Please find information below about the Social Policy Association’s Opportunity Grants programme for Spring 2024. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2024 (Decisions to be communicated by 21 June.) The SPA Opportunity Grants scheme is designed […]
The VII Annual meeting and lecture of the journal ‘Social Policy and Society’ (SPS) will take place on Friday 7th June 2024 at the University of Derby. The event is supported by the Social Policy […]
By Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent — “You’ve got the branding wrong.” That was the response of an advertising executive to the leaflets on Your Right To Benefits produced by a local NGO, when we […]
This course provides an introduction to UKMOD, the free tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK and its constituent nations. It is organised as a pre-conference workshop ahead of the Annual conference of the Social Policy Association, “Social Policy […]
As part of the SPA 2024 conference we are delighted to offer dedicated events for postgraduate students, PhD and early career researchers (PGs and ECRs) who are attending. These are social opportunity, networking, and career […]
The SPA is running an online roundtable discussion on challenges and opportunities in social policy teaching and learning, following on from the launch of the latest report into the current state of social policy teaching […]
The Social Policy Association (SPA) warmly congratulates our members, Professor Huck-ju Kwon and Professor Catherine Needham, on their appointment as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. We also extend congratulations to the other […]
Report of an event by the SPA’s Climate Justice and Social Policy Group and Housing Policy Group on 25th January 2024 on ‘Tackling Housing Decarbonisation in a Cost-of-Living Crisis’. Written by Nicholas Harrington, Steve Rolfe, […]
By Charlotte Rogers, Research Assistant, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). See full list of contributing authors at bottom. Keywords: housing, decarbonisation, sufficiency, housing crisis […]
The Social Policy Association (SPA) invites applications for the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Policy (JSP), to run for a period of five years from January 2025 – December 2029. […]
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