By Shirley Bell, Associate Lecturer in English Literature, Sheffield Hallam University
Music is one of the most powerful tools through which films and TV programmes affect us. We might hear a sad melody that brings us to tears, a creepy tune that gives us goosebumps, or a funny song that compels us to laugh.
This effect is not limited to the silver and small screen. In his plays, William Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences – and so did many of his contemporaries.
In my new book,
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By Kashif Raza, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
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By Russell Goulet, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Design, Université de Montréal
Gonzalo Lizarralde, Professeur titulaire - Faculté de l'aménagement, Université de Montréal
The federal government’s role in disaster management has been to provide some funding. However, that limited role can lead to poor co-ordinaton.
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By Emily Blackwell, Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of Bristol
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has had to adapt to seven different prime ministers moving into No 10 over the past decade. Yet while the nation’s attention is fixed on the departing and incoming political leaders, who is thinking about the effect these upheavals might have on one of the property’s most enduring residents?
Cats thrive on predictability and the consistency of their environment is important for their welfare. On…
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By Megan Ingram, PhD Student, Social Practice and Transformational Change, University of Guelph
Carla Rice, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
In Ontario, thousands of public servants seeking flexible work arrangements have encountered significant barriers.
After the government announced that all public service employees would return to full-time in-person work as of January, more than 16,000 members of the Ontario Public Service Employees…
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By Brigitte Nerlich, Emeritus Professor of Science, Language and Society, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham
AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as co-pilot, co-worker, co-creator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily co-exist with us humans. Their inference is clear: people should always be in the loop – the AI is never in charge.
But amid stories of AI models going rogue and the prospect of
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By Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Mathematician, University of Bristol
People often take their muscles for granted. They pick up a bag, tighten a grip, climb a hill, hold a cup of coffee and the body quietly adjusts force, speed and position without the person ever thinking about it.
Muscle turns chemical energy into movement. It is able to produce force smoothly and reliably, even though it is built from huge numbers of tiny molecular components. When the load changes, muscles don’t simply wobble or fail. They…
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By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Summit meetings on the fringes of funerals, diplomacy after death as the British political scientist Geoff Berridge put it, have a long and useful tradition. Not only can such working funerals force a meeting at a time that would not otherwise have happened, but they can remind those assembled of the transience of life, physical as well as political, and the urgency of now.
And so it was with the funeral of Senator Lyndsey Graham at Washington…
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By Jacques Wels, Principal Investigator, Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, UCL
Tracking thousands of people from birth to their 80s shows that long-term financial stress may quietly reshape the ageing brain.
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By Versha Pleasant, Clinical Assistant Professor; Director, Cancer Genetics & Breast Health, University of Michigan
Menopausal hormone therapy no longer has the highest-level warning label about the risk of breast cancer, opening a gray area on who would benefit most from treatment.
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