Nominations for the 2024 Social Policy Association Awards are now open! You can make nominations via the nomination form here (Word document). Nominations will close at 5pm on 1st March 2024. The winners of the awards will be presented at […]
As the new year gets underway, so do the Social Policy Association’s new Policy Groups. Over 2024-2025 the SPA is supporting seven policy groups in their work to develop knowledge, build networks and produce resources […]
One of the major steps towards mitigating climate change is to decarbonise domestic heating systems and reduce domestic energy use. To achieve this in the UK, we need to address multiple, inter-connected challenges caused by […]
The organisers of the 2024 Social Policy Association Annual Conference (3rd – 5th July, University of Strathclyde) invite presentations and symposia which engage with the idea of social policy futures. Social policy research has always […]
By Neil Small, Emeritus Professor of Health Research, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK (see contact details at bottom*). Keywords: Culture: hospitals: childcare: neoliberalism: care failures. Culture as diagnosis and prescription It can […]
By Carolyn Snell, University of York and Lucie Middlemiss, University of Leeds — As winter approaches, we are acutely aware of the challenges associated with the cost of living crisis, with families bracing themselves in […]
The Editorial Management Board of the International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) invites applications for the post of Editor in Chief of the journal to run for a period of three years from June 2024. It […]
The trustees of the UK Social Policy Association (SPA executive committee) have sent the below letter to the board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) following the recent decision to suspend Research England’s Equality Diversity […]
Following the call circulated earlier this summer, the Social Policy Association (SPA) is delighted to announce that four new Social Policy Groups have been approved for a 2-year period (on first instance). The new groups […]
Academics at University of York and University of Sheffield invite all PGRs and ECRs interested in policy to join a free one-day event, “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Communication between Social Policy and Scientific Research”. Titled ‘Social Policy […]
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