About Southern Policy Centre
Areas we specialize and focus in
Policy and research
As the cross-party think tank for central southern England we specialise in improving public policy making. We conduct research into the social challenges facing society, including devolution, poverty and exclusion, ageing population, and social exclusion. We have published a wide variety of reports under the following themes: Adult Social Care Devolution Higher Education Immigration Local Read More ...
Open data
The SPC uses open data for its research projects, and is proud to host ODI Hampshire, part of the Open Data Institute‘s worldwide network. Open data underpins much of our work, a recent example of which is Widening Participation in Higher Education. We also host and run events like Using data as a policy maker, and Read More ...
Public participation
The SPC organises and runs events for policy makers, businesses, community groups and members of the public. Deliberative polling At a time when more people than ever feel that politics doesn’t involve them, we need new ways to bring citizens into decision making Our innovative deliberative polling process helps public organisations do just that, and Read More ...