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The Conversation Weekly is our network-wide podcast that brings in academics from across the globe to discuss new research and provide context for news headlines. I’m acting as co-host, covering for Gemma Ware while she’s on leave for part of this year. I’ve been with The Conversation as an editor in Toronto, Canada since 2018, and in taking on this new role, I’m excited about continuing to work with researchers — this time in audio.
This week, I spoke with economist Miguel Niño-Zarazúa at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, sociologist Erdem Yörük at Koç University in Istanbul, and political economist Christine Corlet Walker at the University of Surrey, England. They’re all studying various aspects of welfare systems in different parts of the world, and they described to me how different factors — including political unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic, a global recession and political conflict — were affecting the provision of welfare services in both the developed and developing world.
I’m looking forward to working on future episodes of The Conversation Weekly and learning more about academic research around the world. I hope you enjoy the shows.
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Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation; Daniel Merino, The Conversation
Amid further strain on public funding, we ask: What’s the future of the welfare state in developed and developing nations?
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Suze Wilson, Massey University
Despite women now having equal representation within New Zealand’s parliament, the misogynistic abuse directed at Jacinda Ardern shows equal treatment of women in leadership is still a long way off.
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The northern hemisphere has seen a surge in winter viruses.
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Sheena Cruickshank, University of Manchester
A couple of theories are popular for explaining why we’re currently seeing very high levels of respiratory viruses, but they’re not based in science.
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Tigers in South Africa are being intensively farmed for commercial trade.
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Neil D’Cruze, University of Oxford; Angie Elwin, University of Reading
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
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João Florêncio, University of Exeter
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
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Daniel Hending, University of Oxford; Marc Holderied, University of Bristol
Climate change is a huge threat to Madagascar’s four forest types – urgent action is needed to ensure they don’t disappear completely.
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Eduardo Gamarra, Florida International University
Thousands of demonstrators have descended on Lima amid violent clashes with police. The protest movement could be taking cues from earlier mobilizations in neighboring Bolivia.
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Felipe Tirado, King's College London
Brazil’s president has some significant struggles ahead to bring the country together.
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Robert Taylor, University of Aberdeen
The UK government has vetoed Scotland’s gender recognition reform (Scotland) bill, which aims to make it easier for people to change their legal gender.
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Lisa Olive, Deakin University
You don’t have to have a mental illness to get the benefits. Here’s how you can use what we’re learning from our research to boost your own mental health.
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Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
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