By Martin Austin, Senior Lecturer in Coastal Dynamics, Bangor University
Elisabeth S. Morris-Webb, Honorary Research Fellow, Marine Ecology, Bangor University
Thora Tenbrink, Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University
Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.
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By Paul Jones, Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience at Aston Business School, Aston University
The Traitors might sound like another reality TV gimmick. But look closer, and you’ll find a psychological pressure cooker where deception, trust and paranoia are all on view.
Contestants live together in a Scottish castle. A few are secretly chosen as Traitors, tasked with “murdering” their fellow players while avoiding suspicion. The rest are “Faithfuls”, trying to banish the Traitors before it’s too late.
With no evidence, alliances are fragile and instinct becomes weaponised. Let’s unpack the psychology…
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By Guest Contributor
When reporters are silenced, communities lose more than news — they lose safety and dignity. Sudan’s media crisis shows why journalism everywhere is a lifeline.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the leaked draft of the 11th Judicial Package (“11. Yargı Paketi”) which proposes the introduction of criminal penalties targeting Türkiye’s LGBTI community, Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty’s Deputy Director for Europe, said: “These proposals present a grave threat to the rights of LGBTI people and those who advocate for LGBTI rights and they must never […] The post Türkiye: Leaked proposals that would criminalize LGBTI people “must never see the light of day” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
What are reparations? Most often, the word reparation is used in relation to money. It’s given as an acknowledgement of wrongful/unlawful conduct and to repair the harm caused by or as a result of this conduct. Under international law, victims of crimes under international law and human rights violations have a right to reparations. The […] The post Why do reparations for colonialism and slavery matter? appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Japanese Diet member Yasue Funayama speaks at a nongovernmental organization event to advocate for Japan to step up its efforts to defend the International Criminal Court, Tokyo, October 9, 2025. © 2025 Haruka Miyata/Human Rights Watch On October 9, Human Rights Watch with Tokyo-based Human Rights Now and Peace Boat held an event at the Japanese Diet to press the Japanese government to step up its efforts to defend the International Criminal Court(ICC). The ICC, a court of last resort for victims of serious crimes around the world, has been…
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By Derek Attridge, Emeritus professor, University of York
Zoë Wicomb, a celebrated South African-Scottish writer and scholar, has died.
All my memories of her crystallise around her voice: it brought a small piece of South Africa into whatever context she found herself in. Whether it was a public reading (always a source of terror for her) or an animated conversation in the Glasgow home in Scotland which she and her husband, the photographer Roger Palmer,…
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By Jade French, Postdoctoral Researcher , Loughborough University
Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem. Urmila Seshagiri, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, got to experience such a jolt when she was told about previously unseen typescripts of three short stories by Virginia Woolf.
These interconnected tales, written in 1907, comprise a mock biography of Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson, an independent woman who moved in aristocratic circles and who would be crucial to the development of Woolf’s…
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By Stéphanie Balme, Director, CERI (Centre de recherches internationales), Sciences Po
A study titled “Defending and promoting academic freedom” that was conducted for a French higher education and research organisation discusses four areas for improvement of this crucial effort.
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By Pinar Uysal-Onganer, Reader in Molecular Biology, University of Westminster
Alwyn Dart, Lecturer, Cancer Institute, UCL
Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has called for a targeted prostate cancer screening programme for men most at high risk of the disease, reviving a national debate on how to save more lives and tackle health inequalities among men.
The plan, supported by Prostate Cancer Research, would provide regular screening for men aged 45 to 69, particularly those of African-Caribbean descent or with a family history of the disease.
The case for prostate cancer screening
Pinar Uysal-Onganer, Reader in Molecular Biology, University of Westminster
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