By Jake Pitre, PhD Candidate in Film & Moving Image Studies, Concordia University
Although Prime Minister Carney has appointed Evan Solomon as AI minister, what the Liberals actually plan do with AI is unclear and some proposals are risky.
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By Anna Batta, Associate Professor of International Security Studies, Air University
A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on June 2. Again both leaders were not present.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Joseph Figueira Martin in southern Mauritania in May 2022. © 2022 Private Last week marked one year since Joseph Figueira Martin was arrested in the Central African Republic. The former analyst for the International Crisis Group was arrested by Russian forces in Zemio, in the southeast, where he was conducting research for FHI 360, an American organization aimed at reducing poverty, expanding economic opportunities, and preventing gender-based violence.As his family and friends mark this somber anniversary, there is no date yet fixed for his trial.I…
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By Manoj Dora, Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
British farmers and food safety campaigners have been sounding the alarm over the recent deal struck between the UK and US. The…
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By Jennifer Bousfield, Senior Analyst, Health and Care Research Group, RAND Europe
Sonja Marjanovic, Director, Healthcare Innovation, Industry and Policy, RAND Europe
Stephanie Stockwell, Senior Analyst, Health and Care Research Group, RAND Europe
For decades, women’s health has been chronically underfunded and under-researched. The consequences of this neglect are widespread and deeply damaging.
Millions of women live with avoidable pain, delayed diagnoses, inadequate treatments and poor access to care. The ripple effects reach far beyond individual health: they impact families, workplaces and the wider economy.
In recent years, some progress has been made. In 2022, the…
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By Yana Manyukhina, Senior Researcher, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, UCL
Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL
Education shouldn’t be a passive experience, with children simply absorbing the knowledge teachers pass on to them. Research shows that when children have an input into their learning – helping to decide topics to cover, or specific activities, or how they are assessed – they feel more motivated, engaged in learning and happier in school.
But when we asked children about their opportunities to make choices in their education, they were often downbeat. “I’m a child and I can’t do anything,”…
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By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
My professional life revolves around the academic study of song lyrics. So it may seem like a strange move to write about how some of the most powerful and emotive vocal moments in popular music have come when singers reject words. But it’s impossible to ignore that sometimes a song needs something more universal, more innate and more guttural than language.
Some vocalists have eschewed words entirely in their songs, like Ella Fitzgerald scatting throughout Flying Home (1945), or David Crosby da da dumming his…
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By Vianney Ngoyi Kitenge, Postdoctoral Fellow, iThemba LABS
New research has found that a key component of valuable supercapacitor energy storage devices can be made with waste peel from the mangosteen fruit.
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By Yolandi Schoeman, University of the Free State
South Africa’s rural wastewater treatment plants release polluted water if they aren’t maintained properly. Microalgae that purify the water could be a solution.
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By Dev K (Roshan) Boojihawon, Associate professor of Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
Samuel Adomako, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation, University of Birmingham
The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.
The Indian Ocean islands are strategically situated near key shipping lanes and regional power hubs.
Mauritius was granted independence from British colonial rule in 1965. But not the Chagos islands, which had been part of Mauritius but became a
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