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 since 1918 and is well established within the School of Social & Political Science. Edinburgh is the leading centre for social policy research in Scotland and one of the leading centres of postgraduate education and training in social policy in the UK. Our Social Policy group is one of the most respected in the UK and among the best for the quality of its teaching and research. We offer postgraduate supervision across the whole subject range, with particular expertise in comparative social policy, welfare reform, labour market policy, health policy, childhood studies, family policy and education policy.