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Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers
Trust and legitimacy of the Nordic welfare states 22 –23 October 2025, Finland, University of Helsinki This workshop focuses on the foundations of the Nordic welfare states, the trust and legitimacy of the Nordic welfare states, and how current local and global challenges – including migration, the digital and green transformation, and the changing political…
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Early Career & PhD Workshop SOCIOECONOMIC MOBILITY AND PUBLIC POLICIES (12th – 13th June 2025)
Join us at the first Early Career and Doctoral Workshop on Socioeconomic Mobility and Public Policies. This workshop is organized by Doctoral Researchers from the Department of Economics at the University of Alcalá and aims to be an opportunity for young scholars in Social Sciences (Economics, Sociology, Political Science, etc.) to connect and share their insights…
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Doctoral Workshop on Comparative Social and Public Policy, 8-9 May 2025 Barcelona
Deadline for abstracts: February 2nd, 2025. We are pleased to announce the opening of submissions for the second Doctoral Workshop on Comparative Social and Public Policy, to be held on 8-9 May 2025. This workshop, organized by doctoral students from UAB, UB and UPF aims at bringing together young scholars of the social policy academic community in an…
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ESPAnet2025: CALL FOR CONVENERS/STREAMS, Milan 27-29 August
The Organising Committee of the 23rd ESPAnet Annual Conference – which will take place in Milan, Italy, 27-29 August 2025 – is happy to announce the opening of the call stream proposals! The deadline for submitting streams is 23rd December 2024. You can find all relevant information, including the link to upload your stream proposal, on the Conference website:https://www.espanetmilano2025.it/ Below, we summarise the guidelines for…
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ESPAnet Netherlands-Flanders (ESPAnet ‘Low Countries’) Early Career Researchers’ Day
Call for Papers, 4 April 2025 – Leuven After a successful edition in Rotterdam, the regional European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) chapter from the Netherlands and Flanders (ESPAnet Low Countries) is coming to Leuven in 2025! Don’t miss the chance to see an interactive and entertaining intergenerational dialogue amongst three generations of social policy scholars…
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JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize
The Journal of European Social Policy (JESP) and the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) are offering a prize to the best paper by a doctoral researcher presented at any of the national or European ESPAnet conferences, workshops or seminars in 2023 or 2024. The prize-winning paper is provided with a high-profile opportunity for publication in JESP, and…
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Call for Papers: ESPAnet Germany PhD Workshop 2025, Bremen
Diversity within and between life courses: Potentials and challenges for social policy Social policy and its institutional consolidation in welfare states are intended to deal with social problems. Research shows that welfare states have a standardising effect on life courses through the definition of social problems by rewarding, enabling or sanctioning certain behaviours and by categorizing groups…
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Four postdoctoral research positions in Barcelona (UAB)
Applications are invited for four postdoctoral research positions to work on a 5-year project ‘Who Counts? Incorporating a ‘missing minority’ to re-examine the profile, drivers and depth of poverty across Europe’. Funded by the European Research Council, WHOCOUNTS aims to improve understanding of the nature and prevalence of poverty across Europe. The successful candidates will work in…
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
SOFI is an internationally leading research institute in the field of social policy, welfare, inequality, and labour markets and has about 100 employees. (Please visit www.sofi.su.se for more information.) The postdoc position involves full-time employment for two years (with the possibility of extension under special circumstances). Starting date 1 December 2024 or as per agreement. The position is tied to…
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Nordic ESPAnet-ReNEW workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers
Life transitions in Nordic Welfare States: Youth, Work, Family, and Retirement 7–8 November 2024, University of Bergen, Bergen Norway This workshop focuses on life course transitions within the Nordic welfare states, and how welfare states frame and interact with important life-course transitions. Key topics include: In addition, we aim to discuss the role of welfare…