Category: Academic Analysis
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Hybrid workers are putting in 90 fewer minutes of work on Fridays – and an overall shift toward custom schedules could be undercutting collaboration
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Christos Makridis, Associate Research Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies It gets lonely if you stick around an office until late afternoon on Fridays. Dimitri Otis/Stone via Getty Images Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town…
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How patients are helping cancer researchers to ask better questions – and find better answers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Brown, Associate Professor in Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Limerick PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Cancer research is evolving, not just in the lab, but in who is leading it. Increasingly, patients, carers and members of the public are stepping into the research process itself,…
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The Choral: this moving first world war film reveals the power of music to transcend despair
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura O’Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University Set in the Oxfordshire village of Ramsden in 1916, The Choral inhabits a world where the war is distant – yet its shadow lies over every street. Many of the young men are gone to the…
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen Cushion, Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The Prescott memo was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The BBC has long weathered accusations of bias. So why did the latest scandal lead to the resignations of the BBC’s director general…
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What a decade of research reveals about why people don’t trust media in the digital age
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Catherine Happer, Professor of Media Sociology, Director, Glasgow University Media Group, University of Glasgow ImageFlow/Shutterstock That trust in media is declining throughout the world is almost an unquestioned truth today. But researchers have found it hard to clearly demonstrate how we went from an era of…
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Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sanam Mahoozi, Research associate, City St George’s, University of London Iran is facing its most severe water crisis in more than six decades. Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have…
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Can the world quit coal?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Global Governance & Human Security, UMass Boston A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at…
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Trespassers and troubadours: what to watch and listen to this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation The winner of this year’s Booker prize, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay, has often been accused of overwriting. His earlier short story collections and novels sometimes lost readers in their ornate, over-detailed descriptions. It seems he’s taken that…
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From misgendering to missed diagnoses: the barriers that can keep trans people from safe healthcare
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephanie Horsted, PhD Candidate, Pain management in the transgender community, Department of Research and Graduate Studies, Health Sciences University Cat Box/Shutterstock Transgender people can encounter significant obstacles and barriers within healthcare systems that may hinder access to care or affect the quality of treatment they receive.…
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Why the UK should think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University, Roskilde University When the British government recently announced its plan to emulate Denmark’s asylum and immigration system, it framed the move as a way to restore fairness and regain control. But for those who know how Denmark’s…