View of Teacher Professional Development @scale: Achieving Quality and Sustainability in Zambia. This paper presents a conceptual model which explains the challenges of providing high quality sustainable, teacher professional development at scale. It provides a framework to support holistic thinking at a systemic level, applicable across different systems.

Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan – Zahid Mumtaz, Keetie Roelen, International Journal of Social Welfare. This study responds to the recent call in the literature for the interrogation and understanding of how social protection is accessed and distributed among various groups and classes of society. It explores who stands to win and lose from social protection through the lens of social class using the case study of Pakistan, where the elite class holds significant sway over decision-making. 

All too often, discussions about poverty are focused on lack of income and material deprivation. Rarely do we hear about the stigma associated with living in poverty, about the stress of making ends meet or about how policies that aim to reduce poverty can actually make matters worse. The Poverty Unpacked podcast and blog explores how poverty affects the mind and emotions, human connections and the wider society, and what can be done to change this.

Episode #38: Poverty is expensive – Fair by Design explores the reality that when you have less to spend, life costs more. In this episode, Maria Booker, Head of Policy at Fair by Design explains the campaign that tries to tackle the poverty premium, both by engaging with politicians, policy makers and the private sector to argue for a fairer system and by trialling new way of doing business to show that alternatives are possible.