By Michaela James, Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
The COVID pandemic affected several aspects of children’s health and wellbeing. The number of children referred to specialist mental health teams in England has soared by more than 50% in just three years, for example. But recent research from my colleagues and I reveals that problems such as these were increasing even before the pandemic.…
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By Jessica Ringrose, Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education, Institute of Education, UCL
Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor and the Deputy Programme Director of Digital Humanities in the Department of Information Studies, UCL
In March 2024, a 39-year-old man became the first person in England and Wales to be convicted of the new offence of cyberflashing, part of the Online Safety Act. He had sent unsolicited photos of his genitals to a 15-year-old girl and a woman.
Cyberflashing now being a criminal offence is a welcome change, and the…
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By Penny Tinkler, Professor of Sociology and History, University of Manchester
Girls growing up in very different circumstances navigated the possibilities and pitfalls of the 1960s and early 1970s in very different ways.
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By Stephen Badham, Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
We often assume young people are smarter, or at least quicker, than older people. For example, we’ve all heard that scientists, and even more so mathematicians, carry out their most important work when they’re comparatively young.
But my new research, published…
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By James Sloam, Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
A record number of people will go to polls in 2024 to vote in national elections around the world. People who came of age during the last electoral cycle will have an opportunity to cast their votes for the first time.
In wealthier countries with rapidly ageing populations, such as the US and the UK, there will again be record inter-generational divisions in turnout and political preferences.
In recent elections, a high proportion of people aged 18–24 supported Democratic party candidates and…
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By Nina Flores, Ph.D. Student Researcher in Environmental Health, Columbia University
Joan A. Casey, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
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By Cole Burton, Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation, University of British Columbia
The Earth now supports over eight billion people who collectively have transformed three-quarters of the planet’s land surface for food, energy, shelter and other aspects of the human enterprise.
Wild animals must not only contend with how their habitats have been changed, but also endure the increasing presence of people in almost all environments, from expanding wildland-urban…
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By Samar Khatiwala, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Climate models are some of the most complex pieces of software ever written, able to simulate a vast number of different parts of the overall system, such as the atmosphere or ocean. Many have been developed by hundreds of scientists over decades and are constantly being added to and refined. They can run to over a million lines of computer code – tens of thousands of printed pages.
Not surprisingly, these models are expensive. The simulations take time, frequently several months, and the supercomputers on which the models are run consume a lot of energy. But a new algorithm
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By Suze Wilson, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Massey University
Poor personal and party polling early in the government’s term puts the spotlight on Christopher Luxon’s leadership. He has the power bases, but can he mobilise them effectively – and in time?
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By Jen Kostuchuk, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Victoria
Anelyse Weiler, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
Global climates are changing and the world is rapidly warming. Canada’s labour laws must keep pace with the rate of change to protect workers.
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