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Eva Moreda Rodríguez
While the transnational and translational ramifications of art song have started to attract attention in recent years, there is little critical understanding of the unique modalities in which multilingualism expresses itself in the genre. In this context, this article has a two-fold aim. Firstly, drawing upon scholarship both on art song and Multilingualism Studies, I map out what I call the linguistic regime of art song, defined by the multilingual competences expected of individuals active in the art song ecosystem (singers, composers, translators, coaches, audiences) and the hegemony of certain languages over others. Secondly, on the basis of an empirical experiment involving practice-led research in singing, I consider how engagement with songs in lesser represented languages might be encouraged, and how such engagement might help expand and/or challenge some aspects of the linguistic regime of art song.
16 June 2026
Richard Wallis
This article reports key findings from a pilot project to design, develop, and test an intervention aimed at increasing perceived organisational support among television freelancers. The initiative is a response to a problem rooted in this sector’s model of employment: the television industry has become dependent upon a skilled but contingent workforce who report feeling unsupported and isolated in a work environment characterised by instability and insecurity. The article draws from organisational support theory and explores the utility of the concept of perceived organisational support in its application to contingent workers. The intervention (Supportive Offboarding) was designed to signal support by the inclusion of four key components: the offer of feedback from the company; the request for feedback to the company; a career-related conversation; and the expression of gratitude. Each of these aspects of the intervention is tested, its outcomes analysed, and its implications assessed.
12 June 2026
Michael Hrebeniak, in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee
What kind of ‘higher education’ is suitable for our age of polycrisis—accelerating climate change, economic turbulence, and global authoritarianism? Can universities unshackle themselves from the chains of financialisation, managerialism, and technocracy? Can care, imagination, collectivity, and autonomy be taught and learnt? In this conversation, Dr Michael Hrebeniak—founder of the New School of the Anthropocene—talks about his experiment in ‘counter-nihilism’. NSotA was founded as a ‘micro-university’ with a curriculum dedicated to addressing biopolitical emergency, climate justice, and the entanglements of a more-than-human assembly through the Arts and Humanities. Here, students and teachers collaborate and self-organise to acquire the skills necessary to be citizen-custodians of our planet.
12 June 2026
Richard Wallis
This article reports key findings from a pilot project to design, develop, and test an intervention aimed at increasing perceived organisational support among television freelancers. The initiative is a response to a problem rooted in this sector’s model of employment: the television industry has become dependent upon a skilled but contingent workforce who report feeling unsupported and isolated in a work environment characterised by instability and insecurity. The article draws from organisational support theory and explores the utility of the concept of perceived organisational support in its application to contingent workers. The intervention (Supportive Offboarding) was designed to signal support by the inclusion of four key components: the offer of feedback from the company; the request for feedback to the company; a career-related conversation; and the expression of gratitude. Each of these aspects of the intervention is tested, its outcomes analysed, and its implications assessed.
12 June 2026
Michael Hrebeniak, in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee
What kind of ‘higher education’ is suitable for our age of polycrisis—accelerating climate change, economic turbulence, and global authoritarianism? Can universities unshackle themselves from the chains of financialisation, managerialism, and technocracy? Can care, imagination, collectivity, and autonomy be taught and learnt? In this conversation, Dr Michael Hrebeniak—founder of the New School of the Anthropocene—talks about his experiment in ‘counter-nihilism’. NSotA was founded as a ‘micro-university’ with a curriculum dedicated to addressing biopolitical emergency, climate justice, and the entanglements of a more-than-human assembly through the Arts and Humanities. Here, students and teachers collaborate and self-organise to acquire the skills necessary to be citizen-custodians of our planet.
12 June 2026
Rowan Williams, in conversation with Ritula Shah
From the British Academy’s 2026 event series The Age of Self?, former Archbishop of Canterbury and theologian Lord Rowan Williams FBA discusses the books, writers and ideas that have shaped his intellectual and spiritual life, in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah. Their discussion ranges across childhood reading, theology, poetry, translation, spirituality, social justice and solidarity, reflecting on the relationship between literature, religion and contemporary society.
12 June 2026
David White, Lynda Stevenson, Tim Pringle, Coriarna Morris, Rebecca Sawyer, Jacqueline Bailey, Alex Lewney, Katie Mouat, Natalie Southall
This work presents the development of an educational ecology-focused card game created in collaboration with a grass-roots community group. Employing a participatory action research (PAR) methodology, the group gathered and analysed data on public attitudes towards climate change and card games to inform the design of the game. Key findings revealed a general awareness of environmental change but a limited understanding of its causes. Additionally, the public expressed a positive attitude towards both card games and education through this medium. Building upon these insights, the group designed a card game that explores climate change and pollution threats to a marine ecosystem. The PAR approach was found to be effective in designing a card game through community-led dissemination of results and decision-making. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘Participatory Engagement and Game Playing for Achieving Sustainable Net-Zero Transition’, edited by Jing Zhao, Eirini Gallou, and Ievgeniia Kopytsia.
10 June 2026