Critical Social Policy

We are pleased to introduce the first guest post on the new CSP blog: Challenging the Two-Child Limit on Family Benefits by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
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Advance commentary: Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States by Lucy Huh and Gaynor I. Yancey
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Advance article: Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties by Ruth Tarlo, Rachel Fyson, and Simon Roberts
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Critical Social Policy - Volume 45, Number 3 Table of contents for Critical Social Policy, 45, 3

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 3, August 1, 2025 is now available online
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Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England - STEVE IAFRATI, NICK CLARE, HELEN LAWRENCE, 2024 Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing pla...

Advance article (open access): Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England by Steve Iafrati, Nick Clare and Helen Lawrence
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Advance article (open access): Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation? by Rana Khazbak, Alison Gardner, Charlotte Gray and Oana Burcu
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Advance article (open access): Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour by Vicky Heap and Alex Black
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Advance article: Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China by Marius Meinhof and Yiming Zhang
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Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited - CHRIS Ó RÁLAIGH, 2025 It is now 40 years since the publication of Claus Offe's classical paper, Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. Much change has occurred to the ...

Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by Chris Ó Rálaigh
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Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey
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Advance article (open access): ‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer by Deborah Lefkowitz
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Advance article: Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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CSP call for articles for Themed Issue - Academia: crisis, struggle and resistance
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Advance article (open access): Maintaining gender inequality in wages? The case of employer organisations’ and business advocacy groups’ resistance to pay transparency legislation in Finland by Aura Sipura and Paula Koskinen Sandberg
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YouTube video by Ed Connole All FM 96.9 Women on the Mic

Advance Living Activism article (open access): Women on the mic: Breaking women's radio silence by Jane Goetzee, Annette Rimmer and The Radio Research Group
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Critical Social Policy: Sage Journals

The cut off for article submissions for consideration at the July EC meeting is this Friday 23rd May at 23:59 BST
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CSP call for Themed Issue proposals:
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Advance article (open access): Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation by Christopher Cunningham and Colin Samson
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Advance article (open access): Operationalising intersectionality in equality and domestic abuse policy in Scotland: Contradictions, contestations and erasure by Ashlee Christoffersen and Leah McCabe
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Advance article (open access): The business of universities: A case study of halls of residence by Dave Cowan and Kiana Boroumand
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Advance article (open access): Suffering and harm in insecurity welfare regimes: Conflict and the nexus of formal and informal welfare in Pakistan by Zahid Mumtaz and Mulyadi Sumarto
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Advance article (open access): De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden by Claudia Di Matteo
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Advance article (open access): Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition by Lindsey Metcalf McGrath and Helen Beckett Wilson
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Advance article (open access): Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics by Francesco Laruffa
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Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 2, May 1, 2025 is now available online
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Advance article (open access): Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England by Steve Iafrati, Nick Clare and Helen Lawrence
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Adavance article (open access): Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation? by Rana Khazbak, Alison Gardner, Oana Burcu and Charlotte Gray
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Advance article (open access): Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour by Vicky Heap and Alex Black
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Advance article: Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China by Marius Meinhof and Yiming Zhang
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...