You can still share your reflections on this years conference #york25 with us and follow @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social for updates on 2026 at Liverpool Hope!
05.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@easp-spa-2025.bsky.social
Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network – Joint Annual Conference 2025: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities
You can still share your reflections on this years conference #york25 with us and follow @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social for updates on 2026 at Liverpool Hope!
05.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a huge Doctor Who fan, I hate missing this session!
04.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Also, it was great listening to a thought-provoking plenary by Megan Challis; and to welcome the new members of our Executive Committee.
... see you all in Liverpool in 2026!
Unfortunately, this year I could only attend the last day of the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social Annu Conference - impeccably hosted by the University of York. But I still thoroughly enjoyed it; managing to catch up with many friends from all over the world (quite a few from East Asia, this year!).
04.07.2025 20:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Rabbits at University of York
Thanks for the past three days! #York2025
04.07.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@haylesben.bsky.social identifies four key roles / ways of potentially understanding the roles local and devolved welfare play & notes they are not mutually exclusive - compensating, complementing, contesting, challenging (or inspiring)
02.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@haylesben.bsky.social is arguing that there is value in trying to develop a new conceptual framework to understand what is happening in the uk around the changing role of local and devolved welfare
02.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Steph Morris also reinforces how the fear and the possibility of conditionality and sanctions and mandated work reality activities creates anxiety for people, already struggling with their mental health < @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social >
04.07.2025 08:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@annieirvine.bsky.social and Cindy Leung point to problems with an over medicalisation of approach within the work capability assessment
04.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Chris Grollman and his team wonder what else might have caused the increase in abortions observed, given that the arrival of the two-child limit wasn’t the cause? Brexit perhaps, they suggest < @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social >
04.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Danni Konstantinidou shares the key takeaway from her analysis of social transfers looming across diverse countries
04.07.2025 10:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Last day at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social & hearing from @annieirvine.bsky.social & Cindy Leung on what’s wrong with the Work Capability Assessment
<A Friday conference 🧵>
Honoured to receive the best paper award of @jicsp.bsky.social together with Sanni Välimäki, @jlammit.bsky.social and Johanna Närvi. Thank you🙏🏻
And thank you for an inspiring conference in York @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social !
@flux-consortium.bsky.social
Wrapping up the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social at the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social exec meeting. A busy but lovely few days of great research, networking, & a lot of important intellectual questions. Well done to York @enricoreuter.bsky.social , Liz Bailey, @johnhudson.bsky.social #York2025
04.07.2025 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The end of another great @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social conference ( @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social )was jam packed with papers on employment & social security research. You can join us: social-policy.org.uk/news/spa-pol... @sionedps.bsky.social & @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social or Levana Magnus. #York2025
04.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Lovely few days at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social, so good that my only pics are some bunnies playing in the sun. Ending with a great session presenting some of my PhD research on work in deindustrialised communities (thank you @sionedps.bsky.social for chairing!)
04.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This is the prize winning Blue Sky #York2025 post! Collect your prize Yukwan!
04.07.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m looking forward to presenting
"The Expansion Mechanism of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Postwar Japan : A Life Course Perspective from Childhood to Adulthood"
on 4 July.
"Social Policy in Japan"
10:45-12:15
003
#York2025
Last morning of @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference and what a few days it’s been! Returning to Glasgow feeling grateful for fantastic colleagues and the important work they are doing #york2025
04.07.2025 08:07 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Lovely that last paper at this year's @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social for me is from one of University of York's doctoral researchers, Danni Konstantinidou looking at short-term and lagged effects of social transfers on poverty & deprivation
04.07.2025 10:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Great final plenary from Megan Challis from @wellcometrust.bsky.social. #york2025
04.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Critical thinking, assessment design, AI, and… ? 🛸
When academia meets imagination — and serious insight. Yes, we discuss it all at…critically #York2025.
Who says academic conferences can’t be a little fancy ? 👽📚✨
@easp-spa-2025.bsky.social
Having a fab time at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference in York and had a wonderful reception to our research on digital tech use in VCSOs for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism. Click below to watch our fab video explaining the research:
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/school...
Glasgow and Edinburgh uni folks seeing the sights at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social #york
03.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0At @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social and interested in the intersection between tax and social policy?
Come along to our sessions:
3pm Thursday (SLB/102): Symposium on poverty, inequality and the role of taxes in social policy
9am Friday (SLB/118): Roundtable on tax & Labour's first year in power
Are you presenting a paper at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference?
Does your paper take a comparative perspective or have an international dimension to its argument?
Then why not consider submitting it to @jicsp.bsky.social
@socialpolicyuk.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
@drcmacrae.bsky.social presenting the State of Poverty project @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social 😄
03.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating presentation by @hlrandolph.bsky.social on the modelling The Scottish Child Payment @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social
03.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0From illustrated slides to quotes on T-shirts, #York2025 has brought some creative presentation styles!
Over the past two days, I’ve seen some amazing ways to communicate complex ideas 🎨🧥
What’s the most memorable presentation format you’ve come across so far?
@easp-spa-2025.bsky.social
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Congratulations to the winners of the @universitypress.cambridge.org best article price for @jicsp.bsky.social at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference at #York2025:
Sanni Välimäki
@jlammit.bsky.social
@merita.bsky.social
Johanna Närvi
See the paper here: tinyurl.com/d3u5ny4t