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From: "Tony Eardley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:30 AM
Subject: Australian Social Policy Conference - July 2007
> UK colleagues may like to know about the following conference and the call
> for papers, especially those with an interest in Australian social policy.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Eardley
>
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> Dr Tony Eardley
> Senior Research Fellow
> Social Policy Research Centre
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney NSW 2052
> Australia
> ph. +61 (2) 9385 7826
> fax +61 (2) 9385 7838
> email: [log in to unmask]
> www.sprc.unsw.edu.au
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>
> Australian Social Policy Conference: 11-13 July 2007
>
> The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers for
> presentation
> at the next Australian Social Policy Conference to be held at the
> University
> of New South Wales, Sydney, from 11-13 July 2007. The closing date for the
> receipt of abstracts is 10 April 2007.
>
> The theme for the 2007 conference is 'Social Policy Through the Life
> Course:
> Building Community Capacity and Social Resilience'. This theme
> encapsulates
> two interrelated issues in social policy. The first concerns life-course
> transitions, including the diverse challenges and opportunities which
> people
> experience within their age, gender, social, economic and cultural
> contexts.
> The second focuses on identifying the interconnections between social
> investment policies, services and programs which build both community
> capacity and social resilience for individuals situated within their
> social
> networks.
>
> PLENARY SPEAKERS
>
> Professor Fiona Williams
> Professor of Social Policy, School of Sociology and Social Policy,
> University of Leeds. Past Director of the ESRC Research Group for the
> Study
> of Care, Values and the Future of Welfare, University of Leeds
>
> Professor Barbara Pocock
> Director of the Centre for Work and life, University of South Australia
>
> Professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
> Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor in Child Development and Education,
> Columbia University. Founder and Co-director of the National Center for
> Children and Families, Columbia University
>
> FORUMS
>
> Speaker details for the forums will be made available early in 2007.
>
> - Advocacy and consumer participation
>
> - Building family and community capacities: policies that make a
> difference
> for children and families facing economic adversity.
>
> - Rethinking Indigenous policies and programs: building community
> strengths
> and social resilience.
>
> - Australia's demographic challenges
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The success of the Australian Social Policy Conference is based on the
> presentation of high quality original papers across the range of social
> policy fields. We are now inviting offers of papers from researchers,
> teachers, students and practitioners of social policy. Papers can present
> the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to contemporary
> social policy, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.
>
> We are also inviting proposals of ideas for special sessions, including
> groups of related papers within the contributed paper streams.
>
> As in previous conferences, discussion will be organised around thematic
> strands. The topic areas from within which the final strands will be
> selected, and for which we are currently seeking offers of papers, include
> the following.
>
> * Labour market participation and welfare reform
> * Income distribution and social inequalities
> * Retirement and ageing
> * Children, young people and families
> * Identity and diversity
> * Community and place
> * Organisation and delivery of human services
> * Citizenship and participation
> * An Open strand will also exist for papers on other subjects of interest
> and importance outside the main themes.
>
> SELECTION OF PAPERS
>
> Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference is necessarily
> competitive. Selection will be the responsibility of the SPRC, in
> collaboration with some external session organisers, and will be based on
> the abstracts submitted. Criteria for selection will include academic
> quality, originality, accessibility and relevance to current debates in
> social policy. Where papers are based on empirical research, preference
> will
> be given to abstracts showing evidence of research results. We welcome
> papers presenting all points of view.
>
> If you wish to offer a paper, please send the title and an abstract of no
> more than 200 words. Please specify the thematic area (or areas) into
> which
> you feel your paper falls. We reserve the right to place it elsewhere,
> where
> appropriate, to maintain program balance.
>
> The closing date for the receipt of abstracts is 10 April 2007. Please
> send
> your abstract (preferably as a Microsoft Word attachment to an email) to:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Telephone enquiries about papers or the conference in general should be
> directed to +61 2 9385 7802. Registration details will be made available
> shortly. The conference website will be accessible from early 2007 through
> the SPRC website (www.sprc.unsw.edu.au). Information on the papers
> presented
> at the previous (2005) conference can be found at
> www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/ASPC2005/.
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