Category: Academic Analysis
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Israel is still not allowing international media back into Gaza, despite the ceasefire
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Colleen Murrell, Chair of the Editorial Board, and Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But…
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How to use AI to guide your holiday plans – by a tourism expert
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joseph Mellors, Research Associate in Management and Marketing, University of Westminster icemanphotos/Shutterstock If you ask an AI service like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to recommend a destination for your next summer holiday, it will happily provide you with a list of attractive destinations. But many of…
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Harnessing technology and global collaboration to understand peatlands
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Scott J. Davidson, Assistant Professor and CARCLIQUE Research Chair, Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Peatlands are among the world’s most important yet underappreciated ecosystems. They are a type of wetland that covers a small fraction of the Earth’s…
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How the high-rise tower block came to symbolise the contradictions of modern Britain
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Flint, Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth area, providing a gritty backdrop for dramas of poverty and crime. This “theatre of stigma”,…
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Why some autistic people don’t speak
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University shutterstock PeopleImages/Shutterstock Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard the term “non-verbal” to…
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Egypt peace summit showed that Donald Trump’s Gaza deal is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought an…
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We turned off moths’ sex signals – this could be the key to greener pest control
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marie Inger Dam, Researcher, Biotechnology, Lund University This moth was genetically engineered to be unable to attract a mate. Kristina Brauburger A single “sexy” gene could help us combat one of the world’s most destructive fruit pests. By deleting the gene that lets female moths produce…
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Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Todd Landman, Professor of Political Science, University of Nottingham r.classen/Shutterstock How many people in the UK are victims of modern slavery? At present, we don’t actually know. There is no consensus on the answer to this question, despite the wide interest in finding it, and the…
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Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rick Thoman, Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks A Coast Guard helicopter flies over flooded homes in Kipnuk, Alaska, on Oct. 12, 2025. U.S. Coast Guard Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm…
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Rape within marriage is still silenced in South Africa – why women are being failed
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Nyasha Karimakwenda, Associate Research Scientist, Wellesley College Sexual violence in marriages is a very real issue in South Africa, but remains shrouded in silence and denial. It’s a subject that Nyasha Karimakwenda has researched for many years in various forms, from traditional practices to court judgments.…
