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📢Are you a PG or early career scholar attending the SPA-EASP conference in York next month?
The SPA is holding two pre conference events: networking and a publishing masterclass.📚
🔗See info and how to sign-up here: social-policy.org.uk/social-…
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🚨SPA deadlines approaching 🚨
- ECR Research Grants (15th June): social-policy.org.uk/grant-a…
- Annual Conference (16th June): social-policy.org.uk/social-…
- SPA elections (16th June) - see email sent to members.
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New blog post: "Too Soon to Decide on Assisted Dying"
Written by Neil Small, University of Bradford.
Read here: social-policy.org.uk/news/bl…
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🚨New Career Launch Grants for ECRs conducting social policy research🚨
💷SPA members who fit our early career definition can apply for up to £1,000 to support research.
🗓️Deadline: 15 June 2025
🔗More information: social-policy.org.uk/grant-a…
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Blog: Tackling the Motherhood Penalty: Reflections from the Family Policy Group Webinar with Joeli Brearley
By Dr Linzi Ladlow
Read on the SPA website here: social-policy.org.uk/news/bl…
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Event: Global Billionaires and Geographical Justice: From Bonanza to Bust?
📅 Date: Tuesday, 10 June
⏰ Time: 6:00pm
📍 Location: Online and In-Person - Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ
Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-bi…
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🚨🚨New blog: using design thinking and community development principles to optimise the interaction between informal and formal social protection systems.
By Tomy Ncube and Una Murray.
Read here: social-policy.org.uk/spa-blo…
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🚨New Career Launch Grants for ECRs conducting social policy research🚨
💷SPA members who fit our early career definition can apply for up to £1,000 to support research.
🗓️Deadline: 15 June 2025
🔗More information: social-policy.org.uk/grant-a…
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🚨The 2025 Social Policy & Society lecture is open for booking!
Leading experts will share insights and research across diverse social policy areas.
🗓️Friday, 6th June 2025
📍 One Friargate, University of Derby and online
⏰ 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-po…
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Against All Odds: Class and Resistance in the Arts.
Event on Tuesday 27 May in Liverpool, part of WoWFEST and with support from the SPA.
An event "that delves into the intersections of class, creativity, and resilience within the arts"
Info ⬇️⬇️
writingonthewall.org.uk/myev…
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💷Shedding light on the use of tax expenditures for social spending💷
Blog by Flurim Aliu and Agustin Redonda, Council on Economic Policies, Zurich, Switzerland.
Read on the SPA website here ⬇️⬇️
social-policy.org.uk/spa-blo…
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🚨Read our latest newsletter! This month, we bring you key updates from across the network and our friends.
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Today the SPA executive is meeting at the beautiful University of Stirling campus.🌲🌄
We're discussing plans and initiatives to support our members and discipline, including the SPA-EASP conference in July.
Get involved or join us here⬇️ social-policy.org.uk/
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Social Policy Assoc retweeted
I am in beautiful Stirling today for the Executive Committee meeting of the @SocialPolicyUK (SPA). Beautiful views... and lots to do. In times like these, working in/for Social Policy feels more urgent than ever.
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The Social Policy Association is delighted to congratulate our members recognised as Fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences.
- Professor Margaret Arnott
- Professor Emeritus Hartley Dean
- Professor Morag Treanor
- Professor Nicola Yeates
➡️social-policy.org.uk/news/ne…
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🚨The Early Bird deadline for the SPA-EASP 2025 conference has been **extended** to 29th April 🚨
Read all conference information here ⬇️
social-policy.org.uk/social-…
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New blog on the SPA website: by @StewartLansley.
'More austerity is not the answer to Britain’s stagnant economy'
Read here⬇️
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Free in-person workshop: "A dialogical approach to exploring what works to reduce homelessness".
Supported by the SPA and organized by Brunel Social Work and Trinity Homeless Projects.
Thursday, May 15th at 10:00 AM, Uxbridge. ⬇️⬇️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-dialogi…
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New blog post by Professor Adrian Sinfield of the Tax and Social Policy SPA group.
Topic: "Wealth Inequality, Tax and Social Policy".
Read here: social-policy.org.uk/news/we…
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