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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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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 …

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ESPAnet Spain Conference – REPS IX Congreso de la Red Española de Política Social

The University of the Balearic Islands through the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB) and the Research Group Inequalities, Gender and Public Policies (DGiPP) organizes the IX Congress of the Spanish Network of Social Policy (REPS), which also becomes an opportunity to celebrate the first decade of its existence. It is an invitation to …

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Virtual ESPAnet Workshop 2022/2023

The Virtual ESPAnet Worksop is an online seminar series in Comparative and European Welfare State Research, hosted by the European Social Policy Network (ESPAnet) and coordinated by Andre’ Walter (Zurich), Cecilia Bruzelius (Tübingen), and Philip Rathgeb (Edinburgh). Our workshop was launched in 2021 to bring together scholars with a common interest in the welfare state …

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Social policy and crises – multiple perspectives ESPAnet Germany doctoral workshop, 16 & 17 March 2023 at WZB Berlin, Germany

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European welfare states are at the center of various crises. In contrast to earlier decades, current crises are often not crises of the welfare state, but rather exogenous developments that affect social policy making and/or need to be addressed by social policy measures. These developments include longer-term political, demographic and macroeconomic trends, e.g. party system …

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ReNEW-Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers: Social Citizenship, Democracy and Sustainability in the Nordic countries –– 26-27 May 2022, University of Iceland (accommodation & workshop participation covered)

Ongoing changes during the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic in the Nordic welfare states call for a new understanding of social citizenship and solidarity among citizens, communities, and societies, as well as social and citizens groups. The Nordic countries are faced with unprecedented structural transformations in the labour market under the fourth industrial revolution (digitalisation, robotisation, …

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CfP: 6th Doctoral Workshop: Stability and Sustainability of Active Labour Market Policies in Times of Crises: National and International Comparisons (September 20th-21st, 2021, online)

The coronavirus pandemic is one of the most challenging social crises of modern welfare states. However, it is only one of the crises that welfare states have been confronted with since the turn of the millennium (e.g., the so-called refugee crisis and the euro crisis). It seems that different crises have resulted in different mechanisms …

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Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students: Social Citizenship, Solidarity and Sustainability – The changing landscape of welfare in the Nordic countries

Call for abstracts/papers Ongoing changes in the Nordic welfare states call for new understanding of social citizenship and solidarity among citizens, communities and societies, as well as social and citizens groups. The Nordic countries are faced with unprecedented structural transformations in the labour market under the fourth industrial revolution (digitalisation, robotisation, automatisation) and stronger global …

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