Impact

This practice briefing by Sarah Morton and Ailsa Cook covers key messages and policy recommendations for people who work in public services who are looking for effective ways of demonstrating their impact.…Read more

In this episode, Sarah Morton and Ailsa Cook speak to Jess Miles about the challenges of tackling complex issues and trying to achieve change in the public services.…Read more

Tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and we're beginning the 16 Days of Activism by highlighting FearLess, a charity tackling abuse, sexual violence, and stalking. …Read more

This policy briefing by Natasha Mulvihill covers key messages and policy recommendations around the contemporary sex industry in England and Wales.…Read more

Katharina Burger and Martin Parker look at how Bristol has localised the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be leveraged to facilitate strategic change towards sustainability in a city environment. …Read more

For this year’s Open Access week, we have created a reading list of Open Access books and journal articles that explore different areas of climate change with the aim of furthering important conversations. …Read more

Imogen Richards highlights how pandemic health policies and political rhetoric which blamed disenfranchised people for the spread of COVID-19 encouraged far-right conspiratorial narratives about the origins of the disease.…Read more

In their paper for Policy & Politics, Elizabeth Blakelock and John Turnpenny highlight how public participation in energy market regulation has failed due to inequalities of influence between different policy actors who pose a significant challenge to legitimacy.…Read more

Mona Abdel-Fadil, contributor to a new book, 'Muslims and Humour', compares Arabic and English approaches to reframing ISIS as laughable, exploring the power of comedic heroism.…Read more

Only a year after Clare McGlynn and Kelly Johnson published their book 'Cyberflashing: Recognising Harms, Reforming Laws', upskirting and cyberflashing became specific criminal offences in Northern Ireland, following evidence given by McGlynn to the Stormont Assembly Justice Committee. Rebecca Megson-Smith charts the influence of the Bristol University Press publication on making cyberflashing a criminal act.…Read more