By George Kassar, Full-time Faculty, Research Associate, Ascencia Business School
Ahmed Benhoumane, Associate professor, Ascencia Business School
There are environmental and personal reasons to consume less. Doing so may require an approach grounded in human behaviour, not a trend.
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By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
In the last ten years, Bruce Springsteen has cemented his status as a bona fide music legend.
In that time, he has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, had a worldwide bestselling book been the subject of the acclaimed film Blinded By The Light (2019), and seen his studio albums continue to scale the higher reaches of the charts.
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By Karl Pike, Lecturer in British Politics/Public Policy, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
If you blinked you may have missed it. Labour has a new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, who won the contest to replace Angela Rayner.
The position of deputy comes down to a vote of party members and affiliated supporters, and this contest was seen as an opportunity to give Keir Starmer’s leadership the thumbs up or thumbs down.
Members have gone for the latter, selecting Powell over Education Secretary Bridget…
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By Rebecca Hamer, Research associate, Sheffield Hallam University
Two stories of abuse have repeatedly captured the nation’s attention. The first relates to Prince Andrew’s friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, even after Epstein was convicted for sex offences. The second is the group-based child sexual abuse in Rotherham, Rochdale and other cities.
Prince Andrew has come under mounting pressure over the posthumous publication of a memoir by Virginia Giuffre a victim of Epstein’s who also accused Andrew of abuse. In 2022, Andrew settled a civil sexual assault…
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By Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Manchester
Luke Munford, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of Manchester
Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are twice as likely as their peers to be persistently absent from school.
Persistent absence means that they miss up to 10% of school sessions (sessions are a morning or afternoon at school). For those with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) – a legal document that lays out support they are entitled to – the picture is even worse. They are up to seven times more likely to be severely…
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By John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, University of Westminster
The BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is housed in an unassuming bungalow on the outskirts of Reading, 40 miles west of London. It holds one of the greatest document collections of British and global history from the past century.
For half that time, researchers, storytellers and interested members of the public were able to mine its extensive resources for monographs, dissertations and broadcasts relating to the BBC. Recent changes to the conditions of access, however, mean that independent and exploratory…
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By Lucy E. Hyde, Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Bristol
Why is your ankle named after a Greek hero and your uterus after a Renaissance anatomist? The answer says as much about power and memory as it does about medicine.
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
A 21-day water fast won’t ‘starve’ cancer or cleanse your body. Here’s why science says it’s not only a myth, but potentially dangerous
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By Marcel Lukas, Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance and Vice-Dean Executive Education, University of St Andrews
Beyond cutting back on meat or making the jump to an electric vehicle, another way consumers can reduce their environmental impact is to switch to a green bank. It’s a lifestyle change that could deliver powerful effects – removing money from the fossil fuels pipeline – for little effort or inconvenience.
Yet it has been claimed that people in the UK are more likely to get divorced than switch banks – despite there being services that make changing your current…
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By Penelope Geng, Associate Professor of English, Macalester College
Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political upheaval.
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