Apologies for cross-posting:
-------------
Conference announcement:
One-day conference 'Teaching Social Policy for the Future', 20th April
2012 at the School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh
University.
-------------
This conference, which is supported by the Higher Education Academy and the Social Policy Association, has been organised with the specific purpose of encouraging the academic social policy community to engage with the serious and extensive challenges that the discipline (and higher education generally) faces in the wake of the rise in undergraduate tuition fees and associated changes. With recruitment to social policy programmes falling ever further, particularly at undergraduate level, the conference provides an opportunity to think about the nature and content of social policy teaching and learning in the future – with view to reversing current trends.
Specifically, the conference will reflect on the future of Social Policy as a taught University subject in the wake of current Higher Education reforms and the changing role and scope of the public sector. It will give academics who teach social policy a chance to consider the state of the discipline and what may need to be done to ensure that the subject increases its attraction for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It will present results from a recent survey on social policy teaching in the UK commissioned by the Social Policy Association and address key issues such as research methods teaching; new subject benchmarks; work placements and employability; the 'how and what' of teaching social policy. The conference is designed to stimulate thought and discussion through break-out sessions, and is intended to act as initial stimulus for a series of workshops across the UK over the next eighteen months.
Plenary speakers are:
- Professor David Byrne, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
- Dr. Tania Burchardt, Deputy Director CASE and Department of Social
Policy, LSE
There is a £25 registration fee for SPA members (£40 for non-members).
For postgraduate students, the event is free of charge (registration
is required).
Registration deadline has been extended to 16th April 2012.
For further information and to register please go to:
www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/conferences/spateaching
Do join us if you possibly can,
Nick Ellison
Ingela Naumann
Ann-Marie Gray
|