Author: espanet
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24th ESPAnet Annual Conference: Call for Papers
The European Social Model faces growing pressure from global economic tensions, rising military threats, climate change, technological transformation, and AI. At the same time, the rise of radical right-wing and populist movements is reshaping welfare politics, influencing both support for social protection and policy priorities. The 2026 ESPAnet Conference in Lisbon will examine how these…
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Nordic ESPAnet Seminar for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers: Social Policy Context of Life-course Transitions
The 2026 Nordic ESPAnet seminar for doctoral students and early career researchers will be organised by the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, in collaboration with the Sustainable Synergies research project. The seminar will be held in Stockholm, on 4 and 5 June 2026. The seminar invites early career scholars (PhD and postdoc) to submit their research abstracts on any topic…
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Early Career & PhD Workshop on Socioeconomic Mobility and Public Policies, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain), October 22–23, 2026
This two-day event is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers in the Social Sciences (including Economics, Sociology, Political Science, among other disciplines) interested in issues related to social and economic mobility, labour market, housing, inequality, poverty, and public policies from an interdisciplinary perspective. See the Call for Abstracts here. The program will be organized into…
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Postdoctoral Position – Division of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
We are offering an attractive position with the opportunity for academic qualification (Habilitation) in our interdisciplinary division of sociology, social policy and social work. We are an international team with qualitative, quantitative, comparative and mixed-methods expertise researching a broad array of social issues in global perspective and drawing on sociological, social policy and social work…
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JESP / ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize
The Journal of European Social Policy (JESP) and the European Social Policy Analysis network (ESPAnet) are offering a prize to the best paper by a doctoral researcher presented at any of the ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2024 or 2025. The prize-winning paper is provided with high-profile opportunity of publication in JESP, and the winner also…
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24th ESPAnet Annual Conference: Call for Streams (now closed)
The Organising Committee for the 24th ESPAnet Annual Conference invites expressions of interest from colleagues willing to act as stream convenors. The streams should be devoted to major fields in Social Policy and key issues/debates on social policy and the welfare state. We also invite streams that focus on innovative topics and on relevant methodological approaches within Social Policy.…
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Vacancy: Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology – SOFI, Stockholm University
The Postdoctoral position is part of the research programme “Sustainable synergies” (www.su.se/english/research/research-projects/sustainable-synergies). The aim of the programme, which is based on both internationally comparative research and in-depth analyses of Sweden and the Nordic countries, is to study how social policy and the welfare state can be developed to support a sustainable working life for everyone.…
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Save the Date: ESPAnet 2026, 26-28 August in Lisbon
ESPAnet 2026 will be held in Lisbon, August 26-28. The conference is organised by Amílcar Moreira, at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management. More information will be made available soon.
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New ESPAnet co-chairs
At the ESPAnet board meeting on 26 August 2025, in Milano, Janine Leschke and Ive Marx were appointed as co-chairs of ESPAnet. Rense Nieuwenhuis will stay on as secretary. The board thanks Mara Yerkes and Kenneth Nelson for their service as co-chairs for the last six years.
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PhD Position SOFI/Stockholm University: “Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave”
The PhD position is part of the comparative social policy research conducted at SOFI and the project, “Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave”. Dr. Cassandra Engeman (SOFI) leads the project, which is funded by a European Research Council 2024 Starting Grant. The project uses mixed methods to examine the role of trade…