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Month: June 2020

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Re-evaluations of wellbeing under lockdown: implications for a socially just environmental transition by Paul Bridgen

June 29, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

The UK Covid19 lockdown, introduced as infections began to rise in mid-March, prevented the population from undertaking many of the everyday activities taken for granted […]

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Example applications for Opportunity Grants

June 26, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Two successful applicants have agreed to share their applications in order to help new applicants. Example application: social inclusion and migrant students SPA Opportunity Grant […]

Tackling In-work Poverty in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape by Calum Carson

June 23, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

In 2001, a small community organisation in the East End of London called Citizens UK launched the “London Living Wage campaign”. With low-paid workers (predominantly […]

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Motivation, agency and morality in the coronavirus crisis by Vicente Silva

June 15, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

The recent Dominic Cummings scandal has demonstrated the importance of following basic rules in public life. The fact that the Prime Minister’s most senior adviser […]

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Social Policy Digital Festival – 13-17 July 2020

June 12, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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. […]

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Why Basic Income may not be the answer by Ian Greener

June 11, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

There is groundswell of support in favour of the introduction of a Basic Income, with this having special relevance in the post-COVID world, where higher […]

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SPA Statement on Black Lives Matter

June 9, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]

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Researching poverty in the pandemic: thinking through ethical issues and challenges by Kayleigh Garthwaite et al.

June 8, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

There are always ethical issues that researchers must be mindful of when carrying out research on poverty and social security. Power dynamics, the sensitivity required […]

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Teachers, the anti-heroes? The global pandemic crisis and the construction of teachers as the problem ‘Other’ – by Sotiria Grek

June 4, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Whilst teachers’ work is valued more and more by parents who have had to assist their children with home schooling, teachers in England are under attack. In […]

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Action Plan on ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Social Policy

June 1, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]

Recent Posts

  • Blog: Supply is not a silver bullet: Why we can’t just build our way out of the housing crisis
  • Vacancy: Journal of Social Policy (JSP) seeks to appoint a Fourth Co-Editor
  • Event: Social Policy and Society – May Elections Special Round Table
  • Blog: The New QAA Social Policy Subject Benchmark: What’s Changed and Why It Matters
  • Blog: Promoting Connectedness Across Differences Through Social Mixing in West Lothian: Insights from Phase One of a Three-Phase Research Project
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  • Blog: Supply is not a silver bullet: Why we can’t just build our way out of the housing crisis
  • Vacancy: Journal of Social Policy (JSP) seeks to appoint a Fourth Co-Editor
  • Event: Social Policy and Society – May Elections Special Round Table
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