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Blog: Inflation might well keep rising in 2021 - but what happens after that?1 June 2021
Brigitte Granville, Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy at Queen Mary University of London has written an opinion piece for The Conversation on the recent concerns about serious inflation damaging the global economy.
Blog: To what extent are we ruled by unconscious forces?27 May 2021
Dr Magda Osman, Reader in Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary University of London, provides her perspective on this question in an article for the Conversation's new series, Life’s Big Questions, co-published with BBC Future.
Blog: WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update may be banned in the EU – but the app’s sights are fixed on India13 May 2021
Dr Philippa Williams, Reader in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London has co-written an opinion piece for The Conversation about the roll out of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook. The piece was co-written with Dr Lipika Kamra from O.P. Jindal Global University.
Blog: TRIPS waiver - US support is a major step but no guarantee of COVID-19 vaccine equity13 May 2021
Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary, was originally published in The Conversation and discusses the US agreement to support a waiver of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs).
Blog: Sadiq Khan re-elected: What London mayor’s priorities should be for second term12 May 2021
, a PhD Researcher from Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations, has written an opinion piece for The Conversation about Sadiq Khan's re-election and his plans for the next three years.
Blog: Dirty protests - why Irish republican prisoners smeared their cells with faeces to make a political statement during the Troubles6 May 2021
Professor Seán McConville from Queen Mary's School of Law has written an opinion piece for The Conversation on the history of the so-called dirty protests which took place in some prisons in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
Blog: Preprints: how draft academic papers have become essential in the fight against COVID29 April 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary's William Harvey Research Institute, was originally published in The Conversation and discusses the advantages that draft scientific papers ('preprints') have brought to COVID-19 research during the pandemic.
Blog: Is Keir Starmer any good? Don’t ask Londoners23 April 2021
Dr Patrick Diamond, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London has written for The Conversation about how Keir Starmer recently celebrated his first year as leader of the Labour party.
Blog: Sadiq Khan is on course for a big win – so what do Londoners want from their mayor in a second term?13 April 2021
Dr Patrick Diamond, Director of Queen Mary's Mile End Institute (MEI) has written an opinion piece for The Conversation on Sadiq Khan's chances in the upcoming Mayor of London elections. His analysis is based on recent polling commissioned by the MEI.
Blog: Virginia Woolf on the magic of going to the cinema26 March 2021
Dr Lucy Bolton, Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London has written for The Conversation about the work of Virginia Woolf and the impact that cinema had on her.
Blog: How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank22 March 2021
Rowena Hill, a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has written a piece for the Conversation about a newly-discovered hidden world of fungi inside the world's biggest seed bank.
Blog: St Patrick’s day - why so many US presidents like to say ‘I’m Irish’16 March 2021
Dr Richard Johnson, Lecturer in US Politics in Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations has written an opinion piece for The Conversation about Irish Americans and US foreign policy. He argues that US security interests will always come above personal identities.
Blog: Why promising results from a large clinical trial into vitamin D and COVID-19 may not be all that they seem8 March 2021
Sandra Eldridge is Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. In this blog post, Professor Eldridge discusses the recent excitement around some promising clinical trial results that suggest that vitamin D improved the recovery of hospitalised COVID-19 patients, and she explains why the trial may be flawed.
Blog: Fake letters to politicians - the timing may be bad but it’s OK to test whether MPs reply to constituents1 March 2021
Professor Philip Cowley from Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in which he argues that the work that MPs do in their constituencies is important and deserves proper study.
Blog: How reading aloud can be an act of seduction1 March 2021
Professor Kiera Vaclavik from Queen Mary's School of Languages, Linguistics and Film has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in which she argues that reading aloud can be a seductive act. Kiera Vaclavik is Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture in the Department of Comparative Culture and Literature.
Blog: Covid coup: how Myanmar’s military used the pandemic to justify and enable its power grab17 February 2021
Dr Ronan Lee, Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary's International State Crime Initiative has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in which he explains how the Myanmar military have been able to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Blog: Could a wristband or certificate allow you out of lockdown after a negative coronavirus test?6 January 2021
Dr Magda Osman, Reader in Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary University of London has written an opinion piece for The Conversation exploring whether freedom passes based on negative test results could offer a way to avoid placing restrictions on everyone.
