By Treena Orchard, Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
Canada’s criminalization framework continues to undermine sex workers’ safety and exclude their voices from shaping laws that govern their lives.
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By Colleen Murrell, Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
The BBC must now recruit two high-level executives, just as it should be readying for its 2027 royal charter renewal.
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By Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University
Recent accusations that China pressured a UK university into pausing research on alleged human rights violations have raised questions about the state of academic freedom.
In early November 2025, it was reported that Sheffield Hallam University had paused Professor Laura Murphy’s research on Uyghur forced labour in China,…
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By Greg Slabaugh, Professor of Computer Vision and AI, Director of the Digital Environment Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London
Sean Kenji Starrs, Lecturer in International Development, King's College London
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is warning that China could pull ahead. Two experts offer opposing views on whether he’s right.
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By Steven David Pickering, Honorary Professor, International Relations, Brunel University of London
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness have resigned over complaints of institutional bias but external perspectives on the broadcaster are far from uniform.
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By Rachel Delman, Heritage Partnerships Coordinator, University of Oxford
As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal power structures of medieval society.
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By Yolanda Lok Yiu Lau, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Queen Mary University of London
Thirty minutes of daily brain games strengthened neural activity in memory centres, making older brains look ten years younger on scans.
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By Alix Dietzel, Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice, University of Bristol
Katherine Fitzpatrick, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Bristol
The world’s most important climate summit – known this year as Cop30 – has begun in the Amazonian port city of Belém, Brazil. It promises to be contentious: key countries haven’t submitted new climate plans, and negotiations are held up by disputes over who should pay for climate action.
We attended a preliminary round of negotiations in June, which ended with very few concrete agreements. Many outcome documents were instead heavily caveated as “not agreed”, “open to revision”, or “without formal status”.…
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By Heba Ghazal, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, Kingston University
Long-term melatonin users were about three times more likely to develop heart failure, but the link may not be what you think.
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By Gabrielle Samuel, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London
Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and who gets heard
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