Sociology

Louise Ryan, the author of Social Networks and Migration, reveals the effect of social networks on migrants in London as they navigate their way in a new society.…Read more

Nando Sigona, one of the authors of Unravelling Europe's 'Migration Crisis', considers the multiple flaws in Rishi Sunak’s ‘five-point plan’ on immigration and its fatal consequences.…Read more

Mick Cooper, author of ‘Psychology at the Heart of Social Change’, speaks to Richard Kemp about the strategies could we implement for a psychology-informed progressive society.…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

Amy Beddows asks how the government can tackle men’s violence against women and highlights how society often focuses on women’s feelings of safety rather than on the reality that two women a week are murdered in the UK.…Read more

Stewart Lansley looks at the rise of poverty in the UK and shows how a strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom. …Read more

Sukhmani Khorana, author of 'Mediated Emotions of Migration', shows how migrants are routinely dehumanied by politicians and highlights how mainstream media outlets, including the ideologically left-wing, must do better in showing refugees as thinking, feeling subjects with agency.…Read more

Kaz Stuart and Lucy Maynar examine the what, why, and how of participatory research and suggest that when people see social action as a result of their work, they are more likely to feel confident in their ability to influence.…Read more

Dave Beer looks at the latest twists in the Twitter soap opera and considers how tech platforms influence and envision an imagined future. …Read more