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  • Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

    by Ruth Lister, Ruth Patrick, Kate Brown ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory.The updated text includes consideration of contemporary shifts in welfare ideologies in the context of global austerity and the UK Coalition and Conservative governments since 2010. With a new ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • A Year Like No Other

    Life on a Low Income during COVID-19

    by Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page, Katie Pybus ...
    Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder.Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Quilter's Bible

    Edited by Ruth Patrick ...
    Just like the Knitting Stitch Bible and the Crochet Handbook Stitch Guide, this book contains illustrations and specific instructions for everything ranging from the most basic quilting techniques to the more complicated multi-patterned projects. For novices and experts, the advice in this book includes samples and precise instruction charts. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Understanding Social Security

    Issues for Policy and Practice

    by Luke Martinelli, Dan Finn, Sue Watson, Ruth Patrick, John Hudson, Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Nicola Yeates, Bozena Sojka, Emma Carmel, Fran Bennett0, Steve McKay1, Jane Millar2, Tess Ridge4 ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015.With contributions from leading academics in the field this book critically examines the design, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • For Whose Benefit?

    The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

    by Ruth Patrick ...
    What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities?For whose benefit? The everyday realities of welfare reform explores these questions by talking to those directly affected by ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Policy Review 38

    Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2026

    by Javier Castro Spila, Xanti Moriones, Aitor Garmendia Bartolomé, Anju Yamada, Sophia Landzettel, Gonzalo Arévalo-Iglesias, Marco Arlotti, Kate Andersen, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Katy Gillespie, Maddy Power, Ruth Patrick, Annie Irvine, Tom Lee, Mhairi-Jean Ross, Uisce Jordan, Kirsty Cameron, Jack Liuta, Lois Orton, Juhyun Lee, Alessandra Pernetti, Carl-Johan Sommar, Johan Nordensvärd, Cat Spellman, Sanne Elbrink, Joanne McGrath, Savita Sathe, Lee Wainright, Believe Housing, Varvara (Berry) Lalioti, Rana Khazbak, Sharon Gewirtz, Sait Bayrakdar, Alice Weavers, Meg Maguire, Charlotte McPherson, Chris Winch ...
    Series series Social Policy Review
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.In the latest volume of the long-established Social Policy Review series, leading experts critically assess key developments and debates in social and public policy over the past year.Offering a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary issues – including labour market transitions, migrant experiences, welfare governance and inequalities in ... Read more

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  • COVID-19 Collaborations

    Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic

    Edited by Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant, Rosalie Warnock ...
    Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC BY NC ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone – but, for some, existing social inequalities were exacerbated, and this created a vital need for research. Researchers found themselves operating in a new and difficult context; they needed to act quickly and think collectively to embark on new research despite the constraints of the pandemic. ... Read more

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  • Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

    Promoting Social Justice in Social Work

    by John H. Pierson ...
    In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered. The third edition of this unique textbook seeks to capture the complexity and diversity of practice relating to social exclusion as social workers ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Aspirations, Access and Attainment

    International perspectives on widening participation and an agenda for change

    Edited by Neil Murray, Christopher Klinger ...
    It is perhaps ironic that as the global financial crisis has, in some cases, led governments and institutions to pull back from and/or set more modest goals and associated funding around widening participation, there is an ever-growing sense that the ideals buttressing the widening participation movement are becoming more universally acknowledged by educators across the globe. That acknowledgement ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Understanding Employer Engagement in Education

    Theories and evidence

    Edited by Anthony Mann, Julian Stanley, Louise Archer ...
    This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (eg, work experience, internships, careers education, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • COVID-19, Inequality and Older People

    Everyday Life during the Pandemic

    by Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Sophie Yarker, Luciana Lang ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.It draws upon novel qualitative longitudinal research which recorded the experiences of a diverse group of people aged 50+ in Greater Manchester over a 12-month period during the pandemic. The book analyses their lived ... Read more

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  • The Care Crisis

    What Caused It and How Can We End It?

    by Emma Dowling ...
    An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of careValuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD