The Conversation

By Mike Esbester, University of Portsmouth On 1 June 1974, a fireball rose over the village of Flixborough, Lincolnshire. A chemical plant …

By Irma Mooi-Reci, The University of Melbourne and Trong-Anh Trinh, Monash University Across developed countries, including Australia, fewer babies are being born. …

By Mathew Johnson, University of Manchester and Damian Grimshaw, King’s College London After more than a decade of stop-start minimum wage policy …

By Sajia Ferdous, Queen’s University Belfast When do you think you’ll retire? Aged 65? Younger, if you’re lucky? Maybe older if you’re …

By Lianne Foti, University of Guelph and Kathleen Rodenburg, University of Guelph The Canadian women’s soccer team has become the centre of …

By Adrian Saville, University of Pretoria A study of 160 countries, spanning 60 years of economic history, establishes that there is no …

By Andrew Stevens, University of Regina and Catherine E. Connelly, McMaster University Businesses across Canada have been bemoaning the lack of qualified …

By Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University Nine out of 10 Canadians are interested in a four-day work week, according to a recent survey, …

By W. Dominika Wranik, Dalhousie University and Nachum Gabler, Dalhousie University The dispute last year between the federal Treasury Board and the …

By Tom Vickers, Nottingham Trent University Amazon workers in Coventry, England, have narrowly voted against a proposal that would have forced the …