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 in late modern consumer society. Citizens could only leave their […]
Two successful applicants have agreed to share their applications in order to help new applicants. Example application: social inclusion and migrant students Example application: supporting BAME, and Gypsy, Traveller and Roma students
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 women, and predominantly women of colour) fed up with having […]
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 had not complied with the nation-wide lockdown has partly undermined […]
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 […]
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 levels of unemployment and insecurity are a significant threat. The […]
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 […]
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 when asking people about their experiences, and importance of offering […]
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 the following piece, Sotiria Grek is discussing the reasons for […]
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 […]
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