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People, Place and Policy Conference 2021 Virtual Stand

Welcome to our People, Place and Policy virtual conference page. Enjoy free access to a collection of Voluntary Sector Review articles.

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Voluntary Sector Review 

Voluntary Sector Review is published by Policy Press in association with the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN). It publishes accessible, high-quality peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of the voluntary, community, civil society and third sectors. A unique feature of the Voluntary Sector Review is the combination of papers aimed at academic, policy and practice audiences. 

Enjoy free access to the Voluntary Sector Review Summer reading list until 31 August, including:

The ‘resilience’ of community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic: absorptive, adaptive and transformational capacity during a crisis response
Chris Dayson et al. 

Shoots and leaves: exploring the impacts and fragile sustainability of sustainable place-making projects working with marginalised people
Sam Ramsden

Shared leadership in voluntary sector organisations: exploring practice and theory development
Henry Mumbi and Demola Obembe 

Accountability in non-profit health care organisations: towards building online practices
Asya Cooley

Assembling community energy democracies
Bregje van Veelen and Will Eadson 

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Introducing Global Social Challenges Journal: Non-profit, open access publishing for change

How can we re-imagine society in an era of climate change, pandemic, hunger, poverty and other pressing global societal challenges? Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities. This new fully open access, not for profit journal aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines. 

Global Social Challenges Journal will be the first such journal to be based in the social sciences, whilst engaging with research from all fields of study. It will be an important home for research which contributes to the creation of alternative futures that are socially and environmentally just and sustaining. 

Want to know more? Read our call for papers, and join the journal mailing list for the latest news.  



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Policy & Politics 
The special issue: Volume 49, Number 2, April 2021 Strategic management of the transition to public sector co-creation 
Highly Cited Article collection (free until 31 August 2021)
Virtual issue on central local relations (free until 7 July), including:

The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England [Open Access]
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson and Beth Watts

Rescaling education policy: central‐local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden
Ingela K. Naumann and Colin Crouch

Mega-events and regional identities: the 2010 Asian Games language controversy [Open Access]
Zhonghua Gu, Bart Wissink and Yuan Hu 


Evidence & Policy 
The special issue: Volume 16, Number 2, May 2020 Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise [Open Access]
Highly Cited Article collection (free until 31 August 2021)

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 
Enjoy this special collection of articles from the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (free until 4 August 2021):

‘We are constantly overdrawn, despite not spending money on anything other than bills and food’: a mixed-methods, participatory study of food and food insecurity in the context of income inequality [Open Access] 
 Katie Pybus, Madeleine Power and Kate E.  Pickett 

The impact of precarious employment on the health and wellbeing of UK immigrants: a systematic review
Michael Obinna Muoka and Monique Lhussier

The overlap between income poverty and material deprivation: sensitivity evidence for Australia
Peter Saunders and Yuvisthi Naidoo  

‘It may not be due to illness’: social rights for applicants for incapacity benefits  
Sara Arlesten and Rickard Ulmestig

The topology of welfare‐migration‐asylum: Britain’s outsiders inside
Lydia D. Morris

For better or for worse: does the UK means-tested social security system encourage partnership dissolution?
Rita Griffiths

Governmentality and neoliberalism: a study of media discourse on poverty in Hong Kong
Wai Han Lo

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50% Social and Public Policy book discount 

Use code POPPP21 to get 50% off all Social and Public Policy books until midnight 7 July. 


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