• Post COVID-19 implications on genetic diversity and genomics research & innovation: A call for governance and research capacity. White paper. 

  Welch, E; Carroll, SR; Hudson, M; et al. (Food and Agriculture Organisation, 6 July 2021)

  At a time of significant technological change and digitization in the biological sciences, the COVID19 pandemic has highlighted again the inequities in the research and innovation ecosystem. Based on a consultation with ...

• Plastic possibilities: Contrasting the uses of plastic ‘waste’ in India 

  Dey, T; Michael, M (Wiley / Royal Anthropological Institute, 4 June 2021)

  This article draws on examples of inventive plastic reuse from India and personal anecdotes of elders as an anthropological reflection on possible plastic futures. It sketches the large-scale governmental reforms in the ...

• Misaligned education 

  Currie, A (Routledge, 8 July 2021)

  I expand and adapt Thi Nguyen’s account of games to the context of university humanities education. I analyse ‘misalignment’, wherein the stakes of success or failure in a game undermine players’ capacity to submerge ...

• Uniqueness in the Life Sciences: How Did the Elephant Get its Trunk? 

  Currie, A; Buskell, A (Springer, 2021)

  Researchers in the life sciences often make uniqueness attributions; about branching events generating new species, the developmental processes generating novel traits, and the distinctive cultural selection pressures ...

• The COVID-Digital-Home Assemblage: Transforming the Home into a Work Space during the Crisis 

  Watson, A; Lupton, D; Michael, M (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  Major changes to home life and work practices globally have been brought about by the COVID-19 crisis. Periods of strict restrictions placed on people’s movements outside their homes, aimed at curbing the spread of the ...

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