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Author of The Shame Game, Mary O'Hara is an award-winning journalist and author specialising in social policy and social justice. She was inspired to write about social issues in part because of her experience of childhood poverty growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Co-author of The Other America, Harris Beider is Head of School of Social Sciences and Professor of Communities and Public Policy at Birmingham City University. Previously he was Professor of Community Cohesion at the Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations at Coventry University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. Harris has published widely on race, racism and white working class.
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Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in research methods and ethics. She is the author of Creative Research Methods and Research Ethics in the Real World. Helen is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Author of Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19, Robin Hambleton is Emeritus Professor of City Leadership in the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Director of Urban Answers. An expert on urban innovation, city management and local governance, he was the founding President of the European Urban Research Association (EURA) and Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
See moreSarah Nelson explains how #Covid19 has increased the urgency for action against child sexual abuse and examines reasons for failure and models of practice.
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With just 1% of rapes successfully prosecuted, @amarinari explores the role of a different avenue for victims of #sexualviolence – #restorativejustice either with the abuser or those who enable the abuse on Transforming Society.
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As ‘Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19’ is launched, one of its contributors @B_W_Williams charts some of the ways disabled people around the world are being hit hardest by #covid19.
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