No 5: Where do we go from here? Fifty years on from the ‘War on Poverty’
by Stephen Crossley In 1967, Martin Luther King began work on a book titled ‘Where Do We Go from Here?’, in which he argued that […]
Articles by S-P-A-Administrator
No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower
by Fiona Williams For weeks I’ve been grabbed by the throat: deep sobs that hijack the roll out of sleep, gasping for air as […]
No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever
by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in […]
Call for REF sub-panel nominations
Dear SPA members, As you may be aware, HEFCE has called for Research Excellence Framework (REF) sub-panel nominees. The REF is a key way of […]
No. 2: ‘Making hope possible rather than despair convincing’: The first 50 years of the Social Policy Association
Social policy matters. Rigorous, independent, robust study of it matters, as does teaching the next generation to be more policy-literate. At 50 the SPA is as important […]
No 1: The power of hope in the face of injustice: reflections on Grenfell
Address of Baroness Ruth Lister, Chair of the SPA, to our annual conference held at The University of Durham, July 2017. Four weeks prior to […]
SPA Teaching and Learning Day, 11 September, University of Wolverhampton
The Social Policy Association will be holding a Teaching and Learning day on 11th September at the University of Wolverhampton. The event will be an opportunity […]
2016 SPA Award Winners
**Celebrating the winners of the SPA Awards 2016!** The SPA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 SPA awards. The awards ceremony, held […]
Workshop on Comparative and International Social Policy Theories and Methods, New Delhi
Workshop on Comparative and International Social Policy Theories and Methods Advances in Research and Practice in International Development Studies and Social Policy Three Day PhD […]