By Josh Bland, Postdoctoral researcher of football cultures and heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
It’s clear from the generally horrified reaction to Gianni Infantino’s plan to turn the World Cup into an investment vehicle that the Fifa boss has gone too far.
For years Infantino has been the target of criticism. What is seen as his inapprioriate close relations with world leaders including Vladimir Putin of Russia, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and US president Donald Trump. Then there’s the controversial “peace prize” awarded to Trump…
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By Tom Wingfield, Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
New research found 574 people were diagnosed with TB only after death, exposing delays in recognising a preventable and treatable disease.
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By Sam Carr, Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.
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By Kathrin Cresswell, Professor of Digital Innovations in Health and Care, University of Edinburgh
Anna Barford, Research Professor, Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge
Anthony Kevins, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Loughborough University
Conor O'Kane, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Bournemouth University
Robin Miller, Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health & Social Care, University of Birmingham
The Big Conversation on Care is the latest attempt to fix England’s broken social care system. Getting a handle on this issue has been attempted no fewer than 22 times since the 1990s – but Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed that this time they’ll find the right answers. But what might these be – and will the tough choices on how to pay for it lose Labour votes?
More pay, more prestige for care workers
Anna Barford, Research Professor, Language Technology Lab
Care is a broad…
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By Umit Seven, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Manchester
Luis Martinez Juarez, Lecturer in Global Health, Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute, Manchester University
The world’s pandemic early-warning system is weakest in places affected by armed conflict, where the risk of outbreaks is often greatest.
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By Alice Mũrage, Research Fellow and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Julia Smith, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Canada has a promising gender-based violence legal and policy framework, but none of it accounts for the people actually delivering frontline services.
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By Louise Starkey, Professor of Education, University of Tasmania
David Moltow, Lecturer in Education Philosophy and Ethics, University of Tasmania
A rural district in New York state has made global headlines for plans to introduce a humanoid robot into high school classrooms as a teaching assistant.
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By Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Celebrity probate battles deal with the same legal issues that courts handle every day for many families that are not in the news.
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By Karen Barrett, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco
Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center’s “Science of Happiness” podcast, host Shuka Kalantari talked to Karen Barrett about what happens in the brain when people improvise music. Barrett is an assistant professor in the Institute for Health…
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By Katrine L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.
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