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Dear list members,
This is the final call for participants for the Indian Social Policy Association inaugural workshop ‘Comparative and International Social Policy Theories & Methods – Lessons for Research and Practice in India’, March 24th-25th, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
Its primary aims are:
(a) to bring together academics, practitioners and government officials who are working on applied research techniques for development in India and the United Kingdom; and
(b) to provide participants with an answer to the questions 'What is Social Policy?' and 'How to use Social Policy in Development Research?' in lower middle income economies – specifically India.
The workshop programme outline is provided below – for more details please see the attached:
MONDAY, MARCH 24 2014
9.00 am: Registration
9.30 am: Opening Address
10.00 am: Dr. Santosh Mehrotra, Ph.d (Econ) Cambridge, Director-General, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, (in the rank of Secretary, Government of India), NewDelhi, The “Absence” of Social Policy in India: Is Corrective Action Really Necessary?
12.00 am: Professor Rajeev Malhotra, Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Development and Finance, Lead Author & Chief Editor, India Public Policy Report Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP), JGU, Human Rights and Social Polices
1.00 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Dr. Sarah C.White and Shreya Jha, University of Bath ,UK, Social Protection and Wellbeing: Food Security in Chhattisgarh, India
3.00 pm: Professor Geof Wood, University of Bath (Video-Conference), Situating Informal Welfare Within Imperfect Wellbeing Regimes
4.00 pm: Dr. Stefan Kühner, University of York, Analysing the Productive and Protective Dimensions of Welfare in Asia
5.00 pm: Breakout Sessions (Participant-Lead, Small-Group Discussions and Reflections)
7:00 pm: Reception & Dinner
TUESDAY, MARCH 25 2014
9.00 am: Dr. Keerty Nakray, JGU, Gender and Social Policy in India: Theoretical and Methodological Intersections between Decommodification, Capabilities, Habitus and Empowerment
10.00 am: Dr. Ramya Subramanian, Child Sensitive Social Policies
11.30 am: Dr. Paul Dornan, Young Lives Project, Oxford (Video conference), What shapes children's development? Recent findings from young lives study of children growing up in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam
12.30 am: Dr. Emanuele Ferragina, University of Oxford (Video conference), Challenges and Limits of Macro-Quantitative Analysis
1.30 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm: Chakshu Roy, PRS Legislative Research, Social Legislation in India: Learning over the Last Decade
3:00 pm: Dr Avinash Kumar, Oxfam India, Generating Grass Roots Experiences to Inform Social Policy Debates: Some Examples
5:00 pm: Breakout Sessions (Participant Led, Small Group Discussions and Reflections)
6:00 pm: Concluding Session by Dr. Stefan Kühner and Dr. Keerty Nakray
7.00 pm: Dinner
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