Conferences
Whither welfare-to-work
Conference in London on 12 November 2009
This year's Institute for Employment Studies (IES) conference explores the future of welfare-to-work in the UK. The event is being chaired by SPA President, Nick Timmins.
Whither welfare-to-work takes place in London on 12 November. Speakers include David Freud, Nominated Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform; Prof. Dan Finn, University of Portsmouth and Centre for Social Inclusion; Prof. Paul Gregg, University of Bristol; and David Grubb, OECD.
For more details go to:
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/policy/event.php?id=121109p
The Mother War – current trends and critical discources
Conference at University of Surrey in Edinburgh 26-27 June 2009
Can women have it all? Or, are working mothers responsible for undermining the social fabric? These
are some of the contentious issues over which the “Mother War” is currently being fought. Media
reporting of Jackie Scott’s work on social attitudes about working mothers is a case in point.
This workshop will explore trends in scholarly debates on gender and the social construction of
mothering. Fuller details are shown in this PDF file.
Please send proposals to Dr. Roberta Guerrina (r.guerrina@surrey.ac.uk) by
6 April 2009.
Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice:
Third conference, 13-15 December 2009
“Beyond Teaching and Research: inclusive understandings of Academic Practice”
The third conference organised by the Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice will be held at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, from 13 to 15 December 2009. The event will be focused on the development of holistic depictions of academic careers - ones conceptualized as more than teaching and/or research. We seek a wide range of creative responses to this idea, but initial suggestions include academic practice as career development, mentoring, academic climate, relationships between academic work and wider life, academic writing and discourse, and emotions or affect in academic work.
There will be two strands to which submissions can be directed: a) Research, and b) Evaluation of Practice(s).
In addition to keynotes, there will also be semi-formal discussion sessions, addressing subjects of particular shared interest; a private reception for early career academics (doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, research staff and new lecturers); and hopefully a third strand – narrative histories – in which those imagining or beginning academic careers reflect on their own experiences and offer their distinct perspectives on Academic Practice; this will probably be run on an invitation basis.
Papers for the conference will be invited from 1 December 2008. The deadline for proposal submissions will be June 1 2009 with decisions reported back by August 1 2009.
We are also inviting individual narratives and reflections on Academic Practice, which we hope to build into a less formalised section of the conference.
Numbers will be limited to around 120 as the feedback from the two previous conferences has emphasized how much this intimacy is valued. It is intended that there will be 25-30 presentations over the three day period.
We also intend offering at least one free ‘alternative’ tour of Oxford (City and University), with architectural highlights, insights into student and academic life, sneak peaks, and insider information on hideaway venues etc.
Questions about the event should be addressed in the first instance to Richard Arnold, +44 1865 286828, or Richard.Arnold@learning.ox.ac.uk.
Further details of the conference, including proposal forms, are available at http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/academicpractice
Policy futures – learning from the past?
Social Policy Association conference in Edinburgh 29 June-1 July 2009
In 2008 the University of Edinburgh in the beautiful capital of Scotland was the perfect setting for the Social Policy Association annual conference which returns there in 2009. Delegates will again be accommodated in the high-grade Chancellor’s Court residences overlooking Holyrood Park, with sessions in the George Square central campus close to city centre attractions. As in 2008, the conference is being organised by the Social Policy subject area of Edinburgh University’s School of Social and Political Science (www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk), with Professor Jochen Clasen and Richard Parry as lead organisers and Alison Scott as conference administrator, based at the University’s Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
The theme of the conference is ‘Policy futures – learning from the past?’ The dramatic world financial developments of late 2008, and the certainty of a UK General Election in the next 18 months, mark out the present times as ones of change and reappraisal for social policy. The marketplace for new ideas, often less anchored to traditional ideological and party divides, is vigorous; and yet there is a sense that older social policy values and priorities that had been suppressed in easy economic times are making a comeback. We hope that papers at the conference will take the opportunity to relate research to the interesting times, both good and bad, through which we are passing and to look both backwards and forwards.
Plenary speakers will be Peter Taylor-Gooby of the University of Kent, Bruno Palier of Sciences-Po Paris, and Marion Barnes of the University of Brighton who will lead a session on service user perspectives.
