By Ashleigh Logan-McFarlane, Lecturer in Marketing, Edinburgh Napier University
The ease and global reach of social media posts make them a fitting way to divulge secrets about a commercial dynasty – particularly when your parents are David and Victoria Beckham. In the days after Brooklyn Beckham took to Instagram to say he had cut ties with his A-list family, reactions from the world’s social media users took on a life of their own.
The Beckhams’ PR machine was largely silent on the matter, despite the size of the business empire. If sold, Brand Beckham’s combined businesses are worth an estimated £500…
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By Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology, Loughborough University
We may not need to completely overhaul our lives to live healthier for longer, according to a large UK-based study. This is welcome news, particularly as many people will already have abandoned their New Year’s resolutions.
The recent study followed around 590,000 people in the UK, with an average age of 64, over an eight-year period. The researchers confirmed earlier…
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By Alisha Ali, Associate Professor, Department of Service Sector Management, Sheffield Hallam University
Lisa Wyld, Professor of Hospitality Innovation and Leadership, Buckinghamshire New University
Maria Gebbels, Associate professor in hospitality, University of Greenwich
The future of work is being rewritten by artificial intelligence (AI) – but technology competence alone will not be enough to empower the workforce of the future. While AI has massive potential to improve efficiency, accuracy and productivity in the workplace, it’s less clear how it will evolve to foster the person-centred concerns that all businesses face.
The human-centred skills found in the hospitality sector (empathy, creativity, adaptability, kindness, resilience and cultural intelligence)…
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By Teresa Silverthorn, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
Jonathan Ritson, Research Fellow, Geography, University of Manchester
Mike Peacock, Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool
Ditches and canals are the underdog of the freshwater world. These human-made waterways are often forgotten, devalued and perceived negatively – think “dull as ditchwater”. But these unsung heroes have a hidden potential for climate change mitigation, if they’re managed correctly.
We know that ditches and canals have a large global extent, covering at least 5.3 million hectares — about 22% of the UK’s total land area. However, no one has yet mapped all global ditch and canal networks robustly, so it’s potentially more.
These waterways are also hotspots of greenhouse gas…
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By Oliver Kaplan, Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Denver
Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to help protect their neighbors and communities.
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By Amnesty International
On 30 January, six Italian coastguard and custom officials will go on trial for failing to launch rescue operations which could have prevented a shipwreck that killed more than 90 people near the town of Cutro in southern Italy in February 2023. At least 94 people, including 34 children, drowned in Italian territorial waters near […] The post Italy: Cutro shipwreck trial begins after another deadly week in the Mediterranean appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University
Jeremy Hansen will be the first non-American to fly to the moon — and will make Canada only the second country in the world to send an astronaut into deep space.
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By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
Reports of a growing US naval presence in the Gulf have prompted speculation that the US could be preparing for another Middle East war, this time with Iran.
The US president, Donald Trump, has warned of “serious consequences” if Iran does not comply with his demands to permanently halt uranium enrichment, curb its ballistic missile program and end support for regional proxy groups.
Yet, despite the familiar language…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
A new mouse study suggests some cancers release signals that help the brain clear Alzheimer’s-linked proteins, offering clues to a long-standing medical mystery.
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By Mark Williams, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
Jan Zalasiewicz, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and travel with us easily. Some scientists have a word for this reshuffling of life: the Homogenocene.
Evidence for it is found in the world’s museums. Storerooms are full of animals that no longer walk among us, pickled in spirit-filled jars: coiled snakes, bloated fish, frogs, birds. Each extinct species marks the…
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