By Neeltje Boogert, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Did you get through your beach picnics unscathed this summer? Or did you return from a swim only to find a “seagull” (most likely a herring gull if in the UK) rifling through your bags in search of food? If the latter, shouting at it should help to stop the gull in its tracks and make it fly off – as my team’s latest research shows.
Our previous experiment, published…
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By John Schofield, Director of Studies, Cultural Heritage Management, University of York; Flinders University
Fay Couceiro, Principal Research Fellow in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Pollution, University of Portsmouth
Imagine a remote Galapagos beach, where iguanas stomp around between fishing nets, flip flops, baseball caps and plastic bottles. Stuck in the sand is the empty packet for food sold only in Ecuador, the nearest mainland hundreds of miles away. To most people, these things are rubbish. But to archaeologists, they’re also artefacts – traces of how people live in what some call the plastic age.
Using an archaeological lens allows us to question what we think we know about the contemporary world, and to see plastic as not just pollution…
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By Laura Nicole Rees-Davies, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Coaching may help teachers manage burnout and stay in the job. But only if schools get the training and time right.
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By Emily MacLeod, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Education, UCL
It is well known that more teachers are needed in England. A shortage of teachers affects young people’s attainment at school and puts pressure on the existing education workforce. There are two key reasons for this teacher shortage. Not enough people are signing up to become teachers, and too many teachers are leaving the profession each year.
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By Siobhan Mclernon, UCL Stroke Research Centre, Department for Brain repair and rehabilitation. Senior Lecturer, Adult Nursing and co-lead, Ageing, Acute and Long Term Conditions, London South Bank University
Women are more likely to have a stroke – and more likely to be misdiagnosed. Hormones, pregnancy and medical bias are part of the reason.
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By Keetie Roelen, Senior Research Fellow, Co-Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Global Development, The Open University
Lack of public transport and limited availability of schools, childcare facilities or GP surgeries are making life harder in new developments.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With much talk this week about the end of the Whitlam government, Liberal conservatives might do well to read Gough Whitlam’s 1967 speech to the Victorian Labor Party, at the start of his climb to power.
Like the Liberals now, federal Labor had been trounced at the 1966 election. Whitlam was the new leader, and he took on Victorian hardliners who put ideology ahead of electability.
“Certainly, the impotent are pure,” Whitlam told the delegates at the conference, in a line that echoed down the years.
The Liberal conservatives’ success in forcing their party…
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By Franz Krüger, Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Community media have received support for around three decades, and yet South Africa’s information landscape remains deeply unequal.
The distribution of media closely matches the country’s socio-economic inequality. People in middle-class suburbs have access to an ever-growing range of information sources. Poorer areas and the countryside are often news deserts.
Sustained support for community media has undoubtedly led to growth in media…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Ley says the Liberals will prioritise affordable, reliable energy, but provided no estimates for claims they’d bring down energy prices.
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By Amnesty International
Language used maybe offensive to some readers Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, after a five-year long lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) reveal concerning surveillance abuses against protesters and communities of colour, including the frequent use of rights-violating […] The post USA: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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