I’ve met many homeless British people who have been exploited. It seems to be addiction, more than homelessness, that puts them in harm’s way.
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Porton Down’s archive was opened up
for a study into the health of the human volunteers in the nerve agent testing programme.
Navalny battled for an alternative to Putin’s regime – and paid the ultimate price. The Kremlin has made sure there cannot be another opposition figure like him.
A big bet on open-source technology has enabled China to rapidly scale its AI innovation while Silicon Valley remains limited by corporate structures.
Unlike opium, nitazenes and other synthetic opioids can be produced anywhere in the world using precursor chemicals that are often uncontrolled.
As an expert in both criminal and medical law, I am concerned with how prosecution teams gather expert evidence in these cases.
As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?
As Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing itself as it enters the beginning of the second Trump Revolution.
Political theorist Elke Schwarz talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on her new research about venture capital investment into defence start-ups.
Enormous sums of venture capital money and influence is pouring into a defence industry which is being reshaped in the image of Silicon Valley.
Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.
Our expert authors explain the value in bringing the story of their research to a much wider audience.
The Health and Safety at Work Act passed into UK law 50 years ago. Harold Walker was its driving force, inspired by his own experiences of workplace injury.
Greening sounds good compared to deforestation, but in the Arctic, the expansion of plant life amplifies dangerous feedback loops and could harm the carbon-storing permafrost.
In our interviews with older people over the past 15 years, some have described the phenomenon of ‘tiredness of life’ in a matter-of-fact way – as though they are talking about the weather.
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ancient hominin Lucy, a leading Ethiopian scientist on why we need to ‘decolonise’ paleo research – and what it’s like to find the oldest human ancestor.
I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely friendships.
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol