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What contributes most to being at high risk of diabetes – diet, genes or something else? Big research questions need robust research approaches, so let’s break it down.
Changing demographics in small-scale farming have had a severe impact and affect farmer motivation, especially among youth
It’s time to stop surveying women about their experiences as rape victims, time to research the men who perpetrate these crimes and work to inebriate and isolate women.
Women in developing countries are burdened by the lack of access to proper toilets in their homes, communities, schools and public spaces.
Developing breakthroughs takes time. So why rush explaining them?
The jihadi initiative remains a loose political force in Kenya. This is dangerous for a few reasons.
Herders and farmers are unhappy about the way a corrupt state exploits rural peasants.
There’s been significant advances in mental health genetics research, but Africa has largely been excluded.
The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Poor supervision, poor training, and unfair treatment of lower-ranked officers make misconduct more likely to happen among Ghana’s police force.
With technology women are able to become agents of their own change.
Throughout the entire period, central political power has been almost absolute.
Did the minister or any of his staff read our application or any of the other ten he chose to reject?
Projects submitted to the Australian Research Council are vetted heavily by panels of experts. Minister Birmingham’s decision undermines this process.
Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
It’s vital for academics in South Africa to start asking deep questions that examine what decolonialism could look like in their teaching.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
