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Out now: Global Social Challenges Journal
How can we reimagine society in an era of climate change, pandemic, hunger, poverty, questions of racial, ethnic and gender justice and other pressing global societal challenges? Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities, as new ways of being, thinking and doing emerge. This new fully Open Access journal aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and to become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines, fields and geographies.
The journal is highly accessible, impactful and policy-facing, it hopes to foster dialogue between academics, policy makers, thought leaders, NGOs, practitioners and the public. Read our launch collection today, including:
Editorial: Addressing the global social challenges of our time
Shenggen Fan, Julie Thompson Klein, Siddharth Mallavarapu, Bronwen Morgan, Sue Scott and David Simon
The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship for a civilisation in distress: questions for and from the Global South
Marcel Bursztyn and Seema Purushothaman
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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice provides an internationally unique forum for leading research on the themes of poverty and social justice.
Enjoy the JPSJ Editors' Choice collection free until 31 July 2022. Articles include:
The influence of political ideology on stereotypes, meta-stereotypes and causal attributions of homelessness in Spain
José Juan Vázquez and Sonia Panadero
The impact of precarious employment on the health and wellbeing of UK immigrants: a systematic review
Michael Obinna Muoka and Monique Lhussier
You might also enjoy the JPSJ's Most Read Articles of 2021 and the Highly Cited collection and the free sample issue.
Find out more about the journal and follow the @JPSJ_Journal on Twitter.
International Journal of Care and Caring
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.
Read the International Journal of Care and Caring editors’ favourite articles from recent issues for free until 31 July. Including:
Doing ‘whatever they can imagine’: social task shifting in directly funded home care
Christine Kelly, Mary Jean Hande et al
Constructing legality: theorizing work and the challenges for mobilization of home care workers
Elizabeth Nisbet and Jennifer Craft Morgan
Consequences of prioritisation within long-term care in Denmark, England and Norway: towards increasing inequalities and poorer quality of care?
Rune Ervik and Tord Skogedal Lindén
You might also enjoy our Most Read Articles of 2021. Access our top most downloaded articles for free until 31 July.
Find out more about the journal and follow the @IJCCjournal on Twitter.
Policy & Politics
Policy & Politics is a world-leading journal committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation. With an impact factor of 3.75 it ranks in the top 20 journals in Public Administration category of the Journal Citation Reports. Policy & Politics also sits in the top 20 journals in the Political Science category.
Coming soon
Special issue: Transformational Change through Public Policy. Early view articles include;
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy
Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny et al.
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?
Daniel Nohrstedt
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives
Jale Tosun, Daniel Béland and Yannis Papadopoulos
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Special Issue: Taking risks and breaking new frontiers in Policy & Politics
Highly cited collection (free until 31 July)
Quarterly Highlights collection (free until 31 July)
The Policy & Politics blog
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Evidence & Policy
Evidence & Policy is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between researchers and the evidence they produce and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners.
Read the Evidence & Policy editors’ favourite articles from recent issues for free until 31 July. Including:
Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation
Ashley Schram Belinda Townsend et al
How did UK policymaking in the COVID-19 response use science? Evidence from scientific advisers
Paul Atkinson. Hayley Mableson Sally Sheard et al.
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Special Issue: Creativity and co-production [Fully open access Issue]
Guest edited by Joe Langley, Nicola Kayes, Ian Gwilt, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Sarah Smith and Claire Craig
Special Issue: The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Guest edited by Carol Rivas, Ikuko Tomomatsu and David Gough
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