Real voices
This International Women’s Day, Ceryl Davies, Social Work Lecturer, talks about the importance of giving young women a voice when discussing sexual coercion experienced by them in their intimate relationships. …Read more
Shannon K. Carter and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster, authors of 'Sharing Milk', discuss how they joined and participated in local lactation support groups, and learned that milk sharing is a deeply meaningful and emotion-driven practice for the people who do it.…Read more
An extract from Charlotte Faircloth, Katherine Twamley and Humera Iqbal's 'Families, Relationships and Societies' article on the methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic.…Read more
Louca-Mai Brady explains the benefits of youth participation in health services, for healthcare professionals as well as youngsters themselves, and reports on the implications of COVID-19 on this youth voice.…Read more
2020 has changed the world and the way we live, with one impact being an increase in the amount we read. The team at Bristol University Press share some of the books they’ve read and enjoyed this year.…Read more
Patricia Hamilton, author of 'Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting', examines Black mothers’ engagement with attachment parenting, within the mainstream representation of attachment parents as White and Black mothers as neglectful.…Read more
An update on the work of Julian House, Bristol University Press’s 2020 fundraising cause, outlining how COVID-19 has been an extra pressure on charities supporting victims of domestic abuse.…Read more
Drawing on the 'Moving, Always Moving' report from the Children's Society - published today - this article shows the value of listening to children speak about the failure of the policies that shape their lives, and calls for them to be heard in the post-COVID-19 rebuild.…Read more
Policy and decision makers all too often have little or no comprehension of the precarious nature of the lives of those in low-income, disadvantaged and left-behind communities. Tracey Herrington looks at how the Dole Animators project helped the voices of those directly affected by welfare reforms to be heard.…Read more
Ed Garrett, co-author of 'The Impact of Community Work', discusses why community work matters now more than ever, and how it is only through actually being out there in communities that we can really support marginalised voices.…Read more