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Continue reading →: Building Resilience: 10 Protective Factors Every College Student Needs
Many people are talking about the increased mental health needs of young people today. The cited reasons for the escalating mental health crisis are manifold and include lingering repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased reliance on technology – particularly social media – that now mediate much of our…
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Continue reading →: Privacy Cynicism, Apathy and Resignation: Why People Stop Believing They Can Protect Their Data
Most people today know that their personal data is constantly collected, analyzed and traded. They know their online behavior is tracked by platforms, advertisers, apps, employers and governments. And yet, despite growing awareness of digital surveillance, most people continue using the same digital services every day.
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Continue reading →: Is China Right about the West?
In February 2023, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a document entitled U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils. This was before the re-election of President Donald Trump, the imposition of the so-called “Liberation Day” trade tariffwar, and U.S. military action of choice against Venezuela and Iran and, by proxy involvement in Gaza.
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Continue reading →: Why Urban Poverty Matters in the Twenty-First Century
For much of human history, poverty was primarily a rural condition. Cities, despite their inequalities and hardships, represented opportunities: access to work, markets, services and, often, greater freedom from traditional forms of dependence. Yet as the world has become increasingly urban, poverty itself has become urbanized.
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Continue reading →: Confronting Disruption And Seeing It Coming
By Stephen Dovers This article was first published by Pearls and Irritations, Re-imagining Risk and Disruption, a new book examines how to deal with the complex problems caused by natural and humanitarian disasters, technological failures and geopolitical tensions. Rarely a day passes without headlines describing national, regional or global crises.…
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Continue reading →: Why Time Should Be at the Heart of Social Policy
We rarely think of time as something that welfare states distribute. Instead, debates about social policy tend to focus on money, services, and behaviour. Yet, for many people navigating welfare systems, time is one of the most valuable, and unequally shared, resources at stake.
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Continue reading →: Humanizing international environmental law: how to better protect environmental defenders in Europe?
In early June 2026, the first European Forum on Environmental Human Rights Defenders was held at the Council of Europe. The event brought together representatives from international organisations, civil society, and environmental defenders to discuss how to strengthen protection for those who defend the environment.
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Continue reading →: Elgar Companion on Inequality and Natural Resources
Inequality of opportunity leads to inequality of outcomes. For the most part, researchers of social and economic systems have determined that inequality of outcomes is detrimental to improvement in the human condition over time, and applaud policies intended to reduce such inequality.
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Continue reading →: Are We Thinking About Risk and Disruption All Wrong?
By Peter M. Weiske, Stephen Dovers, William J. Durch, and John Handmer In a world of seemingly constant disruption and mounting risks, societies need to understand where these crises come from and how they form, and from that how best to prepare and respond. If we treat each crisis, one…
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Continue reading →: When the Machine Meets the Mind: How AI is Reshaping Postgraduate Research
Over the years I have watched postgraduate students grappling with the demands of postgraduate study. Most of the struggles were in my view, at their core, largely logistical. Students spent long hours hunting for the right sources or found themselves paralysed before a mountain of literature with no clear way…
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