Health and Social Care
Emma Moormann, Anna Smajdor and Daniela Cutas discuss epigenetics and ask, if environmental factors can influence our gene expression and cell functioning, who is responsible for protecting our health? …Read more
Rebecca Megson-Smith with Kate Anderson chart the influence of a Bristol University Press book on the debate on Universal Credit. Kate's coverage of research with mothers affected by the conditionality clause in UC has given a voice to those at the sharp end of Whitehall decision making.…Read more
As yet another private home care provider goes out of business, Peter Scourfield discusses why the quasi-marketisation of adult social care has failed and how many are impacted.…Read more
Sally Stapley and Claire Pentecost reveal the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on family carers of dementia patients. …Read more
A profile of Suicide Prevention UK, Bristol University Press' 2023 charity of the year. Through our fundraising activities and with the support of our partners and authors, we raised £13,000 for this vital organisation offering a lifeline to individuals in crisis. …Read more
Heidi J Larson and Alexander H Toledo look at how declining public trust in institutions and in each other is affecting vaccination take-up and organ donation. …Read more
In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them.…Read more
Liz Loyde, author of Unpaid Care Policies in the UK, shows the role and purpose of policies on unpaid care and their place within the wider context of health and social care policies over the past three decades.…Read more
On Transforming Society, Laura Edwards-Bailey, Nina Smyth, Tina Cartwright, and Jay-Marie Mackenzie reveal the state of caring for university students who self-harm. …Read more
Adam Kingsmith unpacks anxiety. Why has it become such a pervasive condition in modern life? Can it be explained as a byproduct of the alienation and isolation produced by neoliberal capitalism?…Read more