Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Celia Harris, Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Western Sydney University CarrieCaptured/Getty As school returns, parents and teachers might each be faced with the familiar chorus of “I can’t find my school jumper” and “I left my hat at home”. For parents of older kids, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Taliah Jade Prince, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health and Neuroimaging, University of the Sunshine Coast Richard Drury/Getty Images You’re so ugly it hurts. Maybe if you lost some weight, someone would actually like you. No filter can fix that face. These are the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joelle Grogan, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin Whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been a debate in UK politics for years. Conservatives have long accused the convention of interfering with government policy…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ross Brown, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance, University of St Andrews Graeme J Baty/Shutterstock Craft brewer and pub chain BrewDog recently closed some of its pubs in a push to cut operating costs. Given it is partly owned by private equity firm TSG Consumer…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL Wasps get a hankering for jam once the colony larvae pupate. victoras/Shutterstock It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Forshaw, Professor of Health Psychology, Edge Hill University There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using the telephone. The worst case scenario was sending questionnaire packs out to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Urban Wiesing, Professor of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen The US Food and Drug Administration recently convened a panel of experts to examine a sensitive and increasingly urgent question: should antidepressants be prescribed to women suffering from depression during pregnancy? To the surprise…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franklin Nobrega, Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Southampton Phages (red) attacking a bacterium (green). nobeastsofierce/Shutterstock.com If bacteria had a list of things to fear, phages would be at the top. These viruses are built to find, infect and kill them – and they have been doing…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Una Cunningham, Professor emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University fizkes/Shutterstock Every year, millions of students from all parts of the globe study for a degree through a language other than their first, usually English. In 2023, 25% of all higher education students in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adrián Carballo Casla, Postdoctoral Researcher in Geriatric Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Imagine two people in their 70s. Both are active, live independently and enjoy life. But over the next 15 years, one of them develops two or three chronic illnesses – heart disease, diabetes, depression…