By Willem Standaert, Associate Professor, Université de Liège
Anyone working in an organisation knows it: meetings follow one after another at a frantic pace. On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings… in an attempt to repair the damage caused by previous ones.
And yet, for a long time, meetings were not subject of…
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By Colin King, Director, Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, Western University
Amy Rzezniczek, Ph.D. Candidate, School and Applied Child Psychology, Western University
Rachel Krahn, Master's student, School and Applied Child Psychology, Western University
Evidence-based resources plus recommended storybooks can help parents and caregivers support children to build early skills for identifying and managing anxiety.
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By Emily Impett, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
Relationships rarely collapse in a single moment. They fade through the quiet loss of shared moments that once made the relationship feel alive.
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By Eugene Y. Chan, Associate Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Political consumerism — the act of buying or boycotting products for political or ethical reasons — is on the rise among younger generations.
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By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
Pets just don’t live long enough. We spend time, emotion, energy and lots of money caring for them, all while knowing we’ll invariably outlive them.
It’s unsurprising then, that with the advent of cloning technologies a growing number of people are exploring the potential of creating copies of their beloved pets.
When Dolly the sheep was born in 1997, it heralded a major breakthrough in our ability to successfully clone mammals.…
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By Deborah Wilson David, Head of Journalism & Media, Nottingham Trent University
The question is not just about how to fund the BBC – but how to equip the BBC for an uncertain future.
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By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Medicine is on the brink of an era where microscopic devices inside our bodies connect us directly to the digital world.
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By Catherine Wilson, Clinical Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, University of Glasgow
This year’s flu season started early and is expected to be severe. Here’s what you need to know about getting vaccinated, from timing and side-effects to how well it works.
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By Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath
AI enthusiasts are right that projects like AlphaFold are a huge leap forward, but the philosophy of science shows why excluding humans undermines it.
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By Mathelinda Nabugodi, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, UCL
Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures, University of Oxford
Dominic Davies, Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
Harsh Trivedi, Teaching Associate French, School of Languages, Arts and Societies., University of Sheffield
Leighan M Renaud, Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Department of English, University of Bristol
Sarah Olive, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Aston University
Sarah Trott, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and History, York St John University
Torbjörn Forslid, Professor in literary studies, Lund University
Viktoriia Grivina, PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
Your 20s can be an intense decade. In the words of Taylor Swift, those years are “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”. Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative era. We asked 20 of our academic experts to recommend the book that steered them through those ten years. And we’d love to know your pick – let us know in the comments below.
1. Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera (1998)
Growing up, I didn’t have much guidance in discovering Black…
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