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A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
Whether you like the taste of rocket or not, these leafy greens actually have many health benefits, including anti-cancer properties.
London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
To ‘preppers’ getting ready for a global cataclysm, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mere ‘mid-level’ event.
Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
The coronavirus pandemic is placing immense mental and physical pressures on NHS staff.
We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it.
There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.
We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Professor in Computing and Information Systems, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading
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Reader in History and Deputy Dean of Humanities (Research), University of Essex
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Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford
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Professor in Health History, University of Strathclyde