Perceived needs and priorities of older persons in humanitarian crises: a scoping review of literature. This scoping review maps the wide range of care needs that older adults themselves report during wars, disasters and pandemics—including chronic disease management, access to information, social support and transportation barriers—revealing why their voices must be heard to improve humanitarian response.
By: Canevelli, Marco, Sumi, Yuka, Banerjee, Anshu, Chetia, Swagata, Gjonca, Arjan, Jang, Hyobum, Khalid, Leila, Maclang, Janus, Salas, Ignacio, Sadana, Ritu, Vanacore, Nicola and Cesari, Matteo (2025) Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 37 (1). ISSN 1594-0667

Precarity and pills in a pandemic: online abortion care-seeking in Poland during COVID-19 Drawing on thousands of online consultations, this study shows how COVID-19 lockdowns, economic insecurity and restrictive laws shaped abortion care-seeking in Poland by intensifying precarity, disrupting support networks and pushing people to navigate telehealth under pressure.
By: Nandagiri, Rishita, Coast, Ernestina, Strong, Joe, Footman, Katy, Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía, Wenham, Clare and Jelinska, Kinga (2025) . SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 8. ISSN 2667-3215

The financial activist: shareholding and the inconvenience of collective ownership. In an era of deep financialisation, this article explores how activists are leveraging widespread corporate shareholding to push for social change, turning everyday investors into a novel force in corporate governance.
By: Kar, Sohini (2025) Cultural Anthropology, 40 (4). 672 – 696. ISSN 1548-1360

A global landscape of patenting activity in COVID-19 vaccines. Taking a global patent lens, this analysis reveals how innovative COVID-19 vaccine technologies were patented across hundreds of jurisdictions, highlighting patterns of collaboration and the dominant regional contributions beyond the usual leaders in vaccine R&D. By: Mercadante Santino De Oliveira, Eduardo, Minssen, Timo, Shadlen, Kenneth C., van Zimmeren, Esther, Zemła-Pacud, Żaneta and Matthews, Duncan (2025) Vaccine, 67. ISSN 0264-410X

Nations and Nationalism 2025 book debate: Aram Hur, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (2022). Cornell University Press. This critical debate highlights how Aram Hur’s influential work argues that the stories nations tell about themselves—especially in Asia—powerfully shape citizens’ sense of civic duty and, in turn, the resilience of democratic life.
By: Green, Elliott D. (2025) Nations and Nationalism. ISSN 1354-5078