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:
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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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