Life stages and intergenerationality

In keeping with the themes of this year's 'International Eradication of Poverty Day', Anna Tarrant considers the impact of poverty on fathers and looks at the ways society can support fatherhood and challenge negative stereotypes. …Read more

With pension ages rising, people are having to work longer and many workers need to change their jobs later in life. David Lain examines the difficulties surrounding these 'job transitions' and suggests that they often don't provide the freedom or support they claim. …Read more

Inviting youth engagement groups to summits such as the G7 is tokenistic if these groups are excluded from high-level decision-making or if their insights and lived experiences are not valued. Safia Sangster speaks on the pressing need for global leadership to make decisions that reflect the diversity of the global population. …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

Based on their Journal of Poverty and Social Justice article, Traute Meyer and Paul Bridgen look at the effects of the post-Brexit immigration system on the household incomes of migrant workers.…Read more

Jade Levell, author of 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement', exposes the link between children engaged in gang violence and an experience of childhood domestic abuse.…Read more

Sheila Peace, author of The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality, calls for more attention to be paid to the interaction between global challenges and population ageing. …Read more

A profile of Project MAMA, the Bristol-based charity for migrant parents-to-be that Bristol University Press has been supporting throughout 2021. …Read more

Alisoun Milne explores the importance of social connections for mental health and how Covid19 has eroded identity, sense of self and self-worth in older people, particularly those in care homes.…Read more

Caroline McGregor and Pat Dolan consider the dichotomy of social work being both a force for change as well as being complicit in reinforcing social, health and economic inequalities.…Read more