We are looking for two Senior Commissioning Editors/Publishers and a Commissioning Editor to join the University of Bristol Press team. Keep reading

Policy Press recently hosted a charity pie night, raising money for our charity for 2016, Unseen UK. Keep reading

The Peter Townsend Prize, worth £2,000, is awarded biennially in for outstanding work with policy relevance on a topic to which Townsend made a major contribution. Keep reading

Download free articles on this year’s conference theme from Voluntary Sector Review Keep reading

Policy Press staff have painted their nails neon this week in support of Unseen UK's Anti Slavery Day 'Let's Nail It' campaign. Keep reading

David Simon's book, Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair, launched at UN HABITAT 3 in Quito this week. Keep reading

Policy Press, IPG/Frankfurt Book Fair Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2016, together with the University of Bristol, one of the most popular universities in the UK, are proud to announce the creation of the University of Bristol Press. Keep reading

The new Rethinking Community Development series will be launched at an event at Goldsmiths, University of London, on Wednesday 9 November. The seminar will look at how a critical understanding of class can better enable practitioners to negotiate this contested space in the interests of communities of place, interest or identity. Keep reading

In this guest blog post about the publication of her book ‘Being a scholar in the digital era‘ with Jessie Daniels, Polly Thistlethwaite reflects on why she believes information should be able to be widely accessed and shows how publishers can help to make this happen. Keep reading

Don't miss this opportunity to download some of our recent special issues. Read on to find out more... Keep reading

Policy Press is pleased to announce discounts to Open Access journal APCs for authors from institutions subscribing to the Policy Press Collection, and authors from low or medium human development categories of UN HDI. Read on for more details. Keep reading

Rebuilding social democracy: Core principles for the centre left, edited by Kevin Hickson was launched last week at the House of Commons. Keep reading

We are delighted to have published our first gold open access monograph - Rethinking sustainable cities by David Simon - which is now available in EPDF version for anyone to read via the OAPEN website. Keep reading

Please join author Patrick Ainley on Wednesday 14th September at Housmans bookshop London for a frank and open discussion about how our education system has let young people down. Keep reading

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JPSJ) invites applications for the editorship of the journal to run for a period of 5 years from January 2017 to December 2021. It is hoped that the newly appointed editor/s will work alongside the current ones from November 2016 or earlier if possible. The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice provides a unique blend of high-quality research, policy and practice from leading authors in the field related to all aspects of poverty and social justice. The journal is published by Policy Press at the University of Bristol, is one of the leading social policy journals in the UK and is changing fast. More information about the journal can be found here: http://policypress.co.uk/journals/journal-of-poverty-and-social-justice Keep reading

Baroness Ruth Lister and Lord Archy Kirkwood quoted from Kayleigh Garthwaite's 'Hunger Pains' and 'Good Times, Bad Times' by John Hills, respectively, in a Lords debate on talking the causes of poverty in the UK last week. Keep reading

This exciting new series was launched last night at the bustling British Society of Gerontology conference. Keep reading

A panel event based on Kayleigh Garthwaite’s book ‘Hunger Pains: Life inside foodbank Britain’ took place in parliament on Wednesday 29 June. Keep reading

Tonight we’ll be celebrating 20 years of Policy Press at our party with many people from the past, present and future of Policy Press. To get the spirit of nostalgia just right for the day we interviewed three Policy Pressers who’ve been part of the organisation from its basement beginnings – Ann Moore, Sales Manager (now retired), Dave Worth, Production Manager and Julia Mortimer, Assistant Director – to find out what they remember from way back when and how times have changed… Keep reading

Imperial College London will host a guest lecture to launch Roger Taylor & Tim Kelsey's new book, 'Transparency and the open society' tonight. Keep reading