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11-Dec-2024

Research captures plight of British children trapped in dire camps

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The research article draws from interviews with key NGOs working on statelessness and children’s rights to explore whether ISIS-associated children should be treated as victims or security threats. It also examines the impact that the UK government’s failure to repatriate British children has for children’s rights and what a children’s rights approach would mean for affected families and the international community.

Journal: Ethnic and Racial Studies

11-Dec-2024

Hiring people with disabilities positively influences hotel guest perceptions, finds study

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Employing people with disabilities (PWD) in hotels not only enhances social responsibility but also significantly boosts customer intentions to recommend and revisit hotels, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. This pivotal study challenges long-standing misconceptions about hiring PWD in the hospitality industry and demonstrates that inclusivity can also benefit business outcomes.

Journal: International Journal of Hospitality Management

11-Dec-2024

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes 2025

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant and Award Announcement

In its anniversary year, Germany’s most important research prize goes to four female researchers and six male researchers / €2.5 million in prize money each / Award ceremony: 19 March in Berlin

11-Dec-2024

More than half of researchers who communicate science in the media in Spain say they suffered attacks, according to a FECYT survey

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology
Reports and Proceedings

The report 'Experiences of researchers who interact with the media and social networks in Spain', carried out by FECYT’s Science Media Centre Spain (SMC) in collaboration with the research group Gureiker, from the University of the Basque Country, analyses data from a survey, the first of its kind in Spain, on the relationship with the media and social networks of the expert sources contacted by the SMC Spain from March 2022 to July 2024. The results show that scientists have a positive or very positive perception of their participation in the media (83.12%). However, 51.05% of respondents admit to having suffered an attack after communicating science. Women receive significantly more attacks than men: 56.86% of female scientists report attacks compared to 46.21% of male scientists. The social network X (formerly Twitter) is the most common avenue for this type of attack.

11-Dec-2024

AI can help us choose words more carefully when talking about addiction

Drexel University
Reports and Proceedings

Drexel University are raising awareness of the stigmatizing language present in online forums and they have created an artificial intelligence tool to help educate users and offer alternative language.

Meeting: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

11-Dec-2024

JMIR Aging achieves top ranking, accepted into prestigious science citation indexes

JMIR Publications
Business Announcement

JMIR Publications is proud to announce that JMIR Aging has been accepted for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

11-Dec-2024

How job ads shape gender and racial segregation in the UK workforce – new study

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study, ‘Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labour force gender and racial segregation’, is published in PNAS Nexus – an official journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The findings provide a labour-market-wide audit of how gender/EDI language in job ads helps shape workforce gender/racial composition, as well as how labour force gender/racial composition influences gender/EDI language in job ads.

Journal: PNAS Nexus