About the JUC

The JUC was founded in 1918 to promote the interests of the universities in the fields of Public Administration and Social Policy. In the 1970s, Social Work education was added to its brief. Today, the JUC represents the vast majority of British higher education institutions teaching and researching in these three fields.

The JUC is a federal body and works mainly through its three standing committees:

Separately, and together through the JUC, the PAC, SPC and SWEC seek to promote their subjects, and the Universities in which they are taught and researched, by:

  • developing close relations with government departments, professional institutes and other policy-making bodies;
  • providing national forum for discussing matters of mutual concern;
  • funding and underwriting activities, such as collaborative research, workshops, seminars and conferences;
  • disseminating information to member institutions and their staff;
  • promoting awareness of the applied social sciences amongst schools, careers services and employers;
  • fostering contacts with international academic, professional and inter-governmental organisations, for example by co-sponsoring the UK Public Administration Consortium.

In this section of the website, you can read more about: