SPS themed sections
2023
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 22 | 3 | Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic | Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Sony Pellissery and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer |
| 22 | 2 | Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities | Linda J. Cook and Mike Titterton |
| 22 | 1 | Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Person | Michele Foster, Catherine Needham, Eloise Hummell, Samantha J. Borg and Karen R. Fisher |
2022
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 21 | 4 | Interrogating Welfare Stigma: Dynamics of (re)Production, Experience and Resistance in the Welfare State | Fiona Dukelow, Joe Whelan and Robert Bolton |
| 21 | 3 | Towards a Sustainable Welfare State | Mary P. Murphy and Michael McGann |
| 21 | 2 | Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities | Shereen Hussein and Sara Charlesworth |
| 21 | 1 | ’Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy | Bankole Cole, Gary Craig and Nasreen Ali |
2021
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 20 | 4 | Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy – Where Are We Now? | Ruth Patrick, Morag Treanor and Aniela Wenham |
| 20 | 3 | The (Un)deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services | Nora Ratzmann and Nina Sahraoui |
| 20 | 2 | Populism, Religion and Social Policy | Rana Jawad, Daniel Béland and Emmanuele Pavolini |
| 20 | 1 | A Hostile Decade for Social Policy: Economic Crisis, Political Crisis and Austerity 2010-20 | Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving |
2020
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 19 | 4 | Global Welfare Regimes Revisited | Antonios Roumpakis and Mulyadi Sumarto |
| 19 | 3 | Taxation and Social Policy | Micheál L Collins, Sally Ruane and Adrian Sinfield |
| 19 | 2 | Property and Social Citizenship | Sony Pellissery and Ivar Lødemel |
| 19 | 1 | Homelessness Prevention in an International Policy Context | Anya Ahmed and Iolo Madoc-Jones |
2019
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 18 | 4 | Rethinking Welfare-to-Work for the Long-Term Unemployed | Michael McGann, Sophie Danneris and Siobhan O’Sullivan |
| 18 | 3 | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) – Implications and Challenges | Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies and Sue White |
| 18 | 2 | Basic Income in European Welfare States: Opportunities and Constraints | Jurgen De Wispelaere and Louise Haagh |
| 18 | 1 | European Social Policy and Society after Brexit: Neoliberalism, Populism, and Social Quality | Steve Corbett and Alan Walker |
2018
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 17 | 4 | Families, Social Work and the Welfare State: Where Contemporary ‘Family’ Meets Policy and Practice | Julie Walsh and Will Mason |
| 17 | 3 | Parenting Support in the Nordic Countries: Is there a Specific Nordic Model? | Astrid Ouahyb Sundsbø, Ella Sihvonen |
| 17 | 2 | UK's Membership of the EU: Brexit and the Gains, Losses and Dilemmas for Social Policy | Ania Plomien |
| 17 | 1 | Implementing Disability Rights in National Contexts: Norms, Diffusion, and Conflicts | Yohann Aucante, Pierre-Yves Baudot |
2017
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 16 | 4 | Migration and Differential Labour Market Participation | Gina Netto, Gary Craig |
| 16 | 3 | Vulnerability and Social Justice | Kate Brown |
| 16 | 2 | Austerity, Welfare and Social Citizenship | Daniel Edmiston, Ruth Patrick, Kayleigh Garthwaite |
| 16 | 1 | ‘Looking for Trouble?’ Critically Examining the UK Government's Troubled Families Programme | Stephen Crossley, Michael Lambert |
2016
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 15 | 4 | Policy Responses to Ageing and the Extension of Working Lives | Simon Biggs, Dina Bowman, Helen Kimberley, Michael McGann |
| 15 | 3 | Assessing the Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin American Societies in the Early Twenty-First Century | Theodoros Papadopoulos, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer |
| 15 | 2 | Intensive Family Support Services: Politics, Policy and Practice Across Contexts | Harriet Churchill, Robin Sen |
| 15 | 1 | Young Fatherhood: Lived experiences and policy challenges | Bren Neale |
2015
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 14 | 4 | Parenting Support in European Countries: A Complex Development in Social Policy | Mary
Daly |
| 14 | 3 | Hunger, Food and Social Policy in Austerity | Elizabeth Dowler, Hannah Lambie-Mumford |
| 14 | 2 | Twenty Five Years of the Welfare Modelling Business | Martin Powell, Armando Barrientos |
| 14 | 1 | The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Taking a Policy Perspective | Natalie Hammond, Feona Attwood |
2014
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 13 | 4 | Hiding in plain sight or Disappearing in the rear view mirror?: Whatever happened to the revolution in information for Health and Social Care – Learning from England and Australia | Rob Wilson, Susan Baines, Ian McLoughlin |
| 13 | 3 | Social Innovation and Social Policy | Simone Baglioni, Stephen Sinclair |
| 13 | 2 | Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition? | Ka Ho Mok, John Hudson |
