By Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the field: What are the ethical limits on research about often-dangerous groups?
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By John C. Besley, Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
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By Suzanne McLeod, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Kathryn Blackman, Adjunct Lecturer, Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Program, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A significant amount of Philadelphia public schools’ technology and other equipment goes missing each year due to poor inventory and tracking.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
An analysis by the Treasury forecasts that AI has the potential to have a bigger impact on high-skilled and cognitive jobs, not just physical and routine roles.
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By Dereje Melese Liyew, Lecturer and Reseacher, Political Science, Debre Markos University,
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of Ethiopia’s most influential institutions for more than 1,600 years. Church and state were closely intertwined from the official adoption of Christianity in the 4th century until the overthrow of the imperial regime in 1974.
The church has shaped the political order, education systems and cultural identity. It remains one of the country’s largest religious institutions, along with Islam and protestant Christianity. About 43%…
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By Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Pask, Professor, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Douglass S Rovinsky, Associate Research Scientist, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as the Tasmanian tiger – the species remains a global symbol of human-made extinction.
The carnivorous marsupial fell victim to 19th-century colonists’ perception that unfamiliar creatures were primitive, vermin-like imitations of more familiar European animals. The species was later exterminated due to sensationalist claims that it was a ferocious, wolf-like predator of sheep.
However, our new
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By Harrison Budak
Backed by Ukrainian oligarchs, the projects would dramatically increase the country’s poultry output and place a significant burden on local lives and natural resources.
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By Diane Kraal, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University
Richard Denniss is an economist and head of the Australia Institute, a Canberra-based policy think tank. His monograph More Fool Me: How the Gas Industry Tricked Australia is an impassioned plea for ordinary Australians to lobby relevant federal ministers to more effectively tax the export gas industry.
The ineffectiveness of the current Petroleum…
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By Nick Kelly, Associate Professor in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology
The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it.
As the world struggles with the impact of another new high-tech medium – generative artificial intelligence (AI) – two thinkers from that era have acquired new relevance for understanding what is happening and where we’re heading.
Investors are sinking billions of dollars into AI companies and data centres in the belief that AI will change the world. But how should we think about AI? Is it a…
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By Rebecca Cairns, Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
Kerri Anne Garrard, Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
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