Policy Press: 559 books
Managing the research process
A time-saving guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
How-to books often treat research as if it exists in isolation. But in reality, people need to fit research in with all their other commitments. This e-book is full of practical hints and tips to show you how to manage research alongside work, family, and social life.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age....
Transforming probation
Social theories and the criminal justice system
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data...
by Bissell, Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Organisational behaviour for social work unites the well-established study of behaviour in organizations with the special, and sometimes unusual, organizational settings of social work practice. In doing this, it recognizes the gendered nature of social work organizations, but, uniquely, retains simultaneously...
Making sense of Every Child Matters
Multi-professional practice guidance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
This much-needed book examines the implications of the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) national and local framework for working with children. It analyses the key issues from the perspective of the different professions that make up the 'new children's workforce' and explores interprofessional considerations....
Reclaiming feminism
Challenging everyday misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher...
Challenging the third sector
Global prospects for active citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector nurture active citizenship? How have the third sector and active citizenship been constructed and reconstructed...
Urban environments in Africa
A critical analysis of environmental politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Africa’s urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and wealth, and hazardous and unhealthy environments as the pace of change stretches local resources. Yet there are a wide range of perspectives and possibilities...
Being a scholar in the digital era
Transforming scholarly practice for the public good
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
What opportunities do digital technologies present? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching yet further social justice? Written by two experts in the field, this accessible book is the first to look at scholarly practice in the digital era and consider how it can connect...
The unfinished revolution
Voices from the global fight for women's rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
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Women's rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The unfinished revolution: Voices from the global fight for women's rights outlines...
Inequality and African-American health
How racial disparities create sickness
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has...
Disabled people, work and welfare
Is employment really the answer?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to ‘independence’ and ‘self determination’. Recent attempts in many countries to increase the employment rates of disabled people have actually led to an erosion of financial support for many workless...
Women, peace and welfare
A suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare and competition. Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover this...
Baby boomers
Time and ageing bodies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation, who are now entering old age, breaks new ground in ageing research. This post-war cohort has experienced a range of social, cultural, and medical changes in regard to their notions of body, from the introduction of the Pill and the decoupling...