By Naomi Braithwaite, Associate Professor in Fashion and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
A protagonist of surrealism, Schiaparelli was an extraordinary couturier who pushed the bounds of creativity, leaving her mark on Paris fashion and beyond.
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By Sophie M Phillips, Post-Doctoral Associate, School of Occupational Therapy, Western University
Dan Jones, Lecturer in Public Health and Research Methods, Teesside University
Trish Tucker, Professor and Director of the Child Health and Physical Activity Lab, Western University
Habitually practising different motor skills can help ensure young children have the key competencies and abilities to move and use their bodies in ways that prepare them to lead healthy lives.
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
Israel has upped the intensity of its campaign in Lebanon, despite the signing of a ceasefire in the Middle East.
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By Javier Calvo Anoro, Profesor en el Grado en Comunicación Audiovisual, Universidad San Jorge
The Spanish director’s new film, Bitter Christmas, marks another step towards dramatic weight, and away from his early madcap humour.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People place flowers on a fence outside Krome Detention Center in Miami, Florida, during a vigil to recognize people who have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as well as those affected by mass deportations, May 24, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell Emboldened by President Donald Trump’s abusive mass deportation agenda and Congress recently approving a supersized budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun purchasing warehouses across the country to detain people…
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the news that the Russian authorities have arbitrarily designated prominent human rights group Memorial as “extremist” and banned its activities in the country, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Regional Director, said: “For close to 40 years, Memorial’s tireless commitment to documenting past and ongoing repression in Russia has […] The post Russia: “Extremist” label and ban of Nobel Prize winner Memorial criminalizes human rights work appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
The conflict in Iran – but also the war in Ukraine – show not only that AI is radically changing the economics of war (which may be good news), but also that we may be heading towards some kind of “Chernobyl moment”. We may soon experience a disaster that will force us to belatedly realise we should have drawn up some shared rules to govern a technological development that we ourselves triggered.
Even Dario Amodei, the founder of AI company Anthropic,…
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By Rachel Handforth, Senior Lecturer in Doctoral Education and Civic Engagement, Nottingham Trent University
Around 1% of the global population has a PhD. It’s the highest academic qualification, the result of years spent on original research. But – and this is a question that many PhD students will have faced, at some time or another – what’s the point?
The number of PhDs being undertaken globally is rising. Around a fifth of all PhDs studied for by UK students are funded through UK Research and Innovation,…
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By Rachael Jolley, Environment Editor, The Conversation
This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.
In 1968 a photo of the Earth was taken by the crew of Apollo 8 as they orbited the Moon.
It’s hard for us to imagine today what that would feel like for both the crew and the public who first saw the shot of Earth snapped from so far away. All those years ago this was a fantastic, and perhaps shocking, picture taken from somewhere many people would never have imagined humans could go.
That Earthrise shot from 1968,…
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By Ifeoluwa Wuraola, PhD Candidate, Artificial Intelligence, University of Hull
Daniel Marciniak, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull
Nina Dethlefs, Professor of Computer Science, Loughborough University
AI tools can help communities respond to floods, heatwaves and other climate emergencies – but only once trained to interpret the nuance of everyday language.
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