Publications
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Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women
(2021)
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Using case studies from Europe and the UK, this book highlights those men who are taking action to eradicate violence against women. Examining the factors ...
Mapping Good Work
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In this illuminating study of working life, leading experts in the sociology of work draw on decades of large-scale survey data to consider various notions of the quality ...
Social inclusion and higher education
(2012-01-25)
This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK, the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the ...
COVID-19 Collaborations
(2022)
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This book presents the collaborative process of 14 research projects working together during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It documents their findings and explains ...
Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats
(2008)
We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is ...
The governance of female drug users
(2015-05-27)
Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, this book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies.
Using Evidence to End Homelessness
(2020)
Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to present new evidence-based ...
Rethinking Poverty
(2017)
Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. There is a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. This book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than ...
Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe
(2019)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed ...
The triple bind of single-parent families
(2018-03-07)
This edited collection examines the risks and issues faced by single parent-families and their children such as poverty, wealth/asset accumulation, health, well-being and combinative development, bringing together scholars ...
Adoption from Care
(2021)
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This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against parents’ rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and ...
The EU-China Security Paradox
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.It is often claimed that the UK is unusually attached to its National Health Service, and the last decade has seen increasingly visible displays of gratitude ...
Virtual Reality Methods
(2022)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Since the mid-2010s, virtual reality (VR) technology has advanced rapidly. This book explores the many opportunities that VR can offer for humanities and social ...
Femicide across Europe
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and ...
Gendering Women
(2014)
An account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book ...
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
(2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, ...
COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice
(2021)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in developing responses ...
What Works in Improving Gender Equality
(2021)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can adapt best practice in care policies from other countries. It provides ...
Living on the Edge
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Young people transitioning out of care towards independence, work and adulthood are on the edge of these phases of life. Considering previously neglected groups of ...
International Handbook of Health Literacy
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, ...