Social Policy Association

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International

The SPA aims to be an outward looking association where international, comparative and global aspects of social policy, a broad world view, and engagement with scholars residing outside of as well as within the UK lie at the heart of what we do and how we go about it.

Blog: Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities – Revisiting the East Asian Social Policy Research Network (EASP) and Social Policy Association (SPA) Joint Annual Conference 2025, University of York

July 24, 2025 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Image: University of York/Alex Holland Social policy, whether as cash benefits, public services or regulatory measures, is an institutionalised form of solidarity. Welfare systems are […]

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Call for Participants: Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges

April 12, 2013 SpaAdministrator 0

Call for Participants: Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges: What can Social Policy and International Development Studies Learn from Each Other? 26th/27th April 2013, DSA and […]

Recent Posts

  • SPA Awards: Call for Exec member and Awards judges
  • Blog: When Healthcare becomes Social Policy: What Co-Located Services Tell Us About the Boundaries of the Welfare State
  • Blog: Is Invisible Poverty the New Pandemic?
  • Expression of Interest: SPA Executive Committee PGR/ECR Lead
  • Event: Pathways to Publication: Insights from Social Policy and Society
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  • SPA Awards: Call for Exec member and Awards judges
  • Blog: When Healthcare becomes Social Policy: What Co-Located Services Tell Us About the Boundaries of the Welfare State
  • Blog: Is Invisible Poverty the New Pandemic?
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