2015 SPA awards report
The 2015 SPA Awards ceremony was held on 6 July at the Titanic Suite in Belfast. Awards were presented by SPA President, Sue Duncan. This […]
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Employability Soundbites
Social Policy Association Executive members give their thoughts on how to enhance your employability as an aspiring student of social policy. Nick Ellison: What key things […]
Welcome! New members of the Exec and the EBs
We would like to thank everyone for putting themselves forward and for voting in the elections held at the AGM. The new exec members are: […]
‘Troubled Families’ SPA seminars
The SPA provided funding to two postgraduate students to develop three seminars relating to the UK government’s Troubled Families Programme in the lead up to […]
Vacancies for social policy journal editorial board members
Editorial board nominations required for the Journal of Social Policy There is four vacancies arising on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy. […]
In Defence of Welfare 2
In Defence of Welfare began in 2010 as a response to this government’s first Major Spending Review. Put together by the Social Policy Association, it […]
Doing Quantitative Research – Workbook resources
The following four quantitative workbooks were developed by Liam Foster and Tom Clark at the University of Sheffield in response to their own undergraduates’ concerns […]
Call for SPA symposium papers: ‘The comparative research methodology of institutional continuity and change’
2015 Social Policy Association Annual Conference Belfast Metropolitan College, Titanic Quarter, Belfast 6th-8th July 2015 Conference Theme: ‘Social Policy in the Spotlight: Change, Continuity and […]
ESPAnet 13th annual conference – call for papers
The ESPAnet 13th annual conference – THE LOST AND THE NEW WORLDS OF WELFARE – will be held in Odense, at the University of Southern […]
The Student’s Companion to Social Policy, 4th Edition
The fourth edition of The Student’s Companion to Social Policy has been written by a wide range of experts in the field and been extensively […]