Event: SPA Pension Policy Group annual public event on Wednesday, 20th May 3pm – 4:30pm
This year’s public online event from the SPA’s Pension Policy Group focuses on the topic of the state pension age. Our main speaker is Dr […]
Month: March 2026
Blog: The Public-Private Mix in Pensions – A Comparative Perspective
Aart-Jan Riekhoff (Senior Researcher, Finnish Centre for Pensions) Dirk Hofäcker (Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Duisberg-Essen) Traute Meyer (Professor of […]
Event: Registration Closing Date: 09 April 2026, ‘Social Policy Education: Where are we and where are we heading?’
Hybrid Teaching and Learning Day Conference from 10 am to 4 pm (UK time) on Thursday, 16 April 2026, at the Jubilee Conference Centre, University […]
Blog: The Hidden Economic Toll of Care Across Europe
By David Pettinicchio, Associate Professor of Sociology/Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto – Mississauga. Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay. — Across Europe, […]
SPA Members Appointed as Fellows to the Academy of Social Sciences
The Social Policy Association (SPA) is delighted to congratulate our members recognised by the Academy of Social Sciences for their outstanding contribution. Ellen Stewart, Professor […]
Blog: Digitising Social Protections: Exclusion and Barriers in Jordan’s ‘Takaful’ Programme
By Musa Majad, MSc Development Studies student at the London School of Economics (LSE) Image: creative commons licence – https://medium.com/center-for-effective-global-action/what-is-cash-good-for-b128accca139). — The first objective of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development […]
Blog: Building Britain? Labour’s First Year of Housing Reform
By Steve Rolfe, Steve Iafrati, Gareth James, Henri Baptiste, and Colin Clark (members of the SPA Housing Policy Group). Image: Igor Sporynin for Unsplashed — […]
Social Policy Education: Where Are We And Where Are We Heading?
A Day Conference co-organised by the Social Policy Association (SPA), the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (IcPSP), and Social Policy and Society (SPS) […]
Blog: Is it always Groundhog Day for the Minister of Health? Looking back to 1976.
Alexander Fleming House was the home of the Department of Health and Social Security in the 1970’s (photograph by Stephen Richards and available under the […]