Surviving street prostitution: two new films on harrowing realities for women in America
By Karen Boyle, University of Stirling
Fresh from its success at Sundance, where the British filmmaker Kim Longinotto picked up the World Cinema Documentary Directing...
In advertising, emotion is a dish best served on the side – a lesson...
By Robert George Heath, University of Bath
This was the year the Superbowl adfest finally hit the skids. The Twitter-storm that greeted this year’s supposedly...
Early-career researchers the missing link for STEM diversity
By Maggie Hardy, The University of Queensland
When high school physics teacher Moses Rifkin wrote a recent blog post on “Teaching Social Justice in the...
The real crisis in psychiatry is that there isn’t enough of it
By Simon Wessely, King's College London
Psychiatry is apparently in crisis – again. On the one hand, psychiatrists are agents of social control, carrying out...
Will Obama’s ‘fugitive methane’ plan reduce or increase our dependence on natural gas?
By Nathan Phillips, Boston University
Like many Americans concerned with climate change and energy security, I reacted with high hopes to the President Obama’s proposal...
Ebola outbreak: where we are now and what happens next
By Colin Brown, King's College London
Ebola virus disease was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, and by 2013 had...
Libya and ISIS: what happened?
By Mieczyslaw P Boduszynski, Pomona College
It took the brutality and slick videography of ISIS to bring Libya back into the headlines, highlighting the lawlessness...
The terrifying philosophy behind Guantanamo torture
By Peter Finn, Kingston University
There are many incredible things about the diary recently published by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi. It contains over...
