Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

The purpose of the Congress is to act as a forum, bringing together scholars from around the world to debate thought provoking research. It is intended to be a celebration of accounting history research in all its diversity. Therefore, all topics are welcomed. The role of accounting in...

Themes for the conference may include, but are not limited to: - Decision-makers in business, politics and regional economies - Risk management and economic crises - Strategic decisions such as outsourcing, offshoring and downsizing - Market entry and product development decisions -...

Social economics, with its focus on social values, social interactions, and ethics, is particularly well suited to provide insightful analyses on the present state of economics as a discipline and on the state of the world economy. The international financial crisis, the European sovereign debt...

The Association for Social Economics announces an exciting Summer School workshop for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s. to be held in conjunction with the World Congress of Social Economics in Glasgow, Scotland. The Summer School brings together a small group of fellows to discuss the central...

The conference programme committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries and, particularly, papers of an interdisciplinary nature.

Borderlands assumed a particular significance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Industrialization, the development of the modern city, faster means of communication, the further spread of imperialism and the rise of the modern nation-state meant that borderlands came to encompass and...

The event will bring together academics and practitioners working in all areas of European Studies including law, economics, geography, history, sociology, public policy and politics.

Topics: - Health and time use - Parenting and child care - Time poverty - GPS and Tracking - Eating and health - Children's time use - Surveys in Developing Countries - Leisure - Well-being of carers - Travel - Location and Travel - Gendered time use - Health in rural environments - Household...