Poverty, inequality and social justice

Stewart Lansley looks at the rise of poverty in the UK and shows how a strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom. …Read more

Sukhmani Khorana, author of 'Mediated Emotions of Migration', shows how migrants are routinely dehumanied by politicians and highlights how mainstream media outlets, including the ideologically left-wing, must do better in showing refugees as thinking, feeling subjects with agency.…Read more

Following on from Martin Parker's article on university strikes yesterday, Bob Smale looks at the strikes more broadly, the background to industrial unrest and how the government's current economic difficulties are to a significant extent of their own making.…Read more

Martin Parker looks at the expansion of UK higher education and suggests that while access to education has improved, it is now based on a market that treats students as bags of cash and academics as the labour necessary to extract the value from the students.…Read more

Mo Stewart, author of a recent article in Justice, Power and Resistance, joins those deriding Matt Hancock in the jungle and argues that it’s not a laughing matter when thousands have died from the policies he helped to create. …Read more

This policy briefing covers policy recommendations that focus on improving the lives of young people with the aim of reducing youth violence.…Read more

Katharina Burger and Martin Parker look at how Bristol has localised the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be leveraged to facilitate strategic change towards sustainability in a city environment. …Read more

On Transforming Society, Fiona Corby and Rob Creasy, discuss the dangers of poor housing conditions, specifically the growing problem of dampness. They draw on the recent case of Awaab Ishak, aged two, who died as a consequence of exposure to mould in his family’s one-bedroom flat. …Read more

Kim, a participant in the Covid Realities research project talks about her experience as a disabled wife and mother to four sons during the pandemic. …Read more

Ahmed Badawi Mustapha examines the area of 'digital poverty' in Sub-Saharan Africa and the impact this has on productivity and social wellbeing. COVID-19 has further exposed the problem and led to an increase in social problems. …Read more