Website of the UK Social Policy Association

The UK Social Policy Association (SPA)

The SPA is a professional association open for membership to academics and practitioners working in social policy, and to others with an interest in UK and international social policy.

* New * Call for nominations for the SPA Annual awards may be found in the news section.  Please send nominations using this form (Word doc) by Friday 13 March.

These pages carry:

• news about the SPA and the social policy community
• information about conferences
• details of the benefits of SPA membership
• information on publications produced by the SPA

* New * SPA Guidelines on Research Ethics.

You can also:

• join our electronic mailing list (the social-policy jisc-mail list)
• find information about our small grants scheme
• view current membership of the SPA's Executive Committee

You might also find the following SPA supported sites of use too:

• Social Policy Digest (a fully-searchable and regularly updated source of information about current events across the whole social policy field)
• The SPA's International and Comparative Social Policy Group (ICSP) website
• European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) website
• The Scottish Social Policy Network (SSPN) website
• The East Asian Social Policy Network (EASPN) website

This site is under continual development. If you have any comments or suggestions, please direct them to Stephen McKay the SPA Web Manager.