By Hassan F. Gholipour, Associate Professor of Property, Western Sydney University
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Professor of Economics of the Middle East, University of Marburg
Dubai’s real estate-driven growth faces a test as regional conflict threatens its safe‑haven status and the confidence of foreign investors.
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By Meaghan McEvoy, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian National University
St Patrick was actually a Roman Briton, who was kidnapped by Irish raiders, spirited across the sea and enslaved, aged 16. How did he become Ireland’s national hero?
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By Brendon Dunphy, Associate Professor in Marine Biology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Edin Whitehead, Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The Hauraki Gulf is already experiencing more frequent and longer lasting marine heatwaves. Seabirds now have to travel further to find enough food.
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By Habib Rezanejad, Professor of cellular and molecular biology, MacEwan University
Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the killing on 15 March of a Palestinian couple, Waed Bani Owda, her husband Ali Bani Owda and two of their young children Othman, 7, and Mohammed, 5, in Tammoun in the occupied West Bank after a special Israeli military unit – posing as Palestinians and driving a car with a Palestinian number plate – riddled their car with bullets, Heba Morayef, Regional Director for the […] The post Israel/OPT: Killing of the Bani Owda family latest illustration of alarming rise in lethal force appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jorge Villaverde, Historien, CRIMIC/Sorbonne Université, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL); European University Institute
A fresh look at tourism in Spain revisits the “Spain is Different” slogan, revealing a longer, more complex and contested history than the 1960s boom suggests.
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By Chris Doyle, Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History, University of Galway
Celebrated every year with swathes of green and pints of Guinness, Saint Patrick is the most famous of Ireland’s trio of patron saints (the others are Brigid and Colm Cille, aka Columba).
Saint Patrick’s story is well known. Not just because of the annual global phenomenon his feast day has become, but also thanks to a considerable body of original written evidence. Chief among this are his personal writings – the Confession…
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By Maura McAdam, Professor of Management, Dublin City University
Networking is so often presented as a kind of performance – confident handshakes and quick conversations in crowded rooms. But for many people, particularly introverts, these situations feel more draining than energising.
Building contacts and generating opportunities in this way may sound like something that extroverts are naturally better at. But this assumption, and the idea that introverts must therefore be at a disadvantage, is misleading.
Networking does not have to mean being the most…
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By Muiris MacCarthaigh, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Queen's University Belfast
Joshua Weston, PhD Candidate, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – a ten-year survey covering the entire southern sky almost a thousand times over the next decade – will test the limits of this reliance.
The Rubin observatory, located on a mountaintop called Cerro Pachón in Chile, is expected to catalogue the night sky in exquisite…
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By Rebecca A. Drummond, Professor, Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham
Two people have died in a bacterial meningitis outbreak in the south of England. Here’s what you need to know.
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