On Transforming Society, Peter Matthews and Eleanor Formby continue the Academics Stand Against Poverty audit of party manifestos ahead of the General Election, this time looking at the experiences of …

PODCAST: How listening to convicts can transform justice

Policy Press · 14 June 2024 English

Convict’s voices have traditionally been ignored and marginalised in scholarship and policy debates, but how can we improve if we don’t learn from these lived experiences? Richard Kemp speaks with …

Why do we call it social care?

Policy Press · 11 June 2024 English

Catherine Needham considers what social care means in the UK and Australia. With elderly and disabled people more and more isolated, opportunities inaccessible and eligibility criteria increasingly exclusive, we need …

How our next government can deliver a manifesto for children

Policy Press · 10 June 2024 English

Our children are growing up in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world. Paul Lindley, author of 'Raising the Nation', explains why the next government needs to focus on providing for …

Change the benefits system from being coercive to enabling

Policy Press · 7 June 2024 English

As part of the Academics Stand Against Poverty blog series, Joanna Mack observes the start of the government’s electioneering at the expense of vulnerable people, diverting attention from the real …

Private-sector innovation is not enough to save the ocean

Policy Press · 6 June 2024 English

On World Oceans Day, Ryan MacNeil discusses the crucial role that the public sector can play in ocean-saving technology. Such innovations must not be left purely to the private sector. …

New perspectives on development

Policy Press · 5 June 2024 English

Ronaldo Munck, Matthew Johnson and Katy Jenkins introduce the latest special issue of Global Discourse offering new perspectives on development, and exploring the tensions and challenges embedded in the discipline. …

Cooperation: From social dilemma to social policy

Policy Press · 30 May 2024 English

John Lazarus introduces his guest-edited issue of Global Discourse on cooperation and social policy, and examines how the science of cooperation can be applied to societal issues such as refugee …

Making childfree and childless lives ordinary

Policy Press · 28 May 2024 English

Mel Hall and Jenny van Hooff consider the emphasis society places on whether or not women have children. Mothers and childfree women are pitted against each other, rather than common …

The housing crisis can be solved with the right political will

Policy Press · 24 May 2024 English

Steve Iafrati considers the reasons for the 89% increase in households living in temporary accommodation over the last decade, and calls for urgent intervention with an ambitious strategy to break …