By Manoj Dora, Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
British farmers and food safety campaigners have been sounding the alarm over the recent deal struck between the UK and US. The…
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By Jennifer Bousfield, Senior Analyst, Health and Care Research Group, RAND Europe
Sonja Marjanovic, Director, Healthcare Innovation, Industry and Policy, RAND Europe
Stephanie Stockwell, Senior Analyst, Health and Care Research Group, RAND Europe
For decades, women’s health has been chronically underfunded and under-researched. The consequences of this neglect are widespread and deeply damaging.
Millions of women live with avoidable pain, delayed diagnoses, inadequate treatments and poor access to care. The ripple effects reach far beyond individual health: they impact families, workplaces and the wider economy.
In recent years, some progress has been made. In 2022, the…
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By Yana Manyukhina, Senior Researcher, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, UCL
Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL
Education shouldn’t be a passive experience, with children simply absorbing the knowledge teachers pass on to them. Research shows that when children have an input into their learning – helping to decide topics to cover, or specific activities, or how they are assessed – they feel more motivated, engaged in learning and happier in school.
But when we asked children about their opportunities to make choices in their education, they were often downbeat. “I’m a child and I can’t do anything,”…
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By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
My professional life revolves around the academic study of song lyrics. So it may seem like a strange move to write about how some of the most powerful and emotive vocal moments in popular music have come when singers reject words. But it’s impossible to ignore that sometimes a song needs something more universal, more innate and more guttural than language.
Some vocalists have eschewed words entirely in their songs, like Ella Fitzgerald scatting throughout Flying Home (1945), or David Crosby da da dumming his…
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By Vianney Ngoyi Kitenge, Postdoctoral Fellow, iThemba LABS
New research has found that a key component of valuable supercapacitor energy storage devices can be made with waste peel from the mangosteen fruit.
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By Yolandi Schoeman, University of the Free State
South Africa’s rural wastewater treatment plants release polluted water if they aren’t maintained properly. Microalgae that purify the water could be a solution.
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By Dev K (Roshan) Boojihawon, Associate professor of Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
Samuel Adomako, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation, University of Birmingham
The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.
The Indian Ocean islands are strategically situated near key shipping lanes and regional power hubs.
Mauritius was granted independence from British colonial rule in 1965. But not the Chagos islands, which had been part of Mauritius but became a
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By Kimberly Hillier, Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Fostering children’s love of literacy is an accessible and practical way for families to be involved in the process of their early literacy development.
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By Xavier Leloup, Professor in Urban Studies, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Catherine Leviten-Reid, Professor of Community Economic Development, Cape Breton University
The years following the COVID-19 pandemic were difficult for renters. The pandemic was followed by an economic recovery marked by inflation, population growth and rising interest rates. These increased the cost of financing for landlords and limited the ability…
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By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor
At The Conversation, we are big believers in the health benefits of being near the sea. In fact, we have a whole series dedicated to how our health is intrinsically linked with that of the ocean, called Vitamin Sea. The idea of how the coast can heal is explored in the bestselling memoir The Saltpath, which has been adapted for the screen, and stars Gillian Anderson and Jason…
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