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Continued Policy Drift on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England: What Can Be Learned From the Shelving of Proposed Charging Reforms?

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 640-650, July 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2021 the UK Government announced charging reforms relating to adult social care in England. The reforms would have ended a prolonged period of policy drift but were postponed in 2022 and cancelled in 2024. This paper reports on how different stakeholder groups perceived the reforms (and their delay), how they had been preparing for the ...
Philip Kinghorn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring university student perspectives of a challenge‐based curriculum

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 507-522, June 2026.
Abstract The world faces multiple global and local challenges, with some describing one challenge, climate breakdown, as an existential threat. Publications in this journal have highlighted the importance of curricula that help students better understand and address these challenges.
Miles Thompson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 496-506, June 2026.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions and Organisational Responses to Polycrisis in Western Switzerland: Insights From a Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how professionals in Western Switzerland perceive and respond to the emerging polycrisis, a convergence of multiple, interconnected disruptions. Drawing on 48 semi‐structured interviews across industries and hierarchical levels, the research presented in this study identifies a shared awareness of systemic pressures ...
Denis Rochat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diasporic Connections Revisited: Asian Women's Entrepreneurship in Context

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This reflection revisits Hardill and Raghuram’s groundbreaking 1998 study of Asian women entrepreneurs, which challenged homogeneous views of ‘Asian business’ by showing how gender, class, ethnicity and migration history intersected to shape distinctive entrepreneurial strategies. Drawing on my own experience in a migrant family business
Monder Ram
wiley   +1 more source

Top Managerial Network Relations for Knowledge Transfer: Exploring Gender Differences

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 279-299, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the ongoing debate surrounding the gender gap in top managerial positions, various possible causes have been explored, with different networking patterns being one of them. However, we still lack detailed insights on how knowledge transfer via networks varies based on gender.
Sonja Sperber, Christian Linder
wiley   +1 more source

Language teachers' wellbeing in Scotland: challenges and coping pathways. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Cardoso-Pulido MJ   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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