Dear Colleague I am writing to let you know about a conference I am co-organising in Beijing on 15-17 April next year, in which you may be interested. The conference will include papers from a number of leading researchers and is intended to help develop international research links. We hope that future collaborations may be facilitated by this meeting. I hope you will be able to attend. The full details of the conference are on our website www.kent.ac.uk/scarr We would be grateful to receive paper proposals by the end of July to facilitate planning for the conference. The keynote speakers include: Xing Tong, Dean, School of Public Management, Nanjing University Xinping Guan, Chair, Department of Social Policy, Nankai University Tuan Yang, Director, Centre for Social Policy Studies, CASS Xiaojiang Hu, Director of Migration Centre, ISDPP Xiulan Zhang, Director, ISD Risk Management and Governing Change Christopher Hood, All Souls College Oxford and LSE Jude Howell, LSE Jenny Kitzinger, University of Cardiff Graham Loomes, University of East Anglia Nick Pidgeon, University of Cardiff Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent Jens Zinn, University of Kent The conference is sponsored by: SCARR, CASS, Beijing Normal University, ESRC, Research Councils UK, and the University of Kent. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested. With apologies for cross-posting.