By Pauline McDonagh Hull, PhD Candidate, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Krystyna Holland, Associate researcher and physical therapist, University of Calgary
Lauren Walker, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Oncology and Psychology, University of Calgary
Evidence suggests the widespread adoption of trauma-informed care practices can potentially improve access to care as well as quality of care for all patients.
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By Fanny Georges, enseignant-chercheur, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
His name is Khabane Lame, but he is known worldwide as Khaby Lame. Born in Dakar, Senegal, he is the most followed content creator on TikTok.
He became famous for video clips in which he reacts to absurd “life hack” videos with a blank, slightly annoyed face, showing the hack wasn’t needed.
At the time of writing…
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By Nadia Zahoor, Associate Professor, Queen Mary University of London
The informal economy is the basis of everyday economic life across sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, as in many low- and middle-income contexts, a lot of retail trade, food distribution, artisanal production and service provision happens outside formal regulatory frameworks.
Women occupy a prominent position in this world. They trade in open-air markets, process and sell foodstuffs,…
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By Suleman Lazarus, Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
When former US secretary of state Colin Powell took to a London stage alongside Nigerian artist Olu Maintain in 2008 and danced to a song called Yahoozee, he almost certainly didn’t know that the track is widely understood in Nigeria as a celebration of internet fraud.
The moment became a striking illustration of something my research keeps returning to: how music can carry the moral codes of cybercrime far…
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By Florence Martin, Dean John B. Van Meter Professor of French Transnational Studies, Goucher College
The Voice of Hind Rajab made an immediate impact when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025, receiving a 23-minute standing ovation and seven awards. More were to follow as it played at festivals around the world.
It’s a mixture of documentary and drama that tells the story of a Palestinian girl trapped in a car during the conflict…
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By Kevin Olsen, UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Fiona Henderson, DPhil Student, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory and proving ground, where astronauts would develop the capabilities to live and work beyond Earth’s orbit.
A recent executive order issued by the White House directs Nasa to establish the initial elements of a permanent…
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By Andrea Benucci, Professor in Biology and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it.
Long before modern laboratory testing, indigenous cultures used these substances to treat psychological and physical ailments. The Aztecs used psilocybin mushrooms as medicine, while Andean cults consumed mescaline-rich San Pedro cacti thousands of years ago. Archaeologists have found a
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By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
Inderjeet Parmar, Professor in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
Now well into its second week, the US-Israeli war against Iran has gone beyond the “combat operation” the US president, Donald Trump, announced when it began on February 28. Civilians and infrastructure have been struck across the region from Lebanon, to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The conflict has spread rapidly across the Middle East. Now, with the strait of Hormuz effectively closed, oil prices have risen sharply threatening global economic chaos.
This is not an abstract strategic contest.…
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By Katayoun Shahandeh, Lecturer in Museum Studies, SOAS, University of London
Following joint attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran on February 28, the country has come under repeated strikes. These attacks, which were ostensibly supposed to target Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, have also caused civilian casualties and damage to cultural sites.
Airstrikes near historic districts in Tehran and Isfahan have damaged monuments that have survived for centuries. The losses highlight how war can endanger not only lives but also the historical memory embedded in cities…
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By Richard Whitman, Member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
The two wars are forcing the EU to take a more assertive role in defence and security affairs, leading to arguments between senior officials.
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