News: Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2026
The Social Policy Association (SPA) Social Harm Policy Group welcomes submissions from undergraduate and taught masters students currently enrolled at universities worldwide to submit an […]
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Blog: Child Food Poverty and The Case for a Universal Free School Meals Policy
Arjan Singh (Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Glasgow) Overview of child food poverty in the UK Child food poverty is defined as “the inability […]
Blog: An ‘Exceptional’ Teaching and Learning Day Conference
Ruby Chau Associate Professor of Public and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham The Conference Two-thirds of respondents in the […]
News: Academy of Social Sciences: Call for SPA nominations for new Fellows
Deadline for names to SPA: Friday 22 May 2026 at 17.00. The SPA is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). In recent years we have successfully nominated a number of SPA […]
News: Call for Co-editor for the 39th, 40th, and 41st issues of the annual Social Policy Review (SPR).
Ahead of the publication of Social Policy Review 38, the editorial board are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 39th, 40th, and […]
Blog: Supply is not a silver bullet: Why we can’t just build our way out of the housing crisis
Author: Steve Iafrati, University of Nottingham Politicians’ obsession with supply-side fixes to the housing crisis could exacerbate inequalities for people at the bottom of the […]
Event: Social Policy and Society – May Elections Special Round Table
Organiser: University of Derby – CASSPPR Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2026 Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM Location: Online Please Register at: Social Policy and […]
Blog: The New QAA Social Policy Subject Benchmark: What’s Changed and Why It Matters
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has now published a new Subject Benchmark Statement (SBS) for Social Policy, marking the most substantial revision of the discipline’s […]
Blog: Promoting Connectedness Across Differences Through Social Mixing in West Lothian: Insights from Phase One of a Three-Phase Research Project
By MD Rezaur Rahman, PhD Researcher, Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Email: mdrrahman@qmu.ac.uk. Image supplied by the author. — Meaningful […]
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 […]