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Featured authors
  • Danny Dorling

    Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014).

  • Mary O'Hara

    Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer specializing in social justice. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative (2020) and Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK (2014). She is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty storytelling initiative, Project Twist-It and chair of The David Nobbs Memorial Trust.

  • Margaret Heffernan

    Margaret Heffernan

    Margaret Heffernan worked for 13 years as a radio and television drama and documentary producer. She then spent eight years in the US running media technology companies and was named one of the Internet’s Top 100 by Silicon Alley Reporter and one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter.

  • Paul Lindley

    Paul Lindley OBE is an award-winning British entrepreneur, social campaigner and best-selling author. In 2006 he founded Ella’s Kitchen, the UK’s largest baby food brand. In 2018 he was appointed Chair of London’s Child Obesity Taskforce by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, and was appointed Chancellor of the University of Reading in 2022.

Best Sellers
Transforming Society Podcast
  • ‘Museums without visitors are just elaborate storage’

    ‘Museums without visitors are just elaborate storage’

    Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:36:40 GMT

    Time was when museums were staid, dusty institutions. Those days are long gone. Now the focus is on making visiting a museum a positive, inclusive, meaningful experience for everyone who comes through the door – or visits online....

  • The psychology behind philanthropy

    The psychology behind philanthropy

    Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:53:45 GMT

    In this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks with Jen Shang, co-author of ‘Meaningful Philanthropy: The Person Behind the Giving’, about the high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals behind philanthropic giving. Having had unparalleled access to some of the world’s most reflective and thoughtful philanthropists, Jen explains how philanthropists experience what they do and the psychological challenges they need to overcome. Jen Shang is Professor of Philanthropic Psychology and Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Jen Shang is the world’s only philanthropic psychologist....

  • Scoring the General Election promises on poverty

    Scoring the General Election promises on poverty

    Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:34:33 GMT

    With the UK General Election on Thursday, Academics Stand Against Poverty have audited the manifestos to establish which parties are most likely to address poverty and enable British society to flourish....

Meet the editor

Our Commissioning Editor for trade is Ginny Mills:

"I love working closely with authors and the team here to produce carefully crafted books that have real impact, and I’m particularly pleased to represent a publisher with such a strong commitment to social justice."

Contact Ginny at ginny.mills@bristol.ac.uk