About Social Policy Research Centre
The Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) is a specialist research centre of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. The SPRC conducts research on all aspects of social policy, disseminates research findings, promotes research training through PhD study and contributes to policy. The SPRC has the strongest concentration of social policy researchers in Australia. It has extensive national and international connections and research collaborations with leading universities, research centres and international policy agencies. The Centre’s policy research is situated both nationally and internationally.
Fields of Research
- Poverty, inequality and social inclusion/exclusion
- Communities, families and care through the life course
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Organisation and delivery of human services
Methodologies/Approaches
- Comparative social policy
- Community service outcomes and evaluations
- Analysis of policy and societal trends
Our Team
The Centre’s broad skill base stems from its multi-disciplinary staffing profile that includes economists, sociologists, political scientists, social policy experts, historians, psychologists, educationalists, public health experts and statisticians among others.
What We Offer
The SPRC is recognised for its excellence in social policy research and engagement with other academic researchers, government and non-government policy makers and service providers, creating knowledge partnerships.
Research strengths and services include:
- complex analyses of Large data sets
- policy reviews
- evaluation of social programs
- design, conduct and analysis of social surveysh Excellence
- academic literature reviews
- workshops on policy issues
- comparative studies
- micro-economics
- examination of administrative data
- census
- and longitudinal studies
SPRC also offers a unique opportunity for postgraduate study at PhD and MA (Research) level in any subject that has a bearing on the theory and practice of social policy.
