Real voices

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

This University Press Week, our Digital Marketing Manager Jess Miles celebrates how we help our authors and other contributors to #SpeakUp and make a difference on Transforming Society.…Read more

The authors of a recent article in Emotions and Society share their research into white supremacist beliefs and ask how you deradicalise someone whose racist views are based on intuitive or emotional pathways.…Read more

Henry Tam calls for a top-priority programme to reform our broken democratic infrastructure so that it can support sustained cooperative interactions. …Read more

The authors of a recent article for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence conducted surveys with festival attendees to see the extent of safety at music festivals. These findings revealed that women consistently reported a distressing normalisation of unwelcome attention, harassment, invasive touching and violence.…Read more