Debates in Informal Caregiving One Day Workshop
Lancaster University
November 22nd
This one day event will run from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm on Thursday, November
22nd 2007.
It will focus on the complexity of policy intersections between carers and
other groups such as those they support (e.g., disabled people, elderly
people and people with chronic illness) and those they need support from
(e.g., the state and the family).
While there has been much research on caregiving in the past 10 years,
there still remain many contentious debates within family caregiving
research in both social studies literature and in policy research
regarding theory and praxis. The issue of promoting the use of cash to
enable service users to purchase their own social care remains an area of
significant debate as reflected in last years ESRC Cash and Care seminar
(25 September 2006). This workshop will move the contentious payments for
care debate forward and will broaden the scope of enquiry by discussing
both long-standing issues and addressing newer questions in care research.
The event opens with a keynote lecture on caregiving by Professor Caroline
Glendinning, Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York,
followed by the CEO of Carers UK, Imelda Redmond (the national caregiver
support organisation).
Five position papers will then be given from established colleagues across
the UK (including Hilary Arksey and Carol Thomas) who are active in
caregiving and disability research and who grapple with these issues. This
will be followed by a discussion (chaired by Christine Milligan) on future
directions in care research which may generate grant applications to
external funding bodies and a proposal for a special edition on Debates in
Care Research to Social Science and Medicine.
Sessions will focus around a series of key themes outlined below:
• Policy intersections between carers and care recipients
• Ageing and caring across the lifecycle
• The Paid/un-paid dichotomy and direct payments
• Rejecting care: Disability issues and the care/dependency clash
• Independent Living and Care
• Embodying Care: gender and the maternal body
For further information and a booking form, please follow this link: -
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/showevent.php?ID=1162
Or contact Andrew Power at [log in to unmask], telephone 01524
593576
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