By Alberto Ardid, Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Canterbury
David Dempsey, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Canterbury
Garry McDonald, Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering, University of Canterbury
Shane Cronin, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
AI models could spot volcanic eruptions earlier – and new research says the lives saved make the occasional false alarm worth the price.
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By Lina Ma
China’s only daughters were raised to pursue education, independence and opportunity. Now, those same qualities are increasingly seen as obstacles to marriage and motherhood.
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By Conor Barker, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology & Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
Parents might often worry about academic performance. While that is important, it is also vital that children feel a sense of belonging at school.
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By Amina Yousaf, Associate Head, Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
Student success depends not only on children’s readiness to learn but also on schools’ readiness to welcome and affirm who they are.
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By Ana Karen Espinosa Becerra, PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Jean-François Bureau, Professor, School of Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Parental playfulness is about physical, cognitive and social behaviour marked by creativity, joy, imagination and humour when parents are fully present.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s result in the Western Australian state seat will raise a couple of notches in the major parties’ perception of the political threat level it represents.
In particular, it will remove any Labor complacency that One Nation is just a problem for the conservatives – not that the more astute in Labor’s ranks believed this.
And the WA result increases further the stakes in the Victorian state election in November.
That nearly…
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By Trevor Hill, Professor of Geography, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Carla Higgs, Environmental Scientist in the Geography department, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Richard Meissner, Associate Professor, University of South Africa
South Africa is running short of water, but new research finds scarcity is only part of the problem: water is also not being shared fairly among those who need it.
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By Peter Lockwood, Postdoctoral fellow, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Nairobi’s transformation into a “world-class city” is both anticipated and celebrated in Kenya’s media. A new book, Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya, examines how the city’s expansion conceals profound social upheavals. These have root causes in the opportunities created by surging land values in rural areas, making it tempting for…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
With nearly all votes counted in Saturday’s Western Australian state byelection for Secret Harbour, the ABC’s results give One Nation 39.1% of the primary vote (up a huge 30.6% since the March 2025 state election), Labor 24.4% (down 22.1%), the Liberals 17.3% (down 7.1%), the Greens 7.5% (down 1.3%), Legalise Cannabis 3.7% (down 2.1%), Animal Justice 1.8% (down 0.8%) and Australian Christians 1.7% (down 1.1%).
A surprisingly weak flow of preferences to One Nation has restricted their…
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By Laura
The slogan 'DRC, a solution country' to the energy transition is merely a facade, masking the mining pollution that destroys the environment and human lives alike.
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