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Agentic Misrecognition
Agentic Misrecognition offers a critical examination of how misrecognition shapes power, agency and conflict in world politics. Conceptualizing misrecognition as a graded spectrum of visibility and value across world order, the volume examines how actors systematically diminish the agency of oth...
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Gender, Power and Sexual Violation at University
This powerful book explores women university students’ experiences of sexual violation and critically examines institutional responses to the issue. Drawing on original research, it applies a feminist lens to the legal, neoliberal, punitive and ‘fun-focused’ discourses which shape experiences and...
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Climate Harms and Criminal Justice
Climate change is reshaping every part of society — and criminal justice is no exception. This groundbreaking book examines how the climate crisis is transforming policing, courts, corrections and communities, from disaster responses and harm prevention to criminalisation of protest and prison de...
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Understanding Young Fatherhood
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to become a father at a young age today? This volume brings together research about the lived experiences of fathers aged 25 and under. Drawing on diverse contexts across the Global North and South, it explores how youn...
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Turning Global Rights into Local Realities
Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this book explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of a range ...
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Everyday Qualitative Analysis
The richest insights in qualitative projects often emerge not from established or formulaic analytic approaches but from everyday, improvised ways of working with data. Everyday Qualitative Analysis reveals these often-unseen creative practices, showing how researchers think, feel and make meanin...
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Wild Yeast Economies
Wild Yeast Economies uses the culinary metaphor of fermentation to explore the nuts and bolts of social change. It asks whether there can be recipes for organizing on a neighbourhood level in ways that respond to widespread societal challenges such as democratic erosion. The book takes the reade...
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Disabling Capitalism
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpai...
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Queer Insights on Negotiating Sex
Sexual consent is often framed as the boundary between sex and sexual violence, frequently upheld as the key to transforming unethical sexual cultures. But what of the factors shaping people’s positive experiences of negotiating sex, beyond the minimal threshold of avoiding sexual violence? This ...
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Couples at Work
This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework, and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies, and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the ‘doi...
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Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure
Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-cla...
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Understanding Muslim Family Life
This book offers an innovative perspective on Muslim family life in British society. Drawing on recent debates, the book considers how theories of family have overlooked Muslim families and offers a comprehensive framework to address this oversight. Informed by decolonizing approaches, the book ...
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Women's Ageing and Sexuality
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality? This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of ‘unruliness’,...
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The Limits of Immersion
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Virtual Reality promises immersion for all, yet it is built around assumptions of able-bodied users that leave many disabled people behind. Drawing on original research with users, care providers and developers, this book examines how m...
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Gentrified Labour
What counts as ‘good’ work under contemporary Western capitalism? As the traditional promise of identity and status by middle-class occupations becomes increasingly difficult to sustain, many workers turn to manual work in search of meaning. The book argues that this represents a mechanism of mid...
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Relationships in Community Work
In community development, relationships are the driving force behind meaningful change—yet they are rarely explored in depth. This textbook unpacks the complex, creative and often subtle relational work at the heart of effective practice. From building trust with participants to collaborating wit...
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The Sustainability Blueprint
This book shows businesses and individuals how to take practical steps on sustainability. As the urgency around climate change intensifies, businesses and individuals are grappling with the need for meaningful action with enlightened self-interest. The book breaks down key sustainability concepts...
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Divorce Migration
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on women’s experiences of divorce among migrant communities from the Middle East and South Asia in Denmark, this book traces how gendered power operates across families, communities and state institutions. Through rich first-per...
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Out of Control
Dyke uses a planetary perspective on the sustainability challenges we face to think about human civilization in a new way, providing a clear route to a flourishing future for humanity.
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Whistleblowing and Retaliation in the United Nations
The United Nations aims to maintain international peace and security, while protecting human rights and upholding international law. However, United Nations whistleblowers over the years have revealed deep dysfunction within the organisation. This illuminating book combines first-hand accounts o...
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Apocalypse Capitalism
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and the US, this book uncovers how Cold War planners planned to keep capitalism alive even after a nuclear apocalypse. T...
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Women and Political Participation
This book explores the gendered effects of devolution and its ramifications in terms of new institutionalism, social movement theory and ideas of social justice and political citizenship. The authors expand upon research from central and local government in Wales and situate it in a wider context...
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Personalisation in Public Services
What happens when public services get personal? From healthcare to criminal justice, policy makers increasingly champion tailored and individualised approaches. Digital advances have helped forge these ambitions into reality, yet the promises of greater efficiency, better outcomes, and meaningful...
