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Study finds older Black and Hispanic people are more likely to die prematurely due to exposure to air pollution, with race disparities in health costing $100 billion in the US.

Researchers find that women pursuing more managerial positions on company boards will lead to lower risk-taking and better outcomes for businesses, when discussing merit and goodwill.

Chris Clarke, Policy Researcher at HOPE not hate, explains how COVID impacts community resilience - especially when it comes to far right politics.

Silvia Lehnis, Head of Data, Analytics and AI at UBDS, explores some of the human-centric tactics used to deliver digital transformation in the Public Sector.

Research Director, Chemicals and Advanced Materials at TechVision, Frost & Sullivan, explores if technological advances optimise diabetes management

Dr Glass, Director of the Fogarty International Center, and Director at the NIH, explores the relationship between NIH and the health research community

Neil Ballinger at EU Automation, explains why some countries are more successful at implementing automation and what UK manufacturers can learn from them

Jan Kubik and Alicja Haran discuss the POPREBEL and FATIGUE projects, which engage with the rise of populism & illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe.

Irene Kriesi and Miriam Grønning explain how initial vocational education and training in Switzerland facilitates fast and smooth labour market entry, but also offers heterogenous career prospects.

Between 64 and 100 million households in India, Brazil, Mexico, and Indonesia will struggle to acquire aircon units by the year 2040.

Sarah Moran has spent the past decade managing USA Rice’s international marketing programmes. Prior to working with the rice industry, Sarah worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service and also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Timor-Leste. Sarah’s first foray into the world of agriculture was managing...

Akash Gupta, Co-founder and CTO, GreyOrange, explores how AI can help solve the UK's supply chain crisis as a result of lorry driver shortages, caused by Brexit and the pandemic.

According to analysis by The Resolution Foundation, the Autumn Budget means austerity will be partially reversed by "a third" in 2025.

George Adams, Director of Energy and Engineering, SPIE UK, provides insight into how the UK might be able to decarbonise the economy in line with COP26 goals.

NHS analysis of the Autumn Budget finds that Health spending will return to 2010 levels, but is a "missed opportunity" to solve the staffing crisis - currently, the workforce is 90,000 people short.

Jeronim Capaldo and Richard Kozul-Wright, from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), examine economic inequality in the United States.

Kathy Peach, Director at Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design and Professor Thomas Chesney, The University of Nottingham, examines how the current fuel crisis – and any future ones - could be prevented with the use of collective intelligence.

Dr Eduardo Bianco, Chair of the Tobacco Expert Group at the World Heart Federation discusses the ongoing battle to end the tobacco epidemic, and how e-cigarettes may be part of the problem.

NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, promotes an understanding of the forces that shape human behaviour and social organisations.

Nina Amla with Joydip Kundu and Fernanda Pembleton from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), provide an in-depth look at computing, communication and information systems.