Dear Colleagues,

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts for SPA Annual Conference has been extended.  Final deadline: Wed 18th March 2015.

 

 

SPA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, JULY 2015

NOTICE & CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2015 Social Policy Association Annual Conference

Belfast Metropolitan College, Titanic Quarter, Belfast

6th-8th July 2015

 

 

Conference Theme: ‘Social Policy in the Spotlight: Change, Continuity and Challenge’.

 

Confirmed plenary speakers:

 

Mary O’Hara, author of ‘Austerity Bites’ (Policy Press, 2014), is an award-winning journalist based in Los Angeles, writing about health, poverty and social justice in the US and the UK.

 

Jane Jenson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance. This plenary is sponsored by the Journal of Social Policy.

 

Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick and External Scientific Member, Max-Planck-InstitutfürGesellschaftsforschung, Cologne.

 

David Donnison is Professor Emeritus in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, having worked at  the Universities of Manchester, Toronto, the L.S.E., and Glasgow. He has published extensively in the areas of social Policy and Urban Studies including, most recently, ‘Speaking to Power’ (Policy Press, 2009).

 

We particularly welcome paper proposals that reflect on the conference theme, however interpreted, and aim to encourage debate around the following issues: 

 

uSocial Policy in the Media Spotlight           uFamily Policy and Politics           uAusterity and Social Policy

uDevolution, Governance and CitizenshipuWelfare Reform                 uRace, Ethnicity & Migration

uSocial Policy post the referendum on Scottish Independence

uThe Political Landscape and Social Policy post the UK General Election

uChange, Challenge and Continuity in Health and Social Care

u Inequality and Social Justice – National, Local and Global Perspectives

uThe Third Sector and Social Policy: Roles, Responsibility and Challenges

Ü NEW STREAM – Social Policy, the Subject: Change, Continuity and Challenge in Defining, Representing,

Learning & Teaching Social Policy in the UK.


We now welcome proposals for individual papers; and especially for symposia (3+ themed papers); and for post-graduate symposia; and also for social policy papers focusing on issues outside the conference theme.

Abstracts for individual papers and ideas for symposia should be submitted electronically via our web page www.ulster.ac.uk/cpsp/spa/ The deadline for proposals is 18 March, 2015.

 

Please do not submit proposals by email. Proposals for papers: abstracts should be 200-400 words. Proposals for symposia: a 200-word outline of the aims and content of the symposium (including contributors’ names and email addresses).  A number of reduced-fee places will be available for post graduate delegates. Details are available on the conference website.

Further information and online conference booking available on the Conference website www.ulster.ac.uk/cpsp/spa/

 

Best Wishes

The Conference Team, Ulster University

 

 

 

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Dr Ann Marie Gray

 

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Administration and Policy Director of ARK (www.ark.ac.uk)

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