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We cordially invite you to submit a paper proposal to our steam 17 Welfare states and technological change at the 2018 ESPAnet Conference Transformation of European welfare systems: challenges, problems and future prospects.

The conference will take place 30 August – 1 September 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania and the deadline for the paper proposals is 19 March 2018

Stream No.  17 - Welfare states and technological change: The enduring 4th industrial revolution is expected to fundamentally change way we live, work and relate to each other: the new technologies will fuse the psychical, digital and biological worlds and effect profoundly all disciplines, economies, and societies (Schwab 2016). The technological change will greatly affect how welfare states need to develop to address new (technology-driven) risks and how social policies must deal with shifts and disruptions that technological advancement produces, including e.g. new forms of work such as platform work. At the same time, new technologies open novel possibilities for meeting existing risks in more effective ways, for instance those connected to disabilities, education, integration and even in area of social and health care. This panel seeks to contribute to the emerging discussion what is the role of social policies in the new technological era. We welcome contributions that aim at advancing our knowledge about how social policies deal with consequences of new technologies and how social policy analysts can contribute to the better governance and policies of these technologies. In other words, we welcome state of art papers that push the boundaries of the (classic) welfare state analysis and analyze the role of social policies in current time that comes with a great promise but also with peril. The papers submitted can make theoretical contributions, but we are predominantly interested in papers providing empirical (qualitative or quantitative) accounts. The domains of social policies are broad, and we invite papers that look at the role of technology in various social policy domains: for example, from papers analyzing the impact of digitalization on the labor markets and the quality and quantity of jobs, papers on e-skills and 21st skills at education to papers assessing the effectiveness of innovative policy measures such as individual training accounts, or papers investigating the employment of technology in health and social care policies.

Convenors:

Minna van Gerven, University of Twente,

Stefano Sacchi, University of Milan

The deadline for abstract submission is 19 March 2018.

Following the rules set by the organizers, abstracts should be around 500 words and a proposal can only be submitted to one conference stream.

The following information will be requested:

Title:

Stream:

Contact details: author(s), affiliation and e-mail address

1. Main issue analyzed in the paper (about 100 words):

2. Type of methodology and sources of data/information used for the analysis (about 200 words) (in case the paper is mainly theoretical, please specify so)

3. Main findings expected from the analysis (about 200 words)

All abstracts will be ranked by the stream convenors. The local conference committee makes the final decision. Successful authors will be informed by 16 April 2018.

The online submission form can be found at: http://www.espanetvilnius2018.fsf.vu.lt/conference/submit-abstract

Successful authors will be informed by 16 April 2018.

Best regards,  Minna van Gerven and Stefano Sacchi