EVENT: Joint CASPS and MENASP Digital Methods Workshop with Dr William Mattingly
Digital methods have become a well-established and powerful approach within the social sciences and humanities. How could they enhance your research?
Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society
An interdisciplinary research centre critically engaged with the evidence, design and evaluation behind policy development across a range of major social issues
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NEWS: Global challenges and the role of public policy
Ricky Kanabar explains how our Masters in Public Policy (MPP) prepares professionals to navigate the global challenges facing public policy.
NEW RESEARCH: UK Drug Companies Repeatedly Violate their Marketing Code, warns research
New data analysis highlights potential “serious consequences” for patient health and lengthy complaint processing times.
VIDEO - Complexity Theory and Asylum Seekers Decision-making
Dr Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy explains the use of CT to understand the decision-making process of asylum seekers.
NEW RESEARCH: Practices and Policies for end-of-life care
Diana Teggi and Kate Woodthorpe publish their latest research on anticipatory prescribing and current practices for end-of-life care
EVENT: Addressing children's needs in Bath and North East Somerset
Socio-economic deprivation, mental health, education & justice in Bath and North East Somerset
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About the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS)
Our research engages with the evidence, design and evaluation behind policy development across a range of major social issues to inform future policy making.
Members of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS)
Our members are mainly located within the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, although we welcome members from across the University of Bath.
Our Research
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Child well-being
A child’s wellbeing has an important bearing on their current and future outcome: this has been brought to the forefront of the policy agenda in recent years.
Governance, policy processes and policy influence
Our researchers analyse the factors which determine the policy cycle to understand how policy is overseen and carried out in practice.
Inequality, including crime and disability
Our researchers aim to understand how income, wealth, and health inequalities play out over the life course and how policy can influence inequality.
Work and wages
Analysing and evaluating employment and earnings policy changes to improve decision making in this area.
Poverty and income
We aim to understand the causes of low income and how effective policies are in reducing poverty.
Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy publications
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Bath Papers in Social Welfare, Policy & Society
Bath Papers in Social Welfare, Policy & Society is a series of papers published by the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS).
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RECORDING: Adult Safeguarding: Past, Present and Future
This conference focuses on the past, present and future of adult safeguarding, including discussion and ideas from experts in the field.
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A historical collection of selected publications, articles and media recordings from members of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society
CASPS archival material
Selected historical publications, articles and media recordings
About us
The Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS) is part of the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. Our researchers are critically engaged with policy development across a range of major social issues and as such are major contributors to this significant achievement.
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