# research brief (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover research brief. Page: Feed: --- ## [Resilience, Nature, Justice: This Week's Regeneration Research Brief](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/resilience-nature-justice-this-weeks) _2026-08-25 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Measurement, Investment, Resilience: This Week's Regeneration in the Headlines](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/measurement-investment-resilience) _2026-08-22 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Species, Emissions, Circularity: This Week's Regeneration Research Brief](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/species-emissions-circularity-this) _2026-08-18 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Wildfires, Oceans, Soil: This Week's Regeneration in the Headlines](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/wildfires-oceans-soil-this-weeks) _2026-08-15 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Steward Ownership: Redesigning Business for Long-Term Purpose](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/steward-ownership-redesigning-business) _2026-08-13 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ “Regenerative businesses need a long time horizon. ## [Tradeoffs, Markets, Adaptation: This Week's Regeneration Research Brief](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/tradeoffs-markets-adaptation-this) _2026-08-11 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Banking, Biodiversity, Aviation: This Week's Regeneration in the Headlines](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/banking-biodiversity-aviation-this) _2026-08-08 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [True Pricing: Making the Hidden Costs of Business Visible](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/true-pricing-making-the-hidden-costs) _2026-08-06 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ “And but also on that more social question, the same underlying challenge surfaced, namely what do we value and how do we value certain resources and do we actually also consider the negative social effects?” ## [Finance, Nature, Adaptation: This Week's Regeneration in the Headlines](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/finance-nature-adaptation-this-weeks) _2026-08-01 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ What Caught My Eye: Readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability. ## [Giving Nature a Voice: Brontie Ansell on Building a Legal System for Nature](https://chrismarquis.substack.com/p/giving-nature-a-voice-brontie-ansell) _2026-07-30 · Christopher Marquis · Regenerative Insights_ “If you accept the proposition that nature is a legal subject then nature should be able to assert its right to be present and to be heard.” ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UP8M4e1nzp0l) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [When Love Becomes Curriculum](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/when-love-becomes-curriculum) _2026-07-08 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ In I Can Do Anything, educator and author Nyla Calloway offers more than a beautiful children's story—she reveals a theory of teaching. Through the quiet labor of a Black mother's love, the book illustrates how dignity, possibility, and resilience are first cultivated at home. It reminds us that before children believe in themselves, someone must first believe for them—and that may be the first… ## [AI Is Not the Threat. Our Refusal to Change Is.](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/ai-is-not-the-threat-our-refusal-to-change-is) _2026-06-17 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ Artificial intelligence is not exposing what is wrong with students—it is exposing what is outdated about schools. As AI reshapes how we learn, teach, and create, the real question is not whether the technology belongs in education, but whether education is prepared for the future it reveals. ## [I’m not ill, I’m hurt](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/im-not-ill-im-hurt/56167) _2026-01-13 · Sarah Ritchie · Sociology Lens Insights_ By Laura Batstra & Sami Timimi More than 10 years ago, counselling psychologist Paul Moloney published his book The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn’t Work. “I’m not ill, I’m hurt”, words from Scottish mental health service user David Adam, is the title of chapter 5 about the hidden injuries of social inequality. In our article ‘Is more psychotherapy a… ## [The Pedagogy of Hope](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/the-pedagogy-of-hope) _2025-12-09 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ In an era when despair has become the dominant narrative in American education, this piece argues that naming failures is no longer enough. It makes the case for a disciplined, evidence-based pedagogy of hope—one capable of building the systems our children actually need. ## [A War on Our Kids](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/a-war-on-our-kids) _2025-12-01 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ When families lose food assistance or affordable care, children carry the burden into the classroom. Hunger, illness, and instability show up as absenteeism and lost learning. This is the quiet war being waged on our kids—not with weapons, but with policy choices that strip away their safety nets. ## [Green Against Greed? Why Pro-Environmental Views Flourish Among the Culturally Privileged](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/green-against-greed-why-pro-environmental-views-flourish-among-the-culturally-privileged/55500) _2025-11-17 · Magne Paalgard Flemmen · Sociology Lens Insights_ Climate change and environmental degradation affect us all. Yet concern about these issues is far from evenly distributed. People’s willingness to prioritize the environment, make sacrifices for sustainability, or even believe in climate change varies sharply by social class. Why is this the case? My new study, published in The British Journal of Sociology, uses detailed survey data to map how… ## [Behind Every Business: Smallholder Struggles and Shared Hope](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/research-brief/smallholder-struggles-and-shared-hope/55497) _2025-11-14 · Muhammad Khan, Karl Behrendt, Lydia Arnold, Dimitrios Papadas, Aneela Sultana · Sociology Lens Insights_ ‘Through fields of uneven fortune and lean harvests, untiring hands of the farming communities across the Global South cultivate life and hope against the odds.’ In agricultural societies of developing economies, small-scale farmers rise early to farm the lands that have sustained their families for generations. Their labour, however, extends far beyond local needs—these crops fuel regional… ## [Living With the Machine: How AI Shapes Our Everyday Choices](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/living-with-the-machine-how-ai-shapes-our-everyday-choices/55493) _2025-11-12 · Noor Rizvi; Gitanjaly Chhabra · Sociology Lens Insights_ It starts with the gentlest of prompts. A phone buzzes softly with a reminder: “Leave early to avoid traffic.” Then, a streaming service cues up a show before the viewer has even started to scroll. A grocery app nudges the user with a “smart list” of suggested items based on prior shopping. These little acts of attention slide so seamlessly into daily life that they commonly go unconsidered. But… ## [Begin Well](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/begin-well) _2025-09-05 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ To teach well, educators must begin well. The first month of school sets the tone for safety, wellness, and joy in learning. Research shows that when teachers prioritize well-being, belonging, and social-emotional growth before diving into content, students thrive academically and emotionally. Begin Well offers practical, evidence-based guidance for creating humanizing classrooms where both… ## [The Body in Extremist White Supremacy](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/the-body-in-extremist-white-supremacy/54616) _2025-08-18 · Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, and Pete Simi · Sociology Lens Insights_ The Body in Extremist White Supremacy\[1\] Sociology has not taken bodies seriously. This is well documented.\[2\] But it’s especially so in scholarship of the far right – and that’s even more glaring given that bodies are implicated in the gruesome actions of its adherents.\[3\] There are two embodied practices that featured prominently in the narratives of the 47 former members of white supremacy… ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FIBW68HmTv2z) _2025-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Conversational Democracy: A Microsociological Look at Children’s Initiatives in Child and Family Social Work Dialogues](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/conversational-democracy-a-microsociological-look-at-childrens-initiatives-in-child-and-family-social-work-dialogues/54384) _2025-07-25 · Kristina Edman · Sociology Lens Insights_ Children who experience violence, adversity, or other forms of injustice often suffer in silence, hidden behind closed doors or silenced by fear and shame. To activate meaningful support systems, these experiences bust be brought to light and made visible to those in a position to help. When children interact with professionals who could provide support, their voices frequently encounter… ## [Master These Three Aspects of Love This Summer](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/master-these-three-aspects-of-love-this-summer) _2025-07-09 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ This summer, let’s treat ourselves to a different kind of professional development—one rooted in love. Informed by thirty years of research, I invite educators to grow in three essential practices: communication that begins in listening, visualization that sees student strengths, and community that nurtures belonging. These aren’t strategies—they’re ways of being. Let’s study love this summer, so… ## [Examining possibilities for TVET among youth with care experience](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/examining-possibilities-for-tvet-among-youth-with-care-experience/54171) _2025-07-02 · Mary Elizabeth Collins, A.M., Ph.D. · Sociology Lens Insights_ There has been exciting and robust practice and policy attention aimed toward the population of young people have spent significant time in the care system and who may face life largely on their own when they reach adulthood. A range of negative circumstances may have led to their need for out-of-home care (e.g., abuse, neglect, abandonment) and while in care they may have faced additional… ## [Finish Well](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/finish-well) _2025-06-24 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ As doors close for the summer, I want to talk about how to end a school year, how to finish well. We talk about how to start strong, how to manage classrooms, how to plan standards-aligned units. But what about the end? What do we do with all that we’ve lived and learned once the last bell rings? This meditation on that final stretch is a call not just to finish, but to finish well. ## [Refugee Professionals: What are the challenges to their professional reintegration?](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/refugee-professionals-what-are-the-challenges-to-their-professional-reintegration/53823) _2025-06-05 · Sanjar Botoon · Sociology Lens Insights_ Imagine being a doctor, an engineer, or a teacher—forced to leave behind not only your profession, but also your country, your family, and your friends. Then imagine crossing multiple borders and arriving in a host country with professional aspirations, only to discover that your qualifications no longer count, and that you are viewed not as a professional but as a humanitarian burden. This is the… ## [Between God and Ground: Invisible Chains Among Farming Communities](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/research-brief/between-god-and-ground-invisible-chains-among-farming-communities/53820) _2025-06-05 · Muhammad Khan (Correspondence Author), Professor Karl Behrendt, Professor Lydia Arnold, Dr Dimitrios Papadas and Dr Aneela Sultana · Sociology Lens Insights_ Slavery, in its modern guise, remains a pervasive issue. In South Asian countries, which are predominantly agricultural societies and home to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population, this issue often goes unseen and unnoticed (Bose & Jalal, 2022; Kara, 2017). The perspectives on slavery within these regions vary significantly compared to the modern world, featuring the hidden and complex… ## [The Practice of Trust](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/the-practice-of-trust) _2025-05-21 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ The hardest part of equity work isn’t data analysis. It isn’t professional development. It isn’t political backlash. It’s trust—not just gaining it but deserving it. ## [Welcome No More? Shifting Attitudes towards Ukrainian Refugees in Europe](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/welcome-no-more-shifting-attitudes-towards-ukrainian-refugees-in-europe/53731) _2025-05-20 · Juhyun Lee and Joshua Garland · Sociology Lens Insights_ Almost seven million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022. Seeking refuge in other European states, they were welcomed. However, recent analyses have emerged which point to an increasing discrimination against Ukrainian refugees who were displaced by Russia’s aggression, including in previously supportive nations like Poland. The shifting treatment and… ## [The Mirror Between Us](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/the-mirror-between-us) _2025-05-13 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ How Schools Reflect—or Fail to Reflect—the Lives of the Students They Serve. A Research Brief on the Link Between Parenting and Teaching Style from forwardED ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UJj0rJcwYNp1) _2025-05-13 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Rethinking “Kindergarten Readiness”](https://www.forward-ed.com/post/rethinking-kindergarten-readiness) _2025-04-21 · David Kirkland · forwardED, LLC_ Blaming 5-year-olds for not being “ready” is how broken systems excuse themselves. What if the real test isn’t whether our children are school-ready—but whether our schools are child-ready?