Publications
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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 ...
Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
(2019)
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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 ...
City Regions and Devolution in the UK
(2021)
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Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Precarious Lives
(2014)
Presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...