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#BreakTheBias
by Jessica K. Miller  |  23rd June 2022

In the latest in our ‘Women in academia and practice’ interviews, Jessica K. Miller discusses her personal journey to her career as a neuropsychologist, and her advice to young women today.  …Read more

Yellow crime scene tape
by Marianne Colbran  |  23rd June 2022

Marianne Colbran, author of 'Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, investigates how UK non-profit news sources are changing the remit of crime news to combat the harmful stereotyping of marginalised groups in traditional crime journalism…Read more

People working on sewing machines

This World Refugee Day, Evan Easton-Calabria reveals how, in a quest to foster self-reliance among refugee communities, states and agencies are neglecting to notice that refugees are struggling to survive. …Read more

Mother and child walking home from school
by Chris Pierson  |  17th June 2022

Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?' shows that the welfare state alone cannot realise social change – even if that social change is nothing more adventurous than reducing child poverty.…Read more

by Rebecca Megson-Smith with Karen Rowlingson  |  16th June 2022

Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Karen Rowlingson, Chair of the Social Policy Association, about their collaboration with Policy Press to promote the discipline of social policy, and in turn tackle today’s most important social challenges and problems.…Read more

Covid-19 vaccine bottles.

Seow Ting Lee discusses the implications of the vaccine ‘have-nots’ on the societies of the ‘haves’, when nearly 3 billion people worldwide have still not received a single dose.…Read more

School lockers painted in the colours of the rainbow
by Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard  |  8th June 2022

Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard, contributors to the Global Agenda for Social Justice, show why stakeholders of all ages and at all levels must address the social problem of anti-LGBTQ+ bias in school communities.…Read more

by Lena Näre and Nataliia Khavriuchenko  |  1st June 2022

Lena Näre and Nataliia Khavriuchenko consider how one of the most political of television events, the Eurovision Song Contest, masks the reality of war under a simulacrum of peace.…Read more

Female scientist looking at a molecule
by Jennifer Leigh Jennifer Hiscock Marion Kieffer and Larissa K.S. von Krbek  |  31st May 2022

In this episode, we speak to Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer Hiscock, Marion Kieffer and Larissa K.S. von Krbek about new ways to challenge the age-old issues of inequality and discrimination within the sciences.…Read more

Lights
by Peter Beresford  |  27th May 2022

Peter Beresford introduces the second of our participatory social policy webinars, taking place on 7 June, ‘Disabled people’s innovation for inclusive and participatory social policy’. …Read more