Emergency Disaster Support
How can you encourage your customers to take up free support services? We look at how to get employers and workers to complete a survey sent via SMS, and sign-up for emergency disaster relief.
Tag: Social Policy
Safety Planning
Social science can encourage businesses to comply with safety regulations. This is a case study showing how to encourage community organisations to submit event safety planning information in a timely manner. We cover how to encourage early planning, showing the benefits of complying with safety information requests, targeting messages, and using trusted messengers.
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Supporting Social Housing Tenants
Social science research from the UK has examined ‘tenancy sustainment’ (the support provided to at-risk tenants to keep their social housing and avoid homelessness). The study identifies various challenges in delivering help to tenants. The report provides guidance to help social housing landlords to improve their policies and practices.
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Applied Anthropology and Fear
A new paper examines the role of applied anthropology in combating fear-driven policies.
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Race and Social Policy
‘Race at Work Within Social Policy,’ has been published in the book, Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Dr Debbie Bargallie and Dr Nilmini Fernando. This book chapter demonstrates how inadequate racial literacy impacts social policy documentation, including policies attempting to implement anti-racism principles.
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Race, Welfare, and COVID-19
The new book chapter, ‘Critical Race Studies and Intersectionality Responses to COVID-19,’ presents a case study of how the welfare state exercises multiple domains of power to maintain racial inequality, even during the public health crisis of COVID-19. Read the abstract and an excerpt below.
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Enhancing Recruitment of Women
Learn about how applied social science was used in a state project to increase the number of girls and women in trades.
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Messages to Change Behaviour
Here are some tips on how to send effective SMS campaigns.
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Improving Diversity and Inclusion
A project exploring the recruitment experiences of people with disability led to a trial that significantly increased disability awareness training. Here are the lessons that might help other organisations seeking to enhance diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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Public Health Compliance
Most public health programs focus on educating the public, but this doesn’t always lead to behavioural change. In order to encourage change, this information should focus on short, clear messaging about what people need to do on the spot (call to action).
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