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The following titles are available in EPDF version for anyone to read via the OAPEN website.
Scroll down to see our latest open access journal articles.
Find out more about our open access options for books and open access options for journals.
Read this post from our Journals and OA Director, Julia Mortimer, about sustainable open access and impact.
Open access journal articles
Open access journal articles
Browse our latest open access journal articles from:
Critical and Radical Social Work
Emotions and Society
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Evidence & Policy
Families, Relationships and Societies
International Journal of Care and Caring
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Policy & Politics
Voluntary Sector Review
Critical and Radical Social Work
Franco Basaglia and the radical psychiatrymovement in Italy, 1961–78
Author: John Foot
The ‘quality’ of social work students in England: a genealogy of discourse 2002–18
Author: Joe Hanley
Emotions and Society
Different roads to empathy: stage actors and judges as polar cases
Author: Bergman Blix, Stina
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Gender in the crisis and remaking of Europe: re-gendering subsidiarity
Author: Walby, Sylvia
Gender, ownership and engagement during the European Union referendum: gendered frames and the reproduction of binaries
Authors: Guerrina, Roberta; Exadaktylos, Theofanis; Guerra, Simona
Power, knowledge and the politics of gender in the Global South
Authors: Medie, Peace A.; Kang, Alice J.
Representing women, women representing: backbenchers’ questions during Prime Minister’s Questions, 1979–2010
Authors: Bates, Stephen Holden; Sealey, Alison
Evidence & Policy
Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy
Authors: Patrick Fafard; Steven J Hoffman
Understanding evidence use within education policy: a policy narrative perspective
Authors: Mark Rickinson; Lucas Walsh; Kate de Bruin; Matthew Hall
Everyday stories of impact: interpreting knowledge exchange in the contemporary university
Authors: Peter Matthews; Robert Rutherfoord; Steve Connelly; et al.
Building capacity for evidence-informed decision making: an example from South Africa
Authors: Ruth Stewart; Laurenz Langer; Russell Wildeman; et al.
Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study: testing a method of near-real-time data collection on the social determinants of health
Authors: Lynn Naven; Greig Inglis; Rachel Harris; et al.
The pivotal position of 'liaison people': facilitating a research utilisation intervention in policy agencies
Authors: Abby Haynes; Phyllis Butow; Sue Brennan; et al.
The Cochrane Collaboration: institutional analysis of a knowledge commons
Authors: Peter Heywood; Anne Marie Stephani; Paul Garner
Evidence synthesis for knowledge exchange: balancing responsiveness and quality in providing evidence for policy and practice
Author: Sarah Morton
EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Authors: Allan Watt; Gill Ainsworth; Estelle Balian; George Cojocaru; et al.
The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: the evolution of the role of British health economics academic units
Authors: Eleanor MacKillop; Sally Sheard
Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis
Authors: Duncan Chambers; Andrew Booth; Mark Rodgers; et al.
Families, Relationships and Societies
‘Neither a professional nor a friend’: The liminal spaces of parents and volunteers in family support
Authors: Jenny Fisher; Rebecca Lawthom; Zinnia Mitchell-Smith; et al.
Singles’ activities: Sociability and the ambiguities of singledom
Author: Andreas Henriksson
‘People try and police your behaviour’: the impact of surveillance on mothers and grandmothers’ perceptions and experiences of infant feeding
Authors: Aimee Grant; Dawn Mannay; Ruby Marzella
How do young people 'do' family where there is a diagnosis of dementia?
Authors: Mel Hall; Pat Sikes
After the 'need for ... a father': 'the welfare of the child' and 'supportive parenting' in assisted conception clinics in the UK
Authors: Ellie Lee; Sally Sheldon; Jan Macvarish
Telling 'moral tales'? Family narratives of responsible privilege and environmental concern in India and the UK
Authors: Janet Boddy; Ann Phoenix; Catherine Walker; et al.
House, home and transforming energy in a cold climate
Authors: Janette Webb; David Hawkey; David Mccrone; Margaret Tingey
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
Author: Leah Gilman
Putting up (with) the paying guest: Negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements
Authors: Sue Heath; Rachael Scicluna
Migrant mothers: kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
Authors: Tracey Reynolds; Umut Erel
International Journal of Care and Caring
The Goldilocks question: what size is 'just right' for social care providers?
Authors: Jon Glasby; Catherine Needham; Kerry Allen; et al.
