Social Policy Association conference 2021 journal highlights and free articles
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Highlights from Policy & Politics
Editors: Oscar Berglund, University of Bristol, UK; Claire Dunlop, University of Exeter, UK and Chris Weible, University of Colorado, US
Policy & Politics is a world-leading journal committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation.
Virtual issue Central-local relations
This virtual issue feature some of the latest research on central-local relations from a range of different perspectives and three quite different political systems. This virtual issue is free to access until 9 July and includes:
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson and Beth Watts
Rescaling education policy: central‐local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden
Ingela K. Naumann and Colin Crouch
Mega-events and regional identities: the 2010 Asian Games language controversy
Zhonghua Gu, Bart Wissink and Yuan Hu
Read a full exploration of these articles on the Policy & Politics blog. You might also enjoy the free Highlights collection, featuring the editors' top articles from recent issues, and our free sample issue.
Recent special issues
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration
Guest edited by Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann
Policy-making as designing: the added value of design thinking for public administration and public policy
Guest edited by Arwin van Buuren, Jenny M Lewis and B Guy Peters
Want to learn more Policy & Politics? Sign up to the journal's mailing list and follow @policy_politics on Twitter.
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Editors: Rod Hick, Cardiff University, UK and Gill Main, University of Leeds, UK
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JPSJ) provides an internationally unique forum for leading research on the themes of poverty and social justice.
Editors' Choice collection
Enjoy the JPSJ Editors' Choice collection free until 31 July 2021. Articles include:
The moral maze of food bank use
David Beck and Hefin Gwilym
Association between poverty indicators and social relations
Fruzsina Albert and Gábor Hajdu
The struggle to provide: how poverty is experienced in the context of family care
Franz Erhard
Precariousness among solo self-employed workers: a German‐Dutch comparison
Wieteke Conen and Karin Schulze Buschoff
Read the full collection here.
Free sample issue
Read the JPSJ free sample issue: Volume 27, Number 3, October 2019 (free until 31 December 2021) including:
The influence of poverty on children’s school experiences: pupils’ perspectives
Lynn Naven et al.
Much ado about poverty: the role of a UN Special Rapporteur
Philip Alston, Bassam Khawaja, and Rebecca Riddell
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health: claimants’ lived experiences and GP perspectives in low-income communities [Open Access]
Lorraine Hansford, Felicity Thomas, and Katrina Wyatt
Find out more about the journal and follow @JPSJ_Journal on Twitter.
Evidence & Policy
Editors in Chief: Katherine Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK and Mark Pearson, Hull York Medical School, UK
Evidence & Policy is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between research evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers.
Editors' Choice collection
Enjoy the Evidence & Policy Editors' Choice collection free until 31 July 2021. Articles include:
‘Maybe we can turn the tide’: an explanatory mixed-methods study to understand how knowledge brokers mobilise health evidence in low- and middle-income countries [Open Access]
Theresa C. Norton et al
The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance
Justyna Bandola-Gill
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys
Jake Haselswerdt and Elizabeth Rigby
You might also enjoy our Open Access Most Read collection and our free sample issue.
Recent special issues
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Guest edited by Carol Rivas, Ikuko Tomomatsu and David Gough
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise [Open Access]
Guest edited by Ellen Stewart, Jennifer Smith-Merry and Marc Geddes
Want more from Evidence & Policy? Sign up to the mailing list and follow @EvidencePolicy on Twitter.
International Journal of Care and Caring
Editor in Chief: Sue Yeandle, University of Sheffield, UK
This multidisciplinary journal publishes high quality contributions on care, caring and carers from all regions of the world. It has a broad focus, covering care and caring for people of any age who have long-term conditions, disabilities or frailties, or who are seriously ill or near the end of life.
Free sample issue
Enjoy the free sample issue which explores home care for older adults, care practices by mothers with disabilities, dementia service provision and much more. Read the full free sample issue.
Editors' Choice collection
Read the IJJC editors’ favourite articles from recent issues for free until 31 July. Including:
The prioritisation of choice in eldercare: the case of Ireland
Luciana Lolich
Theorising care: attentive interaction or distributive justice?
Elisabeth Conradi
Epistemic injustice, face-to-face encounters and caring institutions
Sophie Bourgault
Read the full collection here.
Find out more about the journal and follow @IJCCjournal on Twitter.
Families, Relationships and Society
Editor in Chief: Esther Dermott, University of Bristol, UK
Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course.
Pride collection
Read our Pride collection (free until 31 July) which includes the following FRS articles:
Freedom and foreclosure: Intimate consequences for asexual identities
Matt Dawson, Susie Scott, and Liz Mcdonnell
It's raining cats, dogs and diapers! The intersections of rising pet ownership and LGBTQ+ coupledom
Jacqui Gabb
Free sample issue
You can also read the free sample issue: Volume 8, Number 2, July 2019 (free until 31 December 2020).
Find out more about the journal here.
You might also be interested in Voluntary Sector Review
Editors' Choice collection (free until 31 July 2021)
Free sample issue: Volume 10, Number 2, July 2019 (free until 31 December 2021)
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Highly Cited Collection
To celebrate our new impact factors, posted in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports, we have created a free collection of highly cited articles. This collection features papers that have contributed to our 2020 Impact Factor and more recent papers we feel will promote our journals’ future impact. Enjoy free access to papers from the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Families, Relationships and Societies, Evidence & Policy, Policy & Politics and Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.
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