Health and wellbeing
Stewart Lansley, author of 'The Richer, The Poorer', discusses how Labour's planned disability benefit cuts reflect a return to austerity, risking economic stagnation, social decline, and political fallout. …Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society Podcast Malcolm Carey and Gurnam Singh, guest editors of the Critical and Radical Social Work special issue on social work and social control, speak with Richard Kemp about the social work paradox of care and control.…Read more
Gender and Justice is a new global feminist journal committed to rigorous, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research, fostering critical discussions on inequality, injustice and gendered experiences.…Read more
Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl discusses how the imbalance between demands and resources in both work and welfare environments fuels mental illness, but a universal basic income could provide stability.…Read more
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks to Sally King about the myths and sexist tropes that blame the healthy reproductive body for the female-prevalence of emotional distress and physical pain.…Read more
Peter Beresford explores how neoliberal politics fuel division by scapegoating marginalised groups while benefiting the wealthy, urging a new inclusive approach to social justice.…Read more
Sally King, author of Menstrual Myth Busting, highlights how deeply ingrained gender and racial biases in medicine lead to the dismissal of women's reproductive health concerns, perpetuating medical misogyny.…Read more
Adrienne Yong examines how the UK’s strict immigration laws leave migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse trapped between fear of their abusers and fear of deportation, as legal protections remain inadequate and exclusionary.…Read more
Kate Newby and Laura N. McGinty examine how reverse mentoring at the University of Sunderland empowered marginalised students to share their experiences with staff, fostering institutional change and demonstrating its broader potential in social justice and support systems.…Read more
Duncan U Fisher examines how government reforms offer hope for improving care workers' pay and conditions, but without proper funding, meaningful change remains uncertain.…Read more