Poverty, inequality and social justice

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

Marianne Colbran, author of 'Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, investigates how UK non-profit news sources are changing the remit of crime news to combat the harmful stereotyping of marginalised groups in traditional crime journalism…Read more

Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?' shows that the welfare state alone cannot realise social change – even if that social change is nothing more adventurous than reducing child poverty.…Read more

Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Karen Rowlingson, Chair of the Social Policy Association, about their collaboration with Policy Press to promote the discipline of social policy, and in turn tackle today’s most important social challenges and problems.…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

Based on 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement' by Jade Levell, this policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations including a dramatic rethink on the ways in which children are supported both during and after an abusive adult perpetrating DVA is present in their lives. …Read more

Seow Ting Lee discusses the implications of the vaccine ‘have-nots’ on the societies of the ‘haves’, when nearly 3 billion people worldwide have still not received a single dose.…Read more

Based on Hidden Voices by Joe Whelan, this policy briefing recommends setting welfare rates at a rate above the poverty line, reframing and reconstituting welfare as a valuable and necessary social good, and moving approaches to welfare away from being sanction based. …Read more

Kay Cook, author of 'The Failure of Child Support', identifies to what extent the gender order is entrenched through the failure of child support to deliver upon children’s right to receive a share of both parents’ resources.…Read more

Prof Banu Özkazanç-Pan talks about the academic sacrifices she has had to make in order to find support and wellbeing as a woman within an institutional environment, and what might be necessary to bring about a more inclusive academic environment. …Read more