By Jordan Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in Food and Nutrition, Sheffield Hallam University
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticised after sharing a photograph of two people in uniform from a Canadian youth cadet programme with the caption “this is real”. The image showed a teenage cadet receiving a medal from someone reported to be a volunteer instructor.
The post was widely interpreted as mocking their appearance. The civilian Army Cadet League of Canada accused Hegseth of online harassment, saying…
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By Joanna Syrda, Assistant Professor in Management, University of Bath
Is someone in poverty if they can afford food, housing and the things they really need, but not other things most people take for granted? Answering this question requires a judgment about where an acceptable standard of living ends and poverty begins.
Statistics can tell us how many people live in those circumstances, but not whether those circumstances should count as poverty. Even the categories themselves are not self-evident: deciding what is a need, and what is merely taken for granted, is itself part…
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By Rémi Lamontagne-Caron, Candidat au doctorat en sciences cliniques et biomédicales, Université Laval
Our understanding of the causes of Alzheimer’s disease is evolving. Recent discoveries have revealed the important role of the cerebral vascular system.
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By Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
Crime levels are falling for most offences across the UK – but the public doesn’t necessarily feel safer. It’s a human trait to focus on frightening information in the news or on social media – but it could also mean that people are more fearful about crime than they need to be.
Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage claimed last month that “everyone knows” law and order in the UK is in a worse place than…
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By Katherine Theiss, Assistant Professor of Economics, Radford University
Subha Mani, Professor of Economics, Fordham University
The first five years of life lay an important foundation for children’s future schooling, health and earnings. Yet over 77% (table 2) of children in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to early childhood care and education. This places them at risk of not reaching their development potential.
In response, governments across Africa are increasingly committing to expanding enrolment in pre-primary school.
But research suggests that…
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By Manasi Kumar, Professor, Department of Population Health & Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York University
Anne Obondo, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi
Caleb Othieno, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Maseno University
Obadia Yator, Research Fellow, University of Nairobi
Pregnancy and early motherhood can be challenging under any circumstances for adolescents. But in Kenya the challenges are huge. Many pregnant and parenting adolescents face stigma, interrupted education, financial hardship, strained family relationships and limited social support.
These challenges can increase their risk of depression and other common mental health problems during a critical stage of life.
Yet access to mental health…
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By Malizgani Paul Chavula, Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Zambia
Teaching parents to play with their children is taking off in rural Zambia, but volunteers need better funding, training and support to reach every family.
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By Phiwokazi Qoza, PhD researcher, University of Cape Town
OnlyFans was established in 2016 as a platform for content creators to post images and videos or host live streams in exchange for money. But what began as a small and relatively quiet niche startup suddenly exploded.
Global traffic to the site increased by over 90% between November 2019 and October 2020. At the height of the COVID pandemic, when governments all over the world issued stay-at-home orders,…
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By Afonso Nuno Martins, Assistant Professor (of Architecture and Climate Change, and Director of the Postasmaster Humanitarian Architecture, Infrastruture, Incremental Housing for Crisis, University of Beira Interior
As storms, wildfires, and floods strike in ever-closer succession, an architect with disaster risk science expertise explains why resilience is built between hazards, not during them.
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By Saul Ngarava, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln
Daniel Magnone, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, University of Lincoln
Eric Ruto, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Lincoln, UK, University of Lincoln
The places most exposed to saltwater flooding, especially the low-lying Fenlands, are also some of the most productive farmland in the UK.
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