Call for Special Issue Proposals! The Editors welcome proposals for Special Issues comprising 6-8 original research articles on a shared theme. Deadline: 28 Feb bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

🌟 Explore our latest Editors' Choice Collections! Read all articles for free for a limited time. Congrats to all featured authors! 👏 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/page/Editors...

This paper reframes later-life 'privacy apathy' as a form of 'digital resignation,' which is used by corporations to legitimize mass data collection. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @gallisv.bsky.social, @mireiafa.bsky.social, @sarasuarezg.bsky.social, Alexander Peine

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Most... My article on generational changes to daughter-father relationships was the most read paper in FRS journal in 2025 😎 #generations #intimacies #sociology #daughters #fathers #feminism #mannheim #physicalactivity @bupjournals.bsky.social

Jane Lethbridge examines how the meat production industry functions as a global industry, contributing to increased health risks for consumers and workers and as a major emitter of greenhouse gases. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Lovely that TWO articles in the Global Discourse #rhetoric special edition are on the 'most-read' list! The first is by Pete Dorey on the discourses of the populist right, and the second is by Steven Kettell & Peter Kerr on Boris Johnson's evidence to the COVID inquiry! Great to see! Links below.

Great to see one of our @changingrealities.bsky.social articles is one of the most downloaded articles published in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice in 2025! It shares parents' everyday struggles & recommendations for change/ read it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

The most read articles published in @bupjournals.bsky.social Emotions and Society in 2025 are available to read for free throughout February 2026. See here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso... #emosoc

This blog from the editors of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence issues a call for urgent feminist action to recognize digital violence as a critical and rapidly expanding component of the continuum of violence against women harmandcrime.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/category/new... #GBV #EndVAWG #EndVAW

I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025! @bupjournals.bsky.social Here you can access the collection:

Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

📰 Hold the front page! CLS' @dominicpkelly.bsky.social is to join Longitudinal and Life Course Studies as section editor, with Larissa Pople and Liam Wright as associate editors – big news for CLS colleagues! @sllshome.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/49RmEDQ

Evidence & Policy 2025 Carol Weiss Award! We're thrilled to announce the latest Carol Weiss Award winning paper! Read the full details: evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/01/14/e... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

📖 Great to see a new VSR @brisunipress.bsky.social article by VSSN trustee @caitlinmcmullin.bsky.social on refugee social integration and the role of voluntary organisations in creating meaningful connection and belonging beyond service delivery. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Anton Roberts makes a compelling argument for Housing First support to tackle homelessness. Read Anton's research to learn more wider structural constraints facing people in poverty. Co-authored by Joanne Massey doi.org/10.1332/2635...

This new special issue from Critical and Radical Social Work details the practices and experiences of Palestinian social workers living and working amidst occupation and genocide. ‘Social Work in a time of genocide’ is available to read for free bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

This new special issue details the practices and experiences of Palestinian social workers living and working amidst occupation and genocide. ‘Social Work in a time of genocide’ is available to read for free. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #SocialWork #Gaza #Palestine

'Motivational Interviewing risks becoming a conduit for the neoliberal values of autonomy and responsibility echoed in the words of Michael Gove' - Powerful new article from Nina Kyriacou & @henrytsmith.bsky.social reflecting on use of MI in SW. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Have you read the latest Evidence & Policy blog? 'Supporting effective collaboration in large transdisciplinary research teams' by Taru Silvonen and Ges Rosenberg evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/11/26/s... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

I’m excited to share a new open access paper that explores how psychosocial methods can help foster more connected, care-based, and imaginative research in problem-focused fields. Durrant, R. 2025. Re-enchanting the research encounter... J of Psychosocial Studies. www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

Aging women experience a larger share of vision loss compared to men-- but risk factors that shape this disparity vary. New, cross-national HRS analyses by @shanedburns.bsky.social et al suggest education and healthcare make a difference. doi.org/10.1332/2976...

How are environmental activists using TikTok to express their emotions relating to the climate crisis? View my latest article here⬇️

A year ago, I published my article "We need a global language rights movement" in @gscjournal.bsky.social. Since then, it's been viewed 85,000 times. Here's a short thread on the article's key arguments and a few other things... bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer reveals how social work keeps alive the memory of society’s deepest conflicts, gender, class, race, and acts as an open archive of our shared past. www.scipod.global/professor-dr... #SocialWork #CollectiveMemory doi.org/10.1332/2049...

