School of Social Policy

Welcome to the School of Social Policy, where our mission is ‘to understand the world – but also to change it’. This means carrying out high quality and relevant research, but then using this as a starting point for making a practical difference in the real world through our teaching, our professional training, our policy advice and our work with local communities, the public and the media.

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Posted 17 October 2017

Fact Check: are there over a million foreigners living illegally in Britain?

Posted 17 October 2017

Period poverty: why one in ten young women struggle to afford pads and tampons

A survey by the charity Plan International UK found that one in ten girls or women aged 14 to 21 in Britain cannot afford sanitary towels or tampons.

Posted 13 October 2017

IRIS deputy director Nando Sigona is invited at the UN in Geneva to participate as an expert panellist in the sixth informal thematic session

IRIS deputy director Nando Sigona is invited at the UN in Geneva to participate as an expert panellist in the sixth informal thematic session on "Irregular migration and regular pathways, including decent work, labour mobility, recognition of skills and qualifications and other relevant measures"

Posted 03 October 2017

New Birmingham Fellow wins prestigious award

Newly appointed Birmingham Fellow in Social Policy, Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite, has been awarded the Peter Townsend Prize from the British Academy for her book, 'Hunger Pains: life inside foodbank Britain' which examines the lives of people using a Trussell Trust foodbank in Stockton-on-Tees, North East England.

Posted 25 September 2017

Researcher wins British Journal of Social Work Prize

Dr Lisa Morriss, Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Birmingham has been awarded the BASW Kay McDougall British Journal of Social Work Prize for an article looking at the newly created role of the Approved Mental Health Professional.

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