Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rahmat Poudineh, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, University of Oxford shutterstock Piyaset / shutterstock Nearly a decade after the Paris agreement, the world is emitting more greenhouse gases than ever. Global emissions reached a record 53 billion tonnes in 2024 – about 10% higher…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rivka Isaacson, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London When I first began appropriating the plots of British-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch’s novels to explain scientific concepts, I never stopped to think about whether Murdoch herself would have approved of such an endeavour. As a professor of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies, 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 system actually works,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…