SPA Blog

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.

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Blog: Are you fed up with a culture of blaming “the culture” for everything that goes wrong?

November 24, 2023 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Blog: Are you fed up with a culture of blaming “the culture” for everything that goes wrong?

By Neil Small, Emeritus Professor of Health Research, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK (see contact details at bottom*). Keywords: Culture: hospitals: childcare: neoliberalism: care failures. Culture as diagnosis and prescription It can […]

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New Challenges and Future Tasks in the Study of Family and Household in Social Policy: Report from Opportunity Grant

June 23, 2023 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on New Challenges and Future Tasks in the Study of Family and Household in Social Policy: Report from Opportunity Grant

Volkan Yilmaz (Dublin City University), Theo Papadopoulos (University of Bath) and Antonios Roumpakis (University of York) were awarded an opportunity grant from the Social Policy Association in April 2022 to create a scholarly platform to […]