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Social justice and equal opportunity

by Sharron FitzGerald and Lesley McMillan and Anna Carline  |  10th March 2025

Gender and Justice is a new global feminist journal committed to rigorous, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research, fostering critical discussions on inequality, injustice and gendered experiences.…Read more

by Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl  |  7th March 2025

Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl discusses how the imbalance between demands and resources in both work and welfare environments fuels mental illness, but a universal basic income could provide stability.…Read more

by Bridget Anderson  |  3rd March 2025

Bridget Anderson, editor of 'Rethinking Migration', shows how hostility to migration is increasingly used to fuel racism, blurring the lines between nationality, race, and class, as even ethnic minority citizens are 'migrantised' based on their perceived belonging rather than legal status. …Read more

by Silke Roth and Clare Saunders  |  28th February 2025

In 'Organising for Change', Silke Roth and Clare Saunders show how social change organisations resist far-right influence through adaptation, local mobilisation, and hybrid activism.…Read more

Mariia Makarova discusses how highly qualified Ukrainian refugees in the UK struggle with underemployment due to language barriers, unrecognised qualifications, visa limitations, and employer bias, despite their resilience and determination to rebuild their careers. …Read more

by Peter Beresford  |  17th February 2025

Peter Beresford explores how neoliberal politics fuel division by scapegoating marginalised groups while benefiting the wealthy, urging a new inclusive approach to social justice.…Read more

by Sally King  |  14th February 2025

Sally King, author of Menstrual Myth Busting, highlights how deeply ingrained gender and racial biases in medicine lead to the dismissal of women's reproductive health concerns, perpetuating medical misogyny.…Read more

by Adrienne Yong  |  11th February 2025

Adrienne Yong examines how the UK’s strict immigration laws leave migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse trapped between fear of their abusers and fear of deportation, as legal protections remain inadequate and exclusionary.…Read more

by Kate Newby and Laura N. McGinty  |  10th February 2025

Kate Newby and Laura N. McGinty examine how reverse mentoring at the University of Sunderland empowered marginalised students to share their experiences with staff, fostering institutional change and demonstrating its broader potential in social justice and support systems.…Read more

by Michael Crossley  |  7th February 2025

Michael Crossley, one of the Series Editors for the Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education, discusses how the series advances decolonial, interdisciplinary, and Global South-led education research.…Read more