Perspective archive

Read our previous Perspectives:

• Are there ghosts in the City of Birmingham?
  Professor I.M.G Host (28 October 2020)
• Shock, Risk and Resilience: The Birmingham Economic Review (BER2020) Provides a Snapshot of a City-Region Disrupted
  Professor Simon Collinson (20 October 2020)
• Football is still everything without its fans?
  Katie Sparks (13 October 2020)
• Brexit Sabre-rattling?
  Professor Anthony Arnull (07 October 2020)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a careful, precise, and unwavering lawyer
  Professor Fiona de Londras (22 September 2020)
• Lebanon Was in Deep Trouble. Now It's in Cataclysmic Trouble.
  Professor Scott Lucas and Arnov Paul-Choudhury (18 September 2020)
• Character Matters
  Professor James Arthur (15 September 2020)
• COVID and Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Social Media
  Dr Anna Lavis (10 September 2020)
• Improving health and creating wealth: the two keys to reducing knife crime and violence
  Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (09 September 2020)
• How can we reduce pathogen transmission rates from contaminated surfaces?
  Dr Felicity de Cogan and Dr Anna Peacock (20 August 2020)
• Is fat shaming a thing of the past?
  Dr Andrew Bayliss (26 August 2020)
• How can we reduce pathogen transmission rates from contaminated surfaces?
  Dr Felicity de Cogan and Dr Anna Peacock (20 August 2020)
• Young people and easing the restrictions: give them one finger and they take the whole hand?
  Dr Renate Reniers (17 August 2020)
• Are we having a Plastic Moment?
  Professor Peter Kraftl (11 August 2020)
• What makes St Teresa of Calcutta an un-convent-ional subject?
  Dr Gëzim Alpion (29 July 2020)
• 75 Years Later, It is Time for the UK to Properly Celebrate the End of World War II
  Professor Scott Lucas and Arnov Paul-Choudhury (28 July 2020)
• The Road to Low Carbon Heat
  Professor Martin Freer (23 July 2020)
• Freedom and Fear: Lessons from the New Findings about PREVENT
  Professor Lisa Downing (16 July 2020)
• Gulp!: making choices, stories and theatre about water
  Dr Adam Ledger (16 July 2020)
• A Brave New World: Building Back Better from COVID-19
  Maclina Birungi and Dr William Robert Avis (15 July 2020)
• Goodbye John Lewis – Birmingham - from central business districts to edge city business districts
  Professor John Bryson (10 July 2020)
• Lessons from COVID-19 on the economics of obesity: an urgent call for action
  Professor Emma Frew (08 July 2020)
• Census data without the need for a separate Sikh ethnic tick box
  Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal (02 July 2020)
• COVID illuminates global inequalities in workers’ rights and working conditions
  Professor Tony Dobbins (24 June 2020)
• Dentists as superheroes in the fight against the virus
  Professor Damien Walmsley (24 June 2020)
• The concept of Loneliness
  Valeria Motta (18 June 2020)
• What “The Last Dance” Teaches Us About Leadership in the World of Elite Sport
  Saul Schrom (16 June 2020)
• The life and legacy of Joseph Chamberlain
  Dr Matt Cole, (11 June 2020)
• How would Charles Dickens have felt about the Lockdown?
  Dr Caroline Radcliffe, (05 June 2020)
• A Movement Rises from a Murder: The George Floyd Protests
  Professor Scott Lucas (04 June 2020)
• Trust, social media and health: Young people's uses of social media during COVID-19 and beyond
  Dr Victoria Goodyear (27 May 2020)
• Covid-19 – from the on-campus to the online University
  Professor John Bryson (21 May 2020)
• Delusional themes and the Covid-19 pandemic: Finding meaning in uncertainty
  Dr Clara Humpston (20 May 2020)
• Untamed and Close to Power: How Europe’s Populist Parties Are Navigating Coronavirus
  Dr Daniele Albertazzi (15 May 2020)
• Challenge of returning to football
  Professor Barry Drust (14 May 2020)
• COVID-19 and clinical negligence litigation, law reform
  John Tingle (4 May 2020)
• COVID-19 and the need for whole health systems
  Professor Justine Davies (1 May 2020)
• Why do young people take more risks against social distancing?
  Dr Renate Reinier (30 April 2020)
• A new hospital in nine days? Why can’t all projects be like this?
  Dr Mark Hall (23 April 2020)
• American Exceptionalism in the Era of Coronavirus
  Dr Jeanne Morefield (22 April 2020)
• Use nature to support your well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
  Eszter Tóth (09 April 2020)
• The Coronavirus (SARS CoV2) pandemic-wildlife link. Putting it in context
  Dr Steve Unwin (08 April 2020)
• School Leadership and Covid-19: a chance to create a better education system in England for the long-term
  Professor Colin Diamond CBE (07 April 2020)
• Auto industry hit from Coronavirus could be even bigger than latest forecast
  Professor David Bailey (31 March 2020)
• Prepare now to sustainably deliver the COVID-19 vaccine
  Professor Pawanexh Kohli (27 March 2020)
• Social Media and Physical Activity Education for Young People during the Covid-19 Pandemic
  Dr Victoria Goodyear (26 March 2020)
• Dealing with Coronavirus: how can we learn from Africa's experience?
  Professor Richard Black (25 March 2020)
• Responsible Business and Responsible Citizenship: Mutual Aid, Self-Isolation and the Covid-19 Pandemic
  Professor John Bryson (17 March 2020)
• The COVID-19 Effect: why coronavirus is eclipsing Thunberg on climate change
  Professor John Bryson (09 March 2020)
• Is Birmingham a Just City
  Liam O'Farrell (04 March 2020)
• Understanding the complexity of suicide and suicidal behaviour
  Dr Maria Michail (18 February 2020)
• The Care We Want?
  Dr Denise Tanner, Nick Le Mesurier (10 February 2020)
• Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens beat director, Robert Eggers, to 'The Lighthouse'
  Dr Caroline Radcliffe (7 February 2020)
• Lone-Actor Terrorism: Can Anything Be Done?
  Dr Steve Hewitt (4 February 2020)
• Can The Daily Mile™ help prevent childhood obesity?
  Professor Emma Frew (28 January 2020)
• Would there be any benefit if Conservative Central Headquarters Moved to Birmingham?
  Ben Brittain (21 January 2020)
• Labour's dilemma began long before Corbyn
  Dr Matt Cole (15 January 2020)