Perspective archive

Read our previous Perspectives:

• Planning a post-covid wellbeing economy - what can we learn about policy innovation from 0peration Moonshot?
  Dr Sarah Bell and Dr Jessica Pykett (20 January 2021)
• The opportunities of electric vehicle battery recycling
  Dr Paul Anderson, Dr Gavin Harper (13 January 2021)
• Key trends for 2021 to look out for
  Professor John Bryson, Professor Janet lord, Professor William Bloss and Dr Suzanne Bartington, Dr Matt Cole and Dr Gavin Harper (08 January 2021)
• A seven-point plan to tackle the world’s biggest cooling challenge
  Professor Toby Peters and Professor Phil Greening (17 December 2020)
• Thirsty and Drunken Christmas trees
  PhD student Aleksandra Kulawska, Professor Rob MacKenzie, Dr Sami Ullah (16 December 2020)
• Viewing ‘the Vagrant’: the 1824 Vagrancy Act in action
  Professor Nick Crowson (02 December 2020)
• Trump’s Terrible fall from Triumph: A Story about a sore loser
  Katie Sparks (30 November 2020)
• Why Human Rights needs the Humanities
  Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge (25 November 2020)
• The web of influence: Restricting junk food marketing in a digital world is a healthy step in the right direction
  Citta Widagdo (23 November 2020)
• On UNESCO’s 75th Anniversary...why water science is vital for “The Future We Want”
  Professor David Hannah and Professor Harry Dixon (16 November 2020)
• Anti-lockdown politics: A successful revival for Farage’s right-wing populism?
  Marco Guglielmo (10 November 2020)
• Terror threats and the experiences of cities
  Dr Sara Fregonese and Dr Paul Simpson (03 November 2020)
• 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)