Imagining a caring early childhood education and care system in Canada: a thought experiment
Authors: Rachel Langford; Alana Powell; Kate Bezanson
Care poverty: unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state
Authors: Teppo Kröger; Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil; Lina Van Aerschot
Life course trajectories of family care
Authors: Norah Keating; Jacquie Eales; Laura Funk; Janet Fast; Joohong Min
Exploring intergenerational, intra-generational and transnational patterns of family caring in minority ethnic communities: the example of England and Wales
Authors: Christina R. Victor; Christine Dobbs; Kenneth Gilhooly; Vanessa Burholt
What would I want? Dementia perspectives and priorities among people with dementia, family carers and service professionals
Authors: Irja Haapala; Ashley Carr; Simon Biggs
Struggles for Recognition and Redistribution: Family Carers and Domestic Workers in Spanish Eldercare
Author: Elin Peterson
Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers
Author: Christine Kelly
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Sexual re-victimisation of adolescent girls in institutional care with a history of sexual violence in childhood: empirical results and conclusions for prevention
Authors: Barbara Kavemann; Cornelia Helfferich; Heinz Kindler; Bianca Nagel
Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender
Authors: Sylvia Walby; Jude Towers
‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control
Authors: Julia Downes; Liz Kelly; Nicole Westmarland
Tackling domestic abuse locally: paradigms, ideologies and the political tensions of multi-agency working
Author: Pamela Davies
Measuring violence, mainstreaming gender: does adding harm make a difference?
Authors: Margunn Bjørnholt; Ole Kristian Hjemdal
What's love got to do with marriage?
Author: Khatidja Chantler
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The impact of defamilisation measures on gender and pensions: a comparison between the UK and seven other European countries
Authors: Liam Foster; Ruby Chau; Sam Yu
Benefits conditionality for disabled people: stylised facts from a review of international evidence and practice
Author: Ben Baumberg Geiger
Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives
Authors: Jenny McNeill; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Gamers or victims of the system? Welfare reform, cynical manipulation and vulnerability
Authors: Del Roy Fletcher; John Flint; Elaine Batty; Jennifer McNeill
Fare's fair? Concessionary travel policy and social justice
Authors: Donald Houston; Sara Tilleyed
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health: claimants’ lived experiences and GP perspectives in low-income communities
Authors: Lorraine Hansford; Felicity Thomas; Katrina Wyatt
Policy & Politics
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Authors: Peter James Dwyer; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Identifying attitudes to welfare through deliberative forums: the emergence of reluctant individualism
Authors: Peter Taylor-Gooby; Ben Leruth; Heejung Chung
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs
Author: Paul Cairney
Narratives as tools for influencing policy change
Authors: Deserai Crow; Michael Jones
The lessons of policy learning: types, triggers, hindrances and pathologies
Authors: Claire A Dunlop; Claudio M Radaelli
Superdiversity and sub-national autonomous regions: perspectives from the South Tyrolean case
Author: Roberta Medda-Windischer
Against the tide of depoliticisation: the politics of research governance
Authors: Sarah Hartley; Warren Pearce; Alasdair Taylor
The expertise of politicians and their role in epistemic communities
Authors: Anne Skevik Grødem; Jon M. Hippe
When design meets power: Design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking
Authors: Jenny M. Lewis; Michael McGann; Emma Blomkamp
What determines the audiences that public service organisations target for reputation management?
Authors: Jan Boon; Koen Verhoest; Jan Wynen
Designing environments for experimentation, learning and innovation in public policy and governance
Authors: Maurits Waardenburg; Martijn Groenleer; Jorrit De Jong
Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?
