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Home2017October

Month: October 2017

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Call for REF sub-panel nominations

October 30, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Call for REF sub-panel nominations

Dear SPA members, As you may be aware, HEFCE has called for Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel nominees. The REF is a key way of assessing excellence in research and allocating HEFCE funding. More details […]

Adrian Sinfield speaks about the history of the Social Policy Association at the organisation's 50th anniversary celebration at the House of Lords in October 2017.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No. 2: ‘Making hope possible rather than despair convincing’: The first 50 years of the Social Policy Association

October 27, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Social policy matters. Rigorous, independent, robust study of it matters, as does teaching the next generation to be more policy-literate. At 50 the SPA is as important to all of these as ever, helping to develop, integrate and […]

Events

Social Policy Association 50th Anniversary Reception – A time to celebrate the past and look to the future

October 26, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Social Policy Association 50th Anniversary Reception – A time to celebrate the past and look to the future

On a mild October evening, at the House of Lords, Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett, Honorary President of the SPA, hosted a reception to celebrate 50 years of the Social Policy Association. SPA members, including […]

What can the field of social policy learn from the Grenfell Fire tragedy? Ruth Lister reflects in her presidential address to the Social Policy Association in July 2017.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 1: The power of hope in the face of injustice: reflections on Grenfell

October 16, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 2

Address of Baroness Ruth Lister, Chair of the SPA, to our annual conference held at The University of Durham, July 2017. Four weeks prior to the Social Policy Association’s 50th anniversary AGM an unknown number […]

Recent Posts

  • No 26: Personal Independence Payment – a fair deal for people with mental health problems?
  • No 25: The hidden injuries of conditional cash transfer programs
  • Symposium on the Pensions and the USS Dispute – 3rd May
  • Congratulations to three new FAcSS from the SPA
  • No 24: Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system
  • No 23: Welfare to Debtfare: Who benefits from the marketisation of higher education in the UK?
  • No 22: Making hunger a thing of the past: an urgent priority for contemporary social policy research
  • No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed
  • No 20: Slavery never went away: how social policy can help eradicate this 21st century issue
  • No 19: Does Brexit mean my exit? A lack of consideration for women migrants highlighted by Brexit-related uncertainty

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