This book helps early years students and practitioners gain an understanding of issues relating to children's health, examining possible ways in which health can impact upon young children's early childhood education and care.

Guiding the reader through both theory and application, Fox and Alldred explore the varied uses of "new materialism", a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, in the practice of doing sociology today.

Written by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

A contemporary overview of how to do a research project in topic areas relating to equality, diversity and inclusion and social justice. Giving students careful guidance on both how to approach key topic areas (such as sex/gender, race, disability, mental health) and also the research process itself.

This text helps evaluation teams and commissioners of evaluations work together to achieve results that meet utilization and organizational learning goals. With plenty of practical guidance from many years of experience, the authors provide a valuable resource for student readers, experienced evaluators, and commissioners of evaluation.

This is a whole course introduction to Social Work. Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this practical book will equip social work students with everything they need to know in their first year and beyond.

Drawing on a breath of context, voices, and ideas, as well as contemporary issues, research, and skills for practice, this book offers a critical and decolonised approach to mental health social work practice for qualifying students.

This book explores the flesh and breath of African feminist politics as embodied in activism over the past thirty years against sexism, militarism, homophobia and transphobia, global economic inequality, and religious fundamentalism, and towards freedoms that can be felt by African women and gender non-conforming people in the everyday.