Policy Press: 559 books
Ageing, meaning and social structure
Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and...
by Marks, Linda
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Drawing on in-depth case studies across England, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Using original research, it shows how these links can be illustrated at a local level through commissioning practice related to health and wellbeing. Exploring the impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Just what is the role and impact of corporate elites in contemporary reforms of public sector universities and schools? Providing fresh perspectives on matters of governance and vibrant case studies on the particular types of provision including curriculum, teaching and professional practices, Gunter,...
American Tianxia
Chinese money, American power and the end of history
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
After a meteoric rise, China's once inexorable growth has come to a screeching halt. With it ends China's dream of establishing a new tianxia (‘harmonious order’) in Asia with China at its centre. Salvatore Babones provides an up-to-date assessment of China's economic problems and how they are...
Medical regulation and revalidation
A critical introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of ‘troublesome’ social groups – including those who are unwell, ‘deviant’ and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the state ensures...
Advising in austerity
Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK, presenting a rare and rich view of the world of advice...
by Carpenter, John, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The idea that professionals in health and social care should ‘learn together to work together’ in ‘interprofessional education’ (IPE) is not new. Nevertheless, interest in this concept has grown dramatically. By learning together, professions will better understand each other and value what...
Building better societies
Promoting social justice in a world falling apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are...
Social-spatial segregation
Concepts, processes and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications. With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation...
Global gentrifications
Uneven development and displacement
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses...
by Parker, Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children’s services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area. By exploring various topics these essays explain significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects...
Women's emancipation and civil society organisations
Challenging or maintaining the status quo?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet Civil Service Organisation (CSO) research tends to ignore considerations...
Pushed to the edge
Inclusion and behaviour support in schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
While debates rage about educational inequality and the best way to tackle attainment gaps, a pervasive form of in-school segregation is going largely unremarked upon. Internal behaviour support units have become common fixtures in British schools. Young people may be removed from mainstream classrooms...
Challenging the politics of early intervention
Who's 'saving' children and why
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive assumptions and essentialist ideas behind early years intervention, in whose interests does it really serve?...