By Hannah Sabapathy, PhD candidate in the School of Design, University of Leeds
Craft traditions are often imagined as practices rooted in the past: carefully preserved techniques passed from one generation to the next. But Unbound Forms at The Hepworth Wakefield reveals a more dynamic story. Bringing together the work of five pioneering women artists from India and Bangladesh, the exhibition shows how materials such as textiles, metal, ceramic, wood and paint can be transformed into works that honour inherited skills while pushing them into new territory.
The artists in the exhibition lived through a period of enormous change. Four were alive when
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By Lucía Macchia, Lecturer in Psychology, City St George's, University of London
Cheng Keat Tang, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Professor of Economics, Nanyang Technological University
This summer’s amber heat warnings have brought with them many risks to health.
Many people have experienced these health effects first-hand: brain fog, physical fatigue, restless nights and reduced productivity. If that sounds familiar, you’re not imagining it. Science shows that high temperatures can affect both our bodies and our brains – even before…
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By Joseph Freer, Academic Clinical Fellow, Population Health, Queen Mary University of London
Social care reform has failed in the UK for 25 years. Four international examples show what a lasting fix actually requires.
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By Joel Krueger, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter
Lucy Osler, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter
We often speak of loving things like a cosy sweater or new camera. But this talk is not generally taken literally. It’s a kind of emotional shorthand. We use it to express our fondness for precious objects.
Life and love are complicated, however. And sometimes, people do proclaim romantic love for inanimate objects. They form intense emotional attachments to sex dolls, body…
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By Claudia Eggart, Associated Researcher, Social Anthropology, Independent Social Research Foundation
When I left Ainura’s container-shop at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, I found the market eerily quiet. I had not noticed the passing of time, while she generously shared her life story with me.
Walking towards the mini-bus stop at the square in front of the bazaar, the echo of her words mixed with the end-of-day soundscape at Dordoi: the heavy slam of container-shops’ metal doors and the resonant clang of heavy padlocks clicking into place.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Survivors and relatives of those killed during the August 2020 operation remember the victims during a seminar at the Federal University of Amazonas in 2023. © 2023 Coletivo pelos Povos do Abacaxi A nightmare for Indigenous people and other communities on the Abacaxis riverbanks in the Brazilian Amazon began on August 3, 2020. That day, three private boats arrived in the town of Nova Olinda do Norte carrying ten undercover military police officers from the state of Amazonas; ten days earlier, someone had shot at a boat illegally fishing in the area. A senior state…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Survivors and relatives of those killed during the August 2020 operation remember the victims during a seminar at the Federal University of Amazonas in 2023. © 2023 Coletivo pelos Povos do Abacaxi No dia 3 de agosto de 2020, começou um pesadelo para indígenas e ribeirinhos que moravam em comunidades às margens do rio Abacaxis, na Amazônia. Naquele dia, três barcos particulares chegaram à cidade de Nova Olinda do Norte transportando dez policiais militares do estado do Amazonas à paisana; dez dias antes, alguém havia atirado contra um barco que pescava ilegalmente…
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By Alex Dyzenhaus, Lecturer in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.
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By Elisabeth Kramer, Scientia Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy, UNSW
Andi Hermansyah, Dosen Farmasi, Apoteker dan Peneliti Kebijakan, Hukum dan Etik Farmasi, Universitas Airlangga
Anshar Saud, Lecturer and researcher at Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Hasanuddin
Asmin Fransiska, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
Barbara Mintzes, Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
Desak Ketut Ernawati, Senior Lecturer, Universitas Udayana
Kirsty Foster, Professor Emerita, The University of Queensland
Paul Glare, Professor, University of Sydney
Simon Butt, Professor of Indonesian Law, University of Sydney
If you are in severe pain and struggling to get opioid medication in Indonesia, you are not alone.
Despite the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recognising several therapeutic opioid as essential medicines, Indonesia has one of the lowest levels of medical opioid use in the region, far below global and regional standards.
Indonesia consumes only 26 opioid doses per million people per day, compared with 1,467…
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By Richard Allen, Lecturer in Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
Louise Wain, Professor of Respiratory Research, Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Mark Spears, Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, University of Dundee
By testing hundreds of pigeon fanciers, researchers hope to predict who is most at risk and improve treatment for a wider family of lung diseases.
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