Health and wellbeing
“The mad yellow book” gives a voice through a graphic novel to the marginalised working-class experience. Lisa McKenzie of Working Class Collective reflects on how The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class brought people together, through the solidarity it created virtually. …Read more
Dan McQuillan looks at the dangerous capacity of AI to criminalise women in the wake of Roe vs Wade and calls for ways of coming together that invert algorithmic exclusion via mutual aid and solidarity.…Read more
Gary Craig, co-editor of The Modern Slavery Agenda, looks at how Mo Farah revealing his story now has raised public consciousness about slavery.…Read more
Space for relational and community-based support are limited by the dominance of market-oriented, computer-based tasks, medication and risk-focused interventions. Rich Moth looks at how neoliberal reorganisation of services has actually taken community mental health practice in the opposite direction. …Read more
Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more
Tony Manzanetti reviews 'End of the Road: Remaking the Street as the Heart of the City' by William Riggs, a book that illuminates the importance of streets as an economic, social and natural space.…Read more
The joint effort between Policy Press and the British Society for Gerontology (BSG) has pioneered research in topics studying the impact of globalisation on the study of ageing, intimacy in later life, precarity and connecting digitalisation to trends in ageing. Tom Scharf celebrates the partnership between Policy Press and BSG, a springboard for pushing forward into new areas of research and action for positive change. …Read more
Fran Amery discusses the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on access to abortion and how the work done by grassroots organisations like AidAccess and Women on Web will have a vital role to play moving forward.…Read more
In the latest in our ‘Women in academia and practice’ interviews, Jessica K. Miller discusses her personal journey to her career as a neuropsychologist, and her advice to young women today. …Read more
Based on their International Journal of Care and Caring article, Maria Cheshire-Allen and Gideon Calder look at the effects of COVID-19 on family carers of older people and their lack of recognition as a group entitled to protection. …Read more