Global & Transnational
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It’s Time to be Creative: Student Mental Health Needs the Arts
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To students and families who transitioned back to in-person schooling after the COVID-19 lockdown, it’s clear that the pandemic significantly impacted student mental health. For some, this may have been worsened by a range of other factors, such as eco-anxiety(concern about the effects of climate change), bullying, and financial anxiety.…
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Bridging social science, policy and community: engaged research
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If you ask a social researcher—psychologist, sociologist, cultural anthropologist—why they chose their profession, you might hear something like, “to help people,” but western social research is sometimes criticized for failing to help those who may need it most: groups on the underside of the power differential. When applied social research…
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Reza Aslan on the History of God, Religious Interpretation, and ISIS
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Religion has served as a vital influence in society for thousands of years, and its interpretation has been cited as the cause for numerous acts of charity and violence alike. While affiliated militants of the Islamic State recently attacked a crowd of worshipers in Egypt in the name of Islam,…