By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK
The Conversation’s audio team is celebrating a very successful night at the Publisher Podcast awards where The Conversation won Publisher Podcast of the Year.
The judges said: “This particular publisher has been entering these awards since the start and it’s been a real honour to watch their work grow in quality and depth each year, to the point they were placed in the top 3 of every single category they entered this year.”
We were also thrilled that our recent…
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By Brian Fauteux, Associate Professor Popular Music and Media Studies, University of Alberta
As big streaming companies fight legislative requirements to pay into Canadian content, the story of satellite radio exemplifies competing commercial and public interests in policymaking.
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By Jonathan Wroot, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Greenwich
Tornado fuses aspects of the western and samurai-style action in atmospheric 18th-century Scotland. Critics have praised the performances of Tim Roth, Jack Lowden and newcomer Kôki who plays the titular Tornado.
Director John Maclean’s appreciation of both westerns and samurai films is undeniable in Tornado, a stylistic tale of revenge,…
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By Danny Buckley, Workplace Learning Director, Loughborough University
Natalia Vershinina, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Audencia
Peter Rodgers, Professor of Strategy and International Management, University of Southampton
Some small firms deliberately choose not to grow – and bring in more money for the country – because of the complexities.
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By Sian Waters, Research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Tracie McKinney, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of South Wales
We’ve seen it happen. For example, a visit to the Ouzoud waterfalls in Morocco’s High Atlas led to an encounter with a group of nearby tourists feeding chips – supplied by the tour guide – to some waiting Barbary macaques. Pointing to a nearby sign that read “do not feed the monkeys” was met with complaints about spoiling their fun.
Scenes like this play out across the globe. Feeding wild primates is common in many countries. Scientists have spent years studying its effects on primate behaviour. But much less attention has been paid to the other side of the interaction – the people…
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By David Scott, Head of Division, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
I gave him Scottish smoked salmon as a gift. He ripped the packet open and devoured it on the spot.
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By Donald McLean, Honorary Lecturer in Early Television, University of Glasgow
Number 1519 Connecticut Avenue lies just north of Dupont Circle, just over a 20-minute walk from the White House in Washington DC. In 1921, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins set up his laboratory and offices there, upstairs from a car dealership.
Today there are no obvious external indications of this famous resident, nor of his exceptional achievements, awards and numerous patents. A hundred years ago at his laboratory, on June 13 1925, Jenkins gave a demonstration of a televised film sent by radio waves from a building 10km away at what is now the US Naval Research Laboratory in…
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By Ali Elham, Professor of Design Optimisation, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton
An Air India plane bound for London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after take-off on 12 January in Ahmedabad, western India. Flight AI171 was carrying 242 people, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian.
Here, Professor Ali Elham, from the University of Southampton’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, speaks to The Conversation’s Paul Rincon about the plane involved in the crash, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
How does Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner…
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By Marika Rostvall, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
Women who had been exposed to violence in their childhood had a twofold greater likelihood of being diagnosed with endometriosis.
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By Paul Lashmar, Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
A fellow journalist and academic researcher in the UK’s cold-war propaganda efforts describes his experience meeting the late bestselling author.
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