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This is to invite you to participate in the ESRC Research Seminar Series on 'New Labour and the Third Way in Public Services'. This will consist of a series of six seminars held over the next two years. The topics and locations are: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (April 1999) Defining the Third Way University of Birmingham (Sept 1999) Citizenship National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, Manchester (December 1999) Accountabilty and Regulation Centre for Health Economics, University of York (April 2000) Partnerships Cardiff Business School (Sept 2000) Measuring Success: 'what counts is what works' University of Bath (December 2000) Conclusions The seminars will be day events of about 40 participants. The format will consist of presentations of papers followed by discussants and/or panel discussions. It is expected that in the main participants will include academics from the areas of social policy, public management, economics, politics and areas such as health and education and 'policy users', mainly policy makers and practitioners. Attendance at the seminars will be free, and there will be limited funds to reimburse travel expenditure for those with limited access to institutional funds. 1. If you are interested in attending the first seminar on defining the third way (LSHTM, April, exact date tbc), please notify me, indicating that you wish to present a paper (title, abstract of no more than 250 words); to be a discussant (general areas of interest) or attend (general areas of interest) The themes of the first seminar include: definitions nad main characteristics of the third way (including any new acronyms); similarities with the old left and the new right; origins of the third way- parallels with European social democracy or the US New Democrats; and applications to the main areas of public services 2. If you are interested in attending any of the subsequent seminars , please notify me, with intended location(s) and areas of interest. IF the seminars are over-subscribed, attendess will be chosen according to the criteria of the series (including achieving a mix of 'users' and 'less experienced researchers'; proximity to the locations of the seminars). Dr Martin Powell Lecturer in Social Policy Department of Social and Policy Sciences University of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY Tel: 01225 826826 x5836 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%