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News Round-Up SPA Conference Moves to Bath Social Policy At ISSN 1745-6320 Policy Wor ld NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION News Round-up SPA Conference moves to Bath Social Policy at Manchester CPAG & CRSP in focus WWW.SOCIAL-POLICY.COM AUTUMN 2004 The first international journal devoted to the study of evidence-informed policy and practice EVIDENCE June 2004 Volume 1: Issue 1 EVIDENCE & POLICY New Journal & A journal of research, debate and practice DISCOUNT RATE FOR SPA MEMBERS POLICY ISSN: 1744-2648 A journal of research, debate and practice Managing Editor: Ken Young, ESRC UK Centre for Evidence-based Policy and Practice, Queen Mary, University of London “This is a journal that many researchers, 2005 Subscription rates decision makers and public service Introductory subscription offers providers have been waiting for.” • FREE electronic access for institutions in 2005 Haluk Soydan, Research Director, Institute for Evidence- • 2 year discounted subscription rate (institutions only) based Social Work Practice, Stockholm, Sweden and • Discounted personal rate for Evidence Network Co-Chair of the International Campbell Collaboration Associates • Discounted personal rate for members of the UK Aims and scope Social Policy Association Evidence & Policy is the first journal dedicated to comprehensive Institutional rate Personal rate (print only) and critical treatment of the relationship between research (online only) UK and Europe evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners. FREE in 2005 £41.00/€66.00 International in scope and interdisciplinary in focus, it addresses Rest of the World Institutional rate £56.00/US$70.00 the needs of those who provide public services, and those who (combined print and online) provide the research base for evaluation and development UK and Europe Discounted personal rates £191.00/€305.00 across a wide range of social and public policy issues – from (print only) Rest of the World Evidence Network Associates social care to education, from public health to criminal justice. £206.00/US$352.00 £30.00/€48.00/US$51.00 Voluntary sector The Journal is edited and managed by an expert team of UK Social Policy Association (UK only) £68.00 Members £37.00 international academics and practitioners, all of whom are at the forefront of evidence-informed research and practice in Sample copies can be ordered from our Journals distributor, their fields. There will be three issues of Evidence & Policy in The Portland Press on Tel: 01206 796351 or email: 2005, rising to four in subsequent years. [email protected] How to subscribe: Contact The Portland Press, details as above or download a flyer/order form from www.policypress.org.uk/ evidenceandpolicy.htm or contact [email protected] for a hard copy of the form. www.policypress.org.uk EditorialTeam / ExecutiveCommittee THISISSUE PolicyWorld Editorial Team Editor: John Hudson SPA News Treasurer: Tony Fitzpatrick Department of Social Policy & Social Work University of Nottingham 4 Editorial University of York e-mail: [email protected] 5-7 SPA News roundup York 5 2005 SPA Annual Conference YO10 5DD Membership Officer: Karen Clarke e-mail: [email protected] University of Manchester Announcement e-mail: [email protected] 5-7 Conference & Seminar Round Up Book Reviews Editor: David Gladstone Linda Bauld e-mail: [email protected] EDITIONTheme: Department of Urban Studies Rita Haworth Where Next for Social Policy? University of Glasgow e-mail: [email protected] 8-9 Paul Spicker – Saving Social Policy 25 Bute Gardens 10 Adrian Sinfield – Upstream Thinking Glasgow Chris Holden G12 8RS Brunel University 11 John Hudson – In Defence of Social e-mail: [email protected] e-mail : [email protected] Policy John Hudson 12 Nick Ellison – Recapturing University of York Engagement Print Designer: Natalie Tuckwell e-mail: [email protected] The Lavenham Press 13 Stuart Lowe – Bringing Political 47 Water St., Lavenham Mark Hyde Science Back In Suffolk CO10 9RN University of Plymouth Tel:01787 247 436 e-mail: [email protected] Policy World ROUND UP e-mail: [email protected] Suzi Macpherson 14-17 Celebrating Social Policy at Manchester University of Stirling 18-19 Child Poverty Action Group e-mail: [email protected] Editorial Board: 20 Centre for Research in Social Policy Tony Maltby Suzi Macpherson University of Birmingham Dept of Applied Social Science e-mail:[email protected] IN Practice University of Stirling 23 SPA Annual Conference Report Lisa O’Malley Stirling 25 SSPN Launch Seminar Report FK9 4LA University of York e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 26 ESPAnet Conference Report 28-30 Book Reviews Kirstein Rummery Jan Pahl Government, International Politics