By Quentin Plantec, Professeur Stratégie & Management de l'Innovation, TBS Education
Cylien Gibert, Professeur Stratégie, Entrepreneuriat & Innovation, TBS Education
Julien Cloarec, Full Professor of Marketing, iaelyon School of Management – Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Marie-Alix Deval, Enseignante - chercheuse, ISTEC
A group of researchers examine the communication barriers impacting social science professionals’ credibility and how people make sense of their expertise.
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By Lesedi Senamele Matlala, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Policy, Monitoring and Evaluations, University of Johannesburg
Across South Africa, there are various ways for people to report issues like broken infrastructure, unreliable water supply, failing clinics and poor municipal services. The channels include ward meetings, hotlines, and digital platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and X. Complaints are often shared publicly and sometimes gain traction.
But are they enough? As a researcher specialising in governance, public policy and citizen-based monitoring, I recently…
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By Muthumuni Elizabeth Managa, Associate professor, University of South Africa
Lijo Mona, Postdoctoral fellow, University of South Africa
Scientists are exploring light-activated nanoparticles to kill biofilms in stored drinking water, aiming to make household water safer in South Africa.
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By F. Dermmillah Obare, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Center of Governance and Sustainability, UMass Boston
Africa’s wildlife laws still follow a 1933 colonial conservation model that excludes communities and fails to protect wildlife. It’s time to do away with it.
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By Josh Bland, ESRC-DTP PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
The decision to change the rules because of pressure from the White House will destroy all trust in football’s governing body.
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By Jacqui Broadhead, Director, Global Exchange on Migration, University of Oxford
As part of a package of reforms to the UK’s asylum system, Shabana Mahmood has laid out the details of a new community sponsorship route for refugees to come to the UK.
The home secretary’s announcement draws on Canada’s experience of resettling over 400,000 refugees since 1979 through community sponsorship. While the planned UK scheme is much smaller in scale, Mahmood says it will “build over time as public confidence is restored in Britain’s immigration system”.
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By Danielle S. Molnar, Professor of Child and Youth Studies; Canada Research Chair (Tier II) Adjustment and Well-Being in Children and Youth, Brock University
Teachers in a study reported strong emotional reactions to small setbacks from their perfectionistic students, ranging from crying or lashing out to shutting down completely.
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By Sandra Cassotta, Associate Professor in International, Environmental and Energy Law, Aalborg University
Europe is in the middle of something that no longer feels exceptional. Temperature records have broken across the continent, hitting 40°C and above in Germany, France, Hungary and Spain – and costing hundreds of lives.
Where I live in Scandinavia, this kind of temperature is more unusual. Yet Denmark also recently joined the list when 37°C was recorded…
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By Antonios Kelarakis, Reader in Polymers ad Nanomaterials, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Lancashire
Achieving the blackest of blacks has been one of humanity’s enduring challenges. It is a frontier that unites modern nanotechnologists with nature’s ancient colour palette.
Black emerged as one of humanity’s first engineered colours, stemming from charcoal and soot used in the prehistoric cave art of Lascaux in southwestern France.
For centuries,…
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By Julia Håkansson, Postdoctoral fellow in Museology, Lund University
If you visit Scandinavia you are likely to find yourself at an exhibition about Vikings. There are many to choose from.
The National History Museum in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, houses a major permanent exhibition on Viking. The Swedish History Museum in Stockholm boasts the largest Viking Age exhibition in the world. And the new Norwegian Museum of the…
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