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The Social Policy Association is a learned society and charity. Our purpose is to advance the teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of social policy, and to represent the interests of our members.  The aim of our blog is to:

  • increase the public understanding of social policy
  • facilitate the sharing and exchange of knowledge between experts within and outside universities;
  • open up academic research to increase its impact.

All blogs published on this website express the views of the authors, and not of the Social Policy Association.

Beyond Integration: Everyday Belonging

August 11, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

By Paria Goodarzi (see author bio at bottom). This blog is based on work presented at the Unbordered Futures conference at the University of Edinburgh […]

‘Space’ and ‘Place’: from Conspirators in Sovereignty, to Comrades in Solidarity?

August 6, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

By Phoebe Malone, PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow. [Image: Phoebe Malone, Dunkerque, 2023.] Keywords: Space, Place, Spatial Governance, Migration, Asylum, Borders, Solidarity, Resistance, Abolition, Discourse, […]

Signs and Symbols: Assessing the UK Government’s National Plan to End Homelessness

August 6, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

The UK Government’s homelessness strategy represents a welcome shift in national conversations about homelessness, but its strengths may be more symbolic than structural. By Colin Clark, […]

Unpaid Carers Action Plan: Recognise, Refer, Reach

August 5, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

By Melanie Henwood. [Photo by Dominik Lange on Unsplash]. An Action Plan for unpaid carers was published in the final days of the Starmer Labour […]

Blog: Child Food Poverty and The Case for a Universal Free School Meals Policy

May 20, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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

May 18, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]

Blog: Supply is not a silver bullet: Why we can’t just build our way out of the housing crisis

April 21, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]

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Blog: The New QAA Social Policy Subject Benchmark: What’s Changed and Why It Matters

April 16, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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

April 15, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]

Blog: The Public-Private Mix in Pensions – A Comparative Perspective

March 30, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Aart-Jan Riekhoff (Senior Researcher, Finnish Centre for Pensions) Dirk Hofäcker (Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Duisberg-Essen) Traute Meyer (Professor of […]

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