By David Roger Marples, Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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By Kanwal Bokhari, Assistant Professor (Teaching) Finance, University of Calgary
Jia Bao, Assistant Professor in Faculty of Business, City University of Macau
Seok-Woo Kwon, Robson Professor in Entrepreneurship, University of Calgary
Wei Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore
Researchers followed hundreds of British couples for three decades to ask: What happens to the spouse who doesn’t choose startup life, but has to live it anyway?
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By Aaron Brynildson, Law Instructor, University of Mississippi
Bureaucratic hurdles mean the US military typically has to wait a decade between the time it sees a new threat and the employment of a new system to defend against it.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Joachim Paluku Kamate (left), Olivier Sefu Anjisina (center), and Jackson Kambale Odo in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 12, 2026. © Private This week, a military court in the town of Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, will hand down a verdict in the case against three members of the citizens’ movement Lutte pour le Changement (Struggle for Change, or Lucha).The activists were arrested on March 12, 2026, after organizing a peaceful demonstration calling for access to safe drinking water, an essential service that remains severely…
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By Julie Simmons, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
Canadians should push for more than immediate byelections after floor crossings to strengthen the country’s democracy — they should turn their attention once again to broader electoral reform.
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By Antonio Aloisi, Associate Professor of European and comparative Labour Law, IE University
From the pandemic to the Ukraine and Iran energy crises, working from home has been treated as a crisis response.
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By Simon Kolstoe, Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
How is it possible to spend tens of billions of dollars developing drugs to treat a serious disease that affects millions of people, and yet end up with something that does not work? This is a mystery that has bedevilled Alzheimer’s research for years.
A new review of the evidence has concluded that the leading class of Alzheimer’s drugs “probably…
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By Lou Harvey, Associate Professor of Education, University of Leeds
Chris Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Education, Sheffield Hallam University
The idea of the “autism spectrum” is widely used in diagnosis, education and public discussion. First developed by the psychiatrist Lorna Wing in the 1980s, the term was intended to reflect the wide range of autistic experiences and needs.
But a growing body of research is
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By Anna Linder, Researcher in Health Economics, Lund University
Gawain Heckley, Researcher in Health Economics, Lund University
Ulf Gerdtham, Professor of Health Economics, Lund University
Schools increasingly rely on testing, grading and performance accountability. In England, Ofsted inspections and school league tables sharpen the focus on measurable performance. Similar developments have taken place in Sweden, where repeated reforms have introduced earlier and more detailed assessments.
Performance-driven school environments shape young people’s wellbeing. Yet despite frequent reforms to evaluation systems, their psychological consequences rarely take centre stage in policy debates.
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By Alexandre Massaux, Chercheur associé à la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The victory of the Tisza party in Hungary marks a major political turning point, but the European and geopolitical implications of this remain unclear.
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