Poverty, inequality and social justice
Stephen J. Ball looks at the impact of COVID-19 on schools and education policy, questioning who exactly is benefitting from the rise in EdTech products and the government’s National Tutoring Programme.…Read more
After five years of building the Bristol University Press brand, Victoria Pittman, Head of Commissioning, talks about the global expansion we have achieved. …Read more
Lee Marsden presents findings from his study examining the way social class has been portrayed in the UK media during the age of austerity.…Read more
Vineet Thakur profiles the Indian liberal politician and roving ambassador Srinivasa Sastri, whose name has been largely forgotten in the romanticisation of his friend and political opponent, Gandhi.…Read more
Bob Hudson, author of 'Clients, Consumers or Citizens?: The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in England', identifies three essential steps to changing the conversation around how social care can improve people's lives.…Read more
Teresa Crew, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bangor University, speaks about diversity in the academy and the importance of paying attention to the experiences of working-class academics.…Read more
Taliah Drayak outlines some of the new online links made during the pandemic to support vulnerable groups, but also the struggles faced by parents living apart from their children who didn’t have access to the internet.…Read more
Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta and Kate Morris argue for the light that COVID-19 has shone on the inequalities scarring our society to include in its focus child protection and its relationship to wider social and economic policies. …Read more
Francesco Laruffa talks about his research article "Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness" which is currently available free to download from Policy & Politics.…Read more
Laura A. Dean looks at how the pandemic has interrupted response networks for human trafficking and made people more vulnerable. …Read more