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What’s at stake: at odds with the conventional wisdom of constant factor shares, the portion of national income accruing to labour has been trending downward in the last…
Europe has its confidence back. After a series of setbacks, Europe’s centre has held in the face of an electoral assault from both political flanks.
But renewed…
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?
All too often, critics speak of neoliberalism as a coercive, external force lying somewhere ‘out there’ in…
In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF), the new element of research impact was understood in very linear and direct terms. Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Laura McLeod, Stephanie…
Artificial intelligence is much talked about, but what exactly is it? Georgios Petropoulos explores the origins, methods and potential of machine learning.
Artificial intelligence…
Kristian Krieger, Manuela Kropp and Roland Kulke explore the opportunities provided by the model provided by energy cooperatives in Europe.
Across the European Union, populist…
Despite the mounting obstacles, Alice Roberts and Saul Becker explore how universities can play their traditional roles as knowledge brokers in the post-truth era.
James Baldwin,…
Gopa Kumar Thampi on the emerging lessons from the development sector's turn towards social accountability.
There is a clearly a surge in social accountability initiatives…
The Sustainable Development Goals could give activists the rhetoric they need to hold the Trump administration accountable. A contribution to openGlobalRights’ debate on…
At an unusually divisive time for politics in the West, there’s one thing most people can agree on: the economy is not working well enough, for enough people.
Right now,…
At the core of the Creative Commons are the CC licenses. The Creative Commons approach addresses important issues for copyright and intellectual property, but the CC is more than…
Many of the different ‘open’ agendas have a great deal in common and can benefit from a more open conversation rather than working in silos.
From the summit so far, it…
On the first morning of the summit, local Canadian government official Deb Matthews explored issues around access to education.
Several hundred delegates descended upon the Delta…
Balancing the mission to provide access to knowledge and to share and collaborate in the creation of knowledge is sometimes hard to reconcile with the fundamental need to ‘…
Early Years Literacy Educators in the African Context take the platform to talk about how open publishing and multi-lingualism opens out opportunities for young readers.…