By Pankhuri Agarwal, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Bath; King's College London
A new trade agreement between India and the UK is due to come into force this year. The deal is expected to completely remove tariffs from nearly 99% of Indian goods, including clothing and footwear, that are headed for the UK.
In both countries, this has been widely celebrated as a win for economic growth and competitiveness. And for Indian garment workers in particular, the trade agreement carries real promise.
This is because in recent years, clothing exports from India have declined…
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By Domenico Vicinanza, Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University
For half a century, computing advanced in a reassuring, predictable way. Transistors – devices used to switch electrical signals on a computer chip – became smaller. Consequently, computer chips became faster, and society quietly assimilated the gains almost without noticing.
These faster chips enable greater computing power by allowing devices to perform tasks more efficiently. As a result, we saw scientific simulations improving, weather forecasts becoming more accurate, graphics more realistic, and later, machine learning systems being developed and flourishing. It looked as if…
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By Nima Shokri, Professor, Applied Engineering, United Nations University
Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their government they want change.
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By Seamus Higgins, Associate Professor Food Process Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham
A few thousand years ago, sugar was unknown in the western world. Sugarcane, a tall grass first domesticated in New Guinea around 6000BC, was initially chewed for its sweet juice rather than crystallised. By around 500BC, methods to boil sugarcane juice into crystals was first developed in India.
One of the earliest references to sugar we have dates to 510BC, when Emperor Darius I of what was then Persia invaded India. There he…
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By Lightning Jay, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Ana L. Ros, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin America, Binghamton University, State University of New York
High school students in the US often learn about Latin America through the lens of the US, as a main character that exerts power.
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By Rich Mallett, Research Associate and Independent Researcher, ODI Global
Digital labour platforms – like fast food delivery and cab hailing services – are having a dramatic impact on people’s labour rights and working conditions around the world.
In western countries like the UK and the US, their rise has intensified a process of labour casualisation already several decades in the making. Under the guise of “flexibility”, platforms have heralded a return to insecure, temporary forms of employment that offer few rights or benefits to workers.
But in “less developed” countries…
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By Lucy Atieno, Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Climate change is hitting Kenya’s coastal women and their small tourism businesses, but the loss of their way of life cuts as deeply as the economic damage.
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By Adewumi I. Badiora, Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University
In response to the general state of insecurity in Nigeria, local community groups in Lagos are mobilising and providing solutions.
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By Aasiya Satia, Doctoral candidate, Higher Education Leadership, Western University
Kimberley Dej, Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning ; Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University
Possible changes around university admissions and student fees catalyzed by Ontario’s Bill 33 will depend on how universities interpret the rules and whether they make equity a clear policy priority.
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Monday, January 26, 2026
The staggering amount of harmful AI-generated online content has prompted an urgent call from across the UN system for a raft of measures to protect children from abuse, exploitation and mental trauma.
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