Health and wellbeing
On Transforming Society, Laura Edwards-Bailey, Nina Smyth, Tina Cartwright, and Jay-Marie Mackenzie reveal the state of caring for university students who self-harm. …Read more
Kelli Kennedy and Carolyn Snell investigate whether alliances between supermarkets and food charities are working to eliminate food insecurity. …Read more
Adam Kingsmith unpacks anxiety. Why has it become such a pervasive condition in modern life? Can it be explained as a byproduct of the alienation and isolation produced by neoliberal capitalism?…Read more
Maddy Power, author 'Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain', discusses some of the negative aspects of foodbanks, and the structural issues that jeopardise their inclusivity. …Read more
On Transforming Society, Amy E. Hodel, Sarah Barron and Anca Miron discuss why people lie to family members with dementia. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier about child poverty and intergenerational poverty and what we can do as individuals to make change.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal, Sophia Efstathiou and Johannes Volden about the pressing need for us to reconsider our relationship with meat, particularly in light of its significant impact on climate change.…Read more
Jeremy Dixon, author of 'Adult Safeguarding Observed', probes the rising number of adult safeguarding concerns being reported in the UK and what might be the reasons. …Read more
On Transforming Society, Laura Vickers-Rendall, our Commissioning Editor for Social and Public Policy, has curated a reading list that highlights the broad range of poverty-focused publications from Bristol University Press. …Read more
The authors of the new Open Access book, 'The Escape from Poverty', plot a path for how to break the vicious cycles that lead to the persistent and intergenerational perpetuation of poverty. …Read more