This interdisciplinary research seminar addresses whether the legal frame of Economic and Monetary Union is in irreconcilable tension with the EU’s renewed social agenda, also questioning whether the Pillar of Social Rights is sufficient to revive the EU’s original socio-economic model in...

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...

Topics: - Bank regulation. - Conflicts of interest faced by finance professionals and institutions. - Remuneration practices, “say on pay” votes and the attempt to introduce caps. - Structural reform of systemically important institutions, living wills, bank resolution regimes. -...

The aim of this project planning program is to understand how a project is conceived and from where do you need to start project planning and finish before been taken to the field for implementation. Planning a project can be carried out based on requirement of the end users. It can be planned...

Is there a pensions crisis? Issues surrounding pensions, in both private and public sectors, raise major policy questions about economic performance and social stability. The pensions sector has been experiencing problems for many years, but we believe it is open to question whether these amount...

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...

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.

Proposed themes include: - The risks inherent in DC schemes. - Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members - Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme...

This year's annual LGA finance conference will focus on future public spending and the implications for local government. The conference will hear from the Local Government Association as well as from a panel of leading local authority representatives discussing what this will mean for councils.