Debra Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6647-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Equality Act 2010
â The Equality Act 2010: five years onâ conference was organized as a collaboration between the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (University of Chester) and the School of Law and Social Justice (University of Liverpool). The Equality Act 2010 has arguably been one of the most important and challenging pieces of legislation introduced in the last decade in the United Kingdom. As such, it was felt that the 5-year anniversary of its im…
Adopting (in)equality in the UK
This article considers the relationship between the Equality Act 2010 and the Charities Act 2011 (in Scotland, the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005) in the context of adoption by same-sex couples and the complex exceptions to the Equality Act that charities may be able to rely upon in order to continue to discriminate. It concludes that the law is confusing to the point of opacity, to the detriment of those seeking to exercise…
The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities
This article focusses on the specific impact of the cuts in legal aid funding on the charitable sector. The sector plays a significant role in advice giving. Some charities have the provision of legal advice as their sole purpose, whilst the work of other charities includes the giving of legal advice. Funding comes via a number of sources including legal aid, local authorities and charitable trusts. Whilst this volume highlights the legal aid ref…
Charities and the Big Society
While there is a central assumption that charities can be key implementers of Big Society ideals, this paper will consider whether there is compatibility between the political rhetoric of the Big Society and its delivery through the charitable sector. It will be maintained that, while much obvious synergy exists, there are inherent difficulties, at both the practical and theoretical level, for the large-scale involvement of charities and their vo…
Undergraduate Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms
Depression research has implications for an increasingly sedentary college population. Institutions should provide increased access and knowledge pertaining to emotional health and psychological benefits through physical activity
Building a big society
The traditional distinctions between state schools and fee-charging independent schools have been challenged over the years, with charitable status at the core of the crossover. The changing relationship between the state and charitable sectors and the resultant blurring of the dividing line between them leads us to examine the role that charities now play within the coalition government's Big Society agenda. In the context of schools, a new para…
Surety Wives in the House of Lords
Charities and the 'New Deal
Charities are playing a significant role in the implementation of the government's New Deal programme. From providing advice on local employment issues to administrative services to work placements, the voluntary sector has been working in public/private partnerships throughout England and Wales. However, despite the government's commitments in the Compact between it and the voluntary sector to support the independence and creativity of the secto…
Charities in the contract culture
Drawing on the findings of a year-long empirical study of 15 charities in the county of Merseyside, this article examines some of the implications for charities of entering into the ‘contract culture’. Although not the focus of the empirical study as a whole, the particular aim of this article is to consider the effect of the contract culture on the typically small charity. After a brief consideration of the legal status of charities funding docu…
Privacy, Privation, Perversity
Reply to Boling and Elshtain
Wives are Told
How Shall We Read What We Call Reality
John Dewey's work prefigures a distinct new science of democracy. Through its subtle appropriation of science and scientific method in the name of bold reflection upon the democratic ideal, it constitutes a worthy model for a postpositivist political science, serving to define the latter more precisely. Postpositivism functions, in turn, to retrieve important features of Dewey's thinking: not only the speculative parts overlooked by critics of hi…
The Feminist-Postmodernist Debate Over a Revitalized Public Philosophy
Certainly its postmodernist and feminist critics appreciate the extent to which it can function, in academic discourse but also more generally, to render their concerns peripheral and insubstan tial. Given such a context, it may seem unwise to stress the differences between postmodernists and feminists, not to mention that it would overlook the substantial common ground to which these two books testify. But I will argue that such a strategy actua…
Surety Wives in the House of Lords
How Shall We Read What We Call Reality
John Dewey's work prefigures a distinct new science of democracy. Through its subtle appropriation of science and scientific method in the name of bold reflection upon the democratic ideal, it constitutes a worthy model for a postpositivist political science, serving to define the latter more precisely. Postpositivism functions, in turn, to retrieve important features of Dewey's thinking: not only the speculative parts overlooked by critics of hi…
Wives are Told
The Equality Act 2010
