By Sophie Olivia Hanson, PhD student, Clinical Psychology, University of Manitoba
Activists can face a lot of stress and even burnout campaigning for the causes they care about. Showing themselves self-compassion can help them deal with that stress.
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By Marco de Jong, Lecturer, Law School, Auckland University of Technology
Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
Concern is rising that an in-principle decision has been made about New Zealand joining AUKUS pillar two, without public understanding or political mandate.
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By Audrey Ferron-Parayre, Professeure agrégée, Section de droit civil, Faculté de droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Catherine Régis, Professeure titulaire, Faculté de droit, Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit et politiques de la santé, Centre de recherche en droit public, Université de Montréal
Emmanuelle Bernheim, Professeure titulaire, Faculté de droit, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en santé mentale et accès à la justice | Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Canada Research Chair on Mental Health and Access to Justice, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Sylvie Lévesque, Professor, Département de sexologie, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Obstetric and gynecological violence is care that is violent, disrespectful, abusive or neglectful. At its heart is the absence of consent, or consent without having received appropriate information.
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By Trish Audette-Longo, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies, Carleton University
Christianna Alexiou, MSc in Regulation Student, London School of Economics and Political Science
Journalism educators need to have new conversations with students that address their experiences, their worries and their understanding of what journalism is and what they want it to be.
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Monday, April 15, 2024
With the ‘promise of a better world’ in mind the UN Youth Office has launched an new advocacy campaign – “World Leaders: It’s Time to Let #YouthLead” – calling for greater youth representation in decision-making roles in both the public and private sector, civil society, academia, and the UN.
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By Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
In recent weeks, as thousands died and the threat of famine settled over Gaza, the relationship Israel and its western allies had started to fracture. Iran’s attack appears likely to change that.
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By Sandra Sunram-Lea, Professor in Biological Psychology, Lancaster University
The relationship between chewing gum – both the sugary and the non-sugary kind – and whether chewing gum might prevent conditions like gum disease, bone loss around teeth, and caries, was studied in research published in the Journal of the American Nutrition Association in early 2024.
The researchers used data from people who were enrolled in a large population-based study between 2013 and 2019. In addition to reporting on their oral health, participants were also asked questions about their…
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By Aidan Byrne, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, King's College London
Huge pink flocks of millions of flamingos – flamboyances of flamingos – are one of nature’s great spectacles. But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and highly-alkaline “soda lakes” of east Africa where most of these birds live.
Lesser flamingos are the most numerous of the six species of flamingo found across the world, and more than three quarters are found in the soda lakes of Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Despite their numbers, with estimates ranging between 2 million and 3 million birds, the species is in decline and officially classified as “
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By Paul Carr, Professor in Popular Music Analysis, University of South Wales
Robert Smith, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, University of South Wales
Wales has always had more than its fair share of great musicians. From Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey in the 1960s, to Budgie and Badfinger in the 1970s, The Alarm in the 1980s and Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Manic Street Preachers during 1990s Britpop.
Since then, Marina, Funeral For a Friend and Bullet For My Valentine have been among the more popular recent music acts to emerge from Wales. And today’s Welsh music scene continues to feature a huge variety of artists who create a plethora of styles.
Here are four rising acts who continue the tradition set by their…
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By Giuliana Pieri, Professor of Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London
The new Enzo Mari exhibition at London’s Design Museum offers a rare glimpse into the work of one of Italy’s most prominent designers and thinkers on design and aesthetics. Mari (1932-2020) was staunchly anticapitalist and remained a thorn in the glossy side of the design industry throughout his career.
Mari was born in Novara, northwest Italy, to working-class parents who moved to Milan when he was a young child. Mari was born in 1932, the year of the Decennale,…
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