Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Patrick Dodd, Professional Teaching Fellow, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau For a long time, universities worked off a simple idea: knowledge was scarce. You paid for tuition, showed up to lectures, completed assignments and eventually earned a credential. That process did two…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Xanthe Mallett, Criminologist, CQUniversity Australia The “mushroom murder trial”, as it has popularly become known, has gripped Australia over the past 11 weeks. More than that, it’s prompted worldwide headlines, multiple daily podcasts, and even YouTube videos of self-proclaimed “body language experts” assessing defendant Erin…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Hamlett, Professor of Modern British History, Royal Holloway University of London King Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria, ascended the throne upon her death in 1901, but unlike his mother, he ruled for a very short period and died in 1910. His reign, along…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University No man more embodied Thatcherism in the eyes of the public in the 1980s than Norman Tebbit, who died on July 7, aged 94. Though certainly no yuppie, Lord Tebbit entitled his memoirs Upwardly Mobile. Margaret’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Leah McLaughlin, Research Fellow in Health Services, Bangor University PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Every week, thousands of people with kidney disease in the UK spend long hours in hospital receiving life-saving dialysis. For many, this means travelling to a kidney unit three times a week and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Faulkner, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Nottingham Trent University The Tour de France is often called the world’s biggest annual sporting event. Each July up to 12 million people line the roadside, while the cumulative TV audience tops 3 billion viewers across 190 countries. In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Cahal Moran, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science During my adult life, I have never experienced what it’s like to live in a “good” economy. Starting with the global financial crash in 2008, which hit…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University The Brics group of nations has just concluded its 17th annual summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. But, despite member states adopting a long list of commitments covering global governance, finance, health, AI and climate…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor The US government “remains upbeat” about the prospects for at least a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the latest reports from Washington, where the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been meeting the US president, Donald Trump. Netanyahu…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Poxon, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care, University of East London PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock When someone we care about is grieving the loss of a loved one, our natural instinct…