When I arrived to the US in Spring 2019 as a visiting PhD scholar at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, I was immediately struck by the advertising messages all over the streets, convenient stores and public transports that read along the same lines: “Keep yourself healthy… keep the doctor away.” Taking the form of public […]
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The public sector is often perceived as a slow and reactive institution – a force that intervenes to correct market discrepancies. The 2008 financial crisis re-enforced this perception when governments around the world stepped in as ‘lenders of last resort’ to rescue the banks that were dubbed ‘too big to fail’. Through my work, I
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6 December 2019. It’s Saint Nicholas’ Day, and I’m all fidgety with excitement. For the past three years I’ve worked tirelessly to fight food waste in Belgium: organizing conferences in businesses and schools, posting on a Facebook page that I co-host with my family, after launching the JUST KEEP IT Challenge last fall. We’ve even proudly
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Two years ago when I started to read about burnout in the workplace, I did not measure the amplitude of the phenomenon. As a feminist and writer, I was particularly interested in decrypting the workplace factors for burnout and understanding if there were any gender-based drivers. I was also surprised by a paradox: nowadays, we
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Housing affordability, as a rule of thumb, is measured as the amount of rent or mortgage over income. When your rent or mortgage surpasses 30% of your income, you are considered subject to financial stress (Meen 2018). In the UK, the average gross monthly wage is estimated to be around £2,400/ €2,800 (ONS, 2019), while the cost of a
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