Lifetime achievement award for Alan
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Professor Alan Walker with journalist Polly Toynbee, President of the Association.
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Congratulations to Professor Alan Walker, from the University's Department of Sociological Studies, for picking up this year's Social Policy Association's (SPA) Lifetime Achievement award.
Professor Walker, who has worked at the University for 30 years, received the award for his 'massive national and international lifetime contribution to social policy'.
"It was a wonderful surprise, receiving this award," said Professor Walker, who is currently Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing programme, which aims to improve quality of life for older people. "To receive this major award and to be nominated by my peers and selected by a panel of the leading academics in the field of British social policy, is a great honour."
"The award is in recognition of a lifetime's work and, although I think I still have some mileage left in me, it is a fantastic feeling to be honoured in this way by my profession. The icing on the cake, as the footballers say, was to receive the award from Polly Toynbee, President of the SPA and chair of the selection panel."
SPA is a professional association for academics and experts working in social policy, which is the part of public policy that deals with social issues such as welfare.
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