Where next for Social Policy? Reflections in an age of social discord

New movements for social justice from the 1970s delivered searching critiques of the discipline and practice of social policy and the welfare state. But how far have such perspectives since influenced social policy as a discipline and practice?

Join Fiona Williams as she explores how contemporary social movements – especially those around gender, race, migration, disability, austerity and the environment – pose material, political and ethical questions as to how we are to live our lives. These questions are crucial to imagining what form an alternative, transformational social policy might take.