Blog: Keir Starmer’s dilemma: should Labour vote in favour of a Brexit deal in parliament?10 December 2020
Dr Karl Pike from Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations has written an opinion piece for The Conversation where he explores the options facing the UK Labour Party when it comes to a future deal on Brexit.
Blog: Sir Roger Penrose: The groundbreaking discoveries more than worthy of a Nobel Prize16 November 2020
Last month Sir Roger Penrose was announced as the joint winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Sir Roger Penrose previously held a visiting Professorship at the Centre for Research in String Theory (CRST) at Queen Mary University of London. In this blog, Professor David Berman and Professor Malcolm Perry from CRST discuss some of Penrose’s revolutionary ideas and how they have and continue to shape the field of particle physics.
Blog: Poland’s abortion ruling amounts to a ban – but it will not end access3 November 2020
Dr Sydney Calkin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography, has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in response to a new law relating to access to abortion in Poland.
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Blog: US election: how voting works for Americans overseas30 October 2020
Blog: Honouring the slaves experimented on by the ‘father of gynaecology’21 October 2020
As part of our series of articles and profiles for Black History Month, Heidi Downes, Antenatal Screening Counsellor Midwife at Queen Mary, writes an opinion piece about the role of young, black, enslaved women in a series of experimental surgeries in the 19th century, and why she is calling for their contributions to be formally recognised. This was originally published on The Conversation.
Blog: Women in work: how East Germany’s socialist past has influenced West German mothers12 October 2020
Dr Anna Raute from Queen Mary's School of Economics and Finance has co-authored an opinion piece for The Conversation. Based on brand new research, it sheds light on the impact of the reunification of Germany.
Blog: Shipping asylum seekers offshore may boost Priti Patel’s hardline image, but Australian example shows it’s not a policy that works6 October 2020
Andonea Jon Dickson, a PhD candidate from Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations has written an opinion piece for The Conversation about the latest plans to offshore asylum seekers. She argues that tougher options for asylum seekers means that the UK government risks breaching multiple conventions on human rights.
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Blog: When women bear the brunt of lockdowns, is it feminist to support another?30 September 2020
The UK lockdown in March saw rises in domestic violence, increased childcare and domestic burdens on women, limits on paid employment and potentially career reversals. Professor Sophie Harman from Queen Mary's School of Politics and International Relations questions whether it is feminist to support another lockdown.
Blog: Why AstraZeneca and others racing to make a Covid-19 vaccine should be more open about the process16 September 2020
Professor Duncan Matthews has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in which he argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a game changer and biopharma companies need to face up to a new reality.
Blog: Mammoth task: the Russian family on a resurrection quest to tackle the climate crisis7 September 2020
Charlotte Wrigley, a PhD student in Queen Mary's School of Geography has written a feature for The Conversation about recreating the mammoth’s former ecosystem in order to tackle climate change.
Blog: The rise and fall of Black British writing14 August 2020
Dr Malachi McIntosh, Editor of Wasafiri Magazine has written an opinion piece for The Conversation. He discusses the boom in interest in the histories of colonialism, empire and the British civil rights movement in response to Black Lives Matter protests.
Blog: How Thomas Cromwell used cut and paste to insert himself into Henry VIII’s Great Bible13 August 2020
Dr Eyal Poleg from Queen Mary's School of History has written a piece for The Conversation, along with his colleague Dr Paola Ricciardi from the University of Cambridge. The long-form article, part of The Conversation Insights series, is based on their recent analysis of Henry VIII's Great Bible.
Blog: Coronavirus: how countries aim to get the vaccine first by cutting opaque supply deals28 July 2020
Professor Duncan Matthews has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in which he addresses some of the wider issues related to Covid-19 including vaccine nationalism and the lack of transparency in supply chain deals.