Authors: Karol Olejniczak; Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak; Anna Domaradzka-Widła; Yaerin Park
The use and abuse of participatory governance by populist governments
Authors: Agnes Batory; Sara Svensson
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs
Author: Paul Cairney
Narratives as tools for influencing policy change
Authors: Deserai Crow; Michael Jones
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Authors: Peter James Dwyer; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Voluntary Sector Review
Transforming the world and themselves: the learning experiences of volunteers being trained within health and social care charities in England
Author: Sarah Darley
Fragmentation and competition: voluntary organisations' experiences of support for family carers
Authors: Jo Moriarty; Jill Manthorpe
Volunteering and employability: implications for policy and practice
Authors: Daiga Kamerāde; Angela Ellis Paine
Emotions as evaluative judgements: understanding volunteers' evaluative feelings about things that matter to them
Authors: Balihar Sanghera
Browse our latest open access journal articles from:
Critical and Radical Social Work
Emotions and Society
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Evidence & Policy
Families, Relationships and Societies
International Journal of Care and Caring
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Policy & Politics
Voluntary Sector Review
Critical and Radical Social Work
Franco Basaglia and the radical psychiatrymovement in Italy, 1961–78
Author: John Foot
The ‘quality’ of social work students in England: a genealogy of discourse 2002–18
Author: Joe Hanley
Emotions and Society
Different roads to empathy: stage actors and judges as polar cases
Author: Bergman Blix, Stina
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Gender in the crisis and remaking of Europe: re-gendering subsidiarity
Author: Walby, Sylvia
Gender, ownership and engagement during the European Union referendum: gendered frames and the reproduction of binaries
Authors: Guerrina, Roberta; Exadaktylos, Theofanis; Guerra, Simona
Power, knowledge and the politics of gender in the Global South
Authors: Medie, Peace A.; Kang, Alice J.
Representing women, women representing: backbenchers’ questions during Prime Minister’s Questions, 1979–2010
Authors: Bates, Stephen Holden; Sealey, Alison
Evidence & Policy
Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy
Authors: Patrick Fafard; Steven J Hoffman
Understanding evidence use within education policy: a policy narrative perspective
Authors: Mark Rickinson; Lucas Walsh; Kate de Bruin; Matthew Hall
Everyday stories of impact: interpreting knowledge exchange in the contemporary university
Authors: Peter Matthews; Robert Rutherfoord; Steve Connelly; et al.
Building capacity for evidence-informed decision making: an example from South Africa
Authors: Ruth Stewart; Laurenz Langer; Russell Wildeman; et al.
Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study: testing a method of near-real-time data collection on the social determinants of health
Authors: Lynn Naven; Greig Inglis; Rachel Harris; et al.
The pivotal position of 'liaison people': facilitating a research utilisation intervention in policy agencies
Authors: Abby Haynes; Phyllis Butow; Sue Brennan; et al.
The Cochrane Collaboration: institutional analysis of a knowledge commons
Authors: Peter Heywood; Anne Marie Stephani; Paul Garner
Evidence synthesis for knowledge exchange: balancing responsiveness and quality in providing evidence for policy and practice
Author: Sarah Morton
EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Authors: Allan Watt; Gill Ainsworth; Estelle Balian; George Cojocaru; et al.
The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: the evolution of the role of British health economics academic units
Authors: Eleanor MacKillop; Sally Sheard
Evidence to support delivery of effective health services: a responsive programme of rapid evidence synthesis
Authors: Duncan Chambers; Andrew Booth; Mark Rodgers; et al.
Families, Relationships and Societies
‘Neither a professional nor a friend’: The liminal spaces of parents and volunteers in family support
Authors: Jenny Fisher; Rebecca Lawthom; Zinnia Mitchell-Smith; et al.
Singles’ activities: Sociability and the ambiguities of singledom
Author: Andreas Henriksson
‘People try and police your behaviour’: the impact of surveillance on mothers and grandmothers’ perceptions and experiences of infant feeding
Authors: Aimee Grant; Dawn Mannay; Ruby Marzella
How do young people 'do' family where there is a diagnosis of dementia?
Authors: Mel Hall; Pat Sikes
After the 'need for ... a father': 'the welfare of the child' and 'supportive parenting' in assisted conception clinics in the UK
Authors: Ellie Lee; Sally Sheldon; Jan Macvarish
Telling 'moral tales'? Family narratives of responsible privilege and environmental concern in India and the UK
Authors: Janet Boddy; Ann Phoenix; Catherine Walker; et al.
House, home and transforming energy in a cold climate
Authors: Janette Webb; David Hawkey; David Mccrone; Margaret Tingey
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
Author: Leah Gilman
Putting up (with) the paying guest: Negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements
Authors: Sue Heath; Rachael Scicluna
Migrant mothers: kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
Authors: Tracey Reynolds; Umut Erel
International Journal of Care and Caring
The Goldilocks question: what size is 'just right' for social care providers?
Authors: Jon Glasby; Catherine Needham; Kerry Allen; et al.
