Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Cagkan Sayin/Shutterstock In my youth, I spent an unreasonable amount of time questioning why A-level chemistry was a prerequisite for medical school. Why was it as essential as biology? Why did I need to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Sweeney, Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University There has been widespread international outrage at Israel’s attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, northern Gaza, on August 25. The attack took the form of a “double tap” strike. The first attack killed at least one person,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Manudeo Singh, Newton International Fellow at the Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University On August 5, a cloudburst near the Kheer Ganga river triggered a flash flood that tore through Dharali, a village in the Indian Himalayas. Within minutes, the river swelled with water,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helen Hall, Professor, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University Nuns loom large in the European imagination. They are often caricatured to the point of dehumanisation. Either as a grotesque comic creation, like the chocolate-obsessed sister in Father Ted (1995-1998), or a monstrous aberration, like the demon…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham The upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, China, from August 31 to September 1, will be the organisation’s largest gathering of heads of state to date. It comes at a time when the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Neta Crawford, Montague Burton Chair in International Relations, University of Oxford Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel, mostly unarmed civilians, in its surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7 2023. Using Gaza health ministry statistics, the UN says more than 62,000 people have subsequently…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kumbirai Mabwe, Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University fizkes/Shutterstock Skilled migrants play an important role in the UK economy. But while the UK celebrates the skills they bring, it doesn’t always make it easy for them to thrive financially. Migrants tend to arrive…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Claire Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton Picture this: you’re out for dinner with your partner. The food arrives, the conversation flows – and then their phone buzzes. They glance down, smile faintly and start typing. You sit there, fork in hand, suddenly invisible.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gráinne Tyrrell, Doctoral Researcher in Biomedical Device Design, School of Architecture and Product Design, University of Limerick S Eirich/Shutterstock “If you can’t handle this, you’ll never keep up with your peers.” That’s what a young vascular surgeon in training reported hearing from a senior colleague during…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ciara Greene, Associate Professor of Psychology, University College Dublin StunningArt/Shutterstock Psychologists have intensively studied the factors that make both eyewitnesses and victims more or less susceptible to memory distortion. But to date there has been no experimental evidence comparing memory suggestibility between the complainants and accused…