| 13 | 1 | Comparative Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality: Japan and the United Kingdom | Christina Pantazis |
2013
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 12 | 4 | ‘New’ Welfare in Practice: Trends, Challenges and Dilemmas | Marion Ellison, Menno Fenger |
| 12 | 3 | Welfare State Reform, Recognition and Emotional Labour | Evelien Tonkens, Ellen Grootegoed, Jan Willem Duyvendak |
| 12 | 2 | Risk, Social Inclusion and the Life Course | Jens O. Zinn |
| 12 | 1 | Rethinking Retirement Incomes: Inequality and Policy Change in the UK and Anglo Saxon Countries | David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Wendy Loretto |
2012
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 11 | 4 | Social Policy and Religion in Contemporary Britain | Christopher Baker, Rana Jawad |
| 11 | 3 | Waiting for a Better World: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intercountry Adoption | Denise Cuthbert |
| 11 | 2 | Exploring Parent Abuse | Caroline Hunter, Judy Nixon |
| 11 | 1 | Household Finances under Pressure: What is the Role of Social Policy? | Ricky Joseph, Karen Rowlingson |
2011
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 10 | 4 | Exploring Multiple Exclusion Homelessness | Peter Dwyer, Peter Somerville |
| 10 | 3 | Remixing the Economy of Welfare? Changing Roles and Relationships between the State and the Voluntary and Community Sector | Susan Baines, Irene Hardill, Rob Wilson |
| 10 | 2 | Equality and Human Rights in Britain | Sheila Riddell, Nick Watson |
| 10 | 1 | Moving towards Human Rights Based Social Policies in China | Karen R. Fisher, Xiaoyuan Shang, Megan Blaxland |
2010
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 9 | 4 | Family Minded Policy and Whole Family Practice | Harriet Clarke, Nathan Hughes |
| 9 | 3 | Domestic and Care Work at the Intersection of Welfare, Gender and Migration Regimes | Majella Kilkey, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck |
| 9 | 2 | ‘Harm’, ‘Abuse’, Agency and Resilience Across the Lifespan | Alison Bowes, Brigid Daniel |
| 9 | 1 | Disciplining Difference | Judy Nixon, David Prior |
2009
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 8 | 4 | Children's Perspectives on Poverty and Disadvantage in Rich and Developing Countries | Tess Ridge, Peter Saunders |
| 8 | 3 | Social Policy in the Devolved Scotland: Towards a Scottish Welfare State? | Gerry Mooney, Sharon Wright |
| 8 | 2 | Mental Health and Human Rights | Lydia Lewis |
| 8 | 1 | Resilience and Social Exclusion | Tania Burchardt, M. Carmen Huerta |
2008
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 7 | 4 | The Poverty of Policy? Gaps in Anti-Poverty Policy for Children and Young People | Line Nyhagen Predelli, Alan France, Chris Dearden |
| 7 | 3 | The Governance of Activation | Rik van Berkel, Vando Borghi |
| 7 | 2 | Choice or voice | Ian Greener |
| 7 | 1 | Care or Control? Gypsies, Travellers and the State | Colin Clark |
2007
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 6 | 4 | Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy | Anne Corden, Jane Millar |
| 6 | 3 | Costs of Long-Term Care for Older People | Alison Bowes |
| 6 | 2 | Networks, Connectedness and Resilience: Learning from the Children's Fund in Context | Marian Barnes, Kate Morris |
| 6 | 1 | Equality | Eithne McLaughlin |
2006
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 5 | 4 | What do Older Workers Want? | Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff, Phil White |
| 5 | 3 | South Korea: Developing social policy and practice in a changing society | Liz Ross |
| 5 | 2 | Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship | Kirstein Rummery |
| 5 | 1 | National and International responses to gendered violence against women | Christina Pantazis, Lois Bibbings |
2005
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 4 | 4 | Transnational Social Policy | Nicola Yeates, Zoë Irving |
| 4 | 3 | History and Policy | Martin Powell, John Stewart |
| 4 | 2 | Political Economy and Social Policy | Chris Holden, Rob Sykes |
| 4 | 1 | Disabled People and Social Justice | Robina Goodlad, Sheila Riddell |
2004
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 3 | 4 | Care, Values and the Future of Welfare | Alan Deacon, Fiona Williams |
| 3 | 3 | Globalisation and Welfare Systems in Asia | Raymond K.H. Chan |
| 3 | 2 | Age, Employment and Policy | Kerry Platman, Philip Taylor |
| 3 | 1 | Gender and Individualisation | Jane Lewis, Fran Bennett |
2003
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 2 | 4 | Social Capital, Families and Welfare Policy | Rosalind Edwards |
| 2 | 3 | European Union and Social Policy: National and EU Policy Interaction | Linda Hantrais |
| 2 | 2 | Reforming US Welfare | Robert Walker, Michael Wiseman |
| 2 | 1 | Consumerism and Social Policy | Ian Shaw |
2002
| Volume | Issue | Theme | Guest Editor(s) |
| 1 | 4 | Policy Process and Social Policy | Hugh M. Bochel |
| 1 | 3 | Evidence-Based Policy as a concept for Modernising Governance and Social Science Research | Miriam E David |
| 1 | 2 | Social Policy in Central Europe | Bill Jordan |
| 1 | 1 | Social Welfare and Social Democracy | Peter Taylor-Gooby |