PLEASE IGNORE THIS IF YOU ARE
ALREADY A MEMBER OF THE SPA
Dear GSP list
member,
I am writing to you as
Membership Secretary of the Social Policy Association (SPA) to encourage you
to join the SPA for 2009. The SPA is the professional association for
teachers, researchers, students and practitioners of social policy. Although
the majority of SPA members are UK-based, the SPA also has many overseas
members and we are particularly keen to keep in touch with national and
international developments in the subject.
There are many benefits of
joining the SPA, not least:
· You will be sent hard copies of the ‘Journal of Social Policy’
and ‘Social Policy and Society’ (both published four times a year in
collaboration with Cambridge University Press). SPA members also have access
to the online searchable Social Policy Digest produced by CUP as part of the
Journal of Social Policy.
· You will also be sent hard copies of ‘Policy
World’, published three times a year, containing news, updates on current
developments and debates, book reviews and details of teaching resources,
conferences, workshops and other events.
· You will also be sent a copy of ‘Social Policy
Review’, published annually: an edited collection of articles reviewing
developments and debates in social policy in Britain and
internationally.
· Access to a Postgraduate Group which organises
a support network and tailored events for postgraduates via an annual
Postgraduate Conference and theme-focussed
· Discounted registration for the annual Social
Policy Association conference (held in Edinburgh this year from
29th
June to 1st
July), which attracts social policy academics and researchers from the UK and
other countries. The conference provides an important opportunity to
engage with the latest developments in the discipline.
· A full list of benefits is given on our website
at http://www.social-policy.com/
If you wish to join please log
in to http://www.social-policy.com/ and follow the instructions from there to fill
in the online form and pay using Paypal. We would like to inform you
that if you are paying for someone else's membership with your credit card or
vice versa by Paypal, it is the name of the cardholder that will appear on the
payment notification the SPA receives from Paypal and not the name of the SPA
member. In these cases, please email Rana Jawad (SPA Treasurer)
on [log in to unmask] advising for whom payment is being made and by
whom.
If, for any reason, you are not
able to pay online, then you can still renew your subscription by filling in a
form and sending in a cheque. Please email me ([log in to unmask]) if you wish to do this. Please note that we do
not accept credit cards or standing orders as we have found that these
mechanisms for payment have caused delays in membership administration.
Subscriptions are charged on a
sliding scale according to income (see below for current rates). UK taxpayers
can claim tax relief at the standard rate on their subscriptions.
Subscriptions are renewable each January and can be paid online by Paypal or
by a cheque sent through the post. If you join during the calendar
year, you will still receive copies of all publications and other benefits for
the whole calendar year.
Annual income
Annual
subscription
Less than £15,000
£20
£15,000–£29,999
£40
£30,000–£49,999
£70
£50,000 or more
£100
Organisational
rate
£100*
* Please contact the Membership
Secretary, Karen Rowlingson, for further details of organisational membership
which is available to organisations in the Public and Third Sector but not
higher education institutions.
Full details of these and other
services; the work of the Association; news, events and an information
exchange can be found on the SPA’s website
www.social-policy.com
We look forward to you joining
us.
Best wishes,
Karen Rowlingson
SPA Membership Secretary
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