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UK SPA: An international outlook

• Round Two Now Open Jan 2012: International Conference Support Scheme
• Are you part of a social policy association in another country?
• Perhaps you are developing a similar organisation in your country?
• Interested in building links with the UK SPA and enjoying reciprocal membership benefits?
• Then contact the International Officer to discuss.

International and Global

The SPA aims to be an outward looking association where international and global aspects of social policy, a broad world view, and engagement with scholars residing outside of as well as within the UK lie at the heart of what we do and how we go about it. This page provides details of scholarly associations in other countries with whom we have reciprocal arrangements and links to their websites, as well as links to the websites of a number of other overseas social policy associations and organisations and journals relevant to the international and global aspects of social policy. You can also find here a link to the SPA's newsletter, Policy World, which regularly carries reports of social policy in other countries.

Associations in other countries with which SPA has reciprocal arrangements:

• African Social Policy Association: ASPA has recently been formed by colleagues in Kenya, with financial support from the UK SPA for their inaugural conference.
• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM): APPAM (USA) has a reciprocal arrangement with the UK SPA that allows members of one association to join the other at preferential rates. APPAM members may therefore join the SPA for £34, whilst SPA members may join APPAM for $70.
• Australian Social Policy Association: The UK SPA has agreed to support the creation of the Australian Social Policy Association which will soon be launched. This commits the UK SPA to a reciprocal agreement with the new Australian SPA whereby, in its first year of existence, members of the Australian association can join UK SPA at the lowest rate and members of each can attend the other's conferences at the membership rate. Website of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Links to other international networks and overseas social policy associations:

The SPA continues to collaborate and have constructive dialogue with social policy associations in a wide range of countries, and encourages colleagues from overseas to contact us to discuss reciprocal arrangements or other forms of collaboration.

• East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP)
• ESPAnet (Network for European Social Policy Analysis)
• Policy Analysis Unit, Human Sciences research Council, South Africa
• Social Policy Association in Finland
• Society for the Study of Social Policy, Japan

Links to organisations and journals with a focus on international or global social policy

• International and Comparative Social Policy special interest group of the SPA
• Global Social Policy, Journal of public policy and social development: UK SPA members are entitled to a discount on their subscriptions of 35%.
• Journal of European Social Policy
• Turkish Social Policy Forum

Policy World

The SPA's newsletter, Policy World, regularly carries reports of social policy in other countries