Imagining a caring early childhood education and care system in Canada: a thought experiment
Authors: Rachel Langford; Alana Powell; Kate Bezanson
Care poverty: unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state
Authors: Teppo Kröger; Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil; Lina Van Aerschot
Life course trajectories of family care
Authors: Norah Keating; Jacquie Eales; Laura Funk; Janet Fast; Joohong Min
Exploring intergenerational, intra-generational and transnational patterns of family caring in minority ethnic communities: the example of England and Wales
Authors: Christina R. Victor; Christine Dobbs; Kenneth Gilhooly; Vanessa Burholt
What would I want? Dementia perspectives and priorities among people with dementia, family carers and service professionals
Authors: Irja Haapala; Ashley Carr; Simon Biggs
Struggles for Recognition and Redistribution: Family Carers and Domestic Workers in Spanish Eldercare
Author: Elin Peterson
Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers
Author: Christine Kelly
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Sexual re-victimisation of adolescent girls in institutional care with a history of sexual violence in childhood: empirical results and conclusions for prevention
Authors: Barbara Kavemann; Cornelia Helfferich; Heinz Kindler; Bianca Nagel
Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender
Authors: Sylvia Walby; Jude Towers
‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control
Authors: Julia Downes; Liz Kelly; Nicole Westmarland
Tackling domestic abuse locally: paradigms, ideologies and the political tensions of multi-agency working
Author: Pamela Davies
Measuring violence, mainstreaming gender: does adding harm make a difference?
Authors: Margunn Bjørnholt; Ole Kristian Hjemdal
What's love got to do with marriage?
Author: Khatidja Chantler
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The impact of defamilisation measures on gender and pensions: a comparison between the UK and seven other European countries
Authors: Liam Foster; Ruby Chau; Sam Yu
Benefits conditionality for disabled people: stylised facts from a review of international evidence and practice
Author: Ben Baumberg Geiger
Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives
Authors: Jenny McNeill; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Gamers or victims of the system? Welfare reform, cynical manipulation and vulnerability
Authors: Del Roy Fletcher; John Flint; Elaine Batty; Jennifer McNeill
Fare's fair? Concessionary travel policy and social justice
Authors: Donald Houston; Sara Tilleyed
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health: claimants’ lived experiences and GP perspectives in low-income communities
Authors: Lorraine Hansford; Felicity Thomas; Katrina Wyatt
Policy & Politics
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Authors: Peter James Dwyer; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Identifying attitudes to welfare through deliberative forums: the emergence of reluctant individualism
Authors: Peter Taylor-Gooby; Ben Leruth; Heejung Chung
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs
Author: Paul Cairney
Narratives as tools for influencing policy change
Authors: Deserai Crow; Michael Jones
The lessons of policy learning: types, triggers, hindrances and pathologies
Authors: Claire A Dunlop; Claudio M Radaelli
Superdiversity and sub-national autonomous regions: perspectives from the South Tyrolean case
Author: Roberta Medda-Windischer
Against the tide of depoliticisation: the politics of research governance
Authors: Sarah Hartley; Warren Pearce; Alasdair Taylor
The expertise of politicians and their role in epistemic communities
Authors: Anne Skevik Grødem; Jon M. Hippe
When design meets power: Design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking
Authors: Jenny M. Lewis; Michael McGann; Emma Blomkamp
What determines the audiences that public service organisations target for reputation management?
Authors: Jan Boon; Koen Verhoest; Jan Wynen
Designing environments for experimentation, learning and innovation in public policy and governance
Authors: Maurits Waardenburg; Martijn Groenleer; Jorrit De Jong
Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?
Authors: Karol Olejniczak; Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak; Anna Domaradzka-Widła; Yaerin Park
The use and abuse of participatory governance by populist governments
Authors: Agnes Batory; Sara Svensson
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs
Author: Paul Cairney
Narratives as tools for influencing policy change
Authors: Deserai Crow; Michael Jones
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Authors: Peter James Dwyer; Lisa Scullion; Katy Jones; Alasdair Stewart
Voluntary Sector Review
Transforming the world and themselves: the learning experiences of volunteers being trained within health and social care charities in England
Author: Sarah Darley
Fragmentation and competition: voluntary organisations' experiences of support for family carers
Authors: Jo Moriarty; Jill Manthorpe
Volunteering and employability: implications for policy and practice
Authors: Daiga Kamerāde; Angela Ellis Paine
Emotions as evaluative judgements: understanding volunteers' evaluative feelings about things that matter to them
Authors: Balihar Sanghera