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Jess Miles speaks to Lisa Mckenzie, author of Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, about the impact of lockdown on working class people and what lessons we have learned and should be learning.…Read more
Bob Smale, author of 'Exploring Trade Union Identities', explores trade union responses to COVID-19 and outlines five key areas an effective union response to COVID-19 must include.…Read more
Terri E. Givens, author of the forthcoming 'Radical Empathy', explains why we need to move beyond walking in someone else’s shoes to taking action to improve our society, setting out the path to this in six distinct steps.…Read more
John Clarke, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University, and author of 'Critical Dialogues', reflects on the sense of dislocation and disorientation in this time of coronavirus.…Read more
Tina Haux, author of 'Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences', discusses her concerns about the rush to research the effect of COVID-19 and how we should be working with colleagues across the disciplines to establish what we can learn from previous crisis, health and otherwise.…Read more
FREE TO DOWNLOAD: ‘Police Homicides: The Terror of “American Exceptionalism”’ by Robert Aponte and Hannah Hurrle from the forthcoming Agenda For Social Justice. Find the link in this piece with an introduction from Glenn W. Muschert, co-editor of the book. The chapter clearly defines the problem of police violence, provides evidence for its nature and extent, and lays out practical and feasible solutions which, if followed, would reduce the extent and severity of police violence.…Read more
This Volunteers' Week, Daiga Kamerāde, co-editor of the Voluntary Sector Review journal, looks out how volunteering is changing because of the pandemic.…Read more
In this short 'Lessons from Lockdown' podcast, Jess Miles speaks to Martin Glynn, criminologist, on lessons government should be learning at this time around crime and race.…Read more
Jo Shaw, author of 'The People in Question', discusses how the uncertain times we live in place particular demands upon the relationship between citizenship and constitutions, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.…Read more
Tina Sikka discusses the disproportionate way COVID-19 is impacting Black and other minority ethnic communities, and how we have to make sure these statistics are not used to perpetuate erroneous assumptions about innate group differences.…Read more