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Helping organisations understand what comes next — and why it matters The world is an increasingly complex place, and it can be difficult to understand which trends are important and which will be a flash in the pan. I help you and your organisation understand the complex issues surrounding the future of work, AI, and...

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1. How Influencers Weaponize Toxicity Online
   Sep 28, 2026 · original
   In early 2025, a clutch of TikTok creators sent millions of viewers into a fury. Their videos alleged that Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel were quietly stitching their handbags in Chinese factories while slapping “Made in France” labels on the results. No evidence was offered. None was needed. The outrage — voluminous, venomous, and very good for engagement metrics — erupted anyway. Such episodes are easy to dismiss as the inevitable static of a noisy internet. A new study by Giandomenico Di Domenico of Cardiff University, Federico Mangiò of the University of Bergamo, and Denitsa Dineva, also of Cardiff, finds that influencer-driven misinformation does not simply produce more online toxicity than the same falsehoods spread by ordinary users — it produces a categorically different kind. Understanding the distinction matters, because brands, platforms, and regulators are still fighting t
2. Smartphones Create Distance In Our Relationships
   Sep 28, 2026 · original
   Smartphones promise connection. In practice, they can also create distance. Research by scholars at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University suggests that the way couples use their phones can subtly erode relationship satisfaction. The study examined romantic partners during the upheaval of COVID-19 pandemic , when lockdowns forced many couples to spend far more time together. The researchers focused on a behaviour known as “phubbing”—a portmanteau of “phone” and “snubbing”—which describes the act of ignoring someone in favour of a smartphone. Relationship costs Their findings suggest that such behavior carries relational costs. When one partner diverts attention to a phone during conversation or shared time, the other may feel overlooked or undervalued. That perception matters: participants who felt “phubbed” reported feeling less loved and cared for, and consequently less
3. Could Augmented Reality Help Disabled People Back Into Work?
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Work can be a route to independence, dignity and social inclusion. For many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), however, that route remains narrow. Employment is associated with better health, stronger social ties and a clearer sense of purpose, yet only around 15% of people with IDD hold jobs in competitive, integrated workplaces. This shortfall persists despite decades of policy effort. Programmes such as supported employment—which provides ongoing job coaching to help people with significant disabilities secure and retain work—and customised employment—which reshapes roles to match the needs of both workers and firms—have expanded opportunities. But they have not eliminated structural obstacles. High turnover among job coaches, uneven support, and the social complexities of workplaces—from informal norms to everyday interactions with colleagues—continue to u
4. How Childless Couples Are Portrayed
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   When JD Vance, the Republican senator who would become America’s vice-president, dismissed Kamala Harris and her allies as “childless cat ladies”, he was doing something politicians rarely admit to: deploying reproductive status as a weapon. That the insult landed so loudly — provoking weeks of backlash and a flood of counter-narratives from women without children across the political spectrum — said as much about the power of such framing as about Mr Vance’s gift for provocation. Now a group of researchers, writing in PLOS Global Public Health , have taken a systematic look at how journalists around the world do much the same thing, if rather less bluntly. Their study, drawing on 131 news articles from 101 media outlets across 86 countries between 2015 and 2025, is the first large-scale, multilingual analysis of how childlessness is covered globally. Its findings are by turns unsurprisi
