Advance article (open access): Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) by Paul Michael Garrett journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis by Graham Burvill @drgrahamburvill.bsky.social‬ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Seeking refuge in a productivist welfare regime: Well-being of African asylum seekers/refugees in Hong Kong - 寻求庇护于生产主.义福利体制：香港非洲寻求庇护者/难民的福祉 - by P.A. Amoah​, E.K. Ameyaw, A.A. Asiama, L.L.S. Ngan & M.K. Bhowmik journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/challen... (Image Credit: Dominic Alves (cropped) CC2.0)

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 - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance commentary: Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States by Lucy Huh and Gaynor I. Yancey journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 3, August 1, 2025 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/45/3

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by Chris Ó Rálaigh journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): ‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer by Deborah Lefkowitz journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CSP call for articles for Themed Issue - Academia: crisis, struggle and resistance www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/call-fo...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Watch a short video about the project here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH5q...

The cut off for article submissions for consideration at the July EC meeting is this Friday 23rd May at 23:59 BST journals.sagepub.com/home/csp

CSP call for Themed Issue proposals: www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/csp-inv...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Operationalising intersectionality in equality and domestic abuse policy in Scotland: Contradictions, contestations and erasure by Ashlee Christoffersen and Leah McCabe journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): The business of universities: A case study of halls of residence by Dave Cowan and Kiana Boroumand journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition by Lindsey Metcalf McGrath and Helen Beckett Wilson journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics by Francesco Laruffa journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 2, May 1, 2025 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/45/2

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by Chris Ó Rálaigh journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): ‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer by Deborah Lefkowitz journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance Living Activism article (free to access for 6 months): Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States by George Ygarza journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Episode 3 of the CSP podcast is now live featuring The Young Women's Film Academy in conversation with CSP Admin Jenna Allsopp-Douglas about their their award-nominated recent short film 'Impact', which was supported by the CSP Solidarity Fund www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/podcast

Please note the cut off for articles to be submitted for consideration at the April EC meeting is Friday 14th March journals.sagepub.com/home/csp

Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by CHRIS Ó RÁLAIGH journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....