Health and wellbeing

A Homes for Ukraine host recounts her experience of housing refugees and discusses the lack of government and local council support.…Read more

Rhetta Moran and Grainne McMahon chart the pernicious attempt by the Government to pit the British public against people seeking refuge. …Read more

Richard Machin looks at the UK’s response to the financial & housing needs of Ukrainian refugees, more than a year on from the Russian invasion, and argues that a stronger safety net is needed.…Read more

Ӧzlem Altıok explains how gender politics is intrinsic to the most critical election in Turkey’s history. …Read more

Authors of the International Journal of Care and Caring article ‘What happens when care homes close?’ explain the importance of their research at a time when care homes are facing tough economic challenges. …Read more

Richard Riddell, author of 'Schooling in a Democracy', calls for an urgent change in the role of Ofsted and a curtailment of its influence.…Read more

Jenny Huberman examines the crisis that ran parallel to the health one during COVID-19 – that of boredom. …Read more

The Media Sigils consider the value of representations of domestic violence in film when so few cases of men’s violence against women get into the news. …Read more

Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey and E.K Sarter, editors of 'Understanding Public Services', consider the innovations that public services are employing in the face of multiple challenges.…Read more

Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, authors of 'Uncomfortably Off', argue that the Spring Budget will do little to improve the situation of even the relatively well-off in society, while the underlying causes of our many crises are left unaddressed.…Read more