Mona Jebril The current health system in Gaza today is a fragmented front, an amalgam of political entities and wills in [...]
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FOCUS: What We Can Learn From the UK Election (and the History of Human Development)
Sam Wren-Lewis Since the election result all the way back in 2019, you’ve probably read a handful of “Why did that [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Why are so few men involved in educating Britain’s youngest children?
Joann Wilkinson and Jeremy Davies If you were looking to live in the most gender-equal country in the world, you wouldn’t [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Crisis in India and its Universities – an open call to the UK HE sector
The recent Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) legitimizes discrimination on the basis of religion. There have been large scale protests [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: Rational vs alternative reasoning – what ordinary people choose
Markus Holdo, PerOla Öberg and Simon Magnusson This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. [...]
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‘There is so much work to be done’: religion, radical solidarity and public life
Anupama Ranawana It is time, as Priyamvada Gopal says, to become “difficult dissidents” and “uncooperative naysayers”. It is time to take [...]
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The counter-extremism shift in ESOL policy and the double-securitisation of Muslims
Kamran Khan In 2019, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and the Conservative MP, Sajid Javid both endorsed separate approaches to [...]
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On data rentiership in ‘Big Tech’: Why Silicon Valley might not be the innovation model we’re looking for
Kean D Birch It’s interesting living in Toronto right now. It feels like we’re at the epicentre of global debate about [...]
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Bad capitalism drives out free markets
Vedat Akgiray Free societies need finance for economic welfare, and progress is almost impossible without a well-functioning financial system. After the [...]
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Degrees of Freedom – Prison education at The Open University
Rod Earle The 50th anniversary of the foundation of The Open University (OU) is a landmark worth remembering and celebrating, even [...]
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