A sociologist took a critical look at the cherished career advice to ‘follow your passion.’ What she found is that this advice often brings unintended consequences.
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It’s been argued that pandemics are the great leveller, but with COVID the opposite is true – and we can’t afford to ignore it.
A law from 1969 is still having an impact on nursing pay in Denmark today.
Pupils who are victimised at school tend to perform poorly academically, are regularly absent from school, suffer psychological trauma and may eventually drop out of school.
COVID has challenged businesses but it’s also an opportunity to address inequalities that business leaders say is important to them.
The U.S. illustrates this week that changing a nation’s leader without rethinking the system he or she is upholding is no longer acceptable for citizens. We need an improved form of democracy.
The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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Associate Professor in Global Governance and Deputy Director of UCL Global Governance Institute, UCL
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Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change and Future of Development, University of Oxford
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Professor in the Dept of Anthropology, Co-Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Deputy Director of Public Policy, UCL
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Head of Programmes, Grand Challenge of Justice and Equality, UCL
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Professeur/Professor (Université du Québec en Outaouais) & Titulaire/Chair, Chaire UNESCO en démocratie, citoyenneté mondiale et éducation transformatoire/ UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education., Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Professeure/Professor (Université du Québec à Montréal) & Cotitulaire/Co-Chair, Chaire UNESCO en démocratie, citoyenneté mondiale et éducation transformatoire/UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education., Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of the Free State
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Postdoctoral Researcher in History, Aarhus University
