Amid tabloid reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for all ‘women of childbearing age’ to be ‘banned’ from drinking alcohol, the relationship between alcohol and gender equality…

In January 2020 we had project partners in place, a budget and artist residencies ready to begin; but then the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK. As the Arts sector ground…

The ‘Designing and Undertaking Participatory Research: Practical Issues, Successes and Challenges’ BSA Early Career Forum event was convened on Wednesday, 9 December 2020. Originally taking place at Sheffield Hallam University…

One of the brutal lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill. The evidence for this was already there, but the impact of the virus and lockdown…

The impact of Covid-19 on black and South Asian groups in Britain has been well documented throughout the pandemic, with a wealth of statistical trends identifying clear relationships across race…

This brief discussion uses Goffman’s (1963) concept of stigma to understand how people with a hidden feature that could incur prejudice become aware of this potential. People’s perception of their…

The attack on the US Capitol building on Wednesday, 6 January 2021 and the preparedness of the police in defending that building, has been compared unfavourably to police actions toward…

Editing a journal is more than just work in a transactional sense, it is a work of self and if fortunate enough, a work of the heart. I will begin…

Post-industrial towns and cities in Britain are facing a silent technological revolution. This revolution is changing every aspect of modern British daily life and is evident in areas such as…