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Published in: TransformationArms companies are making money by taking over UK schools
Europe's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, has applied to sponsor the failing Furness Academy. The reason is profit.
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Published in: TransformationWhat do Shakespeare’s plays tell us about how to run classrooms in an unequal society?
Drama and algebra can be models for strengthening young people’s resistance to injustice.
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Published in: TransformationThe flute at the checkpoint: music and confinement in Palestine
Ramzi Aburedwan fulfilled his dream of opening children's music schools up across Palestine - but he still doesn't...
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Published in: TransformationThe miserable cynic's guide to mindfulness
If unhappiness is the human condition, what's the point of mindfulness?
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Published in: TransformationHow group therapy taught me to survive oppression
There is no guide to how to discuss your most painful experiences with strangers. Group therapy becomes a microcosm...
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Published in: TransformationIn Lebanon, young people are challenging mental health stereotypes
Tradition, corruption and political negligence continue to stigmatise mental illness, but the new generation is...
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Published in: TransformationCan the prison system be transformed? Shaka Senghor and #Cut50
A new campaign to be launched on March 26 aims to cut the U.S. prison population in half by 2025.
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Published in: TransformationHow the Home Office keeps getting it wrong on LGBTQ asylum seekers
The Home Office says that asylum seeker Aderonke Apata can't be a lesbian as she has had children with a man. The...
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Published in: TransformationHard times: the human face of neo-liberalism
Successive governments have promoted policies which entrench a punitive and controlling way of managing public institutions.
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Published in: TransformationRape culture: would prison abolition help women?
What would transformative justice for survivors look like? Part of Transformation's prison abolition series.
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Published in: TransformationTo create positive change, trust your instincts
At a time when fear and terror seems pervasive, individual and group instincts can triumph.
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Published in: TransformationWhy is it so hard to believe in climate change?
Those who come after us will wonder at how we were so blinkered, at why we took so long to change.
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Published in: TransformationFrom Gaza to the UK: mental health isn't just a medical problem, it's political
We have to interchange ‘mental illness’ with words like ‘suffering’, and emphasise political action alongside...
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Published in: TransformationThe need for transformation in UK detention centres
Seeking asylum in the UK is like falling from the frying pan into the fire. The first in Transformation's series on...
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Published in: TransformationRe-imagining higher education
Learning takes place in the heart, the hands and the home, not just in the head. What does that mean for the...
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Published in: TransformationA relational society - The Kilburn Manifesto
Today, social responses to peoples' needs are being pushed to the margin by the reframing of all tasks in terms of...
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Published in: TransformationWomen’s survival strategies in Chechnya: from self-care to caring for each other
Luiza encounters regular violence and intimidation in her work helping women survivors of state-sponsored violence....
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Published in: TransformationLoving kindness – it just takes practice.
Want to meditate but don’t know how? Try these step-by-step instructions on “loving kindness meditation” from author...