Dr Mark Shanahan from our Politics and International Relations Research Division discusses the Conservative Party’s badly timed leadership race with some Young Conservatives in a new post for The Conversation.
Female military peacekeepers left feeling overwhelmed after inadequate training
UN peacekeeping missions often involve dealing with cases of violence and rape. Georgina Holmes’ research has shown that female military peacekeepers are often inadequately prepared to help survivors of conflict…Read More >
Objects and death: three burials across time
Across millennia, people have buried objects alongside the dead. Ahead of his upcoming British Museum conference ‘Objects and death’, Dr Duncan Garrow spoke to Sarah Harrop about three mysterious things…Read More >
Fragments in the archive: stories of slavery, sexual violence and testimony
Enslaved women make only fleeting appearances in the historical records from colonial and antebellum America – as property rather than people. But after the Civil War, there was an outpouring…Read More >
How Sudan’s economic crisis had a role in protests that toppled al-Bashir
After the ousting of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir last month, Professor Peter Robert Woodward looks at the economic crisis that precipitated his downfall and what needs to be done to…Read More >
How will technology shape the future of humanity?
What will the future of humanity look like? Ahead of tonight’s Albert Wolters annual lecture on consciousness, autonomy and responsibility by philosopher Daniel Dennett, we asked five Reading academics what…Read More >
Palm oil: an EU ban won’t save Asian rainforests, but here’s what might help
Banning palm oil may do more harm than good by diverting its sale to markets with fewer environmental checks and balances, says Reading environmental economist Professor Elizabeth Robinson, in a…Read More >
Net Zero: how do we get there?
The UK could cut greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050 and lead the way in tackling global warming, according to a new report released today by the government’s…Read More >
Nuclear weapons might save the world from an asteroid strike – but we need to change the law first
If an asteroid were to head on a collision course towards earth, an Armageddon-style nuclear explosion may well be our best line of defence. But would doing so open us up…Read More >