Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Nicole Rees-Davies, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University Coaching can offer a chance for teachers to pause, think and reconnect with why they came into the profession in the first place. BearFotos/Shutterstock The UK’s schools are facing a worsening teacher shortage, with heavy workloads and burnout…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Schofield, Director of Studies, Cultural Heritage Management, University of York; Flinders University Spice Footage / shutterstock Imagine a remote Galapagos beach, where iguanas stomp around between fishing nets, flip flops, baseball caps and plastic bottles. Stuck in the sand is the empty packet for food…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Neeltje Boogert, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Exeter Stephen A. Waycott/Shutterstock Did you get through your beach picnics unscathed this summer? Or did you return from a swim only to find a “seagull” (most likely a herring gull if in the UK) rifling…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath Xandpic/Shutterstock You might not care very much about the prospect of the AI bubble bursting. Surely it’s just something for the tech bros of Silicon Valley to worry about – or the wealthy…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lynn Hilditch, Lecturer in Fine Art and Design Praxis, Liverpool Hope University In Paris in 1925, the French government initiated its ambitious International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts with one specific goal – to showcase and celebrate the excellence of French modern design. This…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rebecca Moosavian, Associate Professor in Law, University of Leeds The BBC is the latest media organisation to be targeted by Donald Trump’s highly litigious machine. The fallout over a Panorama episode that included a misleadingly edited clip of the US president’s January 6 2021 speech led…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Economics, Salford Business School, University of Salford Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock US president Donald Trump’s 15% baseline tariffs on EU imports may read like a throwback to old-school protectionism, designed to safeguard American jobs and manufacturing. But in today’s globalised and digitally driven economy, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University When a house mysteriously explodes in the sleepy suburbs of south Oxford and a child goes missing in the aftermath, concerned neighbour Sarah Trafford is driven to seek the truth. As an art conservator, Trafford…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Plowright, Assistant Professor in International Security, Durham University A few years ago, you might have balked if someone told you that the US president would be photographed in the White House shaking hands with a man who was a former member of al-Qaeda, an insurgent…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hala Al-Hamawi, PhD Candidate, Climate Finance, Nottingham Trent University The Middle East region, home to both oil-rich economies and fragile, conflict-affected states, remains among the most underfunded in the global climate landscape. Equitable access to international finance is essential to combat climate change, particularly in the…