
Media giants need advertising scale in a world drowning in content
Mar 09, 2016 22:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
The divide between editorial and commercial, church and state in publishing traditions, is now a millstone for the industry. That old-school separation used to mitigate in favour of strong, independent journalism. But...

Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change
Mar 09, 2016 22:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human activities such as burning...
Outsourcing a humanitarian crisis to Turkey – is that the European thing to do?
Mar 09, 2016 14:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
European countries plan to send thousands of refugees back to Turkey in a deal aimed at preventing people from trying to reach the EU by sea. In what is being described as a one in, one out deal, anyone washing up on...
More female traders can minimise market crashes – here's how
Mar 09, 2016 14:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
While the scenes depicted in the film The Wolf of Wall Street might be extreme, they do reflect a truth: that the world of finance is overwhelmingly male. It is this male-dominant culture, fuelled by testosterone, that has...
Calais bulldozers endanger effective refugee infrastructure
Mar 09, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The current plight of refugees in Europe is harrowing enough. Yet the French authorities are making the situation worse. They are dismantling the southern section of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, laying the ground for...
Pushing back against the politicisation of economic modelling
Mar 09, 2016 04:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Controversy surrounding the use of economic modelling on the impact of negative gearing suggests the politicisation of economic modelling is becoming an issue that must be tackled by the economics profession. Debate was...
Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers
Mar 09, 2016 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views
Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned, the overwhelming majority are not shaping todays public...