This blog is based on a report commissioned by the Social Justice Team at the Irish Society of Saint Vincent De Paul. Click here to access the report. Living life on a poverty income is […]
To date, over half a million lives had been lost globally since the reporting of the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) back in December 2019. In India, the pandemic so far has claimed already over […]
Following the sad cancellation of our annual conference due to COVID-19, the SPA held a very successful Social Policy Digital Festival Week in July 2020. We explored our Conference Theme: ‘Beyond the echo-chamber: a vision […]
The Social Policy Association Executive wish to express our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the violence, hate and brutality towards George Floyd and other Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic […]
In 2018, the SPA executive recognised that issues relating to ‘race’ and ethnicity should have a higher profile and prominence within Social Policy in the UK. We then commissioned Gary Craig, Bankole Cole and Nasreen […]
Duncan Scott died on 17th May 2020 after a stroke. He was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Manchester for many years. He […]
Colleagues will be saddened to learn that John Veit-Wilson died on Sunday, 10 May 2020. John will be remembered as a very kind and generous person with a great intellect, a tremendous scholar who contributed […]
The SPA is delighted to announce that we have appointed new editors for the journal Social Policy & Society. Our recruitment process generated a very strong field of applicants and we are happy to say […]
We are delighted to formally announce that the SPA has acquired the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. Since its creation in 2012 the journal has gained in strength and reach. As the only […]
Each year the SPA is one of the learned societies invited to nominate colleagues for Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences. We made a nomination before Christmas for Nick Bailey, Professor of Urban Studies […]
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