Andy Jolly and Bozena Sojka have produced a toolkit on ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ for practitioners. They have written this blog post ahead of its launch at a free online seminar on 31 October 2022. Responding to irregular immigration and introducing a cap on the number of immigrants coming…

Dr Joshua Blamire discusses recent ICRD research exploring the response to COVID-19 within the borough of Walsall. Over the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged every aspect of how we live our lives, accentuated pre-existing inequalities and created new and unprecedented demands on services. While national government restrictions…

James Rees and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis “each place is the focus of a distinct mixture of wider and more local social relations and, further again, that the juxtaposition of these relations may produce effects that would not have happened elsewhere. And finally, all these relations interact with and take a further…

Paula McLean, Phd Student in ICRD — The statistics around the disproportionality of black people in the criminal justice system (CJS) is nothing new and is well documented. Black women are 29% more likely to be remanded to custody than white women and 25% more likely to receive a custodial sentence than white women (MOJ, 2017; Prison…

Dr Wen Wang, Professor Sibel Yamak, Neil Anderson — Diverse workforces are better enabled to deal with uncertainty, partly because they can respond to employee or customer needs more effectively due to the multiple experiences and perspectives they bring. In two recent studies by CIPD (April 2020) and McKinsey (May2020), over 40% of employers believed investments in diversity and…

Dr Steve Iafrati — There are currently record numbers of people in the UK homeless or living in temporary accommodation such as hostels and bed and breakfasts. Shelter, the housing charity, estimates that approximately 320,000 are currently homeless in the UK; equivalent to one and a third the population of Wolverhampton. The costs of…

The 9 Rules of Design Research Lately, I’ve noticed a lot more ambient enthusiasm for research among both early stage start-ups and established…medium.com The above link is to a really thought provoking post from Erika Hall at Mule Design Studio. She writes from a design perspective, but there is a lot of transferrable learning for social researchers in her writing. The quote below is particularly striking:

Dr Jane Booth & Rev. Sarah Schofield — As a society we find it difficult to talk about death, despite the fact that death, dying and bereavement affect us all; death is a unifying element of life. However, death has become increasingly professionalised and medicalised. In other words, the responsibility to deal with death and the dying has…

Ilona Pinter, co-author of A Lifeline for All: Children and Families with No Recourse to Public Funds — ‘The education of our children is crucial for their welfare, their health and their future’, said the Prime Minister last week, confirming the phased reopening of schools on 1st June. Part of the government’s rationale to return children to school as soon as possible has been that those from poor…