By Annika Surmeier, Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
Addisu Lashitew, Associate professor, Business, McMaster University
Bongi Bangeni, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development, University of Cape Town
David Littlewood, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Sheffield
Gideon Nomdo, Course coordinator: Language in Humanities, University of Cape Town
Kasturi Behari-Leak, Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
Phyllis Awor, Lecturer in Public Health, Makerere University
African universities can help solve social problems by changing their own institutions, supporting emerging ventures and bringing other problem-solvers together.
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By Grant Martin, Associate Professor; Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control, Rhodes University, Rhodes University
Invasive alien brambles have been spreading across South Africa since the early 1900s, having come from North America and Europe. All brambles fall within the genus Rubus. Their common names in South Africa are braam (Afrikaans), ijingijolo (isiZulu) and monoko-metsi (seSotho).
Over the decades, these plants have crept into tree plantations, pastures and native grasslands. Dense, thorny thickets now choke open spaces, and impede livestock and wildlife movement. They restrict access to water, smother young trees used for timber, interfere with plantation…
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By Jessie V. Ford, Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal healthcare, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity, and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direction. From the global north to the global south.
Researchers, donors and international organisations have exported programmes, defined success, and determined which questions matter most. How can HIV be prevented? How can contraceptive uptake be…
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By Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, UCL
Serbia’s leaderless anti-corruption coalition, the Student List, defeated the group led by former president Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) by a comfortable margin in October 25 elections.
Their 53.3% of the vote should get them 141 seats in parliament, well clear of the 125 seats needed to form a majority. The SNS can be a loud but ineffectual opposition with the 103 seats netted by their 39.7% of the vote.
The result…
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By Amanda Ellison, Professor of Neuroscience, Durham University
Food cravings may signal an attack already under way so that something eaten before the pain can wrongly take the blame for triggering the migraine.
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By Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Lecturer in English, University College Cork
Travel to England made Swift feel like an oppressed Irish colonial subject while at home he felt like a powerful civilising cog of that same empire.
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By Josh Bland, Postdoctoral researcher of football cultures and heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
First awarded by France Football magazine in 1956, the Ballon d’Or has grown from a relatively modest sporting honour into football’s most prestigious individual accolade. Its recent history has been dominated by the superstar rivalry between Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who combined have won 13 Ballon d'Or awards between 2008 and…
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By Gonda Van Steen, Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King's College London
Siân Valvis has managed to artfully translate this series of stories with skill and sensitivity, maintaining their cultural ruggedness and power.
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By Jamie Seabrook, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor, Department of Paediatrics; Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Adam Cole, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University
Jason Gilliland, Director, Urban Development Program; Professor, Geography & Environment, Western University
Shiran Zhong, Postdoctoral Associate, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL), Western University
Understanding adolescent cannabis use requires looking beyond store locations to consider how young people obtain cannabis, why they use it and how to prevent harmful patterns of consumption.
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By Jacob Parakilas, Research Leader, Defence, Security, and Justice Group, RAND Europe
Battlefield robots were once thought of as the stuff of science fiction. But the Ukraine war has put paid to that view, with uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) – or ground robots – taking on an increasingly visible role.
In September 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov, the former defence minister of Ukraine – who is generally credited for modernising the country’s use of military drones – called for an army of robots on the frontline. He also outlined an ambitious…
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