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.

SPA Blog

Moving Beyond ‘Disjointed Literatures’: On the Need for Social Policy Analysis to Bring Housing Back In

December 20, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Moving Beyond ‘Disjointed Literatures’: On the Need for Social Policy Analysis to Bring Housing Back In

The study of housing and debates in the field of Social Policy, and in relation to poverty in particular, have for some time operated in what Mark Stephens and Guido van Steen labelled ‘disjointed literatures’. […]

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Ethnicity and inequality in Southeast Asia

November 8, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Ethnicity and inequality in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia has incredible diversity in terms of religion, language, ethnicity and culture. All these features provide complex challenges but also opportunities that are the concern of social policy. As part of the Southeast Asian Social Policy Network (SEASPN), we […]