Call for abstracts
Papers will be organised within the broad theme of the conference in the following streams (which will form some or all of the six parallel paper sessions)
- Welfare reform
- Children and families
- Work, economy and welfare
- Governance and territorial social policy
- Comparative analyses
- International/global
- Social policy in developing countries
- Theoretical and methodological innovation
- Health
- Social work and social care
- Crime and criminal justice
- EU social policy
- Migration, refugees, asylum-seekers
- Welfare markets
- User perspectives
- Disability and care
- Teaching and learning
- Open stream
Paper proposals, indicating the most appropriate stream, should be in the form of an e-mail attachment of 300-400 words e-mailed to spa09@ed.ac.uk by the extended closing date of Friday 13 February 2009. (Proposed groups of three linked contributions that could form a 90-minute symposium are also welcome). Decisions on acceptances will be made by 6 March 2009. Papers that cannot be fitted in may be given the status of ‘contributed papers’ and placed on the conference website. To allow preparation of the final programme, and uploading on to the conference web-site to be accessible to delegates, the deadline for papers will be Friday 5 June 2009. Beyond that date, any papers not received are liable to be replaced on the programme by contributed papers.
Registration
For information see the conference website at
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/spa2009/spa_index.html
A booking form is available on the website for printing out and posting. It will also be in the issue of POLICY WORLD to be sent to SPA members in the week of 19 January 2009. Electronic booking will be available via the website from mid-January. Early booking at a discount has to be made by Friday 24 April 2009 and the final deadline will be Friday 29 May 2009 (beyond that date only day delegate rates will be available, space permitting).
UPDATE: Challenging Boundaries: Social Policy Association conference Edinburgh 23-25 June 2008
** Note - new website with conference details **
The beautiful capital of Scotland is hosting the 2008 and 2009 Social Policy Association annual conferences. They will be organized by the Social Policy subject area of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Studies. Delegates will be accommodated in the high-grade Chancellor’s Court residences overlooking Holyrood Park, with sessions in the George Square central campus close to city centre attractions.
The conference in June 2008 will start with lunch on Monday 23 June and end with lunch on Wednesday 25 June. The conference dinner will be on Monday evening in the University’s renowned nineteenth-century Playfair Library Hall in Old College.
The theme of the conference is ‘Challenging Boundaries’. Throughout the world, traditional boundaries between territories, services and professions are being questioned. Nationalist ministers form the devolved government in Scotland and hold some offices in Wales and Northern Ireland, challenging UK policy norms. Policy learning is stronger than ever at the European and global level. Joined-up and citizen-centred government challenge organisational and professional structures
There will be 4 plenary sessions. The speakers are: Ann S Orloff from Northwestern University in Canada; Wim van Oorschot from Tilberg University in the Netherlands; Walden Bello from the University of the Philippines and Michael Keating from the European University Institute in Italy.
150 papers will be presented across 5 paper sessions
All the papers being presented will be placed on the conference website. To allow preparation of the final programme, and uploading on to the conference web-site to be accessible to delegates, the deadline for papers will be 6 June 2008. Beyond that date, any papers not received are liable to be replaced on the programme by contributed papers which will also be on the conference website.
Registration
Early booking at a discount has to be made by 23 April 2008. The final deadline will be 23 May 2008, after which only day delegate rates will be available, space permitting).
BOOK NOW on http://www.crfr.ac.uk/spa/booking.html
Further information, including more details of associated events and plenary speakers, will be given on social-policy.com and socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk as it becomes available. If you have any special requests – eg to extend your stay – please e-mail spa08@ed.ac.uk.
Social Policy Association annual awards
Nomination form (Word format) now available
Challenging Boundaries: Social Policy Association conference comes to Edinburgh 23-25 June 2008
** Note - new website with conference details **
The beautiful capital of Scotland will host the 2008 and 2009 Social Policy Association annual conferences. They will be organized by the Social Policy subject area of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Studies. Delegates will be accommodated in the high-grade Chancellor’s Court residences overlooking Holyrood Park, with sessions in the George Square central campus close to city centre attractions.
