Global social challenges
There are multiple interlocking crises currently gripping the planet. Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities, as new ways of being, thinking, and doing emerge.
This stream of Transforming Society is a space for exploring the complexities of the global social challenges across disciplines and fields. It seeks to build and share the knowledge needed to shape a fairer world, across and for the global south and north, hoping to foster dialogue between academics, practitioners, policy makers and the wider public.
On Davos day 5 as the government hinted at tax cuts to come, Gerry Mitchell, co-author of 'Uncomfortably Off', reveals they are way out of step with the public and suggests that there is a clear public preference for a wealth tax over other types of taxation, even among Tory voters and the wealthy themselves.…Read more
Richard Joy seeks lessons from the COVID-19 Inquiry for climate change policy making. Let’s not let anyone say in 20 years’ time that they should have twigged much earlier. …Read more
Megan Crossley shines a light on conditions for women in immigration detention centres, who are often erased from the immigration narrative.…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
Kelli Kennedy and Carolyn Snell investigate whether alliances between supermarkets and food charities are working to eliminate food insecurity. …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
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
In the last of our University Press Week articles, Global Sales Manager Julie Atkins gives a shout out to booksellers who, through launches and other events, help university presses to get their titles to the people who want them.…Read more