Social and Public Policy

Transforming Society's most read articles from 2021, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more

The launch of ’The Unequal Pandemic: Health Inequalities and COVID-19’ as Open Access follows six months of media, academic and policy maker interest in how COVID-19 is experienced unequally in society.…Read more

Rianne Dekker, Caroline Oliver and Karin Geuijen explore the issues in their Policy & Politics article 'Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?'…Read more

This alternative Christmas list features books that address prominent social issues from 2021.…Read more

On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, Gary Craig outlines the extent of modern slavery, even in the ‘developed’ UK, and the steps we can take to eradicate it. …Read more

Read Heaven Crawley’s response to the refugee dinghy disaster in the Channel and download her ebook Unravelling Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’ for free. …Read more

In this article from the LSE Review of Books, Hartley Dean discusses the intellectual journey that influenced the writing of his revised edition of Understanding Human Need.…Read more

The new Digital Associate Editor for Policy & Politics, Elizabeth Koebele, shares some of her favourite Policy & Politics articles.…Read more

Stewart Lansley looks at poverty in the UK and how it has always been inextricably linked with inequality.…Read more

In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?', about current policy, the mistakes of the past, and ways in which the welfare state should be transformed in order to ensure collective wellbeing.…Read more