Two important changes are being made to the conference from 2008. Following the successful experiment at Bath in 2005, the timing of the conference will move forward to late June. And in order to achieve a better planned and more coherent conference in line with comparable events, the SPA Executive has decided that deadlines for proposals and bookings will be brought forward. Delegates will be asked to submit abstracts of proposed papers by 1 February, to register by 23 May and submit papers for uploading on the conference website by 9 June. Abstracts should have a length of between 300 and 400 words.
Another change is that the conference will run from Monday to Wednesday. The conference will start with lunch on Monday 23 June and run until lunch on Wednesday 25 June. The conference dinner will be on Monday evening at the University’s renowned nineteenth-century Playfair Library Hall in Old College. The Edinburgh International Film Festival will be running at the same time and you may wish to extend your stay and enjoy the long evenings of late June.
The theme of the conference is ‘Challenging Boundaries’. Throughout the world, traditional boundaries between territories, services and professions are being questioned. Nationalist ministers form the devolved government in Scotland and hold some offices in Wales and Northern Ireland, challenging UK policy norms. Policy learning is stronger than ever at the European and global level. Joined-up and citizen-centred government challenge organisational and professional structures. Edinburgh is an ideal location to reflect upon the challenges of this wider perspective on social policy.
Papers are sought within the broad theme of the conference in the following streams (which will fill some or all of the five parallel paper sessions)
Stream topics:
- Welfare reform
- Children and families
- Work, economy and welfare
- Governance and territorial social policy
- Comparative analyses
- EU social policy
- International and global perspectives
- Social policy in developing countries
- Theoretical and methodological innovation
- Health
- Social work and social care
- Crime and criminal justice
- Migration, refugees, asylum-seekers
- Welfare markets
- User perspectives
- Disability
- Teaching and learning
- Open stream
Call for abstracts:
Paper proposals should be in the form of an e-mail attachment of 300-400 words e-mailed to spa08@ed.ac.uk by the closing date of Friday 1 February 2008. (Proposed groups of three linked contributions that could form a 90-minute symposium are also welcome). Decisions on acceptances will be made by 22 February 2008. Papers that cannot be fitted in may be given the status of ‘contributed papers’ and placed on the conference website. To allow preparation of the final programme, and uploading on to the conference web-site to be accessible to delegates, the deadline for papers will be 9 June 2008. Beyond that date, any papers not received are liable to be replaced on the programme by contributed papers.
Registration
Booking will open in January. Early booking at a discount has to be made by 23 April 2008 and the final deadline will be 23 May 2008 (beyond that date only day delegate rates will be available, space permitting).
Further information, including details of associated events and plenary speakers, will be given on social-policy.com and socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk as it becomes available. If you have any special requests – eg to extend your stay – please e-mail spa08@ed.ac.uk.
Social Policy Conference comes to Edinburgh 2008 and 2009
Edinburgh University 23rd-25th June 2008
The SPA’s annual conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh from Monday 23 June to Wednesday 25 June 2008. Accommodation will be in the high-grade Chancellor’s Court residence near to Holyrood Park and the conference dinner will be held at the historic Playfair Library of the University’s Old College on Monday 23 June. The Edinburgh International Film Festival will also be taking place during that time.
More information, including conference themes, deadlines for abstracts and booking details, will soon be available via www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk. The 2009 conference will also be in Edinburgh with provisional dates 29 June-1 July.
New Frontiers? Social Policy in the 21st Century:
An International Conference
The 41st Social Policy Association Annual Conference
Birmingham University 23rd-25th July 2007
Full details about the conference - including booking forms - can be found on a dedicated conference website at http://www.spa-conference.bham.ac.uk/.
Enquiries can be made by email to SPAconf@contacts.bham.ac.uk Once your abstract has been received you will receive an automated confirmation.
Draft paper session details:
Useful Links:
The 2006 Social Policy Association Conference
The 2006 annual Social Policy Association conference - The State of Welfare: Past, Present and Future - took place at University of Birmingham 18th-20th July 2006.
The following archived information is available: