*** With the usual apologies for cross-posting ***
We would like to invite list members to join our panel 'Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges: What can Social Policy and International Development Studies Learn from Each Other' at this year's DSA Conference, University of Birmingham, November 16th 2013 (see http://www.devstud.org.uk/events/conference/2013_dsa_annual_conference-47.html for more details).
This panel builds on a conference held at the University of Bath (26-27 April 2013) which was co-sponsored by the Development Studies Association and the Social Policy Association. The main starting point for the conference was that researchers and practitioners from both associations face similar challenges at conceptual, methodological, technical and practitioner levels. In a world which is rapidly changing, global and increasingly uncertain, the need and opportunity for fruitful intellectual collaboration between the two associations, is greater. The panel at the DSA conference in Birmingham wants to take this initiative forward.
The panel will be run in a slightly different way. Rather than presenting separate papers, it will build on three shorter inputs to facilitate a “write-shop” which allows participants to brainstorm and develop ideas. The three shorter inputs will set the stage for the panel by providing overviews of the challenge of knowledge and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences more generally, as well as in development studies and social policy studies specifically. The inputs will help provide a framework which will help participants to focus on two key areas:
1. Explore the parallels between the disciplines of development studies and social policy, including shared historical drivers (e.g. rise of BRICS plus) and the extent of ‘borrowing’ or ‘collaboration’ to date;
2. Appraise the dynamics of the relationship between development studies and social policy, focusing on advantages as well as disadvantages; benefits as well as threats.
The three inputs will be provided by Professor Naila Kabeer (SOAS), Dr Stefan Kühner (University of York), Professor Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York), Professor James Copestake (University of Bath).
For any questions, please contact the panel convenors:
Stefan Kühner, University of York, [log in to unmask]
Joe Devine, University of Bath, [log in to unmask]
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