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Author of Race, Taste, Class and Cars, Yunis Alam is a sociologist, working at the University of Bradford. His research interests span ethnic relations, popular culture, ethnography and postcolonial literatures. He has also published a number of novels and short stories.
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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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Author of How to Use Social Work Theory in Practice, Malcolm Payne is Emeritus professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Kingston University, London and director of psychosocial and spiritual care, St Christopher’s Hospice, London.
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Author of Critical Dialogues, John Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, The Open University and Recurrent Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest. He is also a member of the Association for Cultural Studies, the UK Social Policy Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Society for the Anthropology of North America, the Association for the Anthropology of Policy and the Academy of Social Sciences.
See moreThe world of #volunteering, as we know it, is changing. Everywhere in the world, people are helping one another to cope with the pandemic by offering support to those who are most at risk from #COVID19.
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Read @RoryHearne's article for the @irishexaminer on how 'the pandemic has exposed the vast inequalities and dysfunctions of Ireland’s housing system and needs to be addressed urgently.' Find out more in 'Housing Shock' by Rory Hearne:
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This #VolunteersWeek, @dkamerade, co-editor of the @VSRjournal, looks out how #volunteering is changing because of the pandemic.
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