By Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
Crime levels are falling for most offences across the UK – but the public doesn’t necessarily feel safer. It’s a human trait to focus on frightening information in the news or on social media – but it could also mean that people are more fearful about crime than they need to be.
Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage claimed last month that “everyone knows” law and order in the UK is in a worse place than…
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By Katherine Theiss, Assistant Professor of Economics, Radford University
Subha Mani, Professor of Economics, Fordham University
The first five years of life lay an important foundation for children’s future schooling, health and earnings. Yet over 77% (table 2) of children in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to early childhood care and education. This places them at risk of not reaching their development potential.
In response, governments across Africa are increasingly committing to expanding enrolment in pre-primary school.
But research suggests that…
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By Manasi Kumar, Professor, Department of Population Health & Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York University
Anne Obondo, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi
Caleb Othieno, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Maseno University
Obadia Yator, Research Fellow, University of Nairobi
Pregnancy and early motherhood can be challenging under any circumstances for adolescents. But in Kenya the challenges are huge. Many pregnant and parenting adolescents face stigma, interrupted education, financial hardship, strained family relationships and limited social support.
These challenges can increase their risk of depression and other common mental health problems during a critical stage of life.
Yet access to mental health…
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By Malizgani Paul Chavula, Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Zambia
Teaching parents to play with their children is taking off in rural Zambia, but volunteers need better funding, training and support to reach every family.
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By Phiwokazi Qoza, PhD researcher, University of Cape Town
OnlyFans was established in 2016 as a platform for content creators to post images and videos or host live streams in exchange for money. But what began as a small and relatively quiet niche startup suddenly exploded.
Global traffic to the site increased by over 90% between November 2019 and October 2020. At the height of the COVID pandemic, when governments all over the world issued stay-at-home orders,…
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By Afonso Nuno Martins, Assistant Professor (of Architecture and Climate Change, and Director of the Postasmaster Humanitarian Architecture, Infrastruture, Incremental Housing for Crisis, University of Beira Interior
As storms, wildfires, and floods strike in ever-closer succession, an architect with disaster risk science expertise explains why resilience is built between hazards, not during them.
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By Saul Ngarava, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln
Daniel Magnone, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, University of Lincoln
Eric Ruto, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Lincoln, UK, University of Lincoln
The places most exposed to saltwater flooding, especially the low-lying Fenlands, are also some of the most productive farmland in the UK.
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By Helen Vassallo, Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter
Sylvie feels like her radical world only exists in the past and as she gets older her choices and world are shrinking.
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By Henrik Emilsson, Senior lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University
For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees. It took pride in pursuing one of Europe’s most generous asylum policies, and often presented itself as a humanitarian role model.
But today it has one of the continent’s most restrictive migration policies. That transformation has taken little more than a decade.
The turning point came during the 2015 refugee crisis. Sweden received more than 160,000 asylum applications, more…
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By Katy Clough, Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London
The first appearance of a wormhole in Star Trek was a typically pioneering reference to what was then a niche research topic.
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