自1918年以来，爱丁堡就开始教授社会政策，并且在社会政治学院内也建立了完善的政策。爱丁堡是苏格兰社会政策研究的主要中心，也是英国社会政策研究生教育和培训的主要中心之一。我们的社会政策小组是英国最受尊敬的团体之一，也是其教学和研究质量最高的团体之一。我们提供整个学科范围的研究生监督，特别是比较社会政策，福利改革，劳动力市场政策，卫生政策，儿童研究，家庭政策和教育政策方面的专业知识。
Social Policy has been taught in Edinburgh for more than a century, and we have a rich tradition of supervising students towards higher degrees as a route to careers in academia, research and public policy.<br><br>Today our group is at the heart of the scholarly community in social policy in Scotland and the UK, but also resolutely turned towards the wider world.<br><br>Our highly regarded research draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives and is methodologically diverse, spanning the full range of social science methods from action research to advanced quantitative approaches.<br><br>We are committed to scholarly advancement but also to the dissemination of our work beyond the academy to generate non-academic impact and effect social change.