WIWES contributed by Ian Miles
Ancestors’ Second Life influences our First Lives
People are encouraged to record advice, conversations, and memories – and thought processes and structures of feeling - to be used in the event of brain damage or death. In the latter case, these can be used as resources for ...
Growing failures of social care in educating young people
New evidence mounts demonstrating the lack of educational engagement and achievement among young people from social care backgrounds. The perceived crisis of social care is intensified as “cycles of deprivation” accumulate ...
Cities are lunch for plastic bag-bugs
Synthetic organisms are developed for use in the industrial production of plastics, both to extend product life and to accelerate environmental bio-degradation. The latter varieties prove difficult to control and in some tests ...
Risk assessment “saves" millions of lives but…
Risk assessment research could save millions of lives but also lead to new social disasters. Such as "ghost towns" or abandonment of "unwanted people". Highly influential risk assessment could unexpectedly result in a widesprea...
Major states are using corporate organisations in numerous military, security, and auxiliary roles – just as some countries’ outsource even sensitive public sector activities (e.g. prisons) to private companies. Suspicions ...
Growing interest in wild cards and weak signals research
Growing interest in understanding low-perceived probability and high-impact events (wild cards) and bewildering (weak signals) events, and other topics that are hard to forecast. Growing recognition of importance of uncertain a...
Growing importance of the role of finance in sustainable gro ...
The financial sector is playing a growing role in sustainable growth.
Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU ...
Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU politics
Growing interest in legacy of slave trade
new targets for funding reimbursement - slave ports, companies, some communities in Africa itself. new claimants - eg people shipped around within British Empire.
Increasingly complex identities in East European border areas
Transborder communities demand new modes of political representation.
Growing use of international law to regulate conflicts
Crisis as major intervention in a Third World conflict is ruled illegal by European courts, and several countries immediately stand down their troops.
Growing use of domestic criminal law in international human ...
Widespread refusal of foreign leaders to travel to or within the EU, due to threats of prosecution for war crimes, etc.
Growing interests in gender politics and anti-discrimination ...
Growing problems involving intersection of gender politics and anti-discrimination rules concerning ethnic minorities. (1) Separate regimes of law for different ethnic groups, hugely extending current frameworks permitting som...