â The Equality Act 2010: five years onâ conference was organized as a collaboration between the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (University of Chester) and the School of Law and Social Justice (University of Liverpool). The Equality Act 2010 has arguably been one of the most important and challenging pieces of legislation introduced in the last decade in the United Kingdom. As such, it was felt that the 5-year anniversary of its im…
The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities
This article focusses on the specific impact of the cuts in legal aid funding on the charitable sector. The sector plays a significant role in advice giving. Some charities have the provision of legal advice as their sole purpose, whilst the work of other charities includes the giving of legal advice. Funding comes via a number of sources including legal aid, local authorities and charitable trusts. Whilst this volume highlights the legal aid ref…
The Feminist-Postmodernist Debate Over a Revitalized Public Philosophy
Certainly its postmodernist and feminist critics appreciate the extent to which it can function, in academic discourse but also more generally, to render their concerns peripheral and insubstan tial. Given such a context, it may seem unwise to stress the differences between postmodernists and feminists, not to mention that it would overlook the substantial common ground to which these two books testify. But I will argue that such a strategy actua…
Wives are Told
How Shall We Read What We Call Reality
John Dewey's work prefigures a distinct new science of democracy. Through its subtle appropriation of science and scientific method in the name of bold reflection upon the democratic ideal, it constitutes a worthy model for a postpositivist political science, serving to define the latter more precisely. Postpositivism functions, in turn, to retrieve important features of Dewey's thinking: not only the speculative parts overlooked by critics of hi…
Charities in the contract culture
Drawing on the findings of a year-long empirical study of 15 charities in the county of Merseyside, this article examines some of the implications for charities of entering into the ‘contract culture’. Although not the focus of the empirical study as a whole, the particular aim of this article is to consider the effect of the contract culture on the typically small charity. After a brief consideration of the legal status of charities funding docu…
Privacy, Privation, Perversity
Reply to Boling and Elshtain
Charities and the 'New Deal
Charities are playing a significant role in the implementation of the government's New Deal programme. From providing advice on local employment issues to administrative services to work placements, the voluntary sector has been working in public/private partnerships throughout England and Wales. However, despite the government's commitments in the Compact between it and the voluntary sector to support the independence and creativity of the secto…
Surety Wives in the House of Lords
Building a big society
The traditional distinctions between state schools and fee-charging independent schools have been challenged over the years, with charitable status at the core of the crossover. The changing relationship between the state and charitable sectors and the resultant blurring of the dividing line between them leads us to examine the role that charities now play within the coalition government's Big Society agenda. In the context of schools, a new para…
Charities and the Big Society
While there is a central assumption that charities can be key implementers of Big Society ideals, this paper will consider whether there is compatibility between the political rhetoric of the Big Society and its delivery through the charitable sector. It will be maintained that, while much obvious synergy exists, there are inherent difficulties, at both the practical and theoretical level, for the large-scale involvement of charities and their vo…
Undergraduate Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms
Depression research has implications for an increasingly sedentary college population. Institutions should provide increased access and knowledge pertaining to emotional health and psychological benefits through physical activity
The impact of cuts in legal aid funding on charities
This article focusses on the specific impact of the cuts in legal aid funding on the charitable sector. The sector plays a significant role in advice giving. Some charities have the provision of legal advice as their sole purpose, whilst the work of other charities includes the giving of legal advice. Funding comes via a number of sources including legal aid, local authorities and charitable trusts. Whilst this volume highlights the legal aid ref…
Adopting (in)equality in the UK
This article considers the relationship between the Equality Act 2010 and the Charities Act 2011 (in Scotland, the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005) in the context of adoption by same-sex couples and the complex exceptions to the Equality Act that charities may be able to rely upon in order to continue to discriminate. It concludes that the law is confusing to the point of opacity, to the detriment of those seeking to exercise…
The Equality Act 2010
â The Equality Act 2010: five years onâ conference was organized as a collaboration between the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (University of Chester) and the School of Law and Social Justice (University of Liverpool). The Equality Act 2010 has arguably been one of the most important and challenging pieces of legislation introduced in the last decade in the United Kingdom. As such, it was felt that the 5-year anniversary of its im…
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