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For more or less any topic we can think of, social media has great potential for both good and harm. One example is suicidal distress. It is increasingly common for people to express despairing and suicidal…
Laura Poitras’s much-anticipated Citizenfour is now on general release. A documentary about the whistleblower Edward Snowden, the film provides an admirable summary of the issues raised by the beginnings…
Ben Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post, who has died at the age of 93 was a crusading and courageous editor. He played a central role in exposing duplicity and deception at the highest levels…
It is a cold but sunny morning at a white brick office building in the shadow of London’s Shard skyscraper. For the people attending a training event here it is the first step on the road to financial…
Warren Buffett has started rolling out his widely successful investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, into a consumer brand. Starting earlier this year, the famed investor began rebranding the energy companies…
There can be no doubt that Ed Miliband’s leadership is in trouble. After a squeaker of a by-election in Heywood and Middleton, which in turn followed a near-disastrous turn at the party’s Manchester conference…
The long and slow-stunted recovery of the eurozone economies is a major source of concern for the IMF and international bankers. Six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers signalled the onset of the…
A deal was struck with 20th Century Fox to run a native advertising campaign on MailOnline and Metro.co.uk to promote the release of Ben Affleck’s latest film, “Gone Girl”. The movie was advertised in…
Jean Tirole has won a deserved Nobel prize. The French economist from Toulouse 1 Capitole University has made some significant contributions to almost all fields in economics, but it is his work in the…
Car sales have raced to a ten-year high according to new figures that are being celebrated as part of wider signs of a UK recovery. In the latest monthly figures published by the Society for Motor Manufacturers…
October 9 2014 was a big day in eco-activism: Lego announced that it would not renew a product-placement deal with Shell, following concerted pressure from Greenpeace as part of a campaign to ban Arctic…
So the cryptic teasers posted on Twitter by Mark Frost and David Lynch have substance: Twin Peaks will be returning to television screens 25 years after its cancellation. The new series will be a nine-episode…
A few hours before the UK’s first air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq, the home secretary, Theresa May, warned the Tory party conference that IS could become the "world’s first truly terrorist…
Who should political leaders follow when it comes to climate change: environmental scientists, powerful corporations, or a million marchers? Sometimes the three groups disagree, sometimes they concur…
The horrific murder of British aid worker David Haines – and let’s call it murder rather than “execution” with its connotations of justice – is the latest instalment in what threatens to become a regular…
When Mathew Martoma, the former portfolio manager of SAC Capital, was sentenced to nine years in prison for insider trading last week, much of the comment was about how harsh the punishment looked. It…
How the internet is governed is no longer a matter seen fit to be left to mere technical committees. With the extent of online surveillance, so dramatically revealed by the Snowden files, increased content…
On September 6, the evening before the Sunday Times published the YouGov opinion poll on Scottish independence in which the Yes campaign was reported to be on 51% against the “No” camp on 49%, Rupert Murdoch…
Light is among the fastest growing human-made pollutants of the natural environment. Numbers of outdoor lights are growing rapidly across the world, far outpacing general population growth. We know light…
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WISERD Civil Society Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiff University
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Professor in Climate Change Impacts, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies , Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Climate Risk, Cardiff University
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Cardiff University
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Reader in Political Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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Reader in Marketing, Cardiff University
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PhD Candidate, Cardiff University
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Chair Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Marketing, Cardiff University
