Health and Social Care
Imogen Richards highlights how pandemic health policies and political rhetoric which blamed disenfranchised people for the spread of COVID-19 encouraged far-right conspiratorial narratives about the origins of the disease.…Read more
This policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations, including the need to consider public health aspects in planning decisions and the power of combining legislative and policy directives with the voluntary commitment of developers to create sustainable and healthy places.…Read more
This paper from Families, Relationships and Societies, considers how research on families living in poverty, specifically those in Israel during the Covid-19 pandemic, is often at risk of objectifying the poor or blaming them for their circumstances. …Read more
Peter Beresford introduces a webinar which will offer an important chance to articulate and explore the issues around user involvement in mental health policy and provision.…Read more
The consequences of the Roe v Wade reversal are devastating. The victory of the pro-life lobby means women will die. Judith Orr elaborates why we shouldn’t be complacent even in the UK where abortion rights have majority support. …Read more
Dan McQuillan looks at the dangerous capacity of AI to criminalise women in the wake of Roe vs Wade and calls for ways of coming together that invert algorithmic exclusion via mutual aid and solidarity.…Read more
Space for relational and community-based support are limited by the dominance of market-oriented, computer-based tasks, medication and risk-focused interventions. Rich Moth looks at how neoliberal reorganisation of services has actually taken community mental health practice in the opposite direction. …Read more
The Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People talk about their new survey, why they are running it, and how the previous survey helped shape Greater Manchester's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…Read more
Fran Amery discusses the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on access to abortion and how the work done by grassroots organisations like AidAccess and Women on Web will have a vital role to play moving forward.…Read more
Seow Ting Lee discusses the implications of the vaccine ‘have-nots’ on the societies of the ‘haves’, when nearly 3 billion people worldwide have still not received a single dose.…Read more