Margaret Heffernan explores the debate over AI's impact on the arts, highlighting how AI threatens artists' livelihoods while undervaluing the crucial creativity and innovation that artists bring to society.…Read more

Keren O'Reilly, author of 'Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone' shows how flexibility in qualitative research is essential for ethical, empathetic, and effective inquiry, as rigid, positivist approaches risk imposing the researcher’s biases and missing crucial insights.…Read more

Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves examine the UK government's plans to cut sickness and disability support, arguing it's unsustainable, with experts warning that such measures will worsen poverty, mental health issues and push people further from the labour market.…Read more

Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of 'Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising', discuss the power of activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible.…Read more

Alex Ardalan-Raikes and Nasrul Ismail discuss how the 2024 far-right riots in England, fueled by misinformation, highlight the urgent need for stronger hate crime prevention, online regulation, and community-driven efforts to counter extremism.…Read more

Stewart Lansley, author of 'The Richer, The Poorer', discusses how Labour's planned disability benefit cuts reflect a return to austerity, risking economic stagnation, social decline, and political fallout. …Read more

Sven Biscop condemns Trump’s treatment of Zelensky and urges Europe to strengthen its own security amid U.S. uncertainty.…Read more

Peter Beresford, author of 'The Antidote', suggests that the recent attacks on EDI is a strategy to divide and control, but unity is the key to resistance.…Read more

In this episode of the Transforming Society Podcast Malcolm Carey and Gurnam Singh, guest editors of the Critical and Radical Social Work special issue on social work and social control, speak with Richard Kemp about the social work paradox of care and control.…Read more

Gender and Justice is a new global feminist journal committed to rigorous, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research, fostering critical discussions on inequality, injustice and gendered experiences.…Read more