March 2018 - Social Policy Association

The recent USS Pension Strike in the UK has revealed the ways in which private firms profit from higher education and how the marketisation of education is turning both universities and students into debtors.

No 23: Welfare to Debtfare: Who benefits from the marketisation of higher education in the UK?

March 26, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Antonios Roumpakis The recent strike over the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) exposed how university finances are undermined by the continuing marketisation of higher education. […]

Children in the UK are more vulnerable to hunger than in other EU nations.

No 22: Making hunger a thing of the past: an urgent priority for contemporary social policy research

March 19, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Rachel Loopstra Beveridge identified ‘want’ as one of his five evils, yet 70 years of social policy later, we are confronted […]

How social scientists define and study poverty has changed greatly over the last 50 years.

No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed

March 12, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 3

by Paul Spicker There are times when social scientists simply get hold of the wrong end of things. When Charles Booth did his research on […]

Child labour is just one of the forms that modern slavery takes.

No 20: Slavery never went away: how social policy can help eradicate this 21st century issue

March 5, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Gary Craig In 1966, when the Social Policy Association was being formed, if you had asked anyone on the street what they thought of […]

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Month: March 2018

No 23: Welfare to Debtfare: Who benefits from the marketisation of higher education in the UK?

No 22: Making hunger a thing of the past: an urgent priority for contemporary social policy research

No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed

No 20: Slavery never went away: how social policy can help eradicate this 21st century issue