By Toby Matthiesen, Senior Lecturer in Global Religious Studies, University of Bristol
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on April 28 that it will leave the global oil producers’ cartel Opec. Its decision is the latest sign that the war in the Middle East has not only deepened animosities between Iran and its Gulf neighbours, but among the Gulf states too.
Founded in 1960, Opec is a rare success story among multilateral organisations in the region. Its policies paved…
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By Jack Reid, PhD Candidate in Irish literature, University of Limerick
Amy Wilcockson, Research Fellow, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London
Clodagh Philippa Guerin, PhD Candidate in Refugee World Literature, University of Limerick
Ellen Howley, Assistant Professor in the School of English, DCU, Dublin City University
Janine Bradbury, Poet and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture, University of York
Julie Meril Gardner, PhD candidate in literature, Nottingham Trent University
Kate McLoughlin, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Katie MacLean, PhD candidate in literature and languages, University of Stirling
Sally Flint, Creative Lead, We Are the Possible programme, University of Exeter
Steve Waters, Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia
We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over 200 years and a range of emotions from sorrow, to anger, fear and hope.
This article is part of Climate Storytelling, a series exploring how arts and science can join forces to spark understanding, hope and action.
1. Death of a Field by Paula Meehan (2005)
Published in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Paula Meehan’s
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By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
Amy Clair, Associate Professor (Housing Research), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
Mark Stephens, Mactaggart Chair in Land, Property & Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow
People in the UK are now spending fewer years in good health than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis by the Health Foundation. The UK now sits near the bottom of a 21-country comparison, ahead only of the US.
A drop in healthy life expectancy is explained through many causes: obesity, alcohol, drugs, suicide, chronic disease, poverty and widening inequality. But one of the most powerful causes sits atop them all: housing. Where…
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By Jasmine Farrier, Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville
Donald Trump’s unilateral move to engage in military action against Iran isn’t unprecedented; Presidents Obama and Clinton directed U.S. military engagements without explicit congressional approval
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By Sam Edwards, Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
As King Charles concludes his transatlantic travels with a visit to Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, he can take pride in a job well done. His four-day state visit to the US – which concluded with a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery and a block party in Virginia – appears to have been a success.
Amid a period of heightened tension between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the king’s carefully calibrated speech to a joint session of Congress has secured…
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By Amnesty International
I was relieved when we crossed the makeshift bridge at Qasmiye. It was hastily constructed after Israeli air strikes destroyed it, but easy to drive on. It also meant I was approaching home. Bridges over the Litani River, connecting southern Lebanon to rest of the country, had been blown up one after the other in […] The post ‘I said a prayer for the house’s protection; I asked it to stay, to wait for our return’: Notes from a trip to southern Lebanon appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Peter Coppola, Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Lead, Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge
There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.
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By Matt Jacobsen, Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London
We are used to seeing the excellent Adam Scott (Severance, Parks and Recreation) in likeable nice guy roles. In Hokum, however, he plays a curmudgeonly and prickly bestselling novelist called Ohm Bauman. Deliberating over the ending to his series of popular novels, Bauman has decided to take a trip to the rural Irish inn where his parents stayed on their honeymoon, to scatter their ashes.
The remote Bilberry Woods Hotel in the off-season is a fantastically eerie horror location. Irish writer and director Damian…
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By Ahmed Elbediwy, Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology & Clinical Biochemistry, Kingston University
Nadine Wehida, Senior Lecturer in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Kingston University
Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.
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By Samson Maekele Tsegay, Research Fellow, School of Education, Anglia Ruskin University
Zeraslasie Shiker, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Leeds
Governments can spread their ideas and principles through the processes and organisations they use to maintain power. This includes education.
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