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We take markets for granted. Whether it’s your local car boot sale, the supermarket or the most sophisticated financial exchange, markets are so interwoven into everyday life that we rarely stop to think about them. Yet they are ingenious human creations: organized and adapted, regulated and legislated for. They evolve over time, and they create both winners and losers.

Unpaid carers were highlighted in Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s 28 July speech on reforming social care, and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has long said family carers must be ‘front and centre’ of vital changes. Both emphasise that life for millions of unpaid carers has to improve. It’s ‘personal’ for them – both have family experience of caring – and vital for effective functionin...

Bristol University Press caught up with new CEO Kathryn Earle to discuss her vision for the Press, the opportunities ahead and the evolving role of purpose-driven academic publishing.

Bringing more than 30 years of experience in scholarly and digital publishing, Kathryn Earle joins Bristol University Press from Bloomsbury Publishing, where she most recently ...

This briefing presents evidence on what enhances community empowerment processes, what constrains them and what might contribute to the design of future community empowerment initiatives. It is based on a multi-year ethnographic study with three community groups that were part of Big Local, a UK-based community empowerment programme, by anthropologist and sociologist Dr Imoge...

What role can publishing play in creating a fairer society? In this personal reflection, Alison Shaw shares lessons from 36 years of publishing for social justice – from building Policy Press and Bristol University Press to championing the role of evidence, accessibility and public good.

As I hand over the reins to the talented Kathryn Earle and reti...