Christina Boswell and Eugenia Rodrigues The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The [...]
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Behind the fence: The visual culture of the refugee crisis
Nelli Stavropoulou “Th process of coming to see other human beings as ‘one of us’ rather than as ‘them’ is a [...]
Read moreMaking sense of the politics of volunteering and camp conditions in Calais
Lotika Singha I had been thinking of volunteering in the camp in Calais in an amorphous way for many months. Then [...]
Read moreGetting a better education: To migrate or not to migrate?
Sait Bayrakdar You only need to switch on the television or radio to listen to the latest discussions around the so-called [...]
Read moreJews and Muslims: a Middle Eastern love story?
Sarah Irving The Paris attacks and Binyamin Netanyahu's use of them to encourage European Jews to find 'refuge' in Israel; charges [...]
Read moreAll Our Welfare
Peter Beresford All Our Welfare sets out to combine an academic analysis of the welfare state, past, present and future, with [...]
Read moreHow social wealth funds can reduce inequality
Stewart Lansley Political leaders, national and global, continue to declare verbal war on growing inequality. Conservatives should be 'warriors for the [...]
Read moreUK social science: past imperfect, future tense
David Walker Social science in the UK has virtually no past. The 50th anniversary of the ESRC passed a few months [...]
Read moreIs there any justification for academic social science?
Martyn Hammersley In his recent book about the ESRC, David Walker laments the fact that the original vision of its early [...]
Read moreThe Emperor Comes to Town Again: Academies and their Sponsors
Kirsty Morrin “"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.” (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837, Jean Hersholt [...]
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