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Transforming Society (Second Edition)
Social work and welfare services are being transformed in the wake of political and economic upheaval and increasing social inequality. This fully updated text enables students to relate sociology to daily lives and shows how structural factors impact upon social work service users and profession...
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Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America
Could digital platforms be more than just apps for short-term gigs and on-demand jobs? This book shows how the digital solidarity economy offers a bold alternative, where cooperation, fairness, and sustainability reshape work and technology. Through Latin American case studies, it uncovers inno...
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Carceral Arts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary collection examines the thriving world of arts and creativity within prisons and other sites of confinement, revealing the complex terrain of ‘carceral aesthetics’. Set within environments marked by repression, cont...
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The Good Business School
What makes a ‘good’ business school amid culture wars, inequality, and rising right-wing populism? This book argues that business schools cannot hide behind technocratic or scholarly neutrality. As social impact and stakeholder capitalism moved from boardrooms into lecture theatres, they became l...
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Disability, Education and International Development
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can the international development community better support inclusive education for children with disabilities in low and lower-middle income countries? This timely book critically examines current approaches to disability and educatio...
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Creative Value Chains
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Creative industries are increasingly dominated by digital platforms, yet the distribution of value within these sectors, from music and video games to visual arts, remains deeply unequal. Recent examples include the remuneration of artist...
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Policy Expertise in Times of Crisis
From financial shocks and health pandemics to climate change and national security threats, crises expose the faultlines in how policy expertise is sought, filtered and acted upon. This edited collection offers a rigorous, comparative analysis of governmental policy advisory systems under pressur...
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Safeguarding Boys and Young Men from Child Criminal Exploitation
Safeguarding policy on child criminal exploitation (CCE) offers growing protections for both girls and boys, yet significant limitations persist. For boys and young men, this often includes being suspected as perpetrators, leaving many experiencing CCE – particularly those from marginalised and m...
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Legal Education in the Classroom
Can children master legal concepts while having fun? This innovative book explores two groundbreaking educational initiatives which bring legal education to primary schools across the UK and Ireland. It uniquely draws upon the fields of Law and Education to present best practice in engaging child...
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Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs
How do young people develop through youth arts programs and how can these programs reflect and extend young people’s personal interests? How can youth arts support participatory democracy and social change? Frances Howard puts forward a powerful case for the value of youth arts programs, whilst ...
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Youth Work
Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to address social and political priorities. ‘Open access’ youth work – which is informal, youth-centred and open-ended – has faced the most criticism in favour of target-driven approac...
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AI in Higher Education
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping university learning, both challenging and empowering educators and students. Covering the history, technology, ethics, and educational applications of AI, this book provides concrete examples of how students and teachers are already integrating these tools in m...
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Health for All
This book advances an argument for global health justice: a just world in which everyone, regardless of nationality or place of birth, has genuine opportunities to be healthy. It presents a comprehensive vision of health equity beyond borders, which takes seriously the complex reality of global ...
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A Care Manifesto for the Early Years
Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis. A focus on education at the expense of care has contributed to the complexities of childcare practice being overlooked and undervalued. Drawin...
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Tea and the Queen?
The Government has named the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths. Since 2014, teachers in England have been required to promote these values in schools to all pupils. What are the imp...
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Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making. This book reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate global asymmetries in their daily work. Through fieldwork and ...
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Social Policy Review 38
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the latest volume of the long-established Social Policy Review series, leading experts critically assess key developments and debates in social and public policy over the past year. Offering a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary i...
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Managing Trauma in the Workplace
People who have experienced trauma can often find it challenging to talk about it and to seek support from their workplaces when needed. Managing Trauma in the Workplace brings together expert advice from industry and academia to address the gap for organisations and decision-makers in understand...
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The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood
Around 1 in 10 children born in the UK are fathered by men under the age of 25. These men are often from socially disadvantaged areas and frequently overlooked in both research and practice settings. Using findings from a major Economic and Social Research Council study, supplemented with additio...
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Belonging and Belongings
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place within the household of each parent. The authors analyse how family practices wit...
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The Children of Looked After Children
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Based on groundbreaking original research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the issues surrounding pregnancy and parenthood for young people in and leaving care. Featuring the voices of care-experienced parents, together wi...
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Diverse Voices in Intellectual Property Law
Who gets to control culture, knowledge, and innovation? From patents over Indigenous traditional knowledge to appropriation of LGBTQ+ symbols, and copyright over translated fan works, intellectual property law sits at the heart of struggles over power, identity, and belonging. Yet these intersect...
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Reimagining Voluntary Sector Leadership
The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different...
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Community Development Theories
This book is grounded in Afrocentric community development theoretical framing and perspectives. It curates nuanced perspectives, experiences and case studies to anchor the discipline and practice in traditional worldviews, values, and knowledge systems that draw on ubuntu-based interconnectednes...