5. Will GenAI Help Or Hinder Girls In STEM?
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Ask an AI image generator to depict a scientist at work and the odds are depressingly good that you will get a white man in a lab coat. This is not merely an aesthetic irritant. For girls in primary and secondary school, who are already navigating a thicket of social pressures pushing them away from physics and computing, such imagery can be quietly corrosive. That, at least, is the concern raised by a new qualitative study from researchers at La Trobe and Flinders universities in Australia. The finding is neither surprising nor conclusive — but it is sobering. The study, which interviewed seven Australian primary and secondary school teachers using a grounded theory methodology, set out to understand how educators make sense of generative AI (GenAI) tools in the context of gender-inclusive STEM education. The sample is small enough to fill a minibus, and the researchers are candid about
6. Poverty’s Unequal Burden
   Sep 24, 2026 · original
   America likes to think of poverty as a problem it is perpetually on the verge of solving. The official poverty rate has hovered stubbornly between 11% and 15% for six decades, barely budging despite vast transfers of treasure and political attention. In 2022, around 37.9m Americans still lived below the federal poverty threshold — a measure itself unchanged in any meaningful way since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House. What has received less scrutiny is how unequally that burden falls by gender. New research from Virginia Tech takes a granular look at the question, and the answers are both clarifying and uncomfortable for those who prefer simple narratives. The study draws on data from the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances, a nationally representative dataset maintained by the Federal Reserve. Using logistic regression and decomposition methods across 1,383 single-headed households —
7. How Dark Personality Levels Influence Our Career Choices
   Sep 24, 2026 · original
   There is an old joke that the best place to hide a psychopath is in a corner office. A new paper published in the Journal of Personnel Psychology lends the joke some empirical scaffolding, though its findings are considerably more nuanced than the punchline suggests — and in one important respect, the joke may have the geography wrong. The study, by Lea de Hesselle of Ulm University and colleagues, examines how what psychologists call the “D-factor” of personality relates to vocational interests across six samples totalling over 8,400 people drawn from Germany, the United States, and Denmark. The D-factor — D for “dark” — is not a measure of any single disagreeable trait but rather the shared core of all of them: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism. Its authors define it as “the tendency to maximise one’s individual utility — disregarding, accepting or malevolently prov
8. When Work Demands That We’re Not Ourselves
   Sep 24, 2026 · original
   “Authentic” was Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023—the first time in two decades of tracking that a single word had claimed the top spot. The timing was apt. From wellness retreats to LinkedIn manifestos, the quest to be one’s “true self” has become something of a secular religion. What happens, then, when the office demands the opposite? According to new research , the consequences are more corrosive than previously understood. Li Huang of INSEAD and Eric Lou of NEOMA Business School find that workers who feel inauthentic at work do not merely suffer quietly. They fight back—by turning cynical about the very organisations that employ them. The finding matters because inauthenticity at work is remarkably common. A survey of 5,350 workers across industries found that 37% reported regularly feeling unable to be themselves on the job. Compared with other domains of life, people spe
9. Smartphones Are Hugely Distracting Teenagers At School
   Sep 23, 2026 · original
   There is a ritual familiar to teachers across the world. A lesson begins. A hand drifts toward a pocket. A screen glows briefly beneath a desk. Within minutes, the room’s collective attention has fractured into dozens of private digital diversions. Until recently, this phenomenon was largely documented by exasperated anecdote. Now the data are catching up. A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers one of the most granular accounts yet of how adolescents actually use their smartphones during school hours—and what that use does to their minds. The findings are not reassuring. The researchers recruited 79 youths aged 11 to 18 from the south-eastern United States and tracked their iPhone screen-time data every hour for 14 consecutive days, yielding tens of thousands of data points. The picture that emerges is of a generation that has effectively imported its entire
10. What Impact Is AI Having On Workplace Safety
    Sep 23, 2026 · original
    When John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1955, warehouse workers had little reason to worry. Seventy years on, their counterparts at Amazon fulfilment centres are paced, monitored, and evaluated by algorithms that never tire, never negotiate, and never take a lunch break. That, in miniature, is the central anxiety animating a new paper from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: AI has arrived in the workplace not as a polite guest but as a structural force, and the rules governing its behaviour are still being written. The paper offers a careful taxonomy of what the authors call “emerging risks” — hazards that are new or evolving, born from the collision of human labour with algorithmic management. The list is longer than most boardrooms would care to acknowledge. It stretches from the obvious (a cobot that miscalculates a worker’s proximity and does not stop in tim

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