Category: English
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Problems regulating emotions during pregnancy linked with perinatal depression – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franziska Weinmar, PhD Candidate, Women’s Mental Health & Brain Function, University of Tübingen This latest research may make it possible to identify those more vulnerable to perinatal depression. AnnaStills/ Shutterstock Around one in five mothers experience perinatal depression. This condition involves depressive episodes during pregnancy or…
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Can you treat a narcissist?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jodie Raybould, Lecturer in Psychology, Coventry University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Perhaps you know someone who always deflects blame onto you. Someone who smirks when caught in a lie, who twists your words until you’re apologising for their mistakes. And over time, you may start to wonder, can someone…
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University still pays off – even in lower-wage Britain
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sean Brophy, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University Guguart/Shutterstock In the upcoming budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to raise the minimum wage to £12.70 an hour: £26,416 annually for a full-time job. This means that the gap between salaries for minimum wage…
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How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Benjamin Neimark, Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their…
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Scary stories for kids: I made my dad take me to see Ghostbusters three times
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diane A. Rodgers, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Media & Communication, Sheffield Hallam University “Three parapsychologists lose their university funding” sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke, rather than a premise for one of the most successful films of the 1980s. Nonetheless, this is…
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Dick Cheney dies: giant of the US conservative movement whose legacy was defined by the Iraq war
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex Dick Cheney, one of the most important figures in America’s neo-conservative movement, has died at the age of 84. Cheney had a long career in government and was considered by many as one of the…
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Taylor Swift and the performative ambiguity of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jessalynn Keller, Associate Professor in Critical Media Studies, University of Calgary On Oct. 3, pop superstar and cultural icon Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, to much public anticipation. But when the reviews came in, they were mixed. While Rolling…
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How AI is challenging the credibility of some online courses
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Mohammed Estaiteyeh, Assistant Professor of Digital Pedagogies and Technology Literacies, Faculty of Education, Brock University Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials (and later radio and other technologies) to support formal education when the teacher and learner were…
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I’m a criminologist and grieving aunt. Here’s why Ottawa’s bail reform won’t make Canada safer
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Amy Fitzgerald, Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor The federal government has announced it’s introducing legislation to make bail more difficult to secure, along with lengthening sentences for certain offences. These actions are intended to make Canadians feel safer, which makes sense…
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African countries need strong development banks: how they can push back against narratives to weaken them
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Misheck Mutize, Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town A quiet but consequential contest is playing out in the global financial architecture. One that could determine Africa’s ability to finance its own development. In recent months, powerful voices from the International…