SPA Annual Conference 2026: Hope In Dark Times: Resistance and Radical Change
The Social Policy Association is pleased to announce that Liverpool will host the 2026 annual conference, taking place from Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd July. […]
Postgraduate News
Call for expressions of interest: The current and future state of social policy teaching
In 2011 the SPA undertook a survey of social policy teaching in UK Higher Education Institutions. The survey asked about the current (2011) position of […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
EDAC-ESPAnet Summer School on Social Policies and Social Outcomes
EDAC-ESPAnet Summer School 2015: PhDs, Post-Docs & Early Career Researchers The Role of Social Policies in Cross-national and Longitudinal Differences in Levels and Distributions of […]
CfP: SPA PhD Workshop on “Austerity, Welfare and Citizenship”
Friday 16th January 2015, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds The current design and delivery of welfare configures citizenship in such a […]
The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Website – NOW LIVE
The Student’s Companion to Social Policy Website – NOW LIVE
Meet the Editors and Publisher, July 2013
The panel session Meet the Editors and Publisher is now available to view on YouTube. This meeting took place during the Social Policy Association’s Annual […]
SPA Workshop 2013
16th December 2013, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics In recent years, the use of mixed methods and methodologies in […]
Joint East Asian Social Policy Research Network and United Kingdom Social Policy Association Annual Conference 2012
The annual conference was a great success but was a particular triumph for the Social Policy Postgraduate community. More Social Policy postgraduates presented at the […]