Education
To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week 2025, our Marketing Coordinator, Rich Kemp spent a day working at Bristol’s radical indie bookshop, Bookhaus, an experience that revealed the heart, care, and community behind the counter.…Read more
As part of Independent Bookshop Week 2025, Bookhaus in Bristol highlights how indie bookshops foster community, activism and cultural change far beyond selling books. …Read more
Silvia Ortiz-Bonnin and Joanna Blahopoulou show that while sexual harassment remains widespread, even brief training can effectively challenge harmful beliefs and foster cultural change.…Read more
Dawn Mannay and Victoria Timperley, authors of 'Sandboxing in Practice', demonstrate how sandboxing is a creative qualitative research method that uses sand, objects, and figures to help participants metaphorically represent and share their experiences.…Read more
Margaret Heffernan explores the debate over AI's impact on the arts, highlighting how AI threatens artists' livelihoods while undervaluing the crucial creativity and innovation that artists bring to society.…Read more
Kate Newby and Laura N. McGinty examine how reverse mentoring at the University of Sunderland empowered marginalised students to share their experiences with staff, fostering institutional change and demonstrating its broader potential in social justice and support systems.…Read more
Michael Crossley, one of the Series Editors for the Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education, discusses how the series advances decolonial, interdisciplinary, and Global South-led education research.…Read more
Matthew Fisher, author of 'How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing', examines how wellbeing depends on reducing chronic stress through supportive social conditions, not just medical treatments, requiring systemic change and community action.…Read more
In this practitioner briefing, Matthew Fisher, author of How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing, highlights how the growing failures of neoliberalism have sparked renewed interest from governments in policies to promote community and individual wellbeing.…Read more
Most read articles and most listened to podcast episodes in 2024 from Transforming Society, published by Bristol University Press and Policy Press, sharing impactful research aimed at inspiring social change. …Read more