As we begin to engage with the climate emergency and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, calls have grown to stop investing in companies engaged in fossil fuel production –…Read More >
Prosperity & Resilience
COVID-19 and grappling with the uncertainties of a ‘new normal’ for researchers
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing significant changes to the ways in which we operate as global development academics and practitioners. This new context requires both creative research methods and a…Read More >
What future do airlines have?
As announcements of redundancies in the airline industry continue, Jorge Guira, Associate Professor in Law and Finance, and colleagues from the Universities of Southampton and Cranfield, outline the scale of…Read More >
Tackling the economic and social challenges caused by COVID-19
Our health service is battling to save lives everyday as medical researchers work with pharmaceutical companies to try and find a vaccine for COVID-19. The virus is also having an…Read More >
Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia
When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal coca growing region last November, they were met…Read More >
COVID-19: The paradox of scientific advice which is not scientific
Emeritus Professor Michael King uses social systems theory to explore why governments treat the advice on the best ways to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic as based on ‘science’. Contrary to…Read More >
Should there be a phased reopening of schools from 1st June? Let the teachers have their say
As part of the phased approach to easing COVID-19 restrictions, the Government plans to reopen schools on 1 June for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 pupils. Dr Catherine Foley,…Read More >
Coronavirus: learning from the second world war’s industrial pioneers
Wars often generate “inspirational” tales of underdogs overcoming insurmountable odds. But the heroes in question are normally soldiers, risking their lives behind enemy lines. They don’t usually sit in a…Read More >
The whole idea of global value chains will be reconsidered after coronavirus
In 2015 the Cameron government struck an unprecedented deal with French and Chinese companies to build a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, south-west England. The deal now looks…Read More >
Forget the Premier League, it’s grassroots football that we need to preserve!
The lifeblood of any sport is at its grassroots – the football that is played on local playing fields between teams of all ages, and even sometimes with jumpers for…Read More >
