By Leila Patel, Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
There is now a growing global consensus that additional measures are needed to support the agency of social protection beneficiaries. Such support will strengthen their self-sustaining livelihoods and pathways that would accelerate social and economic improvements and participation in the labour market, and promote wider social and political stability.
For instance, emerging…
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By Anne-Marie McAlinden, Professor, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
The UK’s grooming gangs inquiry appears to be in turmoil before it has even started, following the resignation of several women from its victim liaison panel. Their complaints related mainly to appointments to chair the inquiry and the potential for its focus to be widened.
The difficulties facing the inquiry have led Reform UK’s Nigel Farage to describe it as “dead in the water”. After years of investigation and controversy over this topic, how did it come to this?
The issue of…
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By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
James Canton, Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex
A massive rewilding project in Ukraine is proving helpful for the wellbeing of veterans as well as helping large natural areas recover.
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Those silver strands could be an outward sign of the body’s own intricate defences against cancer, a recent study in mice has shown.
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By Mike Savage, Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
The case for taxing wealth has historically come from the political mainstream – so why is it so unpalatable now?
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By Elaine Gregersen, Associate Professor in the School of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
To listen to Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl is to be drawn into the painful disintegration of a marriage. It feels like we are there, with Allen: on the call learning about her husband’s alleged infidelity, reading the texts on his phone, finding the physical evidence.
The critics love it. Fans are writing obsessive, breathless newsletters…
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By Melanie Griffiths, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
In an effort to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, the UK government has announced that 900 people will be moved to military sites. Though this is a small fraction of the 32,000 currently housed in hotels, the Home Office hopes that up to 10,000 people might soon be accommodated in ex-military sites.
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By Qianxi He, Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
A new breakthrough that enhances cutting-tool performance won’t just benefit manufacturers — it’s a significant leap forward in materials science.
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By Dr Hayley Walker, Assistant Professor of International Negotiation, IÉSEG School of Management
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the COP30 UN climate change conference in Brazil. Can they all be heard?
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By Olga Jubany, Catedrática en Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona
Sevda Tunaboylu, Investigadora Postdoctoral, Universitat de Barcelona
The European Commission is pressing ahead with its new Common European System for Returns. This legal framework would make returns of immigrants quicker but also more punitive, with longer detentions, stricter conditions, and the creation of “return hubs” in third countries.
But do these proposed measures reflect the views the people who implementing them – the police officers, judges, prosecutors and social workers? Our…
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