CSPSE Research Seminar Series: Social Policy Education – Challenges and Opportunities in the UK and Beyond

Prof. Ruby Chau is an Associate Professor in Public and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. She is the Policy Discipline Lead and the International Centre for Public and Social Policy Research Lead at the School of Sociology and Social Policy. She is also the Co-editor of Social Policy and Society, a Q1 journal with an Impact Factor of 2.3. She is a leading scholar in work-family reconciliation policies, gender roles in the family and the labour market, and comparative welfare in Asia and Europe. Her latest research interest is social policy education. The Social Policy Association commissioned her to conduct the 2021/22 review of The Current and Future State of Social Policy Teaching in UK Higher Education. She is also the principal investigator of a follow-up project on Co-defining Social Policy – Our ‘Discipline Our Say.’