UNFILTERED LIVES When refuge isn't safe Findings from SEREDA call for changes to the Home Office’s asylum policy after uncovering the failures of the UK asylum system faced by refugee victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
Social Policy Matters Students and academics share research and opinions from across the School of Social Policy.
16 December 2021 Launch of the Penn-Birmingham Transatlantic Migration Fellowship Program The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and the University of Pennsylvania Migration Initiative are proud to announce the launch of an exciting new transnational collaboration.
13 December 2021 New website launched for the NODE UK|Japan network on migration and diversity IRiS and Waseda University's Institute for Asian Migrations (IAM) have launched the website for the NODE UK|Japan network on migration and diversity.
30 November 2021 The interests and vulnerabilities of female forced migrants need to be recognised and integrated within the national strategy for tackling violence against women and girls Jenny Phillimore and Sandra Pertek write in the LSE Blog.
29 November 2021 Research highlights fall in charity income during the pandemic Research published by TSRC on the decline in charity income is highlighted by Civil Society news
17 November 2021 COVID Oximetry @home evaluation: Interpretation of findings A collection of findings based on the COVID Oximetry @home evaluation from RSET and BRACE in collaboration with Imperial College London and Health Foundation
11 November 2021 What can we learn from a decade of National Pilot Programmes? Professor Judith Smith and colleagues have undertaken various national and local evaluations of integrated care over the past ten years.
10 November 2021 Polish-Belarusian border crisis: Let's not lose sight of the people trapped in the middle IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona, discusses how the Belerus border crisis with Poland loses sight of the people trapped in the middle in The Conversation.
01 November 2021 MBA Clinical Leadership The Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) and Birmingham Business School have collaborated to design and deliver a new online MBA Clinical Leadership
07 October 2021 Lesson-drawing for policy makers during a crisis Professor Martin Powell (HSMC), Dr Sophie King-Hill (HSMC) and Professor Ian Greener (University of Strathclyde) publish analysis of UK media coverage from the first months of the COVID pandemic.
04 October 2021 Context and culture in health services research Professor Russell Mannion (HSMC) to give keynote at German conference on "Context and Culture in Health Services Research".
27 September 2021 A world turned upside down: what next for voluntary action? The one constant during the Covid pandemic has been the contribution by individual volunteers and voluntary organisations to help those in need
16 September 2021 New book on impact of COVID-19 on people, places, economies and policy-making The book, which includes a chapter by HSMC Senior Fellow Steve Gulati, captures how individuals, organisations and governments adapted to a pandemic with profound health and socio-economic ramifications.