The Social Policy Research Centre is a research centre of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Under its original name, the Social Welfare Research Centre was established in January 1980, changing its name to the Social Policy Research Centre in 1990.

The SPRC conducts research and fosters discussion on all aspects of social policy in Australia, as well as supporting PhD study in these areas. The Centre’s research is funded by governments at both Commonwealth and State levels, by academic grant bodies and by non-governmental agencies.

Our main topics of inquiry are: poverty, social inequality and standards of living, family policies and services, work, employment and welfare reform, the organisation and delivery of human services, spatial dimensions of social policy, Children and young people: policies, services and wellbeing, disability policies, ageing and retirement policies, housing policies and services, issues affecting Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse populations, informal and formal care, public health and Asian, in particular Chinese, social policy.

The Centre regularly holds seminars and conferences and has an active publishing program. The Centre also fosters discussion of social policy research and policy issues by organising and hosting conferences and seminars, and supports the training and development of qualified researchers and teachers in social policy through in-house and external training initiatives and a program of PhD study.

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