The Social Policy Association’s Opportunity Grants programme for Autumn 2023 is now open for applications. Deadline: 29 September 2023 (decisions to be communicated by 20 October). As previously, this scheme is designed to enable events to happen which […]
Stephen Crossley, Stephen Ashe, Alison Jobe, Hannah King and Sui Ting Kong, all from the Department of Sociology at Durham University, received support from the Social Policy association to hold two events critically examining the […]
The Social Policy Association’s Opportunity Grant programme for Spring 2023 is open for applications. Deadline for applications: 3 March 2023 (Decisions to be communicated by 17 March 2023.) This scheme is designed to enable events to happen […]
Universal Credit has dominated the social security landscape in the UK over the past ten years. Whether you see it as the answer to claimants’ prayers, or think it should be scrapped and replaced, for […]
As BME researchers early in our careers, we regularly discussed challenges we faced in predominantly White workplaces. However, with limited experience in the workplace, we wondered if the challenges we faced were unique or shared […]
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
July is pride month in the UK. A time when LGBT+ people and their allies come together to celebrate progress towards equality and highlight the continuing efforts to be made. This year, 50 years after […]
If Southeast Asia were a single country, it would already be the seventh-largest economy in the world. With the third-largest labour-force in the world and with the productivity improvements, it is projected to be the […]
The Greater Manchester Strategy, ‘Our People, Our Place’ launched in 2017 refers to working with and drawing on the resources of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector to deliver its strategy. For several […]
University of Birmingham 9 December 2015 December 2015 saw the 60th anniversary of the Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture on ‘The Social Division of Welfare: Some Reflections on the Search for Equity’ delivered by Richard […]
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