Topics: - what controversies appear in separate social policy fields? - what choices and alternative solutions occur in social policy? - what unexpected results are or might be caused by social tasks performance? Streams in English: - Challenges of Ageing Policy – Successful and Unsuccessful...

This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

In which ways do labour market flexibilisation and subsequent life-course effects challenge pension provision and how do pension systems respond to such challenges? The one-day conference, organized by the Finnish Centre for Pensions, will bring together top researchers and professionals to...

Topics: - Social Policy challenging change: radical, resistant, resolute - Welfare reform - Welfare policy and politics - Austerity and Social Policy - Family policy and politics - Devolution, Governance and Citizenship - Race, Ethnicity & Migration - Current Political Landscape and Social...

We invite submissions of papers from PhD students who focus on the following: the drivers and obstacles to privatisation and marketisation in different national contexts and in different policy fields, including, inter alia, social services and social insurance; the effects these processes have on...

Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of social policy. We particularly encourage proposals reflecting high quality research or which explore questions of social policy in practice or the teaching of social policy.

Topics: Poverty and Social Exclusion; Older people and Later life; History; Labour Markets; Children and Families; Crime and Criminal Justice; Environment; Health and Social Care; Housing; User perspectives; Inter-Professional working; Refugees and asylum seekers; Teaching and Learning; Research...