By Nicole Steller, Assistant Professor, ESCP Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Albena Björck, Associate Professor, Head Global Business Lab, ZHAW School of Management and Law
Guido Möllering, Chair professor, Witten/Herdecke University
Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?
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By Rona Cran, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham
In Ann Patchett’s 11th novel Whistler, a former stepfather and stepdaughter, Eddie and Daphne, meet again by chance after 44 years. They rekindle their bond (before long, Eddie is introducing Daphne as “my daughter”) and revisit the events that prompted Eddie’s abrupt departure from her life when she was nine.
Eddie is a fiction editor beloved by everyone – his name “a bass note called again and again”. Daphne is a private school English teacher “safely past 50”, who describes her post-Eddie childhood as a period of “estrangement”. Both had (unrealised) ambitions to be novelists.
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By James Cronin, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
Sophie James, Lecturer in Security and Protection Science, Lancaster University
In Backrooms, the latest horror film from production company A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark – a failed architect who accidentally slips out of reality. He ends up trapped in an endless labyrinth of yellow-tinted rooms, humming fluorescent lights and eerie, disembodied sounds – the “Backrooms”.
The film is an adaptation of a popular internet horror concept and urban legend, about an impossibly large, alternate-reality maze of claustrophobic spaces with…
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By Sarah Shelley, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary Palaeobiology, School of Natural Sciences., University of Lincoln
The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and originated.
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By Perry G. Beasley-Hall, Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology, Adelaide University
Brock A. Hedges, Research Affiliate in Ecology, Adelaide University
Caves have long been a refuge. But climate change could pose an existential threat to cave crickets and other cave dwellers.
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By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney
US presidential elections are always about a choice for the future. Who do you want to lead the country? Who will best address your needs?
But the US midterm elections – where all the seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are on the ballot – are always a referendum on the president and his party in Congress.
So, given US President Donald Trump’s current popularity, what does this mean for the Republicans’ chances in November?
Struggling with key demographics
In short, Trump is in terrible shape politically at the moment.…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Internal dissent within Labor over AUKUS has erupted again, with former cabinet minister Ed Husic suggesting there should be a fresh caucus vote on the controversial agreement.
Meanwhile, critics have launched a public inquiry into AUKUS headed by former Labor minister Peter Garrett (of Midnight Oil fame), and crossbenchers have joined a call for the government to be “transparent with the Australian people about the risks to the delivery of the AUKUS submarine program and how they will effectively manage those risks”.
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By Janine Mendes-Franco
“[E]xisting formulae for ‘authentic’ postcolonial prose are already so codified that a language model can reproduce them convincingly. AI does not disrupt literary taste so much as expose its furniture.”
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By Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Senior Lecturer, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Control, UNSW Sydney
Holly Seale, Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Md Saiful Islam, Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
The latest Ebola outbreak is showing no signs of slowing.
On April 24, the first suspected case of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On May 17, the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a “Public Health Emergency…
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By Jessica Kim, PhD candidate, Monash University
A viral video depicting a gravely injured 14-year-old boy lying on the asphalt sparked national outrage this year. The boy, Arianto Tawakal, had reportedly been struck by a police officer and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
The case quickly drew comparisons to last year’s death of Gojek driver Affan Kurniawan, who died after a police vehicle struck…
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