Health and Social Care
As society transforms into new bubbles and economic structures, Adrian Bonner, editor of Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health, looks at how we need to develop an objective, evidence-based approach to supporting communication, understanding, research and collaboration between the public, private and third sectors.…Read more
Emma Jones, Neil Graffin, Rajvinder Samra and Mathijs Lucassen, authors of Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Legal Profession, explore how the conceptualisation of wellbeing impacts upon workplaces.…Read more
Michael Chang and Amy Outterside discuss positive health and wellbeing habits in light of the pandemic and how we can translate these habits into the built environment.…Read more
Ian Cummins, author of the forthcoming 'Welfare and Punishment', examines the recent calls to defund the police from a mental health perspective, and looks at why we need to develop models of mental health services that limit police involvement as far as possible.…Read more
Mike Saks, editor of 'Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective', draws attention to the central role of health support workers in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that more government attention needs to be given to their conditions of work and safety, as well as to their regulation, in the public interest.…Read more
Keith Dowding, author of 'It’s the Government, Stupid', discusses the UK government's ‘war against obesity’ and how the cause of the obesity crisis is lack of government action on the root causes, not individual people's decisions.…Read more
Marian Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Brighton, discusses going beyond boundaries that separate researchers from different disciplines, and boundaries that separate researchers from those they research.…Read more
Sophie Bowlby and Eleanor Jupp, two of the co-authors of 'The New Politics of Home: Housing, Gender and Care in Times of Crisis', look at how coronavirus conditions can make us consider new aspects of home, care and the wider infrastructures that support them.…Read more
This Volunteers' Week, Daiga Kamerāde, co-editor of the Voluntary Sector Review journal, looks out how volunteering is changing because of the pandemic.…Read more
Ian Greener, co-author of 'Reforming Healthcare', reflects on some of the things the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light and explores some of the ways we can combat these issues in the future.…Read more