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Conference announcement: one-day SPA conference on 'Teaching Social
Policy for the Future', 20th April 2012 at Edinburgh University.
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The conference will reflect on the future of Social Policy as a taught
University subject in the context of current Higher Education reforms
and public austerity measures. It will give social policy academics a
chance to consider the state of the discipline and what may need to be
done to ensure that the subject increases its attraction for
undergraduate and postgraduate students. It will present results from
a recent survey on social policy teaching in the UK commissioned by
the Social Policy Association and address key issues such as research
methods teaching; new subject benchmarks; work placements and
employability; the ?how and what? of teaching social policy. The
conference is designed to stimulate thought and discussion through
break-out sessions, and is intended to act as initial stimulus for a
series of workshops across the UK over the next eighteen months.
Plenary speakers are:
- Professor David Byrne, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
- Dr. Tania Burchardt, Deputy Director CASE and Department of Social
Policy, LSE
There is a £25 registration fee for SPA members (£40 for non-members).
For postgraduate students, the event is free of charge (registration
is required).
Registration deadline is 6th April 2012.
For further information and to register please go to:
www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/conferences/spateaching
With best regards,
Ingela Naumann
Convenor, Teaching and Learning Group
SPA Executive
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