By Charlotte Entwistle, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Liverpool
Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect.
Whether in a quick text message, a long email, a casual chat with a friend, or a comment online, the words people choose quietly reveal deeper patterns in how they think, feel, and relate to others.
Everyone has personality traits – habitual ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. When these patterns become rigid, intense or disruptive, they can cause ongoing problems with emotions, sense…
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By Simona Sagone, PhD Candidate, Green Finance, Lund University; University of Palermo
The EU’s new carbon tax is reshaping global trade – and starting to influence what people buy and how much they pay for it.
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By Paul Jones, Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience at Aston Business School, Aston University
The pressure to be joyful can make Christmas feel isolating. A psychologist explains how you can find connection on your own terms.
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By Chris Stokes, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University
Florence Colleoni, Senior Researcher, Polar Geophysics, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS)
James Kirkham, Postdoctoral Researcher, Antarctic Geography, British Antarctic Survey
The warning lights from the cryosphere have been flashing red for several years and governments and policymakers ignore this at their peril.
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By Christopher Claassen, Professor of Political Behaviour, University of Glasgow
If you wander through Glasgow Green, you’ll encounter the Doulton fountain, a gaudy terracotta tribute to empire that features “native” and colonial figures in national dress holding out the produce of their lands to the imperial centre. Like thousands of imperial monuments across Britain, the Doulton Fountain is neither widely celebrated nor widely denounced. It is part of the everyday backdrop.
That quiet coexistence says a lot about Britain’s relationship with its imperial past. Empire is everywhere…
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By Anita Lifen Zhao, Associate Professor of Marketing at the School of Management, Swansea University
Philippa Ward, Professor of Marketing, University of Gloucestershire
Ruffin Relja, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Gloucestershire
It’s that time of year again, and retailers are pulling out all the stops to get us spending – from Black Friday to new year’s sales.
The average Briton expects to shell out around £300 on Christmas gifts. But as budgets tighten, more people are turning to buy-now-pay-later schemes to spread the cost over time. Our research…
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By Amnesty International
How does systemic racism influence migration policies, asylum systems and border enforcement? Borders are not simply lines on a map or physical barriers separating one place from another. They are a complex infrastructure of control, social ordering and exclusion shaped by racial hierarchies rooted in histories of colonialism, slavery and other forms of oppression such as patriarchy. Experts talk about “racial borders”, referring to the ways migration policies, asylum systems, and […] The post Why systematic racism has a lot to do with migration and asylum systems appeared first on Amnesty…
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By Alison Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Hallyu! at the National Museum of Australia comes from London’s V&A. What a pity we’re not focusing more on the history of Korean–Australian cultural exchange.
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By Unaludo Sechele, Research Fellow, University of the Free State
The history of labour migration in Botswana can be linked to the discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa in the late 19th century. South Africa needed cheap labour, and men from neighbouring territories were pulled into the workforce as unskilled or semi-skilled workers in mines, factories, kitchens and farms.
Mine recruitment agencies…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Masked US federal agents outside the immigration court in Manhattan's 26 Federal Plaza, New York City, October 31, 2025. © 2025 Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/AP Photo (Washington, DC, December 18, 2025) – United States federal immigration enforcement agents now commonly operate masked and without visible identification, compounding the abusive and unaccountable nature of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, Human Rights Watch said today. The indefinite and widespread nature of these practices is fundamentally inconsistent with the United States’ obligations…
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