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Ali Kassem In December 2018, I relocated to Paris for a two-months research fellowship. Before arriving, many friends and colleagues exhorted [...]

Annabel Watson Using a combination of biology and social constructionist epistemology the current literature and practice in the treatment of children [...]

Les Back Paul Gilroy’s book There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation published [...]

Robbie Shilliam The spectre of Enoch Powell has regularly been conjured in debates over multiculturalism, immigration and Brexit, not least of [...]

Amrita Ghosh The Kashmir conflict derives from the catastrophic partition of India in 1947 that also marked the ending of British [...]

Lisa Garforth Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy is now mainly remembered for popularizing the idea it critiques. The book’s [...]

Elisabeth Schimpfössl   Thanks to notoriously strict libel laws in the UK and powerful image campaigns, the superrich not only silence researchers [...]

Brendan Ciarán Browne Although perhaps somewhat cynical; exporting the perceived successes of the Northern Irish ‘Peace Process’ to other intractable conflicts [...]

Claire Ainsley Understanding the changing nature of social class is critical to understanding the different patterns of how people are voting [...]

Kalwant Bhopal From an early age unequal participation and access to education shapes the lives of young people and affects the [...]