Policy Press imprint: 558 books
Geographies of alternative education
Diverse learning spaces for children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater for children and young people. It constitutes one of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education - including Steiner, human scale and...
Obama’s welfare legacy
An assessment of US anti-poverty policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The election of Barack Obama in the midst of the 2008 economic downturn brought hope to millions and presented an opportunity for expanding socio-economic rights. But the Obama administration was consistently constrained by the challenges of divided government, and the now threatened Affordable Care...
by Victor, Christina R.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The ageing of the population has enormous implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. Christina Victor's important textbook provides comprehensive overview of the experiences of older people, chapters on physical health, mental health, disability and lifestyle, a thesis of current...
by Palfrey, Colin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health inequalities...
Fathers, families and relationships
Researching everyday lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
In this exciting book, leading fatherhood scholars from Europe and Scandinavia offer unique insights into how to research fathers and fatherhood in contemporary society. Outlining research methods in detail, including examples of large scale studies, online research, surveys and visual and aural methods,...
Residential child care in practice
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which the quality of interpersonal relationships is...
Co-producing research
A community development approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book, the second title in the Rethinking Community Development series, starts from concern about increasing inequality worldwide and the re-emergence of community development in public policy debates. It argues for the centrality of class analysis and its associated divisions of power to any...
Supporting victims of hate crime
A practitioner guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates (whether professional or volunteers). Filling a gap in the growing debates and research literature on hate crime, it takes as its starting point a...
by Harris, Pete, Seal
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book draws on the findings of a two-year European research project to offer answers to the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers. 'Responding to violence through youth work' combines elements of critical theory,...
Changing adolescence
Social trends and mental health
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed, anxious, distressed or antisocial than they used to be? What does research evidence tell us about the...
Research Justice
Methodologies for social change
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Research Justice (RJ) is a strategic framework and methodological intervention that seeks to transform structural inequities in research. Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change builds upon the methodological frameworks developed by the national non-profit organization, DataCenter Research...
Minority women and austerity
Survival and resistance in France and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender...
Social Support and Motherhood (Reissue)
The Natural History of a Research Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Drawing on her long experience as an academic researcher and writer, Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process itself, telling the story of how a research project is undertaken and what happens during it, to both researchers and those who are researched. This remarkable book focuses...