STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book chapters and sections.Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book chapters and sections.http://hdl.handle.net/1893/10452024-03-29T08:05:13Z2024-03-29T08:05:13ZResearching Social PolicyMcCall, Vikkihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/348692023-02-21T01:00:44Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Researching Social Policy
Author(s): McCall, Vikki
Editor(s): Alcock, Pete; Haux, Tina; McCall, Vikki; May, Margaret
Abstract: First Paragraph: The narratives and discourse around social policy can be a contentious field of struggle. Social policy is negotiated within political arenas and connected to assumptions around ideology, societal ‘norms’ and cultural understandings. We have seen the rise of ‘Fake News’, an increasing role for social media and the importance of clear information. This struggle has been highlighted in social policy recently in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the context of the United Kingdom (UK), the new processes and governance implications flowing from devolution and leaving the European Union (known as ‘Brexit’) in 2020. Social policy is an ever-changing field of power and struggle, with many attacks on expertise, science and the foundations of the welfare state. For the UK, Beveridge’s post-second world war key pillars of welfare, social security, education, health, employment and housing are areas where people can become entrenched in misinformation and ideology.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK housing policy: how do we rebuild the foundations of the ‘wobbly pillar’?McCall, VikkiRolfe, SteveMatthews, PeterWallace, AndrewManyika, GraceIafrati, SteveClark, ColinMunro, Moirahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/347332023-01-31T11:30:11Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK housing policy: how do we rebuild the foundations of the ‘wobbly pillar’?
Author(s): McCall, Vikki; Rolfe, Steve; Matthews, Peter; Wallace, Andrew; Manyika, Grace; Iafrati, Steve; Clark, Colin; Munro, Moira
Editor(s): Jolly, Andy; Cefalo, Ruggero; Pomati, Marco
Abstract: Housing has often been regarded as a ‘wobbly pillar’ of the welfare state due to its disjointed position between the public and private realms and the intractability of some problems to policy solutions. Indeed, we can ask whether a ‘housing sector’ exists at all, due to complex systems of governance, financialisation, policy divergence and overall fragmentation of housing-related social policy throughout the UK. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of housing policy, putting ‘the home’ and neighbourhoods into the spotlight. This chapter looks at some of the key emerging and re-emerging issues for housing policy in the UK through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter firstly outlines why housing was considered the ‘wobbly pillar’ going into 2019, including issues surrounding the financialisation of housing. Key COVID-19 housing-related policy responses are then examined in the context of emerging evidence that the pandemic is reinforcing inequalities in housing. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying housing issues faced by more vulnerable groups, yet it has also created an opportunity to showcase radical policy options and highlight the importance of future-proofing housing to be more flexible, dynamic and better quality.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZO trajeto histórico dos métodos de identificação criminal em PortugalMiranda, Dianahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/342092022-04-29T00:02:33Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: O trajeto histórico dos métodos de identificação criminal em Portugal
Author(s): Miranda, Diana
Editor(s): Machado, Helena; Moniz, Helena
Abstract: A necessidade de identificar os autores de crime tem-se verificado ao longo da história e, para tal, servem de exemplo algumas formas arcaicas de identificação criminal como o cabelo rapado, as marcas ou até as mutilações corporais. As letras marcadas com ferro quente na pele dos criminosos eram uma prática habitual em Portugal e apenas no século XVI, no reinado de D. João III, foi ordenada a extinção deste costume (Pina, 1938). A partir do século XIX as práticas de recolha e sistematização de informação sobre os suspeitos e/ou condenados pela prática de crime têm vindo a desenvolver-se com o recurso à ciência e à tecnologia. Tem-se assistido à recolha, armazenamento e classificação de informação de caráter físico, visual e biológico. Se dado corpo é identificado e classificado como suspeito ou mesmo criminoso, o Estado torna essa identidade suspeita visível e sujeita-a a práticas de vigilância, monitorização e controlo. Inicialmente recorreu-se à antropometria para medir os corpos de indivíduos condenados a pena de prisão e registar sinaléticas particulares. O sistema antropométrico implementado no início do século XX em Portugal assumiu-se como método oficial na identificação de condenados por crime até se popularizar o uso da impressão digital. A datiloscopia teve um desenvolvimento mais rápido do que a antropometria e o recurso às impressões digitais foi rapidamente incorporado nas práticas policiais, sendo que o seu uso perdura até à atualidade. Na passagem do século XX para o século XXI surgem os métodos de identificação baseados na genética, nomeadamente a identificação de indivíduos por perfis de DNA. Apesar destas sucessivas transformações em termos científicos e tecnológicos, estas práticas procuraram sempre inscrever, codificar e documentar os suspeitos e/ou condenados pela prática de crime. Para analisar este trajeto dos processos de identificação criminal em Portugal foi consultada legislação e outra documentação relevante. É de realçar a consulta de registos e processos individuais de reclusos no Arquivo Histórico dos Serviços Prisionais — Norte (Direção-Geral dos Serviços Prisionais) no Estabelecimento Prisional de Santa Cruz do Bispo entre fevereiro e março de 2012.2014-01-01T00:00:00ZCurriculum Making and Teacher AgencyPriestley, MarkPhilippou, StavroulaAlvunger, DanielSoini, Tiinahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/341542023-05-10T00:00:34Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Curriculum Making and Teacher Agency
Author(s): Priestley, Mark; Philippou, Stavroula; Alvunger, Daniel; Soini, Tiina
Editor(s): Tierney, Rob; Rizvi, Fazal; Ercikan, Kadriye
Abstract: This chapter theorizes the relationship between two currently significant concepts in educational discourse, curriculum making and teacher agency, illustrating how they are symbiotic. Drawing upon applicable literature and theories, the chapter explores each concept separately, before analyzing the complex relationship between them. Utilizing an ecological understanding of agency, the authors argue that curriculum making is dependent upon teacher agency, and that, moreover, teacher agency is fostered and strengthened by meaningful curriculum making as a social practice across several sites of activity. The chapter concludes with some reflection about how policy might be formulated more holistically and systemically to enhance both curriculum making and teacher agency in mutually enriching ways.2022-01-01T00:00:00Z