Changing the narrative: teaching teenagers to recognise domestic abuse
Domestic abuse is often pictured as physical violence between adults. These harmful narratives, and the perception of domestic abuse they communicate, serve as a significant...
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How councils are asking residents to invest in their own climate future
When UK councils began declaring climate emergencies, they ran straight into a familiar problem: no money to act on them. A decade of austerity had...
Why cheaper loans alone won’t fix Britain’s leaky homes
Government retrofit policy has long rested on a simple assumption: if you could find the right product at the right price – a green mortgage,...
Stretching the rules: the material that grows under pressure
Most materials do the obvious thing when you stretch them: they get thinner. Pull a rubber band, and it narrows. But in 2018, researchers at...
A reference system for how filling food really is
Walk down a supermarket aisle and the packaging will tell you a food’s calories, fat, sugar and salt. What it won’t tell you is how...
Measuring why we want, like and crave food
Wanting a food and liking it aren’t the same thing, and telling them apart matters enormously to researchers studying appetite, obesity and the drugs used...
Making suffering visible: a digital lifeline for palliative care in Uganda
Millions of people live and die with serious illness – advanced cancer, organ failure, HIV – without access to pain relief or palliative care, and...
Rethinking treatment for chronic jaw pain
Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) affects the jaw joints and the muscles around them, making everyday activities like eating and speaking painful for those who live with...
How can we unlock arts and culture for all?
From the programmes we watch to the books we read, arts and culture shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. But who...
Reviving collagen’s natural power to heal
Collagen is the body’s own scaffolding ‒ the protein behind wound healing, bone regeneration and tissue repair. But take it out of the body to...