Life stages and intergenerationality
Addressing issues around Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 5: Gender Equality, the work we publish in this area – including on our Ageing and Gerontology, Children, Young People and Families and Education lists, and the Longitudinal and Life Course Studies journal - helps identify and address the challenges that come at different life stages and between different generations.
It explores issues around health at different stages of life, demographics, intergenerationality, the challenges in education and the need for equal participation at all stages of the lifecourse.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. In Life stages and intergenerationality, we aim to address the following goals:
The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood
Understanding the Parenting Journeys and Support Needs of Young Fathers
Around 1 in 10 children born in the UK are fathered by men under the age of 25, and this book tackles the overlooked views and needs of these young fathers. Challenging negative popular and media discourses, this book showcases future policy and practice directions designed to nurture the potential of these young men and their children.
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Job Insecurity and Life Courses
Drawing from interviews and survey data across the EU and the UK, this in-depth study explores how worker instability is perceived and experienced, and how this “perception” in turn affects individuals’ economic and social situation. Using intersectional analysis, the authors identify groups who are more prone to labour market risks.
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Raising the Nation
How to Build a Better Future for Our Children (and Everyone Else)
Setting out big public policy ideas, enhanced by contributions from academic and campaigning experts, as well as those with lived experience, Raising the Nation shows why we must prioritise child-centred policies to ensure the future strength of our communities, environment and economy.
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Menopause Transitions and the Workplace
Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions
Offering theoretical frameworks from experts as well as practical examples to support women transitioning through menopause in the workplace, this is a go-to reference for academics and policy makers working in the field.
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Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human
This book provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond traditional perspectives of a nature/culture binary. Bringing together a range of international scholars, it sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures.
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Raising the Nation
How to Build a Better Future for Our Children (and Everyone Else)
Setting out big public policy ideas, enhanced by contributions from academic and campaigning experts, as well as those with lived experience, Raising the Nation shows why we must prioritise child-centred policies to ensure the future strength of our communities, environment and economy.
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Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis
Making Bushfire Babies
Exploring the impact of climate change and the pandemic on people’s decisions to form families and their experience of having children, this book makes a valuable contribution to debates on contemporary planetary crises.
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Childhoods of the Global South
Children’s Rights and Resistance
Children in the Global South continue to be affected by social disadvantage in our unequal post-colonial world order. With a focus on working-class children in Latin America, this book explores the challenges of promoting children’s rights in a context of decolonization.
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The Future of Children’s Care
Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform
Bringing together a range of perspectives from practice, lived experience and academia, this is an accessible and timely guide to children’s services reform. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, the book highlights both the positive and negative aspects of reform, before setting out alternative policy and practice directions.
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Adult Safeguarding Observed
How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty
Applying sociological and ethnographic research to adult safeguarding for the first time, this book considers how frontline practice is developing, exploring safeguarding adults assessments and multi-agency work. The book is essential reading for those wishing to understand risk management and how current practice can be improved.
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Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life
This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend.
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Incarceration and Older Women
Giving Back Not Giving Up
For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned women. In-depth interviews with 29 female prisoners in the south-eastern United States show that older women both engage in generative behaviours, or 'giving back', in prison and also wish to do so upon their release.
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Related journals
International Journal of Care and Caring
The special issue: Cross-cultural contexts of eldercare and caring: theory, research and policy. Guest edited by Ruth Katz and Ariela Lowenstein
“You have got to get off your backside; otherwise, you’ll never get out”: older male carers’ experiences of loneliness and social isolation [Open Access]
Paul Willis, Alex Vickery and Jon Symonds
The positive effects of caring for family carers of older adults: a scoping review [Open Access]
Alex Pysklywec et al.
Re-conceptualising the political subject: the importance of age for care theory
Monique Lanoix
Balancing dementia family carers’ rights to online supports with the rights of people with dementia to absolute privacy [Free]
Liam O’Sullivan et al.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Life-course social class is associated with later-life diabetes prevalence in women: evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Siobhan Leahy et al.
Socio-economic position at four time points across the life course and all-cause mortality: updated results from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study [Open Access]
Amy Heshmati et al.
Preventing interview falsifications during fieldwork in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Michael Bergmann; Karin Schuller and Frederic Malter