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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By Amnesty International
“From the moment I refused to get married, I was beaten everyday” “When I was 14, my father wanted to marry me off to a cousin who was in his thirties. He’d started making arrangements for the wedding behind my back; I realized he’d already bought the fabric to have the wedding clothes made. I […] The post ‘I refused this marriage’: Meet West African women who fought for their right to education appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Daniel Angus, Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Christine Parker, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
In the same week the federal government is preparing to introduce its landmark digital duty of care legislation, it is also returning to some unfinished business: strengthening its social media age restrictions.
On Tuesday, the government will move an amendment through…
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By David Eager, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney
On Saturday, five children were hospitalised after two separate incidents in which jumping castles were lifted into the air by high winds.
In one incident, two children were tossed out of a jumping castle and received upper body injuries at a birthday party near Geelong in Victoria. In the second incident, in Sydney, two children and an infant were injured.
So should we be worried about letting kids on jumping castles? As an expert in…
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