Vol 9.4 of the International Journal of Care & Caring is out now! This new issue features the themed section: Innovation in #caring: social and technological innovation in long-term care. Guest edited by Georgia Casanova & Blanca Deusdad Ayala bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Ryan @burnsr77.bsky.social and I published a second paper looking at digitization and extractive labour. Urban futures of digitalized fossil labour tinyurl.com/3hba7hy3 Thanks to N. Ebner, B. Bragg, and H. Schling SI on the future of industrial work tinyurl.com/yt3cbpnd and brisunipress.bsky.social

New paper out! Two new instruments devoted to assess social support among animal welfare volunteers: Support Towards Animal Protection Labour (STAPL) & Support in Animal Care Organisations (SACO)

Did you know that the estimated cash value of unpaid care in 2021/22 was about £184 billion a year – equivalent to the annual spending on the NHS. This is just one of many shocking figures in Dan Taylor's new blog on unpaid care in the UK www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/10/28/w... #Carers

Why do so many children in the youth justice system have special educational needs? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies author Hope Kent answers this question in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-so-many-... @sllshome.bsky.social

New special issue from Justice, Power and Resistance Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica

Call for Abstracts! Special Issue: Strengthening Research Practice Partnerships in Social Care: Evidence, Impact and Policy Learning Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 Full details: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/10/15/e... @bupjournals.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social @a-mtowers.bsky.social

“Don’t show them anger because then they think we are criminals.” New blog from Emotions and Society author Betül Özkaya 👇 @jonathangheaney.bsky.social #EmoSoc

Call for Abstracts! Special Issue: Strengthening Research Practice Partnerships in Social Care: Evidence, Impact and Policy Learning Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 Full details: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/10/15/e... @bupjournals.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social @a-mtowers.bsky.social

New on the Evidence & Policy Blog: 'Against unanimity: the perils of negotiating collective policy recommendations across a diverse third sector' by Jane Cullingworth evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/10/15/a... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

📖 New open access research from VSR @brisunipress.bsky.social What about the migrants? An exploration of organisational change in an asylum seeker and refugee voluntary sector organisation by Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey and Vita Terry Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🔥Hot of the press🔥 This new issue of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice features research on Work Capability Assessment, #FuelPoverty and the demise of USAID bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #Welfare #SocialJustice #Poverty #Benefits

Delighted to see our editorial article for two consecutive issues of Global Discourse published in Early View. "From discourse to legitimacy: narratives as instruments of influence in international relations" @bupjournals.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

This new longitudinal study examines how fitness, low-salt diet adherence & personal factors affect quality of life, heart-related deaths & hospitalisations in people with #HeartFailure. Read it in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies doi.org/10.1332/1757... @sllshome.bsky.social

Evidence & Policy Editors' Choice Collection! Selected articles free to access until 31 October. Explore the collection: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

🔍 New open access research from Voluntary Sector Review @brisunipress.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social Boundary crossing and elite attributes in European civil societies by Malin Arvidson, Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino & Anders Uhlin Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🚨New job: Journals Coordinator. This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list. #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing 🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025: buff.ly/guAkMjG

A very interesting journal article by our esteemed advisory board member Professor Michael Salter bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

New research by LP&R Member Mara A. Yerkes with Samuel Briones and John de Wit explores how local implementation of long-term care affects carers in Netherlands and Slovenia. doi.org/10.1332/2397...

this paper on how the economic background of gig work delivery drives shapes how they perceive the work as agentic or exploitative further drives home the point, made best by james scott, about how attacks on dignity are key to class resentment bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

#EmoSoc #SocSky #Sociology

We're pleased to share our latest journal. JDS focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance and its consequences. This journal will become an essential platform for anyone working in the emerging field of #DisappearanceStudies

Research impact isn't just about the "big wins". This blog from Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social calls for better recognition the gradual, complex pathways through which longitudinal studies create change. It’s time to celebrate influence, not just outcomes. @sllshome.bsky.social