By Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Professor of Behavioural Science, Kingston University
Have you ever feared looking cheap or incompetent with your Valentine’s gift? Or perhaps you’ve dismissed the idea of exchanging gifts because you worried your partner would think it’s too corny.
If so, you’re not alone. But research suggests we may be missing out on an opportunity to strengthen our close relationships by rejecting this ritual entirely.
In romantic relationships, the act of giving serves as…
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By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
A proper adaptation of Wuthering Heights, a guide to love, games for love, a regency swoonfest and a modernisation of revenge tale.
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By Yashaswini Chandra, Lecturer in South Asian Art History, University of Edinburgh
Daniel Fountain, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
Emma Barker, Senior Lecturer In Art History
Marius Kwint, Reader in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth
Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
For Valentine’s Day, we asked five of our academic experts to tell us about the most romantic artwork they’ve ever encountered. From first dates to sleeping lovers, these are the paintings that have touched their hearts.
1. A Leisurely Ride by Nainsukh (circa 1740-1745)
At the heart of Nainsukh’s A Leisurely Ride, a court painting produced in the Pahari or Indian hill state of Jasrota in the mid-18th century, is an exchange of gaze which transfixes the moment.
In the painting, horses of varied hues stride across an Indian…
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By Laura Donnellan, Lecturer in Law , University of Limerick
The way hosts are now selected can be traced to the Salt Lake City scandal which exposed weaknesses in the bidding system in the late 1990s.
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By Christian Emery, Associate Professor in International Politics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
After a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Donald Trump said he wanted talks with Iran to continue.
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By Luke Hodson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
The short, dark days of winter are never easy to get through. But for many people in the UK and across Europe, this winter has felt particularly gloomy because of the seemingly endless rain.
If you live in some parts of south-west England or the Welsh borders, at the time of writing it has rained every single day this year. Aberdeen, meanwhile, has just seen its first half-hour of sunshine for…
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By Alnoor Ebrahim, Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
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By Stephen J. Smulowitz, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Wake Forest University
Do women board members make a company more innovative or risk averse? The answer is both, according to our recent study. It all depends on how the company performs relative to its goals.
Professors Małgorzata Smulowitz, Didier Cossin and I examined 524 S&P 1500 companies from 1999 to 2016, measuring innovation through patent activity. Patents reflect both creative output and risk-taking.…
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By Emily Hemendinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Athletes in sports where weight and body image come into play, such as figure skating and wrestling, can be particularly vulnerable.
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By Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover previously unknown parts of their stories.
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