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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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PS magazine

PS magazine is published once a year to highlight key findings from some of the wide range of research projects that we undertake at the School for Policy Studies.

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Research

The RAE 2008 findings placed the School for Policy Studies fourth in the UK for the quality of its research.

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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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  • University hosts first UK Disabled Children Research Network
    Researchers working in the field of child disability gathered at the University of Bristol this week for the first meeting of the UK Disabled Children Research Network. The meeting, which was organised and chaired by David Abbott, Reader in Social Policy in the Norah Fry Research Centre at the School for Policy Studies, promises to be an annual event, with the Children’s Society pledging to host the 2013 event.

  • Professor of Child and Family Welfare appointed as Specialist Adviser to Parliament
    David Berridge, Professor of Child and Family Welfare in the School for Policy Studies at the University, has been appointed as Specialist Adviser on Children's Services to the Parliamentary Education Select Committee.

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