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A terminal crisis of Anglo-America? In the wake of the global financial...
Dr Jeremy Green, Honorary Research Fellow, SPERI, & Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol Scenes of Lehman Brothers’ employees hurriedly clearing out belongings from their London offices in...
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Refugee crisis: Ten practical ways to help
How can we respond to the refugee crisis? Ten practical ways. Dr Naomi Millner is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Bristol. She is also part of Bristol Hospitality Network – an...
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Time for a new kind of politics?
Tessa Coombes – Social Policy PhD student At last, the long drawn out Labour leadership election has come to its conclusion and we now know that Jeremy Corbyn has indeed been elected as leader of the...
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Government reaction to the refugee crisis: humanitarian response or political...
Ann Singleton, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol and currently on secondment to the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), Berlin Dr Monish Bhatia, Abertay University Recently the...
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What does it take to get women at the top? Sex Balancing Party Leaderships
Meryl Kenny, Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, University of Bristol The new Labour leader, deputy leader, and both candidates standing for...
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‘Made in China’ vs. ‘made in the EU’: what’s the difference?
Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic,Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Bristol Foxconn, a Taiwanese-owned firm best known for being the main assembler of Apple products and for harsh working conditions...
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Are Conservatives ‘now the party of work’? The Trade Union Bill suggests not…
Professor Michael Ford QC joined the Bristol law School in 2015 and specialises in labour law, human rights and public law. Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law, specialising in labour law,...
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Thinking Futures Festival Event – Get your tickets here. For over a decade and a half the world has witnessed a dramatic rise in a distinctive kind of violent militancy. Much about it is controversial,...
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Measuring Poverty and Living Standards
Tessa Coombes – Social Policy PhD student There’s an interesting debate that’s been going on for some time now about measuring poverty and getting the issue onto the agenda so people sit up and take...
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What impact do mayors have on the cities that elect them?
Dr David Sweeting, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies Bristol’s Thinking Futures Festival of Social Science kicks off with a debate on the merits or otherwise of directly elected mayors, on 9th November...
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Amendment to earlier blog post: Are the Conservatives ‘now the Party of...
Professor Michael Ford QC joined the Bristol law School in 2015 and specialises in labour law, human rights and public law. Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law, specialising in labour law,...
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An Orwellian violation of privacy is still not the answer to safeguarding the...
Oliver Daniel is a second year Geography undergraduate, current intern at PolicyBristol, and cyber-security intern in Summer 2016. The tragic news from Paris shook the world, and has led to an urgent...
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Are we really witnessing a great ‘devolution deception’?
Ben Harrison is the Director of Partnerships at the Centre for Cities. This was first posted on the Centre for Cities blog. Festival of Social Science, a debate took place in Bristol on 9/11/15 on the...
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Essential Guide: Eight ways research gets into Parliament
This article was originally posted by Sarah Foxen on the author’s personal blog. Discussions about research and policy have a tendency to be more reflective about policy-making in general, rather than...
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The invisibility of homelessness
Tessa Coombes – PhD student in Social Policy, University of Bristol The emphasis of this post is a bit of a departure from my normal topics, but related in a number of different ways to issues about...
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Schools need to do more to improve children’s religious literacy
Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy This article was originally posted on The Conversation. British society is in serious need of higher levels of religious literacy. The...
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Hard Evidence: how British do British Muslims feel?
Dr Saffron Karlsen, Senior Lecturer in Social Research, University of Bristol The prime minister, David Cameron, has launched a number of measures aimed at improving integration among Muslims – in...
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How to write a blogpost from your journal article in eleven easy steps
This piece originally appeared on the author’s Writing for Research blog. Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science at the LSE and is Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. He is well known for...
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What the Great Western Cities deal means
Tessa Coombes – PhD student in Social Policy, University of Bristol Britain’s Western Powerhouse was launched recently, with a report authored by Metro Dynamics. It is an interesting initiative from...
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From the narrative of failure to the narrative of potential?
Professor David Berridge. Professor of Child & Family Welfare. He is a leading national and international child welfare researcher and is author/co-author of 13 books and numerous other chapters...
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