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Not just ‘facts and lessons’? The changing role of UK public inquiries
As the COVID-19 Inquiry makes headlines, sociologists at the University of Bath turn their attention to the increased pressures on inquiries to do more in this joint CASP and CDAS blog. Public inquiries are now a routine response to crises...
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Exposing corruption and promoting transparency: deepening the collaboration between the Centre of Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS) and the Medical Governance Research Institute, Japan
Dr Akihiko Ozaki Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan Hello, my name is Akihiko Ozaki, MD, PhD. In my day job I work as an oncologist...
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Transparency in medical research as social policy: A personal view from our new research visitor from Tohoku University, Japan
Anju Murayama (left), Dr. Ozaki (right) with a colleague Hi, I am Anju Murayama and a six-grade medical student at Tohoku University in Japan. I am going to visit to the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and...
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A long waited but unexpected loss - my first encounter with grief as a bereavement researcher and why it’s important to talk about it
In this joint CASP and Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) blog Dr Chao Fang CDAS member and Research Fellow in the Institute of Education at the University College London, explores his reactions to his grandmother's death. I suppose I...
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An exploration of Ukraine’s mishandling of vulnerable young people and children in state care.
Whilst the EU and Ukraine grow ever closer, a group of international children’s charities shine a spotlight on the Ukraine’s treatment of the vulnerable babies, children, and young people in state care. At a recent summit meeting the President of...
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Environmental activism and indigenous issues in Cambodia – film-based advocacy with and for young people
Film and filmmaking have proved to be critical avenues for raising awareness about environmental challenges. High profile screen releases have helped set and steer agendas around, for example, An Inconvenient Truth and global heating, Blue Planet and plastic usage, and...
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Is it time for a revolution in social care PR and lobbying?
When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in 2019 he promised to “fix the crisis in social care”. The Queen’s Speech in May 2021, which outlined his government’s plans for the next year, saw the social care agenda encapsulated in just...
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‘Discrepancies in funding reported by the drug industry and patient organisations. What do they mean?’
Industry-patient ties The pharmaceutical industry’s financial ties to patient organisations have long been discussed, predominately from a critical standpoint but with some advocates. Patient organisations are often registered charities, many of which may have limited funds, making conflicts of interests...
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What role for governments in political empowerment?
Empowerment has become a buzzword: both over-used and poorly understood. There are varying definitions, from a Machiavellian focus on getting what you want to a frustratingly intangible discourse about states of mind and psychological constructs. At their heart, however, all...
