Clare Bambra In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30-year discrepancy between the life expectancy of men in [...]
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Farewell to TINA? Inside the UK’s Alternative Finance Movement
Mark Davis New research investigates the potential for social change in reconnecting our money with our morality and recommends that we [...]
Read moreOlder people and Housing: towards a wiser community
Caroline Lodge, Eileen Carnell and Marianne Coleman More people are living healthier lives for longer, but despite the impact of this [...]
Read moreGreat Meritocracies Don’t Disappear Their Youngest Casualties, Mrs May!
Ross Fergusson Theresa May’s speech at last month’s Conservative Party conference elaborated her plans to ‘transform Britain into a Great Meritocracy’. [...]
Read moreThe practice of social dining with strangers: going out to eat in
Ema Johnson Going out (alone or with friends) and paying to dine with strangers within the private home of an amateur [...]
Read moreWhose culture is global? Listening to Anglo-American pop music in Italy
Simone Varriale I spent my adolescence and most of my twenties listening exclusively to American and British pop music, or to [...]
Read moreLe Touquet and Sangatte: The evolution of the French-UK border
Daniel Martin In 1991, both British and French governments signed the Sangatte Protocol with the agreement coming into force two years [...]
Read moreDemocratic governance in education
Jacqueline Baxter Democratic Education is at a watershed: the creation of new multi-stakeholder, multi-level systems of governance, not only in England [...]
Read moreContemporary Polish Racism: the development of neo-Communism?
Bolaji Balogun It was only in 2010 that the former Polish government started giving attention to racial equality that led to [...]
Read moreLook a little further: Examining homophobia and finding widespread social support
Adam White and Bryan Thomas It is often hard to find the positive and empowering stories of gay men and lesbian [...]
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