Life stages and intergenerationality

Check out our curated list of must-read open access books and articles across the social sciences for your summer reading. …Read more

Graham Scambler, author of 'Healthy Societies', questions what makes a society ‘healthy’. Can a country be considered healthy if improvements in health equity in its own population come at the expense of exploitation of others’?…Read more

Paul Lindley and Anne Longfield explain why they’ve launched the Raising the Nation Play Commission, which is urgently needed after a decade’s absence of a vision for optimising children’s opportunities to play.…Read more

Michael Toze, editor of 'Trans and Gender Diverse Ageing in Care Contexts', brings together the issues of ageing and gender diversity. …Read more

Catherine Needham considers what social care means in the UK and Australia. With elderly and disabled people more and more isolated, opportunities inaccessible and eligibility criteria increasingly exclusive, we need to rediscover the ‘social’ in social care.…Read more

Mel Hall and Jenny van Hooff consider the emphasis society places on whether or not women have children. Mothers and childfree women are pitted against each other, rather than common ground being shared. …Read more

As we launch the Journal of Global Ageing, Martin Hyde explains why we urgently need to redress gaps in our knowledge of global population ageing.…Read more

Emma Moormann, Anna Smajdor and Daniela Cutas discuss epigenetics and ask, if environmental factors can influence our gene expression and cell functioning, who is responsible for protecting our health? …Read more

Anton McLean, author of 'Educational Collateral Damage', examines why socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils continue to get a poor deal.…Read more

Sally Stapley and Claire Pentecost reveal the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on family carers of dementia patients. …Read more