By Sara Meger, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Melbourne
Kate Reynolds, Professor of Educational Psychology & Learning, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.
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By Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
Anna Christoforou, PhD Candidate, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
Canada’s Mark Carney is proposing a new alliance of ‘middle powers’ to offset over-reliance on the US and China. New Zealand would have good reason to be involved.
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By Eric Lob, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
Media reports have cast the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a top candidate for supreme leader. A scholar of Iranian politics explains how the succession process has never been free or fair.
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By Lisa Doyle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto locations in the known world.
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By Hannah Ainsworth, Senior Lecturer in Primary and Childhood Education, Edge Hill University
Secondary teaching in England currently faces a recruitment and retention crisis. Over 90% of teachers leave before retirement.
Although the government have made efforts to improve recruitment and retention, interventions tend to focus on initial teacher trainees and early career teachers – ignoring the experiences of midlife teachers, including…
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By Peter Howley, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Leeds
The outlook for job seekers in the UK appears to be taking a turn for the worse. Weak economic growth and continued uncertainty for employers have led to forecasts that unemployment will hit 5.3% this year.
In politics, the debate typically follows a familiar pattern: creating jobs, tackling unemployment and making sure welfare benefits are fair. But this economic framing captures only part of what is at stake. Work is not simply a source of income. It is about much more than a paycheck.
When people…
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By Marrisa Joseph, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies & Business History, University of Reading
Netflix’s plan to buy the Hollywood studio Warner Bros Discovery is over. The streaming giant was eventually outbid by rival company Paramount Skydance, which is willing to pay around US$111 billion (£82.2 billion) for the company.
It’s not a done deal yet. There will be regulatory hoops that Paramount needs to get through.
But after a tense few months of negotiations, Warner Bros, which put itself up for sale last year, said Paramount’s latest bid was “superior” to the one from Netflix, which…
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By Tara Lai Quinlan, Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
This is an opportunity for policing to move away from the ‘warrior culture’ that drives a wedge between police and local communities.
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By Gabriele Albertini, Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham
Taking inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of friction, the ‘sneaker squeak’ question cuts to a deep problem in physics.
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By Paolo Heywood, Associate Professor, Social Anthropology, Durham University
It’s common to hear someone claiming controversial comments were ‘taken out of context’ but this is a word with many meanings.
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