Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh University,

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Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh University,
23-25 June 2008

The conference will start with lunch on Monday 23 June and run until
lunch on Wednesday 25 June under the theme ‘Challenging Boundaries’.
Paper proposals (abstracts) should be in the form of an e-mail
attachment of 300-400 words mailed to spa08@ed.ac.uk by the closing
date of Friday 1 February 2008. Decisions on acceptances will be made
by 22 February 2008. The deadline for papers will be 9 June 2008.
Booking will open in January. Early booking at a discount has to be
made by 23 April 2008 and the final deadline will be 23 May 2008.

Further information, including the list of thematic streams for paper
presentations, is available in the new edition of the SPA’s ‘Policy
World’ and on social-policy.com and socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk.


Jochen Clasen and Richard Parry