Social Policy Association conference 2022 series highlights
Below we have highlighted our current Social and Public Policy series.
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If you’re interested in writing for one of our series, you can find out more about how to submit a proposal on each individual series page. Click on the ‘find out more’ links below.
Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
Series Editors: Heejung Chung, University of Kent, UK, Alexandra Kaasch, University of Bielefeld, Germany, and Stefan Kühner, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Published in association with the Social Policy Association.
In a world that is rapidly changing, increasingly connected and uncertain, there is a need to develop a shared applied policy analysis of welfare regimes. Through a unique combination of comparative and global social perspectives, books in this series will address broad questions around how nation states and transnational policy actors deal with globally shared challenges. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.
Understanding Welfare
Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this textbook series helps students understand the causes of and responses to social issues. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.
Civil Society and Social Change
Series Editors: Ian Rees Jones, Cardiff University, Mike Woods, Aberystwyth University and Paul Chaney, Cardiff University
This series provides interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the rapidly changing nature of civil society at local, regional, national and global scales. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.
Third Sector Research
Series Editor: John Mohan, University of Birmingham
Published in collaboration with the Third Sector Research Centre, this international series produces third/voluntary sector books with an emphasis on accessible communication between academic teaching and research, and practitioners. Find out more and buy books in the series here.
International Library of Policy Analysis
Series editors: Iris Geva-May, Professor Emerita, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Adjunct Professor, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor, The Wagner School, NYU, New York, US and Michael Howlett FRSC, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and Burnaby Mountain Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
This major series brings together a detailed examination of the theory and practice of policy analysis systems at different levels of governments and by non-governmental actors in a range of specific countries. The most recent book in the series focuses on Ireland, and forthcoming volumes include policy analysis in South Korea. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.
Global Perspectives on Philanthropy and Public Good
Series Editors: Tobias Jung, Shona Russell and Alina Baluch, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St Andrews
Offering an international and interdisciplinary perspective on philanthropy and the public good, this new series will examine where, how and with what impact donors and their foundations are playing an increasingly central role in solving pressing social, economic and environmental issues. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.
New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
Edited by Oscar Berglund, University of Bristol, UK, Claire Dunlop, University of Exeter, UK, and Chris Weible, University of Colorado, US.
Books in the series were first published as special issues of our Policy & Politics journal.
The changing nature of politics and the contemporary challenges facing public and social policy demand new perspectives that contest existing assumptions and deliver new ways of understanding a changing world. This series focuses on contributions that aim to re-orient perennial debates and open-up emerging seams of research. Find out more here.
Key Issues in Social Justice
Series Editors: Kalwant Bhopal, University of Birmingham, Martin Myers, University of Nottingham, Karl Kitching, University College Cork and Kenzo Sung, Rowan University
This new book series critically explores how issues of social justice, inclusion and equity shape modern day society. The series does so by delivering a forum for perspectives from historically marginalised and minoritised communities to challenge contemporary dominant discourses about social justice, inclusion and equity in the social sciences and aligned disciplines. Find out more about the series here.