By Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Artificial intelligence is fascinating, transformative and increasingly woven into how we learn, work and make decisions.
But for every example of innovation and efficiency — such as the custom AI assistant recently developed by an accounting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal — there’s another that underscores the need for oversight,…
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By Sheena Cruickshank, Professor in Immunology, University of Manchester
Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for many years, their prevalence has been rising.
But a recent study out of the US shows that the rate of peanut allergy diagnoses in infants has actually declined. It appears this decline may be due to changes in allergy guidelines – highlighting the…
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By Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University
Fraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime. In the year to July 2025, around 4.2 million people reported being defrauded in England and Wales.
Yet that’s probably only a fraction of the true scale of the problem. The National Crime Agency estimates…
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By Jon Gluyas, Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University
Imagine powering long-haul aircraft and heavy ships with fuels derived from just air, water and renewable electricity. This is moving from science fiction to the verge of reality, thanks to the falling price of renewables like wind and solar.
Whereas burning today’s fuels releases carbon into the atmosphere that has been sequestered underground for millions of years, these “e-fuels” would be more environmentally friendly, adding and subtracting carbon from the air in roughly equal quantities.…
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By Haomin Wang, Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University
Alessandro Di Nola, Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Birmingham
Whatever decisions Rachel Reeves makes in her second budget as UK chancellor, it is clear that she needs to find lots of money. Some argue that the best and fairest way of doing this is to raise the taxes of the country’s wealthiest people.
Others feel that such a move will do further harm to the UK’s longstanding problem with productivity, by discouraging investment and entrepreneurship.
Economists describe this as the “equity-efficiency…
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By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation
Luciana Julião, The Conversation
This needs to be the Cop of implementation. We already have enough paperwork and knowledge, now it’s time to put those insights into practice and make change happen.
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By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
Grace Owen, Postdoctoral Research Associate (Late Medieval History), Durham University
In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today.
British workers are among the least likely in Europe to take sick leave, and lose an estimated 44 days’ worth productivity every year through working while sick. And although most workers are entitled to at least…
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By Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
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By David Allan, Reader in Professional Education and Learning, Edge Hill University
The government’s vision for higher education in England, set out in a recent policy paper, includes some changes that will benefit students from poorer backgrounds.
An increase in maintenance loans, for instance, will help to support disadvantaged students. So too will the introduction of a lifelong learning entitlement loan. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds often have learning trajectories that are far from…
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By Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London
One factor preventing wider recognition of the Holodomor as a central moment in 20th century history is the lack of compelling treatment in film.
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