By Debbie Collier, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work, University of the Western Cape
Communities in South Africa continue to be fractured by service delivery failures, crime and gang-related violence. The impact is felt by families and communities, and in schools,
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By Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
The end of January 2026 effectively marked the end of party politics in Burkina Faso. On 29 January, Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s government formally dissolved all political parties, including those that had supported his September 2022 coup.
Parties had already been suspended…
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By Kerri Finlay, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Regina
Colin Whitfield, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Lauren Bortolotti, Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
The value of wetlands on the landscape cannot be overstated — they store and filter water, provide wildlife habitat, cool the atmosphere and sequester carbon. Yet, in the farmland area of Canada’s Prairies, wetlands are being drained to increase crop production and expand urban development.
While wetlands sequester carbon, they also naturally release greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. That means the impact of wetland drainage on net GHG emissions was previously difficult to determine.
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By Sharda S. Nandram, Full Professor Business & Spirituality & Hindu Spirituality & Society, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Puneet K. Bindlish, Assistant Professor - Hindu Spirituality - Spiritual Care, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, Lecturer at the University of Essex and Assistant Professor at the VU Amsterdam, European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Silver economy: an in-home help service provider in the Netherlands is revolutionising care delivery for the elderly with a streamlined, patient-centred approach that trusts community nurses and caregivers.
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By Anthony Wong, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Immunology, University of British Columbia
The key players of our immune system aren’t well understood. Here’s how vaccines give our immune players a home advantage to fight infection.
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By Marc-Andre Gutscher, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, géophysique marine, Université de Bretagne occidentale
Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of the Earth’s surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that crisscross the world’s seas could soon change this. As well as transmitting data around the planet, they can also monitor the tectonic movements that cause earthquakes and tsunamis.
The “Fibre Optic Cable Use for Seafloor” project (FOCUS) has demonstrated how we can use existing fibre-optic…
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By Nick Turner, Professor and Future Fund Chair in Leadership, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Julian Barling, Distinguished Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
Kaylee Somerville, PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Zhanna Lyubykh, Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
What does it mean to love your job?
The language of love has become increasingly common in contemporary discussions of work. People say they want to love their jobs, organizations promise roles candidates will love, and recruitment ads frame employment as an emotional commitment rather than an economic transaction.
Yet despite its ubiquity, the idea of “loving your job” is rarely defined with precision. What does it actually mean to love your job? And is that kind of love always good for employees and organizations?…
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By Adam Behr, Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.
If the National Gallery – one of Britain’s leading…
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By Aimee Ambrose, Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
Jenny Palm, Professor of Urban Governance, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University
Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries.
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By Alicia Denby, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Reports of widespread “dating burnout” and a cultural shift towards heteropessimism – a feeling of disappointment or despair at the state of relations between men and women – have caused panic in the media and dating apps.
Cultural debates have emerged around an alleged “rise…
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