Global Social Challenges

2020 Blog Prizes

by Dan Welch | May 7, 2021 | Uncategorised

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest This year students on the first year Global Social Challenges course have produced a host of great blogs drawing on course themes and current events. The blogs demonstrate...

Exploiting the Exploited: How corporations turned the Black Lives Matter movement from a social movement into a lucrative scheme

by Martin Greenwood | May 5, 2021 | Protest and repression, Racism/Xenphobia

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest Image: https://unsplash.com/@kaleamorgan   By Molly Claire On the 25th of May 2020, the world saw the racially aggravated murder of African American man George Floyd, a...

The Situation of Children who Live in Poverty

by Martin Greenwood | May 5, 2021 | Global inequalities

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest Image:    By Jin Wang       At the former United Nations summit in 2000, the States had voted to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, the first goal of...

Social Pride and Social Responsibility: Do we pick and choose?

by Martin Greenwood | May 5, 2021 | Protest and repression, Uncategorised

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest Image: https://unsplash.com/@theeastlondonphotographer   By Shannon Weeds It takes all of seven seconds to make a preconception of someone – where we begin to decide...

Do Inequalities Increase under the Impact of the Epidemic?

by Martin Greenwood | May 5, 2021 | Global inequalities

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest image: https://unsplash.com/@imattsmart   By Yunbing Yang Inequality usually occurs when there are big differences in income, wealth, and opportunities between different...