By Jeff Hearn, Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield; Hanken School of Economics
Charlotta Niemistö, Associate Professor, Organisation and Management, Åbo Akademi University
Hanna Sjögren, Doctoral Researcher, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
Around the world, countries are moving towards a more digital way of life. Governments have promoted digitalisation of public services to improve efficiency, cut costs and meet modern demands for speedy responses. Yet this push for the digital has caught some people by surprise. Many older adults now feel they face another hurdle in living an independent life.
Across Europe,…
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By Rachel Murphy, Lecturer, School of History and Geography, University of Limerick
Whenever a new series of Who Do You Think You Are? airs, there is an uptick in the number of people who decide to trace their own family history. Watching the show, it is tempting to think that conducting this research is easy. But underpinning each episode is hundreds of hours of research conducted by expert genealogists and historians – only the most exciting moments make it to your TV screen.
As you do your own research, it’s important to bear in mind that it can be a time-consuming and frustrating – as well as deeply rewarding – process.
There is a wealth of information…
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By Diarmuid Verrier, Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Limerick
Jane Morgan, Associate Head, Institute Of Law And Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Paul Aleixo, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
From comics aimed at very young children to university-level textbooks, comics are known to be an effective medium for helping people to learn new information.
This is because they represent information in two complementary modes – visual and textual. This is likely to make it easier to move information to our long-term memory, and means that the memory traces we form from the information are richer and so easier to retrieve.
Apart from the…
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By Katharine Hendry, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol; British Antarctic Survey
There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research if getting more difficult.
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By Nicole Steller, Assistant Professor, ESCP Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Albena Björck, Associate Professor, Head Global Business Lab, ZHAW School of Management and Law
Guido Möllering, Chair professor, Witten/Herdecke University
Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?
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By Rona Cran, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham
In Ann Patchett’s 11th novel Whistler, a former stepfather and stepdaughter, Eddie and Daphne, meet again by chance after 44 years. They rekindle their bond (before long, Eddie is introducing Daphne as “my daughter”) and revisit the events that prompted Eddie’s abrupt departure from her life when she was nine.
Eddie is a fiction editor beloved by everyone – his name “a bass note called again and again”. Daphne is a private school English teacher “safely past 50”, who describes her post-Eddie childhood as a period of “estrangement”. Both had (unrealised) ambitions to be novelists.
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By James Cronin, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
Sophie James, Lecturer in Security and Protection Science, Lancaster University
In Backrooms, the latest horror film from production company A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark – a failed architect who accidentally slips out of reality. He ends up trapped in an endless labyrinth of yellow-tinted rooms, humming fluorescent lights and eerie, disembodied sounds – the “Backrooms”.
The film is an adaptation of a popular internet horror concept and urban legend, about an impossibly large, alternate-reality maze of claustrophobic spaces with…
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By Sarah Shelley, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary Palaeobiology, School of Natural Sciences., University of Lincoln
The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and originated.
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By Perry G. Beasley-Hall, Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology, Adelaide University
Brock A. Hedges, Research Affiliate in Ecology, Adelaide University
Caves have long been a refuge. But climate change could pose an existential threat to cave crickets and other cave dwellers.
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By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney
US presidential elections are always about a choice for the future. Who do you want to lead the country? Who will best address your needs?
But the US midterm elections – where all the seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are on the ballot – are always a referendum on the president and his party in Congress.
So, given US President Donald Trump’s current popularity, what does this mean for the Republicans’ chances in November?
Struggling with key demographics
In short, Trump is in terrible shape politically at the moment.…
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