Events : ICSP Study Day : Programme Summary

International and comparative perspectives on social policy and economic crisis

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Monday 7th September 2009

  • Keynote 1
    Global Social Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis
    Professor Bob Deacon
    Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
  • Paper Session 1
    • Crisis, Uncertainty and ‘Re-invention’ in the Making of Social Policy
      Professor Rob Hulme
      Faculty of Education and Children’s Services, University of Chester
    • Understanding resource distribution, allocation and access via network evolution: A careful look at the interplay of actors, resources and networks
      Dr. Christina Prell
      Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
  • Paper Session 2
    • Polanyi’s Revenge: Re-embedding the Market(s) and the challenge for social policy after the crisis
      Dr. Theodoros Papadopoulos
      Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
    • Contemplating the implications of the economic crisis for social policy: Confusion, Contradictions, Opportunities and Risks
      Dr. Kevin Farnsworth
      Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
  • Keynote 2
    Economic Crises and Paradigm Change
    Professor Michael Hill
    University of Brighton and Queen Mary College, University of London

Tuesday 8th September 2009

  • Paper Session 3
    • Gender Budgeting and Its Implications for Social Policy: A Study of HIV/AIDS in India
      Keerty Nakray
      School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens University Belfast
    • Social Assistance in South Korea following the 1997 Financial Crisis
      Eunna Lee
      Department of Sociology, University of Essex
  • Paper Session 4
    • Boom to bust: globalisation, Ireland and the economic crisis
      Dr. Mairéad Considine and Dr. Fiona Dukelow
      Department of Applied Social Studies, University College, Cork
    • Social Policy dilemmas in Cyprus, Jersey and Iceland
      Dr. Zoë Irving
      Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
  • Keynote 3
    Poverty, the crisis, and social policy responses
    Professor Armando Barrientos
    Brooks World Poverty Institute,University of Manchester

For any further information, please contact one of the conveners - Zoë Irving z.m.irving@sheffield.ac.uk or Nicola Yeates n.yeates@open.ac.uk

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