Janet Salmons Rain makes the flowers grow, unless it becomes a flood that destroys the garden. Fire keeps us warm, unless [...]
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The social in the platform trap: Why a microscopic system focus limits the prospect of social machines
Markus Luczak-Roesch and Ramine Tinati “Filter bubble”, “echo chambers”, “information diet” – the metaphors to describe today’s information dynamics on social [...]
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Shadows of the Dead: Social Media and our Changing Relationship with the Departed
Debra Bassett The beginning of our lives are celebrated, chronicled and publicised, whilst the end of our lives are often whispered [...]
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The Casey Review on Opportunity and Integration: Re-inventing the Wheel
Leah Bassel Dame Louise Casey has officially reinvented the wheel. In her ‘review into opportunity and integration’, there is a persistent [...]
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Focus: Looking Critically at Gender and Sexuality
Susan F. Frenk and Mark McCormack Societies across the world have experienced large-scale social change related to gender and sexuality. For [...]
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Viewpoint: Consuming Sexualised and Gendered Bodies
Sue Scott I have been reading writing and researching on gender and sexuality since the 70s (since the early 90s much [...]
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On the Frontline: The birds and the bees
Simon Forrest When she assumed the role of Secretary of State for Education and Equalities in July 2016, Justine Greening raised [...]
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Policy Briefing: Adult Sex Work, Law and Policy: new horizons in the 21st Century
Maggie O’Neill and Alison Jobe The sex industry is a deeply embedded global institution. Structured by capitalism, commodification, sexuality, and [...]
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Wet-nursing: A significant female occupation in the early modern bodily marketplace
Charlotte Rhian Jones In recent years the multibillion-dollar trans-national surrogacy industry was brought to global attention when an Australian couple abandoned [...]
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Doctor-patient relationships and ‘coming out’ in healthcare
Michael Toze When Steve (1), a gay man in his late 60s, discussed his GP practice with me, he described almost [...]
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