The final conference of the NORFACE project HESTIA was held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during the 14th and 15th of August of 2018. The conference, which focused on the analysis of the key challenges of child protection policy and practice in Latin America and Europe, was attended by 181 participants from … More Final Conference of Project HESTIA Celebrated in Mexico
The XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology is taking place this week in Toronto, Canada. The Welfare State Futures programme is an interdisciplinary programme, with researchers from the fields of political science and economics, but also sociology. Researchers from five WSF projects will be contributing to the conference in the areas of health, migration and … More WSF Researchers at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018
The Final Conference of the Welfare State Futures programme took place last week at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, one of the leading research institutions in the areas of European studies and policy research. One hundred and forty-one researchers and stakeholders from all over Europe attended the cross-disciplinary conference to debate current challenges … More Retrospect: The Welfare State Futures Final Conference, 24 - 25 May 2018, Florence, Italy
The Welfare State Futures Final Conference was inaugurated this morning by Scientific Programme Coordinator Ellen Immergut as well as keynote speakers Mary Daly (University of Oxford) who spoke about recent trends in child welfare policy and Maurizio Ferrera (Università degli Studi di Milano) who adressed the future of social Europe. Research results as well as … More Welfare State Futures Final Conference Currently Running in Florence, Italy
Peter Taylor-Gooby gave the keynote at an EXCEPT project conference, introduced by Rosie Duffield MP, at the House of Commons of the UK on 25 April 2018. EXCEPT is a research project which aims to address the increasing youth unemployment and insecurities in the European labour market of recent years. It analyses the youth situation … More Peter Taylor-Gooby at the UK House of Commons
