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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:09:48 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------------- [With apologies for cross-posting. If the email below does not display properly please visit the website<http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/events/hardest_hit.php>]. ------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE 'The Hardest Hit': Disability research and welfare reform Keynote speaker: Prof Paul Gregg Thursday 20th September 2012, Leeds This one-day symposium focuses on the consequences for sick and disabled people of welfare reform and benefit cuts. The final programme is now available below, and abstracts/further details are available on the website<http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/events/hardest_hit.php>. If you have an interest in issues of disability and welfare reform then you are welcome to attend, whether you are an early career academic, more senior academic, or practitioner/policymaker. To register and pay for this event, please click here<http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=78&modid=1&compid=1>. If you have any dietary and/or access requirements, or have any problems in registering, then please email Ben Baumberg ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Registration fees are £20 (including lunch), or £10 for postgraduates. Support for this event is kindly provided by Social Policy Association. Ben Baumberg (Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent), [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Ruth Patrick (PhD Student in Social Policy, University of Leeds), [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> PROGRAMME 9.30am Registration 10.00am Welcome 10:05am Keynote speech by Paul Gregg, 'Disability, employment and welfare reform' 10.55am Coffee 11.10am Paper session 1: Kayleigh Garthwaite - "Fear of the brown envelope: sickness benefits recipients and welfare reform" Jenny Ceolta-Smith - "Supporting benefit recipients' health and wellbeing: A role for the Personal Adviser?" Dan Heap - "Integrating and mainstreaming disabled benefit claimants into the 'active' UK welfare state" (Lead Respondent, Roy Sainsbury (University of York)) 12:40pm Lunch 1:25pm Paper session two - parallel papers Stream 1 Stream 2 Vicky Byrne & Libby McEnhill - "'Beat the Cheat": Justifying Disability Benefit Reform' Jackie King-Owen & Derrick Skinner -'The cumulative impact of the cuts on people with learning difficulties - real-life case studies' Larry Arnold - 'If you are not normal you don't exist: the denial of disability in the coalition government' Armineh Soorenian - 'Economic Austerity and disabled women' Lead Respondent, Colin Lindsay (University of Strathclyde) Lead Respondent, Roy Sainsbury (University of York) 2:25pm Coffee 2.45pm Paper session three Liz Tilly - 'Making Ends Meet; exploring social capital and poverty in the lives of people with a learning disability who live without support' Claire Preston - "Online Collective Action Against Disability Benefits Cuts: the grassroots response to a green paper" David Frayne - 'Self-care and the Refusal of Work' (Lead respondent Colin Lindsay (University of Strathclyde)) 4:15pm Closing reflections with Paul Gregg, Colin Lindsay & Roy Sainsbury 4.45pm Close followed by drinks reception -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Baumberg Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent Visiting Fellow, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE Exec Member, Social Policy Association Co-editor of the blog Inequalities<http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/> Follow the blog on Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/InequalitiesBlg> School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NZ Website: http://www.benbaumberg.com<http://www.benbaumberg.com/> Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Office: 01227 823345 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** 1. 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