The study of housing and debates in the field of Social Policy, and in relation to poverty in particular, have for some time operated in what Mark Stephens and Guido van Steen labelled ‘disjointed literatures’. […]
This year’s annual Social Policy Association conference will take place at Swansea University from 6-8 July 2022 on the theme of ‘Inter-generationality: Challenges and Prospects’. It will be delivered in a ‘hybrid’ format so that […]
At the end of primary school in England in 2019, socioeconomically disadvantaged children were on average 9.3 months behind their peers academically, with this gap almost doubling by the end of secondary school. The Pupil […]
Social Policy & Society is proud to announce its latest special issue. Guest-edited by Bankole Cole, Gary Craig and Nasreen Ali, this Special Issue follows on from the SPA’s commissioned 2019 report on race in […]
Southeast Asia has incredible diversity in terms of religion, language, ethnicity and culture. All these features provide complex challenges but also opportunities that are the concern of social policy. As part of the Southeast Asian Social Policy Network (SEASPN), we […]
In the fifth and final COP26-themed blog curated by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group, Dr Komali Yenneti, Lecturer in Geography, Urban Planning and Environment at the University of Wolverhampton, provides a perspective from […]
The Climate Justice and Social Policy Group’s blog series on climate justice and social policy continues with a contribution from Ian Gough, Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. The blog […]
In this third contribution to a blog series organised by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group before COP26, Claire Brown, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, shifts the focus from heating to overheating, and […]
In the second of a series of blogs organised by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group in the lead up to COP26, Ned Abbs-Brown, a policy lead working in the UK energy industry, weighs […]
Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving complete their very successful term of office as joint editors of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (JICSP) at the end of December 2022. The Executive of the […]
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