Welfare and Social Services

What is the impact of the Benefit Cap and Two Child Limit on the health and wellbeing of children and young people in the UK?

Researchers from the School for Public Health Research discuss key evidence to support the government’s recent announcement to scrap the Two Child Limit.

By bsa-soa, 1 month1st December 2025 ago

Contemporary society

‘A cup of coffee and a needle’ (part 1)

Johanna Kinnock reports on an important initiative: how a harm reduction café in Copenhagen quietly provides an alternative to the war on drugs.

By bsa-soa, 3 years24th September 2022 ago

Applied Sociology

All superheroes need superpowers: putting the sociology back into social work education

C. Wright Mills’ idea of a sociological imagination that frames personal troubles in the context of social structure could have been written with social workers in mind, suggests Mike Thomas.

By bsa-soa, 5 years12th October 2020 ago