Why closing the gender pay gap requires a new debate on fair pay
Professor Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School examines why progress on closing the gender pay gap within organisations requires a new...
View ArticleCan cancer services be sexist? Rectifying a gender disparity in cancer...
Lynch syndrome is a common and inherited condition that puts those affected by it at risk of numerous cancers. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended all bowel...
View ArticleShared parental leave: Opportunities and barriers and the #sharethejoy campaign
As the Government launches a new drive to raise awareness about Shared Parental Leave, Dr Emma Banister looks at the issues dogging this flagship gender equality initiative. Success of the Shared...
View ArticleLittle – if any – evidence to suggest increased stop and search can reduce...
The use of stop and search has reduced in recent years in London, but there have been recent calls to increase its use. Matteo Tiratelli argues that a new study finds little, if any evidence, to...
View ArticleVoter ID at British Polling Stations – Learning the Right Lessons from...
Asking voters to produce a form of identification before voting will be piloted in five English council areas this May. The move represents part of the government’s response to a series of recent...
View ArticleReducing Plastic Use in Food Packaging with Innovative New Materials
Finding ways to reduce the amount of plastic used in food packaging, while still ensuring products are protected and kept fresh, is an increasingly important challenge. James Baker, Chief Executive...
View ArticleWhat can we expect from Andy Burnham’s Green Summit?
Ahead of Andy Burnham’s Green Summit this week, Julia Kasmire of the University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute investigates whether the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will...
View ArticleWhere next for SPL: reflections on the Women and Equalities Committee’s...
Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee today released its report from the Fathers and the Workplace inquiry which highlights the difficulties dads have in balancing their careers and childcare...
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Manchester has its housing problems – but comparisons to London are off the mark
Tom Arnold, a postgraduate researcher of economic development in Northern England, examines current housing policy in Greater Manchester and the challenge to develop a housing strategy which supports...
View ArticleAccelerating innovation in new ways of delivering health and social care
As funding pressures, population change, and new models of care and management continue to develop within our health and social care system, the ability to encourage and drive innovation is more...
View ArticleToxin in the System?
Stephen Hutchings, Professor of Russian Studies at The University of Manchester, examines the role RT, the Russian International Television Network, plays in Russia’s ongoing ‘War on Truth’ and offers...
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Just Because I Can Doesn’t Mean I Will: Behavioural science and translating...
All innovation in health and social care has the same final common pathway: health and social care professionals doing something new or different. There are numerous theories of behaviour and...
View ArticleWhy it’s time to address workplace racism as a matter of health and safety
Fifty years on from the UK’s first piece of legislation outlawing racial discrimination in employment, Stephen Ashe & James Nazroo look at what’s changed and whether racism in the workplace needs...
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Democracy on the Line?
Kingsley Purdam and Rob Ford from The University of Manchester use the Manchester Metrolink map to show levels of voter turnout and ask if there will be more or less local democracy in 2018. The 2018...
View ArticleZero-carbon UK? Let’s make zero mean something
The UK’s minister for energy and clean growth wants to set the UK on a path to a ‘zero-carbon economy’. Marc Hudson and Joe Blakey from The University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute...
View ArticleBrexit and Health, Science and Society
Our blog ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ blog series, in conjunction with ManReg, continues with Tamara Hervey and Sarah McCloskey, from the School of Law at The University of Sheffield who examine...
View ArticleGenital normalising surgeries on intersex infants: A scandal in waiting?
Anna Nelson Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Manchester examines the current law around imposition of surgery upon intersex infants and why the UK should follow Malta’s lead and legislate...
View ArticleHow can Greater Manchester tackle social Isolation among older Black, Asian...
Researchers Dr Camilla Lewis and Natalie Cotterell from The University of Manchester outline the key findings from their report into isolation among older Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people...
View ArticleTo Every Thing There is a Season – lessons from the Alvey Programme for...
Last month the UK House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee published a report, ‘Artificial Intelligence, AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?’ In the report, which concluded that the UK is in...
View ArticleProtecting against terror: are we dividing our cities?
As part of a preview to our new publication ‘OnCohesion’ Martin Coward examines the new wave of terrorist violence in Europe that focuses on crowded public spaces and low-tech weapons – and asks if...
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