ISIRC 2016: Social Innovation in the 21st Century: Beyond Welfare Capitalism?
ISIRC is the world’s leading interdisciplinary social innovation research conference. The conference brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss social innovation from a variety of perspectives. ISIRC 2016 will be held in Glasgow from 5-7 September 2016.
This year we are delighted to welcome keynote speakers Ana Maria Peredo, Taco Brandsen, Alex Nicholls, Rafael Ziegler, Pascal Dey and Ute Stephan.
There is now just one month left to submit abstracts and proposals for panel sessions. The call for papers ends 1st April 2016. The conference streams are as follows:
• Social investment: co-production and co-creation
• Expanding the frontiers of social innovation theory: heterodox theories, non-positivist paradigms and embedded qualitative methodologies
• Economic underpinnings of social innovation
• Growing and scaling social impact
• Hybridity and conflicting logics
• Learning and teaching
• Public policy & social innovation: comparative evidence, critical assessments
• Social exclusion and employability
• Social innovation and the environment
• Social marketplaces: linking markets and consumers
• Ethics, power relations and corruption
• Governance and stakeholder relations
• Health and well-being
• Latin American social enterprise
• Open stream
• Regional and geographical aspects of social innovation
• Social innovation and food insecurity
• Social investment
• Social co-operatives and the solidarity economy
For more information or to submit an abstract please visit http://www.isircconference2016.com/ . We look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow in September.
For more information please see the website or contact the ISIRC team, Glasgow Caledonian University [log in to unmask]
We hope to see you soon!
ISIRC 2016 Team
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