Social Policy is a social science and a discipline which explores the welfare of individuals and communities, the level of that welfare, its production and distribution. Its special themes are social problems and social risks threatening the preconditions for a good life at the level of the individual, the community, the nation and the entire world. Such issues include social rights, fairness, power, equality, inequality, exclusion and deprivation. The object of interest is further how changes and political ideologies and structures affect social policy. Other crucial issues concern sustainable development such as the relation of the human being to the living environment and to nature.

Social policy is also practical activity to solve social problems. In the teaching and research of social policy an important part is played by the evaluation of how the systems of social policy can guarantee citizens welfare in an internationalizing and globalizing world in which the social problems are becoming ever more complex.

• Degree Programmes taught in English
• Bachelor of Social Sciences/ISSS, major subject Social Policy
• Master's Degree Programme in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare 2010-2012
• Degree Programmes taught in Finnish
• Bachelor of Social Sciences, Social Policy
• Master of Social Sciences, Social Policy