*Social Protection for Development in the Emerging Welfare States of Latin
America **and the Caribbean*
PhD course – call for applications
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
25-27 October 2017
*The application deadline is Monday 26 June 2017**.* Application form
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More details available in the Course website
<http://www.uia.no/om-uia/fakultet/fakultet-for-samfunnsvitenskap/phd-course-social-protection-for-development-in-the-emerging-welfare-states-of-latin-america-and-the-caribbean>
No course fees apply. Early application is recommended due to space limits.
*Objective*
This 3-day PhD course brings together a group of renowned experts and young
scholars in the broad field of social policy. Economists, political
scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and other social scientists are
invited to examine from a multidisciplinary perspective the mechanisms in
which social protection promotes development in the emerging welfare states
of Latin America. The course will discuss the following aspects of social
protection and welfare in the Latin American region:
- Role of the social welfare programs to reduce poverty and inequality
- Historical development of the Latin American social welfare systems
since the 1920s
- How to build universal social policy in the region?
- Cash transfer design looking at gender equality initiatives and social
accountability
- Social pensions as a tool to guarantee the wellbeing of the older-age
in an ageing population
- Welfare regimes and the welfare-mix between the state, market and the
family
- What can be learned from the welfare systems in the Nordic region?
*Lecturers*
- Prof. Armando Barrientos, Professor of Poverty and Social Justice at
the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester.
- Prof. Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology at the Institute of the
Americas of the University College London and Editor of the
Palgrave/Macmillan Studies of the Americas Series.
- Dr. Diego Sánchez Ancochea, Director of the Latin American Centre and
Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Latin America at the
University of Oxford.
- Prof. Morten Blekesaune, Professor at the Department of Sociology and
Social Work, University of Agder.
- Dr. Stephen Kidd, Director / Senior Social Policy Specialist at
Development Pathways
- Dr. Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
Department of Global Development and Planning of the University of Agder,
Kristiansand.
*PhD course format*
There will be a maximum participation of 20 students, and the language of
instruction will be English. PhD students’ presentations will be
intercalated with lectures/seminars from guest lecturers. The course will
be organised according to Walter Korpi’s Rules to encourage lively
discussions and scholarly critical exchanges.
*Credits*
Course participants will receive a Course Certificate, which recommends
either 10 or 3 ECTS credits. Please consult the section on ‘Credits’ in the
course description.
Lunches and coffee/tea will be provided thanks to the funding provided by
the Norwegian Latin America Research Network (NorLARNet) and the Department
of Global Development and Planning (University of Agder).
Should you have any practical enquiries, please email the course organiser
Gibran Cruz-Martinez at [log in to unmask]
Best regards,
Gibrán
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*Dr. Gibrán Cruz-Martínez*
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Global Development and Planning
University of Agder
Postboks 422
4604, Kristiansand, Norway
Editorial Board Member: Alternautas <http://www.alternautas.net/>
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +47 38142409
Mobile: +47 98465368
List of publications: https://agder.academia.edu/gcruzmartinez
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