Community Development

Marj Mayo highlights how Black history needs to be celebrated all the time and is not simply an add-on, to be taken off the shelf and noted once a year.…Read more

Check out our curated list of must-read open access books and articles across the social sciences for your summer reading. …Read more

Sally Vivyan looks at a tiny charity working with refugees and asylum seekers, and how its ethos could teach us all some big lessons about how to navigate our societal challenges.…Read more

Paul Lindley and Anne Longfield explain why they’ve launched the Raising the Nation Play Commission, which is urgently needed after a decade’s absence of a vision for optimising children’s opportunities to play.…Read more

Andrew Coyle, author of 'Prisons of the World', suggests what more can be done, other than the early release of prisoners, to address the current prison crisis. …Read more

In this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks with Jen Shang, co-author of ‘Meaningful Philanthropy: The Person Behind the Giving’, about the high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals behind philanthropic giving.…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

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

This briefing, based on the new book Community Work, by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester and Ed Garrett, is about how important theory is to policy and practice, especially when we as practitioners are concerned with issues such as poverty and working towards social justice.…Read more

On Transforming Society, Sarah Bird, Managing Editor of Global Social Challenges Journal, explains why we signed the Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations – the first publisher to do so.…Read more