Social Work
Harriet Rowley, one of the editors of Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development, looks at acts of solidarity in everyday life that create connections across differences and communities, as we saw in the World Cup 2022. …Read more
Louise Hardwick, Molly Hardwick and Aidan Worsley research what it's like to live through austerity while on disability benefits and highlight how harmful policies consign disabled people to lives of ongoing suffering. …Read more
Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in the top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2022.…Read more
Transforming Society's most read articles from 2022, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more
Kim, a participant in the Covid Realities research project talks about her experience as a disabled wife and mother to four sons during the pandemic. …Read more
Carlene Firmin speaks to Jess Miles about extra-familial risks and harms and how our social work system was only ever designed to protect children within their homes. She suggests practical steps to allow us to offer safeguarding and wider social work responses to risks beyond families.…Read more
Launching their book ‘Social Work with the Black African Diaspora’, Paul Michael Garrett and Washington Marovatsanga call for more expansive and less Eurocentric ways of perceiving the social work task.…Read more
Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more
Jade Levell, author of 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement', exposes the link between children engaged in gang violence and an experience of childhood domestic abuse.…Read more
An impact case study of 'Re-imagining Child Protection' by Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris, highlighting the resonance the book had for those working within both policy and practice spheres.…Read more