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.
Colleen Campbell, coordinator of the Open Access 2020 initiative, discusses where we go next in the quest for global equity in scholarly publishing. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Julia Mortimer about recent developments in Open Access, community-led models and the direction Bristol University Press are heading in.…Read more
Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas, authors of 'Redemptive Criminology', discuss their new book, which offers new insights into punishment and retribution. …Read more
Flora Gill, author of 'Work and Social Justice', discusses the only circumstances in which she would support the introduction of a Universal Basic Income. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Steve Cooke talks with George Miller about how the field of animal rights evolved – and continues to evolve - as advances in the scientific understanding of animals’ lives expand the rights claims made on their behalf. …Read more
The authors of the new Open Access book, 'The Escape from Poverty', plot a path for how to break the vicious cycles that lead to the persistent and intergenerational perpetuation of poverty. …Read more
Tristan Partridge and Javiera Barandi remind us that systems that renewable energy will replace do not neatly come to an end. Energy transitions must be built around decommissioning frameworks. …Read more
Helen Penn discusses how far we’ve come away from the community nurseries of the 1980s: a local accountable service for local people. Now it’s big business and the children are not the beneficiaries.…Read more
The era of climate boiling – the Pyrocene – is upon us. Extreme heat and wildfire events are both widespread and regular. Celia Roberts, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Louisa Allen and Rebecca Williamson propose the term Pyro-reproduction to explore the ways in which people forge ways of life in such conditions. …Read more
Bozena Wielgoszewska reports her findings on why the pandemic affected women’s employment rates more adversely than men’s. …Read more