Business, Management and Economics
As part of the Academics Stand Against Poverty blog series, Georgia van Toorn, Joanna Redden, Lina Dencik, Jess Brand and colleagues challenge Labour to resist the temptation to rely on technological solutions such as AI to tackle the structural problems of poverty and inequality.…Read more
As the United Kingdom approaches the general election, this reading list examines some of the core areas shaping the election discourse.…Read more
Jules Boykoff, author of 'What Are the Olympics For?', reminds us of the dark side of the Olympics: more than 12,500 people have been forcibly displaced by authorities before the games.…Read more
A migrant, a Brit and a robot walk into a bar. Kostas Maronitis and Denny Pencheva, authors of 'Robots and Immigrants', discuss who will get the job. …Read more
Bristol University Press celebrates Independent Bookshop Week by profiling three Bristol bookshops we love: Heron Books, Max Minerva's and Bookhaus.…Read more
On World Oceans Day, Ryan MacNeil discusses the crucial role that the public sector can play in ocean-saving technology. Such innovations must not be left purely to the private sector. …Read more
Esther Barinaga asks how we can redesign money to build a more sustainable, just and equal future when so many of us don’t know how money is created. …Read more
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, authors of 'Uncomfortably Off', discuss the impact of their book. By delving into the complex issue of the wealth divide, they shed light on how reducing income inequality could have far-reaching benefits, even for the top 10% of earners.…Read more
Ari Väänänen, author of 'The Rise of Mental Vulnerability at Work', considers why mental vulnerability in the workplace has evolved since the 1960s into a major mental health crisis.…Read more
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee explains why South Korea is an important case study for examining ‘melting labour’ – the increasingly blurred lines between formal and informal roles in the jobs market.…Read more