Health and wellbeing

In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them.…Read more

Liz Loyde, author of Unpaid Care Policies in the UK, shows the role and purpose of policies on unpaid care and their place within the wider context of health and social care policies over the past three decades.…Read more

Jess Miles speaks with Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis, co-editors of Menopause Transitions and the Workplace, about how the menopause can impact work, what support organisations and individuals can offer and the key areas that researchers need to investigate next.…Read more

Richard Joy seeks lessons from the COVID-19 Inquiry for climate change policy making. Let’s not let anyone say in 20 years’ time that they should have twigged much earlier. …Read more

Megan Crossley shines a light on conditions for women in immigration detention centres, who are often erased from the immigration narrative.…Read more

Transforming Society's most read articles from 2023, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more

Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in our top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2023.…Read more

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