Oscar Berglund

1 month ago | bristol247.com | Oscar Berglund |John McTague |Laura Dickinson

You may not have seen anything about it, but the University of Bristol have just embarked on a process that will see hundreds of people lose their jobs. When Cardiff Uni announced 400 redundancies, the Bristol vice-chancellor, Evelyn Welch, addressed staff saying that “we are not Cardiff but we need to be prudent”. The plan that she has set out, however, is far from prudent and cautious.

Jan 8, 2025 | bizcommunity.com | Hana Jurikova |Oscar Berglund |Renee Bonorchis |Lindsey Schutters

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life: the Late Palaeozoic ice age. At its peak, huge continental ice sheets spread across much of the globe and the sea level fell by more than 100 metres. In all, this ice age lasted around 100 million years.

Jan 7, 2025 | bizcommunity.com | Oscar Berglund |Carlos Lopes |Renee Bonorchis |Lindsey Schutters

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Climate and environmental protest is being criminalised and repressed around the world. The criminalisation of such protest has received a lot of attention in certain countries, including the UK and Australia. But there have not been any attempts to capture the global trend – until now.

Jan 6, 2025 | climatechangenews.com | Oscar Berglund

Oscar Berglund is a senior lecturer in international public and social policy at the University of Bristol and Tie Franco Brotto is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies. Climate and environmental protest is being criminalised and repressed around the world. The criminalisation of such protest has received a lot of attention in certain countries, including the UK and Australia. But there have not been any attempts to capture the global trend – until now.

Jul 23, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Oscar Berglund |Jessica McKenzie

Just Stop Oil activists protesting near Trafalgar Square on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0) On the policing front, the police now have much greater powers to stop protests when they take place, and to stop them from ever starting. In terms of sentencing, the sentences last week marked a watershed in the use of longer sentences, but there is scope in the new laws to give even more extreme sentences.