Policy Press

Understanding Research for Social Policy and Practice: Themes, Methods and Approaches

By Saul Becker, Alan Bryman

Providing a Sure Start: How government discovered early childhood

By Naomi Eisenstadt (International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics)

Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health

By Ann Hagell

Youth crime and youth justice: Public opinion in England and Wales

By Mike Hough (Birkbeck, University of London), Julian V. Roberts (Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa)

New Labour's countryside: Rural policy in Britain since 1997

By Michael Woods (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales)

Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times

By Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)

Public Spaces, Social Relations and Well-being in East London

By Nicholas T. Dines, Vicky Catell, Wilbert M. Gesler

Markets as sites for social interaction: Spaces of diversity

By Sophie Watson (Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University), with, David Studdert (Department of Sociology

Biography and social exclusion in Europe: Experiences and life journeys

By Prue Chamberlayne, Michael Rustin, Tom Wengraf

Credit crunch health care: How economics can save our publicly funded health services

By Cam Donaldson (Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University)

Personalisation

By Peter Beresford (Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia and Co-Chair, Shaping Our Lives, )

EU Migrant Workers, Brexit and Precarity: Polish Women's Perspectives from Inside the UK

By Eva A. Duda-Mikulin (University of Wroclaw)

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience

By Paul Sng

After Urban Regeneration: Communities, Policy and Place

By Dave O'Brien (Goldsmiths, University of London), Peter Matthews (University of Stirling)

The European challenge: Innovation, policy learning and social cohesion in the new knowledge economy

By Graham Room, in collaboration with, Jacob Dencik, Nick Gould, Richard Kamm

Welfare and well-being: Social value in public policy

By Bill Jordan (Department of Social Work, University of Plymouth)

Social Happiness: Theory into Policy and Practice

By Neil Thin (School of Social Policy and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.)

Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?: Ideas, Policies and Challenges

By Nathalie Morel (Sciences Po, France), Bruno Palier (Centre d'etudes europeennes, SciencesPo., France.), Joakim Palme (Director, Institute for Future Studies, Sweden.)

School Governance: Policy, Politics and Practices

By Jacqueline Baxter

Gendering citizenship in Western Europe: New challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context

By Ruth Lister (Loughborough University and House of Lords), Fiona Williams (Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds), Anneli Anttonen (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Tampere), Jet Bussemaker (Department...

Community safety: Critical perspectives on policy and practice

By Peter Squires (School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton)

Understanding human need

By Hartley Dean

Partnership working: Policy and practice

By Susan Balloch (Health and Social Policy Research Centre (HSPRC), University of Brighton), Marilyn Taylor (Author, Short Guide to Community Development 3e)

The idea of poverty

By Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University)

The Well-Connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development

By Alison Gilchrist

Understanding social welfare movements

By Jason Annetts (School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay-Dundee), Alex Law (Sociology Division, University of Abertay Dundee), Wallace McNeish (Sociology Department, School of Social and Health Sciences, ...

Community development and civil society: Making connections in the European context

By Paul Henderson (Community Development Consultant), Ilona Vercseg (Research Fellow (Community Development), Hungarian Association For Community Development)

Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland

By Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)), Gill Scott (Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)

The Social Quality of Europe

By Wolfgang Beck, etc., Laurent van der Maesen, Alan Walker

Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland

By Gerry Mooney (The Open University (Scotland)), Gill Scott (Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)