Publishing world
Read about our new Read and Publish agreement on Transforming Society, a step on the way to fully Open Access publishing. …Read more
Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in the top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2022.…Read more
Transforming Society's most read articles from 2022, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more
On Transforming Society, Stephen Wenham, our Publisher for Politics and International Relations, has curated a reading list that highlights the broad range of gender and politics publications from Bristol University Press. …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
The Global Agenda for Social Justice has been produced by Policy Press since 2016 in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). This article discusses how the publication aims to highlight the social problems faced across the Global North and Global South, with the aim of improving public policy and encouraging contributions from younger voices who share these goals. …Read more
Recent government policies have plunged the UK’s economy into crisis. Paul Stevens, our Publisher for Business, Management and Economics, has curated this reading list that focuses on the dangers of concentrating on economic growth while ignoring the need for wider social change. …Read more
Tracy Shildrick reviews 'The Richer, The Poorer How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History' by Stewart Lansley, a book that examines how Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.…Read more
UNESCO’s International Literacy Day takes place annually to remind us of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights. Enabling information literacy and access to literacy is increasingly at the heart of the Bristol University Press mission. …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