Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Fox, Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth Ceri Breeze/Shutterstock As a researcher of police occupational culture, I was horrified, but not at all surprised by the recent Panorama programme in which an undercover reporter exposed sexism, racism and general thuggishness among some Metropolitan…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Habens, Head of Creative Writing, University of Portsmouth Apollo and Daphne by John William Waterhouse (1908). Wiki Commons The story of Apollo and Daphne was written around the year zero by Roman poet Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Ovid was a trainee lawyer and student of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Gater, Research Assistant at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University For years we’ve been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work. But when we think about whose jobs are really under threat, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Terrell Nield, Senior Lecturer, Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University Hyllus diardi jumping spider – you’ll hear more about these spiders below. Magdalena Teterdynko/Shutterstock It’s a quiet autumn evening. You’re enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider (Tegenaria domestica) is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Gatto, Assistant Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle Warning: this article contains spoilers. In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter North-east Atlantic mackerel are being fished beyond sustainable limits. shocky/Shutterstock Most of the UK’s commercial fish stocks are not in a healthy state, according to a new landmark report. Marine conservation charity Oceana UK’s Deep Decline report…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maha Rafi Atal, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow Jacob Lund/Shutterstock UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out a “youth guarantee” aimed at ending long-term unemployment among young people. Under the plan, a young person who…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amy Hume, Lecturer In Theatre (Voice), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne Particle6 Productions Tilly Norwood officially launched her acting career this month at the Zurich Film Festival. She first appeared in the short film AI Commissioner, released in July. Her producer,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Jason Weismueller, Lecturer, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia Medy Siregar/Unsplash There’s been a striking decline in public confidence in social media platforms, according to the 2025 Ethics Index published by the Governance Institute of Australia. One in four Australians now rate social…