Ana Stojilovska was part of a team that published the following book chapter:

H. Thomson, C. Snell, A. Stojilovska, K. Ricalde, S. Volturo, N. Winston, M. Büchs, D. Valero, R.S. Waltrup, A.S. O’Connor, N. Ratzmann, A. Lee, E.C. Cristofoletti, R. Ince, Bringing the Climate Emergency into the Mainstream of Social Policy: A Cross-Cutting Review of Major Gaps, Opportunities, and Needed Action, in: K. Bell, E. Foster, S. Satheesh (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics SAGE Publications Ltd, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2026, pp. 94–115.

This is an outcome of the workshop titled “Mapping the intersections of Social Policy & Climate Change” that took place online on the 19th and 30th November 2021, organized by the Social Policy Association’s Climate Justice and Social Policy Group. The workshop aimed to map the intersections between social policy and climate change, in order to generate actionable knowledge and challenges for the discipline as a whole to take forward in an integrated manner.

The book chapter argues that climate change must be brought into the mainstream of social policy because it directly affects welfare, inequality, poverty, public services, and human rights. It shows that climate change and climate policies intersect with many social policy areas, including work, housing, health and social care, education, food, fuel and water poverty, migration, family life, and criminal justice, and can deepen existing inequalities if they are not designed around climate justice and a Just Transition. The authors call for “eco-social” approaches that combine environmental sustainability with social protection, ensuring that vulnerable groups are protected while societies move toward low-carbon futures. They argue that social policy must change through new teaching, interdisciplinary research, and public/policy engagement that place climate action, justice, and sustainable welfare at the center of the discipline.