Author: Dr Brad Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster According to the United Nations, the world’s population crossed the 8 billion people line on the 15th November, 2022; a lot has been written about this event, and…
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Ana Leite, Durham University; Damien Ridge, University of Westminster, and Nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton Imagine you’re young, healthy and active. Then, one day, the rug is pulled out from under you. You initially have symptoms akin to a cold,…
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Author: Dr Sumita Ketkar, Senior Lecturer, Westminster Business School The Gender Pay Gap reporting regulation that came into effect in 2017, mandates public and private sector organisations with 250 or more employees in the UK to publish their gender pay figures….
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Author: Dr Claire Robertson, Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences The Nuffield Trust recently explored reasons why, in the UK, we remain behind other countries when contrasting cancer outcomes and especially survival. Considering lower survival statistics, presumably we should be more motivated to avoid…
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The cost of living crisis in the UK may conjure up images of a very Oliver Twist-esque winter, with families struggling to keep the heat on during this upcoming winter (a series of events we may see turn into reality…
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Ross Bennett-Cook, University of Westminster Of the 5.5 million British people living outside of the UK, many have long considered themselves expatriates – people living outside their country of birth, often with plans to return home. For a long time,…
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Author: Eleftheria Sofroniou, School of Humanities, University of Westminster If you’ve ever lived in a foreign culture for an extended period, you’ll know how having a little taste of home, some cultural constant from your upbringing, can mean so much. My research…
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The end of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be in sight as per the World Health Organisation, but that does not necessarily equate to the end of the negative impact it has had on the mental health and wellbeing of students…
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Laura Boubert, University of Westminster What determines how generous a person you are? Could it be how much money you have? How kind you are? Or maybe it comes down to your values. These all seem reasonable assumptions, but a…
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Author: Professor Catherine Loveday, Social Sciences, University of Westminster For each of us, there was a different point at which we knew. For my mum, it was an hour before she was due to dish up Christmas dinner in 2010….
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