In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Julia Mortimer about recent developments in Open Access, community-led models and the direction Bristol University Press are heading in.…Read more
Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas, authors of 'Redemptive Criminology', discuss their new book, which offers new insights into punishment and retribution. …Read more
Flora Gill, author of 'Work and Social Justice', discusses the only circumstances in which she would support the introduction of a Universal Basic Income. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Steve Cooke talks with George Miller about how the field of animal rights evolved – and continues to evolve - as advances in the scientific understanding of animals’ lives expand the rights claims made on their behalf. …Read more
The authors of the new Open Access book, 'The Escape from Poverty', plot a path for how to break the vicious cycles that lead to the persistent and intergenerational perpetuation of poverty. …Read more
Hannah Phillips, policy researcher at The Jo Cox Foundation, outlines her research examining the politicisation of the problem of violence against MPs in the UK. …Read more
Timothy J. Dixon and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, authors of 'Urban Futures' offer examples of deliberative democracy in action, giving people a real choice in how they want the future of their city to be shaped.…Read more
Tristan Partridge and Javiera Barandi remind us that systems that renewable energy will replace do not neatly come to an end. Energy transitions must be built around decommissioning frameworks. …Read more
Helen Penn discusses how far we’ve come away from the community nurseries of the 1980s: a local accountable service for local people. Now it’s big business and the children are not the beneficiaries.…Read more
Anne-Marie Greenslade, contributor to 'Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking', examines the government’s continued attempt to paint migrants as exploitative and not genuine victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. …Read more