Joanne Vincett I often think these girls could be my daughters' (Alice, a Yarls Wood Befriender) The volunteer visitor group, Yarl's Wood Befrienders [...]
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Category "2017"
Just a room in a shared house: The impact of housing benefit cuts on single parents with non-resident children
Iliana Ortega-Alcázar, Eleanor Wilkinson In 2012, government changes to the age-threshold of the Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR) came into effect. This [...]
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Crisis upon Crisis: Migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds
Umut Erel, Maggie O'Neill, Tracey Reynolds, and Erene Kaptani The No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) policy means that migrants subject [...]
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Requiem for the Public University
John Holmwood The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 received Royal Assent on 27th April as one of the last items [...]
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FOCUS: Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrencies and Financial Inclusion – Precarious Innovation
Alexia Maddox Precariousness drives innovation. For research innovation, the state of precariousness in the higher education environment opens both possibilities for [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Reflections on the European Union’s Future by Way of its Past
M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado Historians are frequently asked what the present can learn from the past, so it was no surprise that [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Travelling the Line, British Commuters and Southern Rail
Pauline von Hellermann and Martin Webb Since its takeover by Govia Thameslink Railways (GTR) in July 2015, the performance of Southern [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: A pathway to precarity? Youth employment and the struggling social care sector
Tom Montgomery, Micaela Mazzei , Simone Baglioni and Stephen Sinclair The Policy and Politics section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration [...]
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What will remain of the devolved UK after Brexit?
Janice Morphet Is the Prime Minister’s hard line Brexit position now undermining the union in Scotland and Northern Ireland? Following her [...]
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Reimagining the library as an Anti-Café
Ema Engel-Johnson It is quite difficult to think of a social space that is truly free of costs and social boundaries. [...]
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