Arianne Lacanilao

Cities: how urban design can make people less likely to use public spaces

Urban beautification campaigns are usually sold to local residents as a way to improve their daily lives. Design elements – from lighting systems to signs, benches,...

Healthy eating: children think their peers eat more unhealthy snacks than they actually do – changing this perception can lead to better diets

Obesity is a growing problem among young people in the UK. In 2020-21, 40.9% of year six children (age 10-11) were measured as overweight or obese....

Politicians live longer than the populations they represent: new research

In many countries, inequalities in income and wealth have been rising since the 1980s. It has been estimated that the top 1% of income earners globally...

What you need to know about surveillance and reproductive rights in a post Roe v Wade world

After the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US, tracking reproductive information has never been riskier. In many US states, millions seeking and providing abortions...

Kenya’s fringe presidential candidates: what they offer in elections

The US Supreme Court: what is its role and its powers?

The US Supreme Court is in the news around the world. The reason: a series of decisions which are already having – and will continue to...

Delay and deflect: How women gig workers respond to sexual harassment

These days, we use apps to order food, call ride-sharing vehicles, assign home improvement tasks and personal errands. But these apps depend on people to deliver...

How Commonwealth universities profited from Indigenous dispossession through land grants

Animated by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter, universities today have entered a period of critical self-reflection on their histories. The renaming of campus buildings,...

Why Canada’s Supreme Court isn’t likely to go rogue like its U.S. counterpart

The appropriate role of courts has once again been called into question in the aftermath of the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to...

Fuel subsidy continues for Ilocos Norte jeepney, trike drivers

LAOAG CITY – Ilocos Norte’s provincial government announced Wednesday that all eligible drivers and operators of public utility transport in the province will continue to get financial...