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Public Policies for Inclusive Democracy
In an era dominated by technocratic debates about efficiency, effectiveness, and the economy, the fundamental purposes of public policy are too often left unquestioned. This narrow focus risks obscuring the democratic and redistributive aims that give state action its legitimacy. Drawing on polit...
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Faith-Based Youth Work
Christian youth work is the largest sub-section of the youth work sector, with Christian youth workers having outnumbered secular youth workers in the UK for decades. Despite this, faith-based practice remains critically under-theorised and existing frameworks struggle to capture what truly disti...
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Psycho-Social Methods in Social Work Research
There is a growing interest in the use of psycho-social research methods but what is involved when researchers get up close and personal to human feelings, activities and interactions in a social work setting? This book brings together the work of academics, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers...
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Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding
From sexual violence within friendship groups to being groomed in community contexts for transporting drugs, extra-familial risks and harms continue to challenge traditional safeguarding approaches in the UK. These issues inhibit young people’s safety and well-being and reduce their opportunities...
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Collaborative Housing, Ageing and Social Care
As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in Collaborative Housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing. Comb...
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Youth Arts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Collaboration, critical thinking and cultural competency are essential skills that shape young people’s futures. These key skills are often cultivated in the informal, creative spaces that society easily overlooks. Drawing on the Austral...
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Resolving the Workforce Problem in Health and Social Care Services in Europe
Europe’s health and social care systems are suffering from chronic staff shortages, rising inequalities and the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues pose urgent questions about the sustainability and resilience of public services across the continent. This edited volume ...
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Policy Analysis in India
What drives policy choices in the world’s largest democracy, and how do analysts shape decisions that affect more than a billion people? Bringing together leading scholars and seasoned practitioners, Policy Analysis in India maps the evolution of policy analysis since the country became independe...
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Council Tax and Wider Property Taxation Reform
For decades, British housing taxation has fuelled inequality, distorted housing markets and undermined local government finance. This urgent book makes the case for clear, evidence-based reform. A multidisciplinary analysis of the problems generated by council tax and stamp duty, this book stres...
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Making Co-production Sustainable
Public services increasingly rely on co-production to tackle complex social challenges, yet many initiatives struggle to endure beyond short-term success. Making Co-production Sustainable bridges the gap between academic theory and real-world implementation, offering a comprehensive roadmap for ...
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Transdisciplinary Approaches in Social Work
Rooted in Eurocentric and North American beliefs, conventional social work theory increasingly fails to address the interconnected, global nature of contemporary social problems. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across environmental studies, gender studies, philosophy, anthropolo...
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Situating and Safeguarding Young People in the Caribbean
This interdisciplinary collection draws on the insights of poets, academics, policy makers and practitioners to offer new ways of understanding and responding to the social, psychological and structural challenges facing Caribbean youth today. Using decolonial and social ecological frameworks, t...
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Children, Poverty and Education
Educational inequality is not an unfortunate inescapable by-product of poverty, but the predictable outcome of long-standing policy failure. Moving beyond familiar reporting of deprivation, this book traces a causal chain from elite wealth preservation, political decision-making and weak fiscal ...
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The Labour Government and Social Policy
In 2024, following years of austerity, political instability and external shocks including Brexit, COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis, the Labour Party was voted into power in the UK. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the Labour government from a social policy perspective. Through e...
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Aging and Climate Change
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Climate change is transforming the lives of older people, who face increased risks from extreme heat, climate-related disasters, air pollution, and shifting disease patterns. This groundbreaking volume examines why older adults are dispro...
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The Emotions of Social Workers
Emotions are central to our humanity and yet, when it comes to social work, the experiences of joy are often forgotten or overlooked, while ‘difficult’ emotions like shame, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness are often dismissed as unprofessional. This groundbreaking book challenges the taboo aroun...
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Time, Politics and Place
Time, Politics and Place critically explores time as a political and strategic resource and currency shaping urban governance, planning processes and planning system reform across the UK and Europe. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates how time has been undervalued in spatial pl...
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Global Workers and Entangled Crises
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The early 2020s brought a torrent of disruptions – COVID-19, war-amplified inflation and migration blockages – that reshaped global labour in uneven and deeply unequal ways. Across the Global North and South, vulnerable workers faced dete...
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Transitions
We all go through transitions in life: some are small and seemingly mundane, while others are big and more obviously life-changing. In everyday life, we talk about transitions without thinking too much about the term. Offering a clear, concept-led framework, this book provides a fresh way of und...
