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    Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK 

    Byrne, Bridget; Alexander, Claire; Khan, Omar; Nazroo, James; Shankley, William (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 ...
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    Decriminalising Abortion in the UK 

    Sheldon, Sally; Wellings , Kaye (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 ...
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    City Regions and Devolution in the UK 

    Beel, David; Jones, Martin; Jones, Ian (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, ...
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    What Works in Improving Gender Equality 

    Rummery, Kirstein; McAngus, Craig; Edwards, Alcuin (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 ...
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    Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women 

    Westmarland, Nicole; Almqvist, Anna-Lena; Egeberg Holmgren, Linn; Ruxton, Sandy; Burrell, Stephen; Delgado Valbuena , Custodio (2021)
    "EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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 ...
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    Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats 

    Dingwall, Gavin; Hillier, Tim (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 ...
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    Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations 

    Lange, Chris; Nakagawa, Sachiko; Onyx, Jenny; Schwabenland, Christina (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. ...
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    Domestic Violence and Sexuality 

    Donovan, Catherine; Hester, Marianne (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 ...
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    Gendering Women 

    Clisby, Suzanne; Holdsworth, Julia (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 ...
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    Precarious Lives 

    Hodgkison, Stuart; Lewis, Hannah; Waite, Louise; Dwyer, Peter (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 ...
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    Adoption from Care 

    Pösö, Tarja; Skivenes, Marit; Thoburn, June (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 ...
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    Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics 

    Hall, Sarah H.; Hiteva, Ralitsa (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 ...
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    Reimagining Homelessness 

    O'Sullivan, Eoin (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, ...
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    Romani Communities and Transformative Change 

    Ryder, Andrew; Taba, Marius; Trehan, Nidhi (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 ...
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    Using Evidence to End Homelessness 

    Teixeira, Lígia; Cartwright, James (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 ...
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    Participation in Courts and Tribunals 

    Jacobson, Jessica; Cooper, Penny (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 ...
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    Femicide across Europe 

    Weil, Shalva; Corradi, Consuelo; Naudi, Marceline (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 ...
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    Bordering two unions 

    de Mars, Sylvia; Murray, Colin; O'Donoghue, Aoife; Warwick, Ben (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 ...
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    Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe 

    Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Kovacheva, Siyka; Rambla, Xavier (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 ...
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    Comparative Urban Research From Theory To Practice 

    Simon, David; Palmer, Henrietta; Riise, Jan (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 ...
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    The governance of female drug users 

    Du Rose, Natasha (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.
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    Social inclusion and higher education 

    Basit, Tehmina N; Tomlinson, Sally (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 ...
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    Urban Food Sharing 

    Davies, Anna R. (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 ...
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Implementing innovative social investment 

    Baines, Susan; Bassi, Andrea; Csoba, Judit; Flórián, Sipos (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 ...
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    Chapter 12 Conclusion: Implementing innovative social investment 

    Bassi, Andrea (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 ...
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    Implementing Innovative Social Investment 

    Baines, Susan; Bassi, Andrea; Csoba, Judit; Sipos, Flórián (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 ...
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    Lande 

    Hicks, Dan; Mallet, Sarah (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 ...
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    International Handbook of Health Literacy 

    Okan , Orkan; Bauer , Ullrich; Levin-Zamir, Diane; Pinheiro , Paulo; Sørensen, Kristine (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, ...
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    Active ageing 

    Principi, Andrea; Jensen, Per H.; Lamura, Giovanni (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 ...
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    Climate change and poverty 

    Fitzpatrick, Tony (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 ...
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    Communicative capacity 

    Bartels, Koen P.R. (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 ...
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    Intersections of ageing, gender, sexualities 

    King, Andrew; Almack, Kathryn (2019-03-01)
    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 ...
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    Local knowledge matters 

    Nugroho, Kharisma; Carden, Fred; Antlov, Hans (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 ...
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    The triple bind of single-parent families 

    Nieuwenhuis, Rense; Maldonado, Laurie (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 ...
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    Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy 

    Jones, Nicola; Sumner, Andy (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.
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    Equality and Diversity 

    Smith, Steven (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.
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    International Approaches to Rape 

    Gangoli, Geetanjali; Westmarland, Nicole (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 ...
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    Designing Prostitution Policy 

    Wagenaar, Hendrik; Altink, Sietske; Amesberger, Helga (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 ...
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    Disability and Poverty 

    Eide, Arne; Ingstad, Benedicte (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 ...
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    Disputing Citizenship 

    Clarke, John; Coll, Kathleen; Dagnino, Evelina; Neveu, Catherine (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 ...
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    Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe 

    Unt, Marge; Gebel, Michael; Bertolini, Sonia; Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, Vassiliki; Hofäcker, Dirk (2021)
    "EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, ...
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    Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction 

    Mort, Maggie; Rodríguez-Giralt, Israel; Delicado, Ana (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. ...
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    Mapping Good Work 

    Williams, Mark; Zhou, Ying; Zou, Min (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 ...
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    Dualisation of Part-Time Work 

    Nicolaisen, Heidi; Kavli, Hanne Cecilie; Steen Jensen, Ragnhild (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, ...
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    Veiled Threats 

    Rashid, Naaz (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 ...
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    Transformational Moments in Social Welfare 

    Brewis, Georgina; Ellis Paine, Angela; hardill, irene; Lindsey, Rose; Macmillan, Rob (2021)
    "ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary action, the family and ...
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    Rethinking Value Chains 

    Palpacuer, Florence; Smith, Alistair (2021)
    "EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains ...
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    Doing Human Service Ethnography 

    Jacobsson, Katarina; Gubrium, Jaber (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 ...
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    Local Civil Society 

    Mann, Robin; Dallimore, David; Davis, Howard; Day, Graham; Eichsteller, Marta (2021)
    Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil ...
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    The Unequal Pandemic 

    Bambra, Clare; Lynch, Julia; Smith, Katherine E. (2021)
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’. This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth ...
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    Making Research Matter 

    Lamont, Tara (2021)
    "EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination ...
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    Stopping rape 

    Lombardo, Emanuela; Francis, Brian; Sugarman, David; Strid, Sofia; Krizsán, Andrea; Olive, Phillipa; Towers, Jude; Walby, Sylvia; May-Chahal, Corinne; Franzway, Suzanne; Armstrong, Jo; Agarwal, Bina (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 ...
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    Tracing the consequences of child poverty 

    Boyden, Jo; Dawes, Andrew; Dornan, Paul; Tredoux, Colin (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 ...
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    Repealing the 8th 

    de Londras, Fiona; Enright, Mairead (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 ...
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    COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice 

    Beresford, Peter; Farr, Michelle; Hickey, Gary; Kaur, Meerat; Ocloo, Josephine; Tembo, Doreen; Williams, Oli (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 ...
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    Britishness, belonging and citizenship 

    Prabhat, Devyani (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 ...
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    Environment in the lives of children and families 

    Phoenix, Ann; Boddy, Janet; Walker, Catherine; Venman, Uma (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 ...
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    COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice 

    Williams, Oli; Tembo, Doreen; Ocloo, Josephine; Kaur, Meerat; Hickey, Gary; Farr, Michelle; Beresford, Peter (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 ...
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    Pioneering ethics in a longitudinal study 

    Birmingham, Karen (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 ...
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    Justice in the Digital State 

    Tomlinson, Joe (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 ...
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