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Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.
Our expert authors explain the value in bringing the story of their research to a much wider audience.
The Health and Safety at Work Act passed into UK law 50 years ago. Harold Walker was its driving force, inspired by his own experiences of workplace injury.
Greening sounds good compared to deforestation, but in the Arctic, the expansion of plant life amplifies dangerous feedback loops and could harm the carbon-storing permafrost.
In our interviews with older people over the past 15 years, some have described the phenomenon of ‘tiredness of life’ in a matter-of-fact way – as though they are talking about the weather.
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ancient hominin Lucy, a leading Ethiopian scientist on why we need to ‘decolonise’ paleo research – and what it’s like to find the oldest human ancestor.
I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely friendships.
The distress experienced by people near death is not limited to pain caused by illness or disease. Our research sheds light on the economic and political reasons dying is much harder for some.
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham suggests the treatment of nuclear test veterans will be the next major UK public scandal to emerge. But how do the local people of Kiritimati recall these tests?
The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.
The impending takeover of Everton FC means a majority of Premier League clubs will be fully or part-owned by US investors. This billion-dollar American revolution all started with a row about a horse.
A growing number of people (mostly men) find AI relationship apps addictive and alluring. So what are the likely effects of this technology on us as human beings?
Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.
Our articles are about 4,000 words in length, and have a distinct storytelling style with rounded characters and compelling narrative arcs.
‘An underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet’s surface’.
The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.
The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Visiting Researcher,, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology, UCL
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Work, Queen Mary University of London