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Understanding the Complexity of Pacing in Long Covid
For millions with Long Covid and energy-limiting conditions, pacing is survival. While most research focuses on causes and treatments, this book examines the overlooked 'long' of Long Covid and its many temporal disruptions. Drawing on complex realism and thousands of social media posts, the auth...
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Singled Out: Single Parent Discrimination and What to Do About It
In this powerful exposé, single parent campaigner and policy expert Ruth Talbot weaves together statistics, real life stories and policy analysis to reveal the true extent of single parent discrimination in Britain today. Drawing on new research, interviews and her own lived experience, Talbot d...
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Girlhoods and Social Action
Working-class girls make vital contributions to society through social action, yet their efforts are too often rendered invisible or unrecognised. Girlhoods and Social Action confronts the persistent inequalities shaping participation, revealing how intersecting power relations related to gender,...
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Precarity and Parenthood
This landmark study follows the Nour family – a Moroccan immigrant couple and their eight French-born children – for more than a decade, offering an intimate and unflinching portrait of migration, resilience and inequality. Through sustained ethnographic observation and life-story interviews wit...
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Communities and Urban Regeneration in the UK
Community control can be a powerful means of limiting the injustices of gentrification and allowing more socially just regeneration to take place. The book is about how we can make and retain places and community assets for people, rather than for capital, and the real-world policy interventions ...
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Breaking Up with Birth Control
An essential resource for women navigating their own reproductive healthcare and making decisions as active participants with fully informed consent Women are staging a reproductive rebellion. For decades, public health has organised reproduction around a simple premise: women should prevent preg...
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The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape key decisions about housing and urban development, little attention has been paid to the politics a...
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Why Research Leadership Matters
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What makes some research teams thrive while others falter – even when talent and funding are comparable? Why Research Leadership Matters is the first focused, extensive and evidence-based analysis of research leadership – what it is, why ...
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The Mental Health of Care-Experienced Children and Young People
Care-experienced children and young people are nearly five times more likely than their peers to experience mental health difficulties, with close to half meeting criteria for a diagnosable disorder. Social workers play a central role in improving the mental health of care-experienced children an...
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Global Crises
In today’s world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level. This book explores the impact of these crises on applied social research. It shows how using a complexity framework in research is key to tackling global challenges effectively. By featuring illustrative examples from the ...
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Story Making as Collaborative Artistic Research
This book boldly reframes story-making as a form of artistic research grounded in creative practice. Through vivid examples, it demonstrates how collaborative artistic processes can unsettle entrenched hierarchies, open up alternative forms of knowledge-making and attend more sensitively to issue...
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Intersectionality in Higher Education
For staff and students across higher education, we know that intersecting identities, legacies, cultures, and challenges shape opportunities to participate, stay, and succeed. Yet, institutions continue to treat inequalities in isolation, exacerbating the widening gaps through which marginalised ...
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Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure
Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse remains deeply complex. Despite positive developments within criminal justice systems, child protection services and therapeutic provision too often place the burden of “coming forward” on the individual, overlooking the profound structural and societal barrie...
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Research Ethics in the Real World (Second Edition)
How can researchers navigate ethical dilemmas in an era of rapid technological change and growing calls for decolonisation? This fully revised second edition addresses the evolving landscape of research ethics, equipping social science researchers with the tools to conduct rigorous, responsible ...
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City of Bots
Urban planning has moved online, transforming community engagement into a digital process—but this shift has opened the door to disruption. Automated social media accounts, or bots, now infiltrate forums, surveys and virtual meetings, skewing debates and disrupting development projects. This boo...
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Youth Unemployment and Devolution
Youth unemployment and work insecurity have been prevailing issues for governments across Western Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. These issues have intensified after Brexit and the pandemic, with young people consistently overrepresented in the gig economy and all forms of work insecurity...
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Key Texts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education
Higher education is changing rapidly in response to the global challenges of the twenty-first century, but for disciplinarily trained lecturers interdisciplinary curriculum and course design is a time-consuming process fraught with difficult pedagogical choices. This reader is the first book to...
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Rising Demand and Distress in Emergency Care
As emergency departments and ambulance services face rising demand, a considerable share of patients present with needs classified as 'non-urgent', generating strain, frustration and moral judgement across care systems. The first of its kind to apply Bourdieusian field theory to emergency care, t...
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Ageing and Technology
Ageing and technology are shaping each other in profound ways, yet they are often treated as separate in current thinking. This book brings social gerontology into conversation with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to show how ageing and technology are co-constituted. Drawing on empirical cas...
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From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 2)
Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While the previous book introduced the author’s widely adopted Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM), this ...
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