Aspirations and poverty: a double-edged sword
Aspirations inspire individuals to become more economically and politically involved, but living in poverty often hampers such aspirations. Efforts toContinue Reading
Category: Podcast episodes
Episode #16: Faith and empathy in community work – coming together to tackle poverty
Interfaith collaboration has enormous potential to mobilise community resources and foster a shared sense of humanity and respect. Working withContinue Reading
Episode #15: Navigating Japan’s social hierarchies and migrant hostilities – Dreux Richard
Japan is a hard place to be poor, and even more so as an immigrant. Many of the country’s NigerianContinue Reading
Episode #14: Digitising the fight against poverty – poor use of technology?
Social services around the world are rapidly being digitised. It is cheaper and more efficient, and it can improve theContinue Reading
Episode #13: Tackling child poverty: both urgency and opportunity
Child poverty has life-long adverse consequences, undermines children’s psychosocial wellbeing, and ultimately hurts all of us. Investing in the earlyContinue Reading
Episode #12: Working-class writers – voices to be heard
Working-class writers or from those with disadvantaged backgrounds are underrepresented in the publishing world. Amplifying voices and hearing stories fromContinue Reading
Episode #11: Poverty, politics and activism – Tabitha Morton
A dominant narrative within politics and media in the UK and elsewhere is that for one group to gain, anotherContinue Reading
Episode #10: Two stories of poverty in the UK – Daniel Edmiston
There is a splintering among those living in poverty with those in ‘deep poverty’ having lost the most in theContinue Reading
Episode #9: Social protection response to Covid-19
Social protection and other forms of social security and welfare support have seen a large and rapid expansion across theContinue Reading
Episode #8: Food banks: plugging the gaps in the welfare system
Are food banks a sign of the ‘big society’ coming together to help its vulnerable members? Or are they aContinue Reading
