Age groups and generations

Despite evidence of a more sexually active 'third age', ageing and later life (50+) are still commonly represented as a process of desexualisation.

Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised.

Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised.

Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame.

Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame.

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.

In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than those of their parents, this book appraises the challenges young people face resulting from the instability of their lives.

In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than those of their parents, this book appraises the challenges young people face resulting from the instability of their lives.

Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK, this critical and evidence-based collection engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods.

Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK, this critical and evidence-based collection engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Young people's participation is an urgent policy and practice concern across countries and context.

Young people's participation is an urgent policy and practice concern across countries and context.

Practitioners must be able to listen, talk, communicate and engage with children and young people if they are going to make a real difference to their lives.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Using innovative, participatory research methods, this book offers new insights into the issues surrounding parental separation or divorce from the unique perspective, and retrospectives, of young adults.

Using innovative, participatory research methods, this book offers new insights into the issues surrounding parental separation or divorce from the unique perspective, and retrospectives, of young adults.

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.

Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.

Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences.

This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it.

This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it.

The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate.

The voices of grassroots youth workers are rarely heard in policy, research or public debate.

Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021.

Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021.

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom.

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area.

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences.

Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people.

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services.

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences.