By Amit Arora, Associate Professor in Public Health, Western Sydney University
Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
Jessica Appleton, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Lynn Kemp, Director of the Translational Research and Social Innovation group, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
A single dot on a growth chart doesn’t mean much in isolation. Here’s what your nurse is looking for when checking your baby’s growth – and how they’ll support you.
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By Melissa Black, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Tracing the history of this emotion can help us understand how it came to be empowering for LGBTQIA+ people – even as certain groups try and hijack it.
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By Natasha Yates, General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University
A GP reflects on the lessons of Eric Schlosser’s ‘muckraking’ classic. A necessary health check on the world we’ve built, it urges us all to take back our agency.
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By Carrie Leonetti, Associate Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Stopping judges from considering “good character” references when sentencing sexual offenders – as New Zealand’s National Party has pledged to if re-elected – may sound like a niche legal reform.
But it targets a real and longstanding issue in the country’s criminal justice system – and one that has drawn renewed…
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By Jean Poitras, Professeur titulaire en gestion de conflits, HEC Montréal
Megalomaniacal leaders thrive when a group’s collective uncertainty is coupled with the leader’s narcissism and reinforced by a culture of conformity that suppresses critical thinking.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
On One Nation targeting Andrew Hastie, plus the changing use of words such as ‘trauma’: an edited selection of your views.
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By Barrie Llewelyn, Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of South Wales
Adrian Paterson, Lecturer in English, University of Galway
Dominic O'Key, Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Ludivine Broch, Lecturer in History, University of Westminster
Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Michaela Benson, Professor in Public Sociology, Lancaster University
The Women’s prize for non-fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women. This prize acknowledges that while great gains have been made in representation for women in fiction, their voices remain systemically underrepresented in non-fiction.
In only its third year, the 2026 shortlist covers a diverse range of topics, examining themes from creativity and wellbeing to conflict and family ties.
Here we have enlisted…
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By Sara Uceda Gutiérrez, Profesora de Psicobiología, Universidad Nebrija
Manuel Reiriz Rojas, Psicobiología, Universidad Nebrija
It’s no accident that we spend a third of our lives asleep. It is essential to our health, and even animals for whom resting is complicated – such as aquatic mammals that need to surface to breathe, or birds that go up to 10 days without touching dry land – manage to sleep with surprising adaptations.
But while we sleep, the tens of trillions of microorganisms that live within us – known as the microbiota – follow their own rhythms. This microscopic colony,…
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By Amber Martin-Woodhead, Senior Research Associate in Design for Sustainability, School of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
Saying no to kids who want to buy stuff can be tricky, but gifting experiences or opting for open-ended toys such as building blocks can help.
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By David Nally, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, Land, is a haunting tale of loss, endurance and renewal. Spanning generations and continents, O’Farrell traces the fragile threads that connect people and place: stories half remembered, names erased, objects carried forward like talismans against oblivion, ghosts that haunt the edges of memory, music that conjures grazed fields and the wind-scratched surface of water. Moving between intimacy and sweeping historical change, the novel reveals the land itself as a living archive of rupture, survival, and belonging.
Land…
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