We are taking a break! After seven years and over fourteen hundred articles, Discover Society is having a rest from publishing [...]
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DID BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE COST LIVES? EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING DURING THE PANDEMIC
Martyn Hammersley During the pandemic, the UK Government’s policymaking has approximated more closely to the evidence-based model than in normal times. [...]
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FOCUS: UK’s first migrant camps – hope and hate waiting by the gates
Raoul Walawalker Enclosed within chained-linked fencing topped with barbed wire, the UK government has created its first ‘migrant camps’ at two [...]
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Viewpoint: FESTIVAL OF DISTURBANCES – An Independent, artist-led review Prevent Strategy
Julia Farrington The government has suspended its promised Independent Review of Prevent midway through its gathering of evidence. It has so [...]
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On the Frontline: What does the decision of the Constitutional Court mean for women’s human rights in Poland?
Agnieszka Kubal Many believe that the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme represents a likely threat to reproductive [...]
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Policy and Politics: Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration
Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. [...]
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Towards Better Public Policy: a comment on Ewert, Loer and Thomann
Alan Warde We have yet to discover the full implications of the Covid-19 episode for social organisation and the legitimacy of [...]
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Ratcheting up the Prevent agenda in schools
John Holmwood The government recently issued guidelines to accompany new regulations on the teaching of sex and relationship education in primary [...]
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“I Am Happy At Home”/“Come Back Now…”: The Internally Displaced in India’s COVID-19 Landscape
Ankushi Mitra and Mallika Magoon On May 8th 2020, an early morning freight express killed 14 jobless migrants who were sleeping [...]
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AFRICANS LIVES MATTER TOO: IN SOLIDARITY WITH #BLM
Evelyn Corrado As Africans stand with other people across the globe in the fight against racial injustice, there is a need [...]
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