Research

Key reading for housing researchers and policy makers, this book explains the root causes of the UK’s housing crisis and proposes useful ways forward.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of so-called ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’ or ‘contested’ states that are either at or threatened by war as they blur traditional categories of international law.

This book examines the impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic restructuring programmes during active conflicts. Using a critical political economy perspective, the book explores how these restructuring efforts affect vulnerable communities’ survival amid violence.

This book explores human rights oversight in asylum decision-making through a socio-legal lens, focusing on the Nordic countries. It examines how institutional contexts shape interactions between national and international law, highlighting how national decision-makers navigate and contest international norms.

Bringing together a broad team of contributors, this book argues for a new interdisciplinary field of crisis studies. Covering a range of cases, the book critically explores the intersections of socio-economic, political, climate, and health factors to unravel the dynamic and transformative forces of crisis.

The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, results. This book examines why the instrument has such a hold on leaders’ imaginations and rhetoric despite its patchy record in practice.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the concept of reflexivity in science and technology studies and how it can be applied to address practical and ethical issues in research.

Exploring the profound harms which stem from corporate crime, this book is a state-of-the-art handbook for researchers and policy-makers in understanding and controlling this ever-evolving phenomena.

This book takes a deep dive into the ways families and communities are, or could be, impacted by transition to Net Zero and provides a practical roadmap towards a truly just transition.

This book shows how urban community campaigns across London have challenged exclusionary regeneration projects. It tells the stories of groups that have taken radical democratic action to resist top-down change and make their voices heard in local decision-making.

This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different political and cultural contexts. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, it sets state-of-the-art agendas for understanding and strengthening the voluntary sector’s influence in place leadership.

An insider perspective of how LGBTQ+ civil society organisations influenced Irish public policy between 1993, the year when homosexuality was decriminalised, and 2015, when both marriage equality and progressive gender recognition legislation were introduced.