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We all share a responsibility to tackle climate change

The Royal Family and carbon management: two seemingly unrelated topics of conversation. But over the past few weeks, the unlikely duo has been colliding in the popular press, causing headlines…

Harvard University’s Affirmative Action Lawsuit in Trump’s America

Affirmative Action was intended to create diversity on college campuses, favouring previously marginalised groups, but it appears that Harvard University’s admissions are a long way from delivering even the first…

Unconscious Bias and Its Ramifications: Racism in the ‘NotMyAriel’ Campaign.

Following the casting of Halle Bailey in the Disney remake of The Little Mermaid, there was an intense online backlash about the Grown-ish actress’ race. In July 2019 the news…

Losing my humanity: the perils of academic perfectionism

Why is it, that whatever we do, whether it be academic or actual, is never enough? Professor Thomas Curran and Andrew P. Hill (2018) call perfectionism the leading “epidemic among…