📣Are you a post-grad or early career researcher attending the SPA Conference next week? We are holding a PGR/ECR welcome session on Wed 5th to network and hear from speakers in a friendly environment. Please join us! #SPAconf2023 ℹ️ Full info here: social-policy.org.uk/conferences/ec…

🥳It's #SPAconf2023 week, 5-7 July at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN! We look forward to meeting, learning about and celebrating social policy. 📢Let us know if you are coming and what you're looking forward to using Social Policy Assoc #SPAconf2023 ℹ️ Conf info here: social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/con…

The two-child limit & benefit cap are poverty-producing policies, which fail to meet their original aims. Findings from our Nuffield Foundation study out today largerfamilies.study/publications/n… Sad this is now timely for all the wrong reasons.

🚨The SPA has issued a call for new policy groups, and to invite to join existing ones of your interest. 🪙 £3,000 available to support each group's work. Read below, and contact our Impact and Engagement officer Alessio D'Angelo w/ queries or to apply. ➡️social-policy.org.uk/uncategorized/…

‼️ A reminder that applications for our Opportunity Grants programme are currently open! 🌱Apply for £1,000 - £5,000 for events and initiatives which promote and support social policy teaching, research or networking. 🗓️Deadline 29th September: social-policy.org.uk/grant-awards/s…

🚨A reminder of current SPA funding & calls 🚨 📰SPA Strategy Survey, closes 14 August: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SPAConsultat… 🌱Opportunity Grants, deadline 29 September: tinyurl.com/48r9h7ua 🤝Policy Groups, deadline 2 October: tinyurl.com/mrxu2fkw Follow the links to read more!

📢If you are interested in social policy, please answer our survey to help shape our future work! Whether you are an SPA member or not, and whatever your sector, we'd like to hear from you. Take our 10-minute survey and spread the word! ⬇️ social-policy.org.uk/news/social-po…

💡Interested in creating a new #SocialPolicy Group? 🗓️You have one month to apply! #SPA-funded groups work collaboratively to stimulate academic, public and policy debates about key social policy issues. ℹ️Find out more in the Social Policy Assoc call👇 x.com/SocialPolicyUK…

Wales' residential speed limit is dropping to 20mph – here's how it should affect accidents and journey times theconversation.com/wales-resident… Pete Merriman and my new piece for the The Conversation

🚨SPA opportunities and deadlines🚨 🗞️Call for newsletter items (SPA members) - contact the SPA's communications officer: social-policy.org.uk/about/the-exec… 🌱Opportunity Grants, deadline 29 September: tinyurl.com/48r9h7ua 🤝Policy Groups, deadline 2 October: social-policy.org.uk/uncategorized/…

💡We need good #SocialPolicy like never before! 📢Help Social Policy Assoc shaping key debates and policy developments. 🫵Submit an application for a new SPA Policy Group. 🗓️The deadline for proposals is October 2nd. ℹ️See the call below or get in touch for any query.

🚨SPA 2024 Conference deadline extensions🚨 - Abstract submissions have been EXTENDED to Friday 19th April. - Early bird deadline for registration extended to Friday 3rd May. Read all conference information on our website: social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/con…

Interested in doing a PhD in disability history? We're advertising a fully funded AHRC CDP PhD Scholarship: Arts, Activisdm, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980-Present swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s… based @SwanseaHistory and National Library of Wales. #dishist

Why is social cooperation a crucial ingredient of active citizenship? Online now: Endo and Choi, 'Three Policy Alternatives for Advancing Active Citizenship: Universal Basic Income, Universal Basic Services, and Social Economy' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨SPA Opportunity Grants Spring 2024 are OPEN🚨 💷> £1K to > £5K available to support social policy activities. 🗓️Deadline Fri 31 May 2024. 🗣️Showcase research, build networks, hold events, engage stakeholders, promote teaching, and more. Info ⬇️social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/gra…

📣There are 6 vacancies on the editorial board of Social Policy and Society! This Social Policy Assoc journal is co-edited by Ruby Chau and me, supported by an amazing board, and published by Cambridge UP - Anthropology & Sociology. 🗓️Deadline June 16th. All info here 👇 social-policy.org.uk/spa-elections/…

🚨SPA Opportunity Grant applications close TOMORROW (31 May) 🚨 💷Up to £1,000 or £5,000 available. 🗣️Showcase research, build networks, hold events, engage stakeholders, promote teaching, and more. Info⬇️ social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/gra…

Special issue out now: 'Ethics of Youth Work Practice in the 21st Century', featuring perspectives from across the globe and themes from the ethics of care to climate justice, and indigenous inquiry to the influence of neoliberalism. #youthwork #ethics tandfonline.com/toc/resw20/18/2

🚨SPA video promoting social policy 🚨 The Social Policy Association (SPA) has produced an animation to raise awareness of social policy among a wide range of audiences. View below - and please do share and spread the word! ⬇️ vimeo.com/944095757?shar…

💻🗳️Who Gets My Vote? - a new online voting tool which allows voters to match their positions on key policy issues to those of political parties. Learn how @SUSocialScience academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students helped develop the platform➡️ bit.ly/3VzIGE1