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Chapter 1 Introduction: 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 ...
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 ...
Local knowledge matters
(2018)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the ...
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 ...
Participation in Courts and Tribunals
(2020)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Barriers to participation in the court system is a recurring and important problem within the criminal justice system. This significant study reveals how participation is ...
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 ...
City Regions and Devolution in the UK
(2021)
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 4 The mechanisms of social care reform
(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 ...
Chapter 7 The limits of social care reform
(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 ...
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 5 Doing adult safeguarding with service users and carers
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tracing the consequences of child poverty
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on ...
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 ...
Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations
(2017)
Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Domestic Violence and Sexuality
(2015)
This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by heterosexual women and ...
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 ...
Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries
(2025)
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. During the cost-of-living crisis, schools and nurseries have had to step beyond their educational purpose to offer free food to families through food banks. This ...
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 ...
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 ...
Disability and Poverty
(2011-05-31)
This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a “vicious circle” (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also ...
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 ...
COVID-19, Inequality and Older People
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It draws upon novel qualitative longitudinal ...
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 ...
Northern Exposure
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic affected all parts of the country, it did not do so equally. Northern England was hit the hardest, exposing more than ever the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
Pathways to Recovery and Desistance
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Putting forward a new recovery roadmap and new reform models for prisoners reintegration, Best provides an accessible guide for the implementation of community partnerships for ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lande
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal ...
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 ...
Social Policy Review 35
(2023)
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In the latest edition of Social Policy Review, experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year.
The book addresses current issues and ...
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), ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What is Public Trust in the Health System?
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-ND licence.
This important book uses empirical evidence to explore the concept of public trust in health systems.
In doing so, it provides a comprehensive contemporary ...
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 ...
Environment in the lives of children and families
(2017)
Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Based on involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated ...
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, ...
Active ageing
(2014-05-14)
In this topical book older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or ...
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 ...
Communicative capacity
(2015-07-29)
Participatory democracy has become an unshakable norm and its practice is widespread. Nowadays, public professionals and citizens regularly encounter each other in participatory practice to address shared problems. But ...
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.
International Approaches to Rape
(2011-04-06)
By introducing readers to national perspectives of issues relating to rape, the book presents a comparative approach which highlights similarities and differences between countries, contexts, laws, key issues and policies ...
Adult Safeguarding Observed
(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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Health in Hard Times
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence and edited by a leading expert, this is an important book for anyone seeking to understand one of today’s most significant determinants of health. How has austerity impacted on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction
(2020)
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
Disasters are complex environmental, social and cultural events and processes yet disaster management approaches tend to simplify responses and homogenise affected populations. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Women in Supramolecular Chemistry
(2022)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on research carried out by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network, this book sets out the extent to which women working in STEM face ...
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 ...
Ethical Evidence and Policymaking
(2022)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and ...
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, ...
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 ...
Digital Public Employment Services in Action
(2025)
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the ongoing digital transformation of public employment services (PES) – the most radical remaking of the welfare state in a generation.
As PES shift from analogue to ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Advising in austerity: Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
(2017)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges ...
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 ...