University of Kent and Philosophy e-mail: [email protected] University of Manchester Jackie Rafferty Oxford Road SWAP/University of Southampton Manchester e-mail: [email protected] PolicyWorld is published three times each academic M13 9PL year, one each in the Autumn, Spring and Summer Kirstein Rummery e-mail : [email protected] terms. Contributions for future issues are welcome. University of Manchester A factsheet for contributors can be downloaded from e-mail: [email protected] www.policy-world.com. Click on “Contributors” and SPA Executive Committee 2004-05 Tess Ridge click to download the Acrobat PDF. Please supply President: University of Bath hard copy as a Microsoft Word document or an RTF Polly Toynbee e-mail: [email protected] file via e-mail to the editor John Hudson at [email protected]. Graphs, tables and images can Chair: Saul Becker Sandra Shaw University of Salford be handled in a variety of formats – please contact the Loughborough University editor in advance of submitting these. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Vice Chair: Nick Ellison Rob Sykes e-mail: [email protected] Sheffield Hallam University Contributors’ deadlines for forthcoming e-mail: [email protected] issues: Honorary Secretary: Catherine Spring 2005: 01/02/05 Bochel Emma Wincup University of Leeds Summer 2005 22/04/05 University of Lincoln Autumn 2005 25/10/05 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] John Hudson Linda Bauld Kirstein Rummery Suzi Macpherson www.social-policy.com AUTUMN 2004 Policy World 3 SPANews Editorial Some of you may have begun to wonder took considerable effort and we wanted to electronic resource updates and career what had happened to the Autumn issue of make sure we had the new look right before development issues. SPA News. Having received this magazine going to press too. there is a good chance you still are! There are Not everyone reading this issue of Policy two reasons why the newsletter has gone to Policy World – like SPA News – will continue World will be a member of the SPA. If this is press a little later than is the norm. to appear once per academic term. Aside you then please take a moment to consider from the new look and new name – which what you’re missing! Membership of the SPA The first is that there have been some signif- we hope will help to broaden both our carries a range of benefits including three icant issues for the Association to resolve in readership and SPA membership - a key issues a year of PolicyWorld, four issues of connection with our annual conference. After difference is that each issue will have a core each of our two peer reviewed journals, the a successful and well attended conference at theme that will provide the focus of the Journal of Social Policy and Social Policy & the University of Nottingham in July (see newsletter. In this issue we build on the Society, access to our online Social Policy page 23 for a report) we had planned to ‘Where Next for Social Policy?’ debate that Digest and a copy of the annual Social Policy return there in 2005. However, following the closed the SPA’s annual conference at Nott- Review. Membership rates are very compet- Association of University Teachers’ ‘greylist- ingham in July. Future issues will take forward itive - starting at just £18 a year. Full details and ing’ of Nottingham in late September the themes prominent within the profession or in a downloadable membership form are Executive decided to find an alternative the ‘policy world’ more generally. available on our web site at venue for the event (see Chair & Secretary http://www.social-policy.com/ Report, page 5). This process inevitably took Aside from the themed section, each issue of some time and we decided to hold off pub- the newsletter will be broken down into three We would like to encourage members at lication in order to be able to bring details of other sections: large to make more use of the newsletter as the new venue - the University of Bath - along SPA News: stories about the SPA’s activities, a forum for promoting events, spreading with a call for papers from the new organising relevant conferences, publications and so on. news, diseminating research and starting committee (see page 21). debate. If you have a story, a conference Policy World Round-Up: an in-depth look report or an event you’d like to cover then The second reason is, that after 10 years in at what’s going in selected academic depart- please get in touch - even if it’s just to provide its old format, we’ve decided to start a new ments, research centres, think tanks or lobby a seminar date or a one line story for the news period of editorship by giving the newsletter groups within the social policy world section.
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