A/Prof Seye Abimbola explores how global health as a concept reinforces colonial power structures and argues for decentering Western institutions in health governance. His critique reveals how aid flo...

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Collection focusing on mitigating antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

A new analysis led by researchers at the University of Oxford and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found that virtually all care homes forced to close in England by the Care Quality Commission

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

The end of life is replete with relational complexities. Yet, despite the work of humanities and social science scholars in the field of death and dying, our final days and weeks are still often fram...

When I wrote ‘Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles’ (Policy Press 2024) for the British Sociological Association’s ‘21st Century Standpoints’ series, I had three main goals in mind. The f...

Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices

Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...

(RNS) — Christian Smith’s research shows traditional religion isn’t just declining. It’s culturally obsolete.

A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself?...

This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

Perhaps the most valuable asset in our cultural imaginary is time. Yet, this notion of time-as-asset intensifies, is contested, and is often derailed …

Like a mob boss, the government threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic freedom and faculty governance

Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration to and from Australia Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 y...

Over the last two years, AI summits held in the UK and South Korea focused on safety and the need for guardrails in the development of this powerful technology — but this year’s summit in Paris gave w...

Researchers identified over 100 species that have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last two decades: "This is a wake-up call."

A meditation on the Māori experience of European settler-colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both of res...

A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

The relationship between sociology and death is long-standing. Early foundational texts, such as Durkheim’s (1897) Suicide, shaped sociology as a discipline, helping to establish its broad ontological...