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Marianne Colbran, author of 'Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, investigates how UK non-profit news sources are changing the remit of crime news to combat the harmful stereotyping of marginalised groups in traditional crime journalism…Read more
This World Refugee Day, Evan Easton-Calabria reveals how, in a quest to foster self-reliance among refugee communities, states and agencies are neglecting to notice that refugees are struggling to survive. …Read more
Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?' shows that the welfare state alone cannot realise social change – even if that social change is nothing more adventurous than reducing child poverty.…Read more
Jade Levell, author of 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement', exposes the link between children engaged in gang violence and an experience of childhood domestic abuse.…Read more
Seow Ting Lee discusses the implications of the vaccine ‘have-nots’ on the societies of the ‘haves’, when nearly 3 billion people worldwide have still not received a single dose.…Read more
Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard, contributors to the Global Agenda for Social Justice, show why stakeholders of all ages and at all levels must address the social problem of anti-LGBTQ+ bias in school communities.…Read more
Lena Näre and Nataliia Khavriuchenko consider how one of the most political of television events, the Eurovision Song Contest, masks the reality of war under a simulacrum of peace.…Read more
One of our Commissioning Editors, Rebecca Tomlinson looks at Marcial Bragadini Bóo's book 'The Rules of Democracy' which publishes this June.…Read more
Peter Beresford introduces the second of our participatory social policy webinars, taking place on 7 June, ‘Disabled people’s innovation for inclusive and participatory social policy’. …Read more
Sarah Hupp Williamson, author of 'Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration', outlines some of the difficulties of assuming that conditions that drive human trafficking are the same everywhere, and that the same solutions can be applied internationally.…Read more