In 2011 the SPA undertook a survey of social policy teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions. The survey asked about the current (2011) position of courses, potential changes within HEIs in terms of social policy […]
Social Policy Association Executive members give their thoughts on how to enhance your employability as an aspiring student of social policy. Nick Ellison: What key things do you look for in an academic application? Anne […]
The SPA provided funding to two postgraduate students to develop three seminars relating to the UK government’s Troubled Families Programme in the lead up to the 2015 UK General Election. These seminars were held at […]
EDAC-ESPAnet Summer School 2015: PhDs, Post-Docs & Early Career Researchers The Role of Social Policies in Cross-national and Longitudinal Differences in Levels and Distributions of Social Outcomes 14-18 September 2015, Leuven | Belgium Through their […]
Friday 16th January 2015, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds The current design and delivery of welfare configures citizenship in such a way that it propagates rather than smooths out the status […]
The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Website – NOW LIVE
The panel session Meet the Editors and Publisher is now available to view on YouTube. This meeting took place during the Social Policy Association’s Annual Conference at Sheffield in 2013, where six experienced panellists provided […]
16th December 2013, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics In recent years, the use of mixed methods and methodologies in Social Policy research has become increasingly popular. Effective integration of […]
The annual conference was a great success but was a particular triumph for the Social Policy Postgraduate community. More Social Policy postgraduates presented at the EASP/SPA conference than ever before. The EASP/SPA conference hosted the […]
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