29

Aug

How online mindfulness training can help students thrive during the pandemic

COVID-19 is reasserting itself, with the Delta variant posing a serious threat to young people. The pandemic has made physical distancing an inescapable new reality of post-secondary education as universities…

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29

Aug

How Japan’s Olympic success has been followed by COVID failure

From a sporting perspective, the Tokyo Olympics were a massive success for Japan. Finishing third behind the Olympic behemoths of the US and China, Japan secured a record 27 gold…

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29

Aug

How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life

With the stark “code red” warnings from the world’s climate experts in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) still ringing in our ears, it’s…

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25

Aug

How would planting 8 billion trees every year for 20 years affect Earth’s climate?

Politicians, business leaders, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. There are currently almost 8 billion people…

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25

Aug

Afghanistan: western powers must accept defeat and deal realistically with the Taliban

The short version of events in Afghanistan is that Pakistan won and the international alliance led by the United States lost. Of course the story is not over and things…

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22

Aug

Today’s decisions lock in industry emissions for decades — here’s how to get them right

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made clear there’s little time left to reach net zero emissions and hold the global temperature rise to 1.5C. If Australia is to…

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22

Aug

What a baker from ancient Pompeii can teach us about happiness

In a testament to its resiliency, happiness, according to this year’s World Happiness Report, remained remarkably stable around the world, despite a pandemic that upended the lives of billions of…

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22

Aug

Why the oldest child in Syrian refugee families needs the most urgent support, and what schools can do

This article focuses on the case study of Mariam, a fictional eldest child based on children we have encountered in our research. Mariam, 14, fled from Syria with both parents…

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22

Aug

Digital health is a vital tool: here’s how we can make it more sustainable

The pandemic has shown us the extraordinary potential of digital health to fight global health inequalities by providing expanded access to healthcare: as well as by better informing our responses…

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22

Aug

The pandemic transformed how social work was delivered – and these changes could be here to stay

Since the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of attention in the UK has focused on the challenges of continuing to deliver healthcare. But a related field – social work…

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22

Aug

How the gig economy could suffer from a labour shortage – but workers may be better off

The long-term impact of COVID-19 on the economy will not be clear for some time. But in the UK, the easing of pandemic related restrictions has coincided with significant labour…

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