Publications
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Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy
(2011-02-23)
This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.
Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book looks at what a Nordic perspective can teach us about sexual harassment. Bringing researchers, writers and policy makers into dialogue in an ambitious ...
Britishness, belonging and citizenship
(2018)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Long term resident migrants to the UK, who often possess valuable skills for the economy, still face significant barriers to citizenship. In this important book, Dr Prabhat ...
Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book looks at what a Nordic perspective can teach us about sexual harassment. Bringing researchers, writers and policy makers into dialogue in an ambitious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Policy Review 36
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volume in the Social Policy Review series. Specialists explore local and multi-level ...
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 ...
Innovation in Social Care
(2024)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned ...
Social Policy Review 36
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volume in the Social Policy Review series. Specialists explore local and multi-level ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it.
Drawing on a range of research projects ...
Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it.
Drawing on a range of research projects ...
Innovation in Social Care
(2024)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned ...
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 ...
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)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence.
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, ...
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
(2022)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence.
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, ...
Comparative Urban Research From Theory To Practice
(2020)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC license. Reporting on the innovative, transdisciplinary co-production on sustainable urbanisation undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in ...
Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides ...
Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
(2024)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides scientific evidence to support arguments for equality and change in academic institutions both in terms of the business case and the interests ...
Affective Capitalism in Academia
(2023)
Chapter 9 EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative ...
Chapter 9 Academy in my flesh
(2023)
Chapter 9 EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative ...
Veiled Threats
(2008)
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman ...
Climate change and poverty
(2014-09-05)
Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel ...
How Britain Loves the NHS
(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 ...
Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe
(2021)
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Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, ...
Co-creation in Public Services for Innovation and Social Justice
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the idea and practice of co-creation in public services. Informed by practical action, lived experience and research from 10 countries across ...
Chapter 12 Conclusion: Implementing innovative social investment
(2019)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in ...
Dualisation of Part-Time Work
(2019)
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This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, ...
Implementing Innovative Social Investment
(2019)
The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood.
This edited collection brings ...
Desistance and Children
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence. ‘Desistance’ - understanding how people move away from offending – has become a significant policy focus in recent years, with desistance thinking transplanted ...
Liberty, equality, fraternity
(2006)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Paul Spicker's new book takes the three founding principles of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - and examines how they relate to social policy today. The ...
Bordering two unions
(2018)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How does Brexit change Northern Ireland’s system of government? Could it unravel crucial parts of Northern Ireland’s peace process? What are the wider implications of the ...
Chapter 1 The Problem of Adult Safeguarding
(2023)
Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence.
Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding ...
Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge ...
Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis
(2023)
ePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book illustrates life through the COVID-19 pandemic for ethnic minorities in Britain.
Drawing from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), ...
Urban Food Sharing
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda ...
Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations
(2023)
Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under
CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact ...
Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities
(2024)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and aspirations of an increasingly diverse ageing population? This edited collection ...
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 ...
Pioneering ethics in a longitudinal study
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study that uniquely enrolled participants in ...
Pioneering ethics in a longitudinal study
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study that uniquely enrolled participants in ...
Designing Prostitution Policy
(2017-04-26)
While the debate on regulating prostitution usually focuses on national policy, it is local policy measures that have the most impact on the ground. This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the design and ...
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 ...
Designing Prostitution Policy
(2017-04-26)
While the debate on regulating prostitution usually focuses on national policy, it is local policy measures that have the most impact on the ground. This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the design and ...
Combining Work and Care
(2024)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is growing and, as a result, policies that support working carers are becoming increasingly important. ...
Chapter 3 Referrals and Assessments
(2023)
Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence.
Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding ...
Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
(2019)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by disputes regarding basic questions of fact. And ...
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, ...
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 ...
Doing Human Service Ethnography
(2021)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations ...
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 ...
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, ...
Doing Human Service Ethnography
(2021)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations ...
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 largely being ignored in developing responses ...
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 largely being ignored in developing responses ...
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation
(2024)
EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
How can we use evidence to improve deradicalisation and violence prevention outcomes?
Based on work developed during the implementation of the cross-European ...
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation
(2024)
EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
How can we use evidence to improve deradicalisation and violence prevention outcomes?
Based on work developed during the implementation of the cross-European ...
COVID-19 Collaborations
(2022)
Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC BY NC ND licence.
This book presents the collaborative process of 14 research projects working together during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It documents their findings and explains ...
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 ...
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 ...
Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The #MeToo movement sparked many debates and increased the demand for more problematised perspectives on the issue of sexual harassment. This book opens up new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ineffective Policies
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Bad policies have repercussions that can be felt for decades. But what makes a bad policy? And how can it be reversed or improved?
Bringing together ...
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 ...
Social inclusion and higher education
(2012)
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 ...
What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care
(2024)
The EPDF and EPUB are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund. How do young people transitioning from care plan their future lives? ...
The governance of female drug users
(2015)
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.
Migrants and Refugees in Europe
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book explores the labour market integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers across seven European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adoption from Care
(2021)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND.
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 ...
Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services
(2023)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity theory as an alternative ...
Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services
(2023)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity theory as an alternative ...
Repealing the 8th
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has recognised the “unborn” as ...
Care Technologies for Ageing Societies
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal for solving the ‘crisis’ ...
Care Technologies for Ageing Societies
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal for solving the ‘crisis’ ...
Repealing the 8th
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has recognised the “unborn” as ...
Disputing Citizenship
(2014-01-27)
This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors develop a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle through an exploration of the entanglements ...
Intersections of ageing, gender, sexualities
(2019)
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to understand how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. Gender and sexuality are recognised as key factors in determining a person’s experience ...
Stopping rape
(2015)
Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape, together with case studies on their effectiveness in practice. Engaging with ...
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 ...
Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
(2019)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by disputes regarding basic questions of fact. And ...
The Escape from Poverty
(2023)
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license.
The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This ...
Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair
(2016)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other ...
Equality and Diversity
(2011-07-20)
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
Constructing the Higher Education Student
(2022)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Amid debates about the future of both higher education and Europeanisation, this book is the first full-length exploration of how Europe’s 35 million students are ...
Preventing Violence
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Preventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention.
...
The concept and measurement of violence against women and men
(2017)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? ...
Towards Inclusive Social Policies?
(2025)
Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and upended lives – but did it also open the door to more inclusive policies? Focusing on both attitudinal and institutional ...
Reimagining Homelessness
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Bringing to light the most contemporary research, policy and practice, ...
Justice in the Digital State
(2019)
Exploring how justice is delivered at a time of rapid technological transformation, Justice in the Digital State exposes urgent issues surrounding the modernisation of courts and tribunals whilst examining the effects of ...
The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work ...
Romani Communities and Transformative Change
(2020)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in ...