This is the latest news from the School of Social Policy, its Departments and Research Centres.
News
- Description
- HSMC is now a partner in the Research Design Service West Midlands which provides support to those preparing research proposals for submission to peer-reviewed funding competitions for applied health or social care research.
- Date:
- 17/05/2018
- Categories:
- Research
- Description
- Two new studies consider how contextual influences and constrained capital spending is affecting decision making and priority setting in the health service.
- Date:
- 11/05/2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- This programme, delivered in partnership with Public Health England, is for those who have been working at a senior level for at least 2 years and who have the ability and desire to be a Director of Public Health (or work at Director level in their own profession) within 3 years of the end of the programme.
- Date:
- 10/05/2018
- Categories:
- Teaching
- Description
- On Saturday 28 April, Professor of Health and Social Care Jon Glasby spoke the Citizens' Assembly on Social Care, which is part of an inquiry that is being carried out by two Parliamentary Select Committees into the long-term funding of adult social care for both working and older age adults.
- Date:
- 08/05/2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Our social norms and policy practices tolerate inequality, says Karen Newbigging in her latest Viewpoint. So what can be done about this at national and local levels?
- Date:
- 18/04/2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Chris Allen, School of Social Policy Associate writes for the Social Sciences Birmingham blog: The decision by the BBC to air Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in full, in commemoration of its 50th anniversary, is nothing less than bewildering.
- Date:
- 17/04/2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The College of Social Sciences was delighted to present the inaugural lecture of Professor Catherine Needham, Professor of Public Policy and Public Management.
- Date:
- 11/04/2018
- Description
- Simon Cardy, School of Social Policy Associate writes for the Social Sciences Birmingham blog: Controversies in adoption, particularly around race, have been an issue since the Major government, in what Paul Garrett describes in his recent book Welfare Words as an 'itching' pre-occupation of governments with child adoption.
- Date:
- 06/04/2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences