Two Convivial Thinkers ask whether higher ed can really ‘decolonise development’ when only some voices are heard and others are silenced. We must still aim to dismantle the logics of …

Will Labour lift the Hostile Environment? Predictions from Wales

Policy Press · 27 June 2024 English

Christine E. Haigh and Holly Mogford look at the Labour-run NHS in Wales as a possible indicator of how the party will deal with migrants’ access to health care, if …

Labour’s AI vision: Can technology really end poverty?

Policy Press · 26 June 2024 English

As part of the Academics Stand Against Poverty blog series, Georgia van Toorn, Joanna Redden, Lina Dencik, Jess Brand and colleagues challenge Labour to resist the temptation to rely on …

PODCAST: Veganism: imagining a world beyond contemporary food systems

Policy Press · 25 June 2024 English

If the way we eat now is bad for our health, bad for animal welfare and bad for the planet, is veganism the answer? Catherine Oliver and George Miller discuss …

PODCAST: Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change

Policy Press · 21 June 2024 English

Danny Dorling and Jess Miles talk about Keir Starmer and what the Labour party may offer, why higher taxes aren't a burden, how fear wrecks societies and the data that …

Political reading for the UK election

Policy Press · 21 June 2024 English

As the United Kingdom approaches the general election, this reading list examines some of the core areas shaping the election discourse. The post Political reading for the UK election appeared …

The less shiny side of the Olympics

Policy Press · 20 June 2024 English

Jules Boykoff, author of 'What Are the Olympics For?', reminds us of the dark side of the Olympics: more than 12,500 people have been forcibly displaced by authorities before the …

A migrant, a Brit and a robot walk into a bar: who will get a job?

Policy Press · 19 June 2024 English

A migrant, a Brit and a robot walk into a bar. Kostas Maronitis and Denny Pencheva, authors of 'Robots and Immigrants', discuss who will get the job. The post A …

A cost-of-learning crisis: Poverty among university students

Policy Press · 18 June 2024 English

Dave Beck addresses the plight of university students living in poverty as a result of the cost-of-living crisis. One in four regularly go without food because they simply cannot afford …

Indie bookshops: impact beyond the printed word

Policy Press · 17 June 2024 English

Bristol University Press celebrates Independent Bookshop Week by profiling three Bristol bookshops we love: Heron Books, Max Minerva's and Bookhaus. The post Indie bookshops: impact beyond the printed word appeared …