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MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
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OUA-OUA2-EXT-2024-2024
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Unit content:
  • Social Policy: what do they say it is?
  • Change and controversy over time
  • Who, what and when? Policy actors and the policy cycle
  • “Problem making”, response and spectatorship
  • “Don’t think of an elephant”: Language and rhetoric in social policy
  • Metaphor and social policy
  • Who is my neighbour? Community and values in social policy
  • Sorting through the evidence
  • Bringing ideas together: Making a start on social policy analysis