Transforming research
Research practices are fast evolving. The rise of interdisciplinarity, the popularity of co-produced research, the ever-increasing importance of impact and the decolonial turn present challenges to traditional approaches to research and provide innovative and pioneering new methods and theories with which to address the challenges of the 21st century.
In this policy briefing, Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman, authors of 'Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work', explore how bureaucratic systems in modern care often conflict with the relational practices essential to compassionate support.…Read more
Keren O'Reilly, author of 'Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone' shows how flexibility in qualitative research is essential for ethical, empathetic, and effective inquiry, as rigid, positivist approaches risk imposing the researcher’s biases and missing crucial insights.…Read more
Gender and Justice is a new global feminist journal committed to rigorous, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research, fostering critical discussions on inequality, injustice and gendered experiences.…Read more
Jess Miles talks to Helen Kara, Dawn Mannay, and Alastair Roy about the role of creativity in research, its benefits for analysis and communication, and the anxieties and difficulties people might experience around using creative methods for the first time.…Read more
Kyla Bavin, Adam Lynes, James Treadwell and Max Hart, authors of 'Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition', explore how AI’s true threat lies not in dramatic apocalyptic scenarios but in its subtle erosion of workers’ rights, deepening inequalities, and enabling corporate exploitation.…Read more
Thea Cook, Senior Journals Marketing Executive, reflects on our first year with the Africa Charter, which Bristol University Press joined in 2023 to advance fairer global research.…Read more
Dawn Mannay, Helen Kara and Alastair Roy address the need for transparency and openness about the complexities, confusions and intricacies of data analysis.…Read more
Kate Butterby and Nancy Lombard examine how technology can be a useful tool to support women who are subjected to domestic abuse, by being experienced as private, unintimidating and non-judgemental.…Read more
Raph Schlembach, author of 'Spycops', outlines the progress of the long-running Spycops Undercover Policing Inquiry, which is looking at the covert operations commissioned by the police and the secret service over decades. …Read more
Two Convivial Thinkers ask whether higher ed can really ‘decolonise development’ when only some voices are heard and others are silenced. We must still aim to dismantle the logics of neoliberal academia, however daunting. …Read more