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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.

Blog: Sharing parental leave evidence in Parliament: observations from the SPA Family Policy Group

September 22, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

By Linzi Ladlow (University of Lincoln and SPA Family Policy Group). Image credits: Sense about Science. Keywords: Evidence Week, parental leave, family policy, gender equality […]

Blog: Thirty Years After Welfare Reform, the Trump Administration is Starving the Poor into Work

September 10, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Three decades after Clinton-era welfare reform, the second Trump administration has initiated its own changes to the system which strengthen work requirements for Medicaid and […]

Blog: Not Just a Form to Fill In: Why the SPA’s New Code of Ethics Matters for Social Policy Research

September 10, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Professor Colin Clark (University of the West of Scotland) and Professor Alessio D’Angelo (University of Derby) Ethics is not what happens before the research begins. […]

Blog: Staying Well Through Parenting Leave

August 31, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Kathryn Hartley, Jessica Hobbs, Emily Humphreys, Clare Matysova Imagine life as a mum of young children on a low income: you might be juggling two […]

Blog: Nationalism and the Changing Politics of Immigration in Scotland and Catalonia

August 31, 2026 S-P-A-Administrator 0

By Dean Ross, Doctoral Researcher in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow. [Image: Dean Ross, Edinburgh, 2023.] Over the last two decades, […]

Blog: 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 […]

Blog: ‘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, […]

Blog: 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, […]

Blog: 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 […]

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