By Melissa Cain, Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Arts Education, Australian Catholic University
Melissa Fanshawe, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
Students with disability are experts in themselves and their needs. But we found they are often not consulted by their teachers about what helps them at school.
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By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Punishing parents of truant children misses factors – such as poverty and hunger – keeping some children out of school.
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By Emmett Stinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted.
The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction,…
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By Flavio Macau, Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
A spike in oil prices as a result of escalating Middle East tensions would not immediately affect Australia – but precautionary measures should be taken.
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By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
Prior to launching a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel on April 13, 2024, Iran reportedly got word to Washington that its response to an earlier…
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By Ping Lam Ip, PhD student, Sociology, University of Alberta
Andrea DeKeseredy, PhD student, Sociology, University of Alberta
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith recently tabled Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities Act in the provincial legislature. If passed into law, the bill will give the Alberta government power to vet any agreements between the federal government and post-secondary institutions, and other “provincial entities.”
The proposed legislation could have a tremendous impact on whether scholars in Alberta can secure federal research funding. The bill would prohibit provincial entities like municipalities, post-secondary…
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By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
During his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden mentioned his presumptive challenger, Donald Trump, 15 times – but never once by name.
Instead, Biden referred to him as “my predecessor” 13 times. He also called him a “former Republican president” and a “former American president.”
These weren’t mistakes or memory lapses – the circumlocutions appeared in the president’s prepared…
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By Jörg Krieger, Associate Professor for Sport and Social Science, Aarhus University
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
For more than 100 years, international sport organizations have executed monopolistic power. Now, one has resurrected the founder of the modern Olympics to promote its controversial politics.
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By Nitish Boodhoo, Research Associate, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph
Bird flu in U.S. dairy cows has Canadian public health experts on high alert. With one human case identified in Texas, what is the likelihood of H5N1 influenza moving from birds to mammals to people?
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By Will Baker, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Bristol
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed, but millions of families are struggling to buy enough food to feed their children. Experiencing food insecurity can be deeply damaging for children and negatively affects their achievement at school.
My research, alongside…
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