Andrew Wallace's recent piece for Discover Society explores what Rebecca Solnit calls the 'emotional terra incognito' of the pandemic crisis, and sources of potential hope in co-operative, pro-social behaviour.

German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar. Austin Harrington's major recent work on German social thinkers of the Weimar era, published with Cambridge University Press (2016).

Jack Palmer’s historical-sociological examination of the trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda to and through modernity, published with Routledge (2018).

Katy Wright's forthcoming (2021) book with Routledge, Community Resilience: A Critical Perspective, offers an alternative perspective on the subject, drawing on critical social science insights about how people individually and collectively cope with adversity and risk.

Maria Rovisco's co-edited book, Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere, with Routledge (2014) explores how cosmopolitanism -- as a philosophical notion, a practice and identity outlook -- can also shape and inform concrete religious affiliations.

Mark Davis introduces his research on alternative finance that led to the launch of the UK’s first two Community Municipal Investments (CMIs) and reports on plans to extend the model.

Rodanthi Tzanelli's groundbreaking new book (2021) investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generates frictions in everyday life and how it challenges the ideal of just cosmopolitanism.