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Top of the table

BSc (Hons) Social Policy is top of The Guardian's 2013 University Guide league table, and has been consistently since 2007. Click below to investigate the UK's premier Social Policy programme.

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Top rated research and studying

The School delivers highly-rated research, undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes, professional training and seminars in social policy, public policy and social work.

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Meet the team

Our multidisciplinary team of policy experts come from a wide variety of backgrounds in social policy research, social work, sociology, history, human geography, economics, psychology and nutrition and health sciences based within specialist research centres.

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What is social policy or public policy?

Social policy has a major impact on your life whether you are aware of it or not. Its effects can be seen in all aspects of our lives such as housing, health care, family policy, social and criminal justice, child welfare and social care.

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BSc (Hons) Social Policy is top of The Guardian's 2013 University Guide league table, and has been consistently since 2007. Investigate this and all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses we offer.

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  • School PhD student awarded grant by UoB Alumni Foundation
    Yedith Guillén Fernández has been awarded an Alumni Foundation grant to present her research at the ISCI 2013 International Conference ‘Child Indicators in a Globalized World: Implications for Research, Practice and Policy’, hosted at Seoul National University in South Korea from the 29th to the 31st  May 2013, which is organized by the International Society for Child Indicators.

  • Farewell lunch prepared by visiting Egyptian Diploma students
    A lunch cooked by visiting Egyptian students on their penultimate day in the UK was enjoyed by staff in the School for Policy Studies today (7 May). The Diploma in Public Policy and Child Rights students, Manar, Nadia, Ramy, Emam, Ahmed, Marwa and Aya, were presented with certificates to commemorate their two week stay in the UK.

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