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Breaking the menopause taboo

Women live an average of 30 years after menopause. Normalising menopause as a life event requires greater research, investment and cultural acceptance.

Calling out modern slavery

A crisis affecting 50 million people around the world is coming into clearer view.

Governments want babies, but people want choices

More people are choosing not to have children, sparking big debates and changing how we view family and society.

Museums’ complicated relationship with colonialism

Museums that claim to be encyclopaedic have promoted travelling exhibitions, loans and digital repatriation as alternatives to returning cultural property.

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This museum is a blueprint for disability inclusion

Designing museums for people with disabilities is a critical step towards democratising the arts and challenging power relations within museums.

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Museums’ important role in telling missing stories

International Museum Day provides an opportunity to think about whose stories are told and whose are left out when we commemorate the past.

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Decolonising museums is not as easy as you’d think

Museums in former colonial powers face challenges in calls for decolonising their collections, but the issue acquires a different hue in India.

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Museums are more relevant than ever today

For museums to be truly inclusive, decolonised and spaces of education and research requires a rethinking of power relations and learning from past lessons.

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India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

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Success without substance

Science is obsessed with measurements of success. Very few of them mean much at all.

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How Africa is overcoming ‘knowledge colonialism’

Attempts to more fairly share scientific knowledge have had the opposite effect in Africa. But a new initiative is bringing true equity.

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Indonesian research access: quantity over quality?

Prestige drove Indonesian universities to open their research to the world. Now they need to tidy their files.

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The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees has begun.

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India’s fumbled chance for sharing knowledge

India was an early leader in sharing research and information for science. But it has fumbled since then.

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Calling out modern slavery

Governments want babies, but people want choices

Museums’ complicated relationship with colonialism

Museums’ important role in telling missing stories

Decolonising museums is not as easy as you’d think

India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

Success without substance

How Africa is overcoming ‘knowledge colonialism’

Indonesian research access: quantity over quality?

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

India’s fumbled chance for sharing knowledge

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