Health and wellbeing
As yet another private home care provider goes out of business, Peter Scourfield discusses why the quasi-marketisation of adult social care has failed and how many are impacted.…Read more
Kit Colliver, John Hudson, Neil Lunt, and Jed Meers delve into the critical importance of the Household Support Fund for countless families, shedding light on the individuals whose futures hang in the balance.…Read more
Sally Stapley and Claire Pentecost reveal the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on family carers of dementia patients. …Read more
This briefing, based on the new book Community Work, by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester and Ed Garrett, is about how important theory is to policy and practice, especially when we as practitioners are concerned with issues such as poverty and working towards social justice.…Read more
Alex Stevens, author of 'Drug Policy Constellations' discusses how drug policy actors don’t base their policies on research evidence, but on shared and difficult-to-shift ethical and political commitments. …Read more
A profile of Suicide Prevention UK, Bristol University Press' 2023 charity of the year. Through our fundraising activities and with the support of our partners and authors, we raised £13,000 for this vital organisation offering a lifeline to individuals in crisis. …Read more
Heidi J Larson and Alexander H Toledo look at how declining public trust in institutions and in each other is affecting vaccination take-up and organ donation. …Read more
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