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Megan Crossley shines a light on conditions for women in immigration detention centres, who are often erased from the immigration narrative.…Read more
Transforming Society's most read articles from 2023, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more
Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in our top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2023.…Read more
Ann-Marie Bathmaker speaks about the changing nature of the graduate labour market, the promise of upper mobility that universities and governments failed to deliver on and the changes needed to allow future graduates from all backgrounds to benefit equally from the university experience.…Read more
Adam Kingsmith unpacks anxiety. Why has it become such a pervasive condition in modern life? Can it be explained as a byproduct of the alienation and isolation produced by neoliberal capitalism?…Read more
Maddy Power, author 'Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain', discusses some of the negative aspects of foodbanks, and the structural issues that jeopardise their inclusivity. …Read more
Jack Levin and Julie B. West, authors of 'Covert Violence', consider how covert violence might initially present as an accidental or self-inflicted cause of death. Such cases receive little publicity and are often not properly investigated. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Alison Young about the growth of governmental power and erosion of checks and balances over the last four years. …Read more
Olivier Sykes and John Sturzaker, editors of 'Planning in a Failing State', discuss the increased attention politicians are giving to planning. Welcome though this is, it’s not planning that needs fixing, but the whole system in which it functions.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier about child poverty and intergenerational poverty and what we can do as individuals to make change.…Read more