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Climate change: our planet and health are under serious threat

Climate change: our planet and health are under serious threat

by Talking Humanities | Dec 31, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources

To protect people from the impact of climate change and bring about transformation, we need educational institutions to train a new breed of policymakers, managers and scientists who can ‘steer this planet towards less emissions and less waste, while creating...
Drought in Damaraland brings opportunities and threats to desert-adapted lions

Drought in Damaraland brings opportunities and threats to desert-adapted lions

by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
Britain’s lost megafauna and the extinction factor

Britain’s lost megafauna and the extinction factor

by Talking Humanities | Aug 8, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

About 50,000 years ago, Britain had great forests and populations of megafauna that most people would find it hard to believe inhabited this country, says Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. They included the...
Towards a ‘Commonwealth 21st century development paradigm’ 

Towards a ‘Commonwealth 21st century development paradigm’ 

by Talking Humanities | Apr 15, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Image: © Commonwealth Secretariat In the seventh of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, Dr Nicholas Watts, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) , examines the...
Humanities learning helps keep society sane

Humanities learning helps keep society sane

by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished

Professor Sarah Churchwell, the School of Advanced Study’s chair of public understanding of the humanities and director of its Being Human festival, says the sciences and the humanities are ‘not opposed, but deeply complementary and interdependent sets of knowledge.’...

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