📅 Date: Friday, 6th June 2025
📍 Location: One Friargate, University of Derby and online
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Join the Annual Event of the journal Social Policy & Society, where leading experts in social policy will share insights and research across diverse policy areas, including employment, housing, pensions, family, tax and social policy, climate justice.
The roundtable discussion will focus on the theme “One year of Labour in government and its impact on Social Policy”
This event will feature engaging presentations and thought-provoking discussions from esteemed speakers working at the forefront of social policy and in representation of the SPA (Social Policy Association) Policy Groups. The event is sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
LIST OF TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
- Introduction to the event – Prof. Alessio D’Angelo (University of Derby), Prof. Zoe Irving and Dr Enrico Reuter (University of York)
- Labour’s manifesto committments to social policy (Dr Kevin Farnsworth, University of York)
- New direction in family policy (Dr Linzi Ladlow, University of Lincon)
- Pension inequalities and policy responses (Dr Hayley James, Aston University)
- Labour’s policies on taxation (Dr Sally Ruane, De Montfort University)
- Labour’s Welfare and Employment strategy (Dr Nye Cominetti, Resolution Foundation)
- A critical assessment of Housing policies (Prof. Peter Matthews, University of Stirling)
For More Information and to register, please go to Eventbrite: Social Policy and Society Annual Event Tickets, Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite