Cambridge Core BlogRevised Draft: Did States Get a Passing Grade?
This post is part of the symposium that the BHRJ Blog is running on the revised binding treaty on business and human rights, which was released in July 2019.…
Archive for September 2019
Schistosomiasis then and now; what has changed in the last 100 years?
Centennial Reflections – a distinguished parasitologist reflects on a paper published in their field in Parasitology 100 years ago A paper entitled “Bilharziasis in Natal”, published in Parasitology in 1918 by Dr F.…
Helminths and microbes within the vertebrate gut – not all studies are created equal
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Helminths and microbes within the vertebrate gut – not all studies are created equal Gastrointestinal (GI) helminths, commonly known as parasitic worms, are a diverse group of organisms inhabiting the gut of vertebrates.…
What’s the beef with beef?
It’s fair to say that beef is getting a bad press at the moment. Hundreds of column inches have been dedicated to the argument that – whichever way you slice it – beef is bad for the planet.…
Where mite flies lay eggs? Environment mediated parasite avoidance during Drosophila ovipositing.
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Where mite flies lay eggs? Environment mediated parasite avoidance during Drosophila ovipositing.…
10 things we learned about the History of Reproduction
We brought together experts from several disciplines and challenged them to think about change and continuity in the history of procreation.
Law and style
In legal discourse, the term ‘style’ is used in a bewildering variety of senses and contexts, mundane and refined, practical and theoretical.…
China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850
When did Europe first forge ahead of China in terms of productivity and living standards? European economic historians have traditionally assumed that this divergence had already occurred by the sixteenth century or perhaps even earlier.…
More Policies. More Progress. More Problems.
From the operation of a functioning health care system and the protection of the environment to the provision of jobs, social benefits and decent housing – citizens demand a lot from their elected governments.…
Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi
Guanxi is one of the most popular topics in Chinese and Western scholarship concerning social ties in China. However, several problems in research on guanxi persist, and multiple debates are still ongoing without much consensus in sight.…
Desperate to publish and not succeeding? Keep trying…
After numerous efforts to get some of my research papers published, I was biased about peer review processes and concluded that only new research areas were published.…
Watch: Cleaning up Oil Spills using Maths
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, scientists at the University of Cambridge have been studying underwater plumes to try to understand how the Earth’s rotation affects the spread of oil.…