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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.

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Why Basic Income may not be the answer by Ian Greener

June 11, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

There is groundswell of support in favour of the introduction of a Basic Income, with this having special relevance in the post-COVID world, where higher […]

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Researching poverty in the pandemic: thinking through ethical issues and challenges by Kayleigh Garthwaite et al.

June 8, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

There are always ethical issues that researchers must be mindful of when carrying out research on poverty and social security. Power dynamics, the sensitivity required […]

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Teachers, the anti-heroes? The global pandemic crisis and the construction of teachers as the problem ‘Other’ – by Sotiria Grek

June 4, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Whilst teachers’ work is valued more and more by parents who have had to assist their children with home schooling, teachers in England are under attack. In […]

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The WHO in the limelight: squaring a triangle of science, politics and policy in global health emergencies by Dr Cleo Davies

May 29, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

After the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004, the 2009 flu pandemic, and Ebola in 2014-2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) is back in the limelight due […]

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Tackling fuel poverty – the Implications of COVID-19 by Baker et al.

May 21, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Policies to address the impact of Covid-19 on low income energy consumers have rightly focussed on energy bills, particularly in the context of home confinement […]

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Young Women & COVID-19: We are not all in this together by Sarah Hadfield

May 18, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Childfree young women are not a group we hear much from. Their lack of representation in society and the ways in which they experience the […]

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Need in the Time of Corona (with apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez) by Hartley Dean

May 14, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Human need ought surely to be a central concept for Social Policy. And yet the meaning and value of the concept remain perennially contested. Lessons […]

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COVID-19 and BAME disproportionality by Meer, Qureshi, Kasstan & Hill

May 11, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

As we await the findings of the NHS England and Public Health England inquiry into the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black Asian and Minority […]

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Covid-19 policy is social policy by Rebecca Tunstall

May 6, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator 0

What are you doing right now? Marking, meetings and deadlines as usual? Home schooling and working at the same time? Worrying about someone who is […]

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