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From research leadership and healthcare to adolescent safeguarding and more, these new open access titles explore a range of important topics and perspectives across the social sciences. #Safeguarding #Healthcare #OpenAccess #OABooks #SocialSciences ow.ly/JfX650ZT2aG
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Essential reading for leaders in #HigherEducation navigating contemporary issues and questions of inclusion, equity, and transformative action, this book offers the tools to shape a more socially just and inclusive future for staff and students. ow.ly/Rjk850ZSLLX
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Following the #LabourPartyConference? 🌹 Why not deepen your knowledge of key issues, including unequal access to food and healthcare, environmental injustice, political division and more. #AndyBurnham #UKPolitics #LabourParty @UKLabour bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…
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In 2026, we’re celebrating 30 years since #PolicyPress was established and 10 years since the creation of #BristolUniversityPress. These pages celebrate our history and our hope that we will continue to make a difference. We hope you enjoy! ow.ly/uRRz50ZulBC
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Tackling themes including rising living costs, employment, and the relationship between poverty and mental and physical health, 'A Taste for Change' makes the case for a #FoodBank free future and sets out what it will take to get there. ow.ly/rXNS50ZLg5r
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Can we create a world where food banks are in the past and everyone can afford the essentials? In this discussion, Heather Buckingham explains the importance of believing that everyone matters and ensuring everyone can live a healthy life without stigma. ow.ly/Sbhk50ZSa5p
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#AI could transform our lives in profound ways, but who gets to shape that future, and how do we manage the risks? These books explore AI’s possibilities and pressing questions, and what its future could hold. 🌟30% off with code BUP30 until Sept 30🌟 ow.ly/Qc8p50ZQeKw
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Why do inequalities persist, and what would it take to build a fairer Britain? Join us to discuss 'The Fair Necessities' by Will Snell and explore how #Inequality shapes our lives and how we can build a more equal society. 🎟️14 Oct | LSE campus & online: ow.ly/UNuu50ZQ6PM
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"Families are more likely to engage when conversations are framed around practical support and partnership." Steve Rogowski (@steve_rogowski), author of 'Critical Social Work with Children and Families, ' in Professional Social Work magazine. 📖 ow.ly/gAKx50ZRtIA
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Book Launch: Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding. Exploring how safeguarding can move beyond risk management to create conditions where all young people can flourish. 📖Read open access: ow.ly/Eifa50ZKBlA 🎟️24 Sept | 6 PM | Coram Institute: ow.ly/4Opa50ZKBlB
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Inclusion doesn’t work if we ignore class. During #NationalInclusionWeek, we’re inviting organisations to ask a simple question: How class-inclusive is your hiring process? ⁉️We’ve created a short self-audit to help you reflect: ow.ly/AioQ50ZNcq4
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30% off 'The Fair Necessities' with code PUB30 until 20 September. 📖🛒 'The Fair Necessities' argues that unfair #Inequality undermines everything from faith in government to #EconomicGrowth, yet a fairer country is within reach. ow.ly/lGir50ZOARw
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Book Launch: Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding. Exploring how safeguarding can move beyond risk management to create conditions where all young people can flourish. 📖Read open access: ow.ly/Eifa50ZKBlA 🎟️24 Sept | 6 PM | Coram Institute: ow.ly/4Opa50ZKBlB
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Inclusion doesn’t work if we ignore class. During #NationalInclusionWeek, we’re inviting organisations to ask a simple question: How class-inclusive is your hiring process? @equalitynetwork @JumpEquality ⁉️Try our self-audit to help you reflect: ow.ly/UOZi50ZNcos
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How class-inclusive is your hiring process? #NationalInclusionWeek 'Cracking the Class Code' sets out ten steps to dismantle class barriers. @JumpEquality @DisRightsUK @stonewalluk @Lem_Exeter 📖 The book: ow.ly/ftGX50ZNNfW ⁉️Take the self-audit: ow.ly/LKKI50ZNNfU
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"Shaun Best’s book is a theoretically ambitious critique of how “low aspiration” has been produced as an educational problem." 'Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration' for the Educational Review. ow.ly/rH8b50ZNovJ
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"I saw what the repairmen had seen: the leaks, the buckets, the baby bath, the blackened mould-stained walls." 'Left to Rot' by @DanielHewittITV is reviewed in View Digital. ow.ly/BzlR50ZNlXv
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"But as author Will Snell remarked at the launch of his brave, pathfinding book 'The Fair Necessities' – an argument for fairness – no private school can escape the reality of educational segregation to promote privilege and advantage." observer.co.uk/news/columnis…
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How can we work together to build a food bank free future? Join us for the launch of 'A Taste for Change', a new book by Heather Buckingham that sets out a practical vision and roadmap for a food bank–free future. #FoodBanks 🎟️Wed, 14 Oct, 6:30 PM: ow.ly/2hSl50ZMwbc
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