Book by SPS academic receives top award from the British Academy
Congratulations to Dr Lucy Series, from the School for Policy Studies, whose book has been awarded the 2025 Peter Townsend Prize by the British Academy.
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Social Harm Policy Group secures new funding to address Inequality and drive policy change
The Social Policy Association’s Social Harm Policy Group has secured another two years of renewed funding to continue its influential work addressing the structural causes of social harm, linking inequality, marginalisation, and political change to real-world impacts on communities and policy.
School for Policy Studies postgraduate students honoured with prestigious doctoral prize for outstanding research excellence
Two postgraduate researchers from the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies - Dr Lois Peach and Dr Bintu Mansaray - have been awarded the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences 2024/25 Doctoral Prize for outstanding excellence in a doctoral dissertation.
Book by SPS academic receives top award from the British Academy
Congratulations to Dr Lucy Series, from the School for Policy Studies, whose book has been awarded the 2025 Peter Townsend Prize by the British Academy.
International partnership unveils key insights into early childhood education across Namibia
A three-year collaboration between the University of Namibia (UNAM) and the University of Bristol, funded by the Perivoli Foundation through the Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC), has just concluded a study on early childhood education in Namibia.
Social Policy ranked 4th in The Times Good University Guide
Social Policy at Bristol has been ranked 4th in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026.
SPS academic’s new book wins prestigious human rights award
Congratulations to Dr Sandhya Fuchs from the School for Policy Studies (SPS) whose new book has won the 2025 James Busuttil Medal and Prize for human rights scholarship from the Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr Oliver Russell, 1936-2025
Dr Oliver Russell, co-founder and first director of the University’s famous Norah Fry Research Centre (now the Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies in the School for Policy Studies), died on 25 July. His colleagues offer a remembrance.
SPS hosts pioneering research funded by Defra to help tackle violence against women and girls
A new research programme has been launched to explore the interconnection between the use and abuse of animals by domestic abuse perpetrators and domestic abuse-related homicide-suicide.
Celebration for Class of 2025 graduates
We were delighted to celebrate with graduates from the Class of 2025 at an informal event in Priory Road Gardens after the formal graduation in the Wills Memorial Building.
Experts come together in Bristol for first International Child and Family Conference
Research and policy specialists in child and family life were welcomed to Bristol in June for the inaugural International Child and Family Conference.