In this issue, PRAN explores new ideas on inequality, with a blog from Prof Kate Pickett and a programme of April events, including Liverpool based discussions on food insecurity, poverty and inequality.
Welcome to the tenth episode of The Cost of Living Chronicles, recorded live at the launch of a special issue of the Journal of Social Policy and Administration. Hear insights from Prof Danny Dorling (Oxford), Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick (Ulster), Prof Morven G. McEachern (Chester) and Dr Camila Lewis (Manchester).
Join us at the Early Career Symposium 2026 — Forging Connections: Early Career Voices on Poverty and Social Justice — on 6 May at Oxford. A free, cross-sector event spotlighting emerging work, collaboration, and care in justice-focused careers. Submit by 1 March!
In our latest blog, Guy Standing argues that over the past half-century, education has become a vast, commercialised industry marked by rising spending yet declining investment in teaching, shrinking humanities, and worsening teacher conditions. A deepening class divide has produced administrative dominance and widespread precarity among educators, undermining teaching quality, professional stability, and the social purpose of education.