Month: March 2013

For many years the Tizard Centre has held an Annual Lecture and we were delighted that David Behan, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission … Read more

A new article by Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby examines the paradox of declining support for welfare spending at a time of rapidly growing inequality and rising … Read more

Kent Professor of Social Policy, Peter Taylor-Gooby cited in Polly Toynbee Guardian article on public spending cuts, read the full article in the Guardian online.

The Medway Social Science Group are pleased to announce a “Question Time” event at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. The invited … Read more

SSPSSR student Hannah Perrin has won the Graduate School’s Postgraduate Experience Award for a project supporting postgraduate students. The innovative “Shut Up and Write!” scheme … Read more

The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is pleased to announce a new and exciting partnership with Department of Sociology and Social Work … Read more

The Centre for Philanthropy has created a new dissertation prize open to third year undergraduate students at Canterbury and Medway. The Kent Centre for Philanthropy … Read more

It would have been a safe bet that last week’s budget would include further cuts to welfare. Many people assume that the grand tradition of … Read more

On 19th February, Professor Alex Stevens of SSPSSR at the University of Kent debated drug policy with Julian Brazier, MP for Canterbury. At the invitation … Read more

Faced with another year of cutbacks in funding and resources the NAS Conference 2013 sought to celebrate creativity and innovation by focusing on the positive … Read more