Author: espanet
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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…
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Virtual ESPAnet Workshop 2024 – Comparative and European Welfare State Research
Dear all, We are delighted to announce the full programme for the 2024 edition of the Virtual ESPAnet Workshop. We received a significant number of high-quality paper proposals, and we tried to put together a varied and balanced programme with regard to topics and gender. We are excited to have such an excellent line-up of presenters and discussants. We are launching this year’s workshop with a…
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CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS for the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference
(28-30 August 2024, Tampere, Finland) Deadline: 25th of April 2024 23:59 EEST (UTC+3) Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the call for paper abstracts for the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference is now open! The full list of streams is available at our website https://espanet-tampere2024.org. The deadline for submission of paper abstracts is 25th of April 2024 (EEST). We are…
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ESPAnet2024: CALL FOR CONVENERS/STREAMS
The Organising Committee of the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference that will take place in Tampere, Finland, 28-30 August 2024, is happy to announce the opening of the call stream proposals! The deadline for submitting streams is 1st December 2023. Go to our website http://espanet-tampere2024.org to learn about the conference, its theme, timeline and about conference organizers. You will find our call for streams…
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ESPAnet – ERC CAPABLE workshop for doctoral students & early career researchers
16 – 17 November 2023, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands Gender inequalities in work and care are some of the most persistent social inequalities of the 21st century. These inequalities are often not easily alleviated by social policy, with policies sometimes leading to new inequalities or the exacerbation of existing ones. This workshop focuses on…