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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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Continue reading →: How Are AI, Social Change and Global Uncertainty Reshaping Vocational Behaviour?
By Nadya A. Fouad, Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, and Dora Scholarios The following is adapted from Chapter 1: Introduction – Rethinking vocational behavior: past, present, and future directions from the upcoming Research Handbook on Vocational Behavior, edited by Nadya A. Fouad, Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, and Dora Scholarios.…
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Continue reading →: Breaking News: The Science of Sport Coaching Wins!
In today’s world, sport coaching simply exists under the shadow of sport as a public spectacle. More on this in a couple of paragraphs, but the quality of sport coaching, its development, oversight, and regulation exist without much public awareness or critical consciousness. Critical here means asking penetrating and tough…
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Continue reading →: Women’s Economic Empowerment: Moving Beyond the Work-First Myth
Since the mid-1990s, the concept of women’s economic empowerment has spread like wildfire through international NGOs and governments. Globally, it has been declared the next frontier for social transformation.
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Continue reading →: ASEAN Competition law: Emergent laws in need of recognition
The countries which comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) collectively represent the world’s fourth-largest economy, behind only the United States, China, and Germany. ASEAN sits at the intersection of some of the world’s major trading routes.
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