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Independent fact-checkers play a vital role in the digital media landscape, but there is no singular approach to countering misinformation.
Intrigued about the MA Anthropology of Food programme? We’ve put together a menu of books to introduce you to the subject.
It is now uncontroversial that central banks should take climate change into account. But a big question remains: how should they do so?
The Government’s recent report on Race and Ethnic Disparities is a sorely missed chance at tackling institutional racism once and for all.
What tools can we use to teach languages online effectively? Quizzes, forums, polls and Moodle can transform the learning experience.
Resource-poor countries are facing an “extinction-level threat” for journalism. Could public subsidy be a solution to supporting global media?
In 2020, at least 274 journalists were imprisoned for reporting the truth, highlighting the urgent need for worldwide press freedom.
African scientists have called for a decolonisation of global health, following a $30 million dollar award to US NGO for African malaria project.
Western mathematics is not the same wherever you go. Mariana Ferreira understands the use of mathematics in some communities to be based on social relations, interactions and understandings of reciprocity.
