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Authors: Muhammad Azizul Islam, Professor in Sustainability accounting and transparency, University of Aberdeen & Jay Kerr, Campaigner, No Sweat, London

The fall of Hasina's government in August 2024 was a seismic shift in Bangladesh. The student-led protests brought down an oppressive regime that, for the past 15 years, had overseen the systematic…

Authors: Muhammad Azizul Islam, Professor in sustainability accounting and transparency, University of Aberdeen & Jay Kerr, Campaigner, No Sweat, London.

Thirteen years ago, the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, which housed factories for major global fashion brands, killed over 1,130 workers and exposed the…

In a world where economic inequality seems insurmountable, one might wonder if simple, unpaid acts of kindness can make a difference. A recent study by Sessions and Zangelidis (2024) suggests that they can—and highlights the significant role women play in this effort.

On April 24, 2024, the global community marks the 11th anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy. The Rana Plaza, an eight-story structure that accommodated five garment factories with more than 5,000 workers, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The incident left the deaths of 1,132 workers and injured more than 2,500…

In the blog article I wrote a while ago, I reflected on the challenges in work-life balance as a result of the first Covid lock down as an academic and also as a parent of young children. Since then, we had another lockdown after Christmas 2020, and the memory of…

At the end of 2019 I was nominated by my department to the Women in Property National Student Award Programme 2020. One third year student from a built environment course is nominated by their respective university annually based on their performance and talent. Each regional winner goes on to…

It’s been 6 months since the UK March lockdown, and our home has been my place for work since then. The study is now invaded by textbooks and papers that used to be in my university office and smells like an old library, but I find it rather a relaxing…

This blog was written by Professor Aziz Islam for The Conversation, you can read the original article here.

Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by…

Ongoing developments in computer and communication technology, combined with worker’s rights to request flexible working, mean that opportunities to work remote from a fixed office base are becoming increasingly significant for a growing number of workers. The recently published CIPD report on Megatrends in Flexible Working provides some interesting insights…

Voltaire has observed that “so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping…