Health and wellbeing

Jill Hemmington and Sarah Vicary welcome the increased focus on reflection in CPD for social workers making decisions about the statutory detention of mental health patients. …Read more

Vanessa Beck deplores Kemi Badenoch’s response to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Menopause (APPG) recommendations on supporting menopausal women in the workplace. …Read more

Amy Beddows considers the insidious processes of victimism and responsibilisation woven through the societal responses to Nicola Bulley’s disappearance. …Read more

Jenny Edkins, co-editor of 'When This Is Over', explains why the trauma and implications of the pandemic are not going away. …Read more

Rhodri Davies, author of 'What Is Philanthropy For?', persuades us that knowing about the history of philanthropy is critical to understanding the implications of current philanthropic practice.…Read more

Sumanta Roy and Ravi Thiara consider the impact of the pandemic on Black and minoritised VAWG survivors and the organisations that support them. …Read more

Sarrah Kassem, author of, Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy, calls on us to delve deep into the realities of the workers behind our screens keeping the platform economy going.…Read more

Clare Bambra, Luke Munford, Sam Khavandi and Natalie Bennett, authors of 'Northern Exposure', discuss the parallel pandemics that struck the north of England so much harder than elsewhere, both in terms of mortality, health and economics.…Read more

This policy briefing by Nicky Gregson, the author of 'The Waste of the World' is for people who are trying to break this link between economic growth and waste by reducing the amount of material that becomes waste. …Read more

Arun Verma, the editor of Anti-Racism in Higher Education, charts the overwhelming impact of the book on the debate around diversity and inclusion in higher education across the UK.…Read more