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The authors of a recent article for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence conducted surveys with festival attendees to see the extent of safety at music festivals. These findings revealed that women consistently reported a distressing normalisation of unwelcome attention, harassment, invasive touching and violence.…Read more

by Tom Boland and Jody Moore-Ponce  |  8th August 2023

Tom Boland and Jody Moore-Ponce consider the limits of self-examination and ‘confessional critique’ in recent antiracist writing. This liberal, individually focused critique rarely translates into effective political action. …Read more

by Amy Beddows  |  4th August 2023

Amy Beddows considers how society shifts criticism and responsibility away from systemic failings and onto the individuals it is failing to safeguard. …Read more

by Victor Porto, Guilherme Benzaquen, Simone Gomes and Roxana Cavalcanti  |  2nd August 2023

Victor Porto, Guilherme Benzaquen, Simone Gomes and Roxana Cavalcanti explain how Bolsonaro’s far-right government impacted activism in the Brazilian Amazon. …Read more

Louise Ashley, author of 'Highly Discrimination', explains why changing the City’s misogynistic culture is particularly challenging.…Read more

by Ceryl Teleri Davies  |  20th July 2023

Ceryl Teleri Davies, author of 'Understanding Abuse in Young People’s Intimate Relationships', welcomes the shift in focus to the harmful impact of gendered social norms on the prevalence of abusive behaviour. …Read more

Thom Brooks, author of 'Reforming the UK’s Citizenship Test', exposes the serious failings of the UK Citizenship Test and argues that a new test is required that corrects its errors, is fit for purpose and enjoys wider public support for what is expected of new citizens…Read more

by Julia Margaret Zulver  |  13th July 2023

Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more

by Terri Givens and Rebecca Megson-Smith  |  6th July 2023

Terri Givens author 'Radical Empathy' considers how the book has sparked new thinking on how to create a sense of inclusion within any environment. …Read more

by Parthasarathi Shome  |  4th July 2023

Parthasarathi Shome, author of 'The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India', ponders the limitations of social science’s attempts to understand why poverty persists despite global and individual country attempts to eradicate it and alleviate inequality. …Read more