Social justice and equal opportunity
In this episode, we speak to Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer Hiscock, Marion Kieffer and Larissa K.S. von Krbek about new ways to challenge the age-old issues of inequality and discrimination within the sciences.…Read more
Peter Beresford introduces the second of our participatory social policy webinars, taking place on 7 June, ‘Disabled people’s innovation for inclusive and participatory social policy’. …Read more
Sarah Hupp Williamson, author of 'Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration', outlines some of the difficulties of assuming that conditions that drive human trafficking are the same everywhere, and that the same solutions can be applied internationally.…Read more
Based on their International Journal of Care and Caring article, Maria Cheshire-Allen and Gideon Calder look at the effects of COVID-19 on family carers of older people and their lack of recognition as a group entitled to protection. …Read more
Yên Mai looks at the role of emotions in Vietnamese LGBTQ activism.…Read more
In January 2022 the New York Times podcast Serial brought the story of the Trojan Horse Affair back to public attention. This case study shows how John Holmwood and Therese O’Toole’s book 'Countering Extremism in British Schools?' explores the response to the scandal.…Read more
Thom Brooks looks at the need for a new Citizenship Test in the UK and exposes the flaws in the current system. …Read more
Sarah Smith and Elena Stavrevska discuss whether the UN’s WPS agenda excludes categories of identity and realms of experience in efforts towards peace, justice and human security. Gender is not mutually exclusive. …Read more
Hefin Gwilym, Dave Beck & Sara Closs-Davies discuss the likely effectiveness of the upcoming Universal Basic Income pilot scheme in Wales involving care leavers. …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