By Hannah Rumball-Croft, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Fashion Design, School of Arts, University of Westminster
Through tweeds and tiaras, hats and gowns, this exhibition charts a life ruled by duty, diplomacy and a strongly defined sense of style.
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By Jonathan Conlin, Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
Rather than fighting over this or that patch of art history, surely London’s museums can agree that all art is a ‘continuum’?
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By Gerhard Schnyder, Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University
A key challenge facing Magyar will be to undo the system Orbán has put in place to exercise control over Hungary.
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By Jody Mason, Associate Professor, Department of English, Carleton University
After the Second World War, Canadian work in global literacy campaigns helped elaborate Canada’s image as benevolent and innocent regarding internal colonialism.
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By Amnesty International
The three-year-long brutal conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their respective allies continues to intensify and to inflict devastating harm on civilians, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the anniversary of the outbreak of the war on 15 April. Each shift of the frontlines has left […] The post Sudan: Three years on, warring parties intensify brutal war on civilians appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Carl Singleton, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Stirling
David Butler, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Sports Economics and Law, School of Economics, University College Cork
Robert Butler, Director of the Centre for Sports Economics and Law, University College Cork
In the Premier League, the proportion of a match where the ball is in play is at a near-record low.
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By Lamya Elsabban, Doctoral Researcher in Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
On religious festival mornings, Egyptians gather among tombs in Cairo’s City of the Dead, a four-mile medieval necropolis at the foot of the Mokattam Hills. They’re upholding a longstanding tradition of remembrance and honouring their deceased loved ones. Though you might expect this ceremony to be marked with silence, the necropolis’s narrow alleys are filled with life as inhabitants carry on with their everyday routines.
Dating back to the 7th century, the City…
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By Godfrey Kyazze, Professor of Sustainable Bioprocess Engineering, University of Westminster
Merin T Pereira, PhD Candidate, Applied Biotechnology, University of Westminster
Scientists have shown that plastic bottles could be converted into levodopa, an important Parkinson’s drug, with implications for both medicine and the environment.
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By Caroline Millar, Visiting Scholar, Queen’s Business School (Organisation, Work and Leadership), Queen's University Belfast
The core premise of feminism is this: women can do anything. And yes, these days in developed economies, women without children earn about the same as men. The problem is not the opportunities available to them. It’s the opportunities that disappear as women become mothers.
This disconnect between paid work and care work is evident. In my research on work and motherhood, I have often found that organisations give little thought to the tensions that arise between women’s work and care identities.
A…
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By Mags Lesiak, PhD Researcher in Psychological Criminology, University of Cambridge
Kimberly Milne was 28 when she climbed over the barrier of a motorway bridge and jumped to her death. That night, witnesses saw her cowering from her husband, Lee Milne, in a retail park in Dundee, as he trapped her against a wall. CCTV footage showed her trying to get away while he shouted, drove a car at her and pulled her back into his orbit.
In the year before her death, he had choked her, dragged her by the hair, hit her until she fell and lost consciousness, and apologised, promising he was “not that…
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