The conference is open to all academics, and we hope for a good mix of PhD students, postdocs, lecturers and professors. The conference welcomes those from any discipline germane to stratification and social policy; i.e. political science, sociology, economics, demography, and social psychology....

The European Campus of Excellence Summer School is targeted at international Master and early PhD students with a social science background whose research projects cover an aspect related to one of the three topics (1) dynamics of inequality, (2) old and new social risks, (3) social investment.

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...