Food for Thought

Making philosophy accessible to a wider audience has been a mission for Associate Professor Dr Joe Lau. He created the Critical Thinking Web a few years ago that has been accessed by thousands of schools around the world to help teach students this skill. More...

Unmasking the Machine

When a South Korean call centre decided to bring robots into the workplace, they asked Dr Sara Kim to study their employees’ response. The firm had told workers they would not be replaced, but it wanted to better understand their insecurities and perceptions of these...

Leprosy Paradox

Dr Laura Meek, Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, is studying what she terms the ‘grammar of leprosy’ – the ways in which leprosy has been framed as a disease of the past for nearly a century. This framing, she argues, leads to leprosy...

Children of the Quake

After Tōhoku was rocked by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011, many commentators were struck by the absence of violence, looting and chaos, which they attributed to the innate calmness of the Japanese character. To Dr Janet Borland, Assistant...

Humans in the Wild

Unusually for an ecologist, Dr Hannah Mumby’s first interest was anthropology. She switched track to study the ecology of big mammals beyond primates – especially elephants – to see if it could lead to new questions about our own species. But the more she studied the...