Real voices
Lee Gregory, co-editor of 'Diversity and Welfare Provision' challenges the notion of citizenship in policy efforts to address inequality. It’s an antiquated notion that implies a norm and doesn’t acknowledge the experience of marginalised groups. …Read more
Cara Jardine looks at the effect of prison on families, and their limited ability to challenge how they are treated by the justice system .…Read more
In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them.…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
Transforming Society's most read articles from 2023, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…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
On Transforming Society, Laura Edwards-Bailey, Nina Smyth, Tina Cartwright, and Jay-Marie Mackenzie reveal the state of caring for university students who self-harm. …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
On Transforming Society, Lisa Wheildon champions UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women and girls. We need to build on the progress in reducing gender-based violence and accelerate change by institutionalising transformation.…Read more
On Transforming Society, Amy E. Hodel, Sarah Barron and Anca Miron discuss why people lie to family members with dementia. …Read more