How artificial intelligence is helping to identify global inequalities
Francisco Ferreira’s first exposure to inequality of opportunity was during his daily ride to school in São Paulo, Brazil, and seeing children his age selling chewing gum on the streets. Ferreira, a f...
27 Mai 202427min
Infrastructure projects need to demonstrate a return on investment
Power networks are humankind’s biggest engineering achievement to date, says Sinan Küfeoğlu. But ageing infrastructure in advanced industrialised economies, coupled with the fact that around one billi...
20 Mai 202421min
Decent work for all: why multinationals need a helping hand
In Kenya, where Moses Ngoze teaches entrepreneurship and management at Masinde Muliro University in Kakamega, micro, small and medium enterprises provide 75% of jobs and more than 80% of the country’s...
13 Mai 202415min
How artificial intelligence is helping Ghana plan for a renewable energy future
Julien Harou’s career started in geology in his current role as a water management and infrastructure researcher now straddles economics and engineering, with a particular focus on using artificial in...
7 Mai 202423min
How a young physicist’s job move helped Argentina join the ATLAS collaboration
María Teresa Dova describes how an early career move to CERN as the first Latin American scientist to join Europe’s organisation for nuclear research ultimately benefited both her but also the researc...
15 Apr 202421min
How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science
A 2021 report by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed that only 18% of public universities in the region had female rectors. Vanessa Gott...
5 Apr 202415min
‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers
Fernanda Staniscuaski earned her PhD aged 27. Five years later she had a child. But in common with many scientist mothers, Staniscuaski, a biologist at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul...
29 Mar 202420min
‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America
Paleontologists Ana Valenzuela-Toro and Mariana Viglino outline some of the challenges shared by researchers across Latin America. These include funding, language barriers, journal publication fees an...
22 Mar 202421min
