By Samuel Lloyd, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria
Katya Rhodes, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada’s climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from Alberta to northern British Columbia.
The government also cancelled the federal carbon tax this year, while ending funding for home…
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By Jessica Mary Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Literacies and Language, University of Sheffield
Women’s experiences of pain – and how pain is felt, understood and lived through the body – sit at the heart of the exhibition.
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By Subir Sarkar, Emeritus professor, University of Oxford
The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction.
Should we care about this? Well, today’s “standard cosmological model” – which describes the dynamics and structure of the entire cosmos – rests squarely on the assumption that it is isotropic (looks the same in all directions), and homogeneous when averaged on large scales.
But several so-called…
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By Tom Pegram, Associate Professor in Global Governance and Deputy Director of UCL Global Governance Institute, UCL
Simon Dalby, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Global debate about how to navigate the climate crisis often centres on high-level pledges and whether national targets are being met. Yet focusing on these technical outcomes obscures a deeper problem that keeps climate action falling short.
This problem is ecological myopia: treating climate change as one issue among many rather than as a sign of wider Earth system disruption. It narrows how we understand risk and allows politics, business and daily life to proceed as if planetary stability could still…
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By Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College, Durham University
Eighty years ago, Britain celebrated its first peacetime Christmas since 1938. It was a time of hope indeed, but a look through newspaper archives reveals a complex picture. Christmas 1945 was an austerity Christmas. One in which grief and suffering, remembrance and loneliness mingled with reunions, church attendance and muted celebration.
It was the first Christmas under the Labour government elected in 1945, though Prime Minister Clement Attlee did not address the nation.…
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By Haian Dukhan, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Teesside University
Rahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics, Lancaster University
The attack in Palmyra reveals deep vulnerabilities in Syria’s security architecture, highlighting the challenges of reforming a fragmented state after conflict.
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By Amy Stevens, Research Associate, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
Keith Spiller, Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton
Xavier L'Hoiry, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
As trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales, hunt saboteurs and police officers discuss their ‘unlikely alliance’ in monitoring fox hunts.
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By Peter Alexander, Professor of Global Food Systems, University of Edinburgh
Familiar bars of chocolate have been getting more expensive, and often smaller. Is this really just because cocoa has become more expensive, as is often claimed in the media?
In the UK, a Cadbury Dairy Milk “family” bar has shrunk from 200g to 180g since 2021. In the same period, the price has risen from £1.86 to about £2.75, a price increase of around 65% once you account for the smaller size. Over the same period, overall consumer…
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By Paul Hough, Lecturer Sport & Exercise Physiology , University of Westminster
The festive season has a reputation for undoing good habits such as eating well and exercising. Normal routines disappear, days become less structured and exercise habits can fade. The solution to staying active is not more willpower, but smarter planning. Research shows that simple, practical strategies can help people stay active through Christmas and into the new year.
At this time of year, articles often focus on the calorie content of festive foods and drinks, alongside advice on how to “burn off” festive indulgence. However, guilt-based motivation is ineffective…
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By Amy Brown, Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
Are you a parent to one child? Or are you considering having a child in the future, and wondering about what your family size should be?
Parents of only children are frequently asked when they are having another child, as if there is an expectation that they will be planning another – even though around 45% of families in the UK now have one child.
In research for my new…
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