Study highlights complex barriers in Brazilian education: New research reveals how gender, race and economic status impact exam success, Dr Sunil Mitra Kumar, 10 December 2025.

COMMENT: Who owns your chicken? We’ve mapped the corporate power behind the world’s favourite meat. Dr Ambarish Karamchedu, King’s College London and Dr Benjamin Coles, University of Leicester, 15 December 2025.

Dying to Breathe: Caste, Law and the Urban Political Ecology of Manual Scavenging. Dr Ambarish Karamchedu. 16 December 2025

Where Water Should – And Should Not – Be: Climate change is not only about spectacular disasters. It is also about subtle shifts in the ordinary. Dr Jennifer Langill. 24 December 2025

Stepping Up or Stepping Down? Gendered Labour in Kenya: Why men are taking up ‘feminine’ work in pastoralist Kenya. Dr Kathy Dodworth. 30 December 2025

Community Pickets and the Future of Social Movement Unionism: What the Block the Boat campaign teaches us about building durable labour–community alliances. Dr Rafeef Ziadah. 5 January 2026

Building Africa: How Architecture Makes States: From parliaments and presidential palaces to courts and police stations, Africa’s public buildings reflect the complexities and ambiguities of its states. Professor Julia Gallagher. 26 January 2026.

The Trump Shockwave and the New Landscape of Global Development Policy. The development cooperation system is in open flux, as donor retrenchment, US policy shifts, and rising Southern alternatives drive a fundamental contest over its purpose and future shape. Prof Andy Sumner. 27 January 2026.

Researcher positionality and relational power: Playing with ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’ in critical reflexivity Langill, J.,  (E-pub ahead of print) In: Area.

Reverse Asymmetry: Agency in Advanced Economy Subsidiaries of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises Miedtank, T. & Knoerich, J.,(E-pub ahead of print) In: EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL.

The Power of a Poster: Analysis of Political Posters as Strategic Communication Tools in Latin America and Beyond De Carvalho, V. M.,  In: Confluenze Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani. 

What goes up, must come down. Speculation-encouraging institutions and house price cycles across countries Stockhammer, E., Tippet, B. & Kohler, K.,  (Accepted/In press) In: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW.

Two legal tenders, no currency. El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption between world money and international money Boos, T. & Grigera, J.,  In: Progress in Economic Geography. 

Poverty-reduction interventions combined with psychological interventions: A systematic literature review Tanski, M., Wei, D., Singh, S., Pabon, M. A., Bahure, V. K., Jordans, M. J. D., Lund, C., Roy, S., Singh, R., Thapa, A., Tol, W. A. & Evans-Lacko, S., In: Scientific Reports. 

Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences Moatsos, M. & de Zwart, P., In: Economics and human biology.