For research security to be relevant it must connect to the everyday issues researchers face, rather than be another exercise in institutional compliance.

As investment in research capacity building for those who work in social care and social work increases, Hannah Kendrick, Sharon Paul and Juliette Malley discuss areas of potential, whilst setting…

Beyond politicians' class origins - e.g. growing up working class - do we need to pay greater attention to class destinations, i.e. their current economic positions?

This was the second summer in a row that saw race riots in Northern Ireland. To understand this new violence, we looked in depth at the 2025 Ballymena riots.

The risk from artificial intelligence must be judged by how it contributes to the portfolio of systemic risk that humanity already faces.

Claims about artisanship, heritage and sustainability are used to justify premium prices. But are they verified - or is there a risk of “craftwashing”?

Miqdad Asaria discusses why we need to fix society to protect the environment and how board games can help us think big about climate change.

The Holborn and St Pancras by-election has been seized by the Green Party as an opportunity to challenge Labour. But Labour is still very likely to win.

DPhil, PhD by Publication, Professional Doctorate, are all doctorates. What makes them different?

Africa is beginning to make itself heard at the United Nations. It has already changed how the world is mapped. Lynda Chinenye Iroulo asks: can it now change how it is governed? In September 2026,…

AI-driven disruptions demand a total rethink of public policies to deal with very sizeable labour market inequalities. Where to start in thinking this through?

Despite talk of strategic autonomy, EU space policy falls short of giving Europe real independence, especially in relation to the United States.

England's strong performance at the PISA results has been attributed to reforms. But one finding stands out: immigrant children outperformed their native peers.

Governments have not decided who regulates AI. Responsibility lies with whoever in your organisation is asked to check the machine’s work before it goes out.

The EU’s offer of associate membership to Canada shows European independence is not about eliminating interdependence with other states.

If AI is making access to knowledge is less scarce, what role to do universities have in delivering it?

Africa’s structural transformation cannot be judged against an industrial model that is being reshaped by technology, decarbonisation, and geopolitics. Carlos Lopes argues that the next decade should…

Far from swapping China out when America imposed tariffs, many Vietnamese firms leaned on it more than they had before.

Zeitenwende has a complicated history in German politics that helps explain the public mood swings lying behind the rise of the AfD.

Even in post-industrial Britain, waste from industrial activity is damaging people's health, disproportionately affecting some of the poorest communities.

Journal growth in economics has stalled, member turnover has collapsed, and boards have become stable and insular. Does a lack of diversity hold the field back?

The prospect of new governments taking a harsher line in Brussels means there is pressure to secure an EU budget deal before the end of the year.

As AI is making graduate trainee jobs an endangered species, a youth employment strategy has to be built around rewarding firms for sustaining graduate hiring.

America's tax code makes human employment more expensive than the software that may replace it.

Europe’s weakness in breakthrough technologies remains a constraint. Escaping it will require a coalition of the willing ready to commit jointly and move first.

Europe’s traditional parties have been accused of “mainstreaming the far right”, but should we be equally concerned about the “far-righting” of the mainstream?

Futuro Nazionale goes further than simply opposing immigration, with a platform that effectively seeks to redefine what it means to be an Italian citizen.

As qualitative data is increasingly produced & analysed by AI, do secondary data analysis methods provide a way of maintaining ethical standards of data reuse?