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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
  • Social work and social control

    Social work and social control

    Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:51:58 GMT

    Social work exists in a constant tension between caring and protecting vulnerable people, and the control mechanisms within the broader context social workers operate in. Where are the lines drawn in its dual role as an instrument of the state and an advocate for social justice? In this episode Malcolm Carey and Gurnam Singh, guest editors of the Critical and Radical Social Work special issue on social work and social control, speak with Richard Kemp about this paradox of care and control. They discuss the extreme scrutiny faced by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, the higher standards parents with a learning disability face and the many ways social workers exercise empathy to work both with, and around, the system to help those who need it the most....

  • The myth of the hormonal female

    The myth of the hormonal female

    Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:11:33 GMT

    We’ve all blamed PMS on hormones but, despite popular belief, no direct causal link between female sex hormones and PMS has ever been proven. So why does the ‘hormonal woman’ stereotype persist? And how does it fuel outdated, sexist narratives about female health? In this episode, Jess Miles speaks to Sally King, a visiting fellow in menstrual physiology at King’s College London, about the myths and sexist tropes that blame the healthy reproductive body for the female-prevalence of emotional distress and physical pain. They discuss why so much of menstrual health focuses on hormones while overlooking the inflammatory nature of the cycle and what needs to change in healthcare, education and everyday conversations....

  • How to be creative with data analysis

    How to be creative with data analysis

    Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:37:02 GMT

    Alongside a growing interest in creative methods, researchers are increasingly exploring how to bring creativity into data analysis. But how do you strike the balance between innovation and maintaining a systematic, rigorous and ethical approach?Jess Miles talks to Helen Kara, Dawn Mannay, and Alastair Roy, editors of The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis, about the role of creativity in research, its benefits for analysis and communication, and the anxieties and difficulties people might experience around using creative methods for the first time....

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."

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