Social justice and equal opportunity
Erin Rennie examines how idolisation of professional footballers means that when they commit violence against women, fans rush to their defense without consideration, which undoes so much of the progress made by the #MeToo movement.…Read more
Sumanta Roy and Ravi Thiara consider the impact of the pandemic on Black and minoritised VAWG survivors and the organisations that support them. …Read more
This policy briefing by Kate Andersen, the author of 'Welfare That Works for Women?', is particularly relevant at the current time given that the UK government has recently further expanded welfare conditionality with the aim of increasing moves into paid work.…Read more
Sarrah Kassem, author of, Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy, calls on us to delve deep into the realities of the workers behind our screens keeping the platform economy going.…Read more
Luke Martell, author of Alternative Societies, calls for us to learn from a multitude of lived utopias around the world and scale them up to create an alternative society that is green, just and democratic. …Read more
Jason Brown and John Middleton, contributors to the Global Agenda for Social Justice 2, add endangered languages to the list of threats posed by climate change.…Read more
Clare Bambra, Luke Munford, Sam Khavandi and Natalie Bennett, authors of 'Northern Exposure', discuss the parallel pandemics that struck the north of England so much harder than elsewhere, both in terms of mortality, health and economics.…Read more
In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers, authors of 'Against Youth Violence', about a new way of making sense of youth violence by putting it in the context of social harm.…Read more
Arun Verma, the editor of Anti-Racism in Higher Education, charts the overwhelming impact of the book on the debate around diversity and inclusion in higher education across the UK.…Read more
Safak Tartanoglu Bennett and Sian Moore consider the change in the backdrop to this new winter of discontent and highlight how inequality has increased, trade union composition has shifted and strikes are no longer simply about pay. …Read more