Publications
Now showing items 1-40 of 103
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)
"ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Eco-Social Polity?
(2025)
The devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent ...
Civic Engagement in Later Life
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Older adults’ civic engagement has become a key concern in academic and policy debates in recent years. However, existing studies on this topic remain fragmented ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Poverty and Unmet Needs
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address the inadequate and unequal provision of care and support to older and disabled people. ...
Getting Better
(2025)
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, ...
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 ...