
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By Shannon D. M. Moore, Associate professor of social studies education, Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
Jennifer Watt, Associate Professor of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, University of Manitoba
Allegations of sexual assault at Cornell University, and the public response to them, reveal persistent misunderstandings about consent, bystander responsibility and sexual violence.
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By Andrew S. Roe-Crines, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Communication, University of Liverpool
Kemi Badenoch’s closing conference speech to the Conservative party conference sought to galvanise the membership by framing the coming years as “a battle of ideas” over how Britain is governed.
The Conservative leader employed a combination of emotions, evidence and narrative in the speech. As a way of setting out the tone, these are effective ways of capturing the audience’s attention so that they remain attentive to the core policies and overarching messages. For Badenoch, these were about doing…
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By Lesley Palmer, Professor, Ageing and Dementia Design, University of Stirling
Vikki McCall, Professor of Social Policy, University of Stirling
With Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s plans for adult social care reform in England, including a move towards a national care service, much of the focus has been on who receives care and who provides it.
A missing piece of the jigsaw, however, is where that care is provided. Any care revolution is going to fail without the right homes to conduct the care in.
At a time when a health and social care services are under intense…
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By Birte Julia Gippert, Reader in International Relations, University of Liverpool
Theresa Squatrito, Associate Professor in International Organisations, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
It took 27 years after the end of hostilities in Kosovo to bring the leader of the KLA to book for his war crimes.
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By Valerie van Mulukom, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
Reading draws on brain systems involved in language and imagination. Studies are exploring how it relates to wellbeing and understanding others.
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By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
Growing up in disadvantaged circumstances is linked to higher death rates decades later, according to a review of 102 studies involving 8.5 million people.
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By Mark Shtanov, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Awkwardly smiling, a chemist at a waste site is telling me about industrially incinerating corpses. We are crammed into a claustrophobic funnel at the entry point to a rattling shed with high-vis-jacketed workers scurrying to and fro.
The air smells oily and mechanical. With our voices lowered, the conversation is not flowing smoothly. There is a slightly uncomfortable atmosphere, perhaps indicating certain things on our minds that aren’t being said. Passing the waste storage area on my way out, I nervously scan the stacked container rows for the yellow drums which sometimes contain…
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