Wellbeing in education settings – listening to children and young people
The role of education settings in promoting good wellbeing and mental health among children and young people has been increasingly formalised in national policy. But often the voices of the key...
View ArticleUnjamming the (bio)printer: how can regulatory reform unleash new and...
3D bioprinting technologies hold huge potential to transform patient care and treatment, delivering the next generation of personalised medicine. But current legislative boundaries are poorly defined,...
View ArticleDon’t worry about the future, what about the ‘now of work’?
Amongst all the competing predictions about what the future of work might hold, the challenges of achieving decent work in the foundational economy have been largely overlooked. Here, Dr Mat Johnson...
View ArticlePrecarious Work: The Consequences for Later Life Security
The concerning trend of precarious work is increasingly the focus of policymakers and researchers. Here, Kristian Fuzi and Professor Debora Price advocate for greater attention to the multiplicity of...
View ArticleJoining the dots: assessing the roll out of social prescribing link workers...
Social prescribing is the referral of patients to non-clinical treatments – often for mental health needs and long-term health conditions. In 2019, the NHS Long Term Plan embedded the role of link...
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The toll of ‘Deaths of Despair’ in England
In 2015, a phenomenon coined as ‘Deaths of Despair’ (DoD) emerged in the US, highlighting an alarming increase in mortality due to drugs, alcohol, and suicides, particularly among white men without a...
View ArticleLocked up like adults – COVID-19 experiences for children in custodial settings
During the early period of the pandemic, there was a lack of detailed guidance for many groups, including the secure estate. For children in custodial settings, this meant staff often applied measures...
View ArticleImplications of the digital revolution for the nursing workforce
As the largest professional group in the healthcare workforce, nurses have been at the frontline of a digital transformation. In this article, from our publication Working Futures, Professor Dawn...
View ArticleMind the gap: supporting prison leavers with mental illness
Many people in prison have severe mental health problems, but what is being done to help these individuals resettle when released? And how can policy and practice reduce reoffending rates, while...
View ArticleMind your language: interpreters in Mental Health Act assessments
In England and Wales, the Mental Health Act can be used to detain people experiencing a mental health crisis, and who may pose a danger to themselves or others. However, some of those assessed under...
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The Future of Work: Women’s Experiences of Employment in Greater Manchester
Women in Greater Manchester face a range of barriers relating to their employment. As of December 2022, 72% of women in Greater Manchester aged 16-64 were in employment, compared to 80% of men. Women’s...
View ArticleCan we upskill the health and social care workforce to meet the growing...
There has been growing interest regarding the potential of digital transformation to aid the UK’s health and social care system in its ambition to meet modern demands placed upon it. But what skills do...
View ArticleDid the UK fail in its management of mpox? Lessons for future pandemics
In 2022, Europe, the US, and Canada experienced widespread community transmission of mpox, constituting a health emergency. Previously, mpox had been endemic to Central and Western Africa. In the UK, a...
View ArticleElectricity access vs toxic lead pollution: tackling waste from solar power...
Millions of short-lived solar energy devices are being sold to households across sub-Saharan Africa each year as a strategy to increase access to electricity. However, the current lack of...
View ArticleUntangling the threads: addressing microfibre pollution
As clothes are washed and worn, tiny fibres below 5mm in length are broken off or released from the fabric itself, which are called microfibres. With increasing concerns over the persistence of this...
View ArticleFrom mental health to maternal health: understanding the link
It is increasingly recognised that women’s health needs are under-resourced, under-researched, and under-funded. But what happens to women for whom multiple health needs overlap? Here, Dr Holly Hope,...
View ArticleThe childhood obesity crisis – driven by deprivation?
Children growing up in the most deprived areas of the UK are over twice as likely to be obese as children growing up in the least deprived areas. Obesity and associated malnutrition in childhood can...
View ArticleRegulation of human embryo models is urgent
Human embryo models are created from stem cells and provide opportunities to study early embryo development in ways that would generally be impermissible if real human embryos were used. Here, Dr...
View ArticlePolicy responses for the breakdown in climate consensus
From 2021 onwards, there has been a ‘climate consensus breakdown’ – and a backlash against net zero. This backlash has changed the nature of Conservative-Labour competition around climate change, from...
View ArticleModern slavery and digital technology in ‘Fast Fashion’: the transparency...
Modern slavery and exploitation are critical challenges in the UK garment manufacturing and fast fashion sectors, which continue to require urgent attention from policymakers and regulatory agencies....
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