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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.

Ethnicity and inequality in Southeast Asia

November 8, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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. […]

Climate smart and just Australian cities and communities

November 2, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

In the fifth and final COP26-themed blog curated by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group, Dr Komali Yenneti, Lecturer in Geography, Urban Planning and […]

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Two strategies for a just transition to net zero

October 25, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

The Climate Justice and Social Policy Group’s blog series on climate justice and social policy continues with a contribution from Ian Gough, Visiting Professor of […]

Will we need to cool our homes? Future contexts for social housing.

October 18, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

In this third contribution to a blog series organised by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group before COP26, Claire Brown, a PhD student at the University […]

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Climate justice and UK heat decarbonisation

October 4, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

In the second of a series of blogs organised by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group in the lead up to COP26, Ned Abbs-Brown, […]

Climate change and housing: a wicked issue for social policy

September 13, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

In the first of a series of guest blogs organised by the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group in the lead up to COP26, Dr […]

Good COP, bad COP?

September 9, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Over the next few weeks, the SPA is partnering with the Climate Justice and Social Policy Group to publish a series of blogs reflecting on […]

A new strategy of equality

September 7, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

R.H. Tawney is the patron saint of Labour thinking on welfare.  More often cited than read, his chapter on ‘The Strategy of Equality’, first published […]

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Wifely labour and the welfare state: a question of systematic discrimination?

August 16, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

Charles Booth, that great discoverer of urban poverty, inscribed the last volume of his Life and Labour of the People in London with the following […]

SPA Policy Groups

May 31, 2021 S-P-A-Administrator 0

The SPA exists to advance the teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of social policy, and to represent the interests of our […]

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