ESRC-funded Seminar Series, 2003–2004
Seminar 1
This seminar is receiving additional financial support from the East Midlands Eurocentre and the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in London

Programme

This seminar sets the scene by introducing the comparative approach and the substantive content for the series. Speakers will present the main characteristics of the developing European social model and the challenges it faces from globalisation and enlargement. They will examine the research methods adopted in the analysis of welfare systems from a comparative perspective and comment on the relevance of the research for policy development.

9.45–10.15 Registration and coffee

10.15 Introduction to the series: Linda HANTRAIS (European Research Centre, Loughborough University, UK)

10.30 Georg VOBRUBA (Institute of Sociology, Leipzig University, Germany) Conceptualising the Impact of Economic Globalisation on the European Social Model

11.30 Nick MANNING (School of Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK)
The Transferability of Welfare Models between East and West

12.30 Buffet lunch

13.45 Milena BUECHS (Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Comparative Research in Social Welfare, University of Stirling) The Impact of the ‘Open Method of Co-ordination’ on National Policy Making and Labour Market Policies in Germany and the UK

14.45 Denis BOUGET (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin, Nantes, France) Convergence in Social Welfare Systems: from evidence to explanations

15.45 Tea

16.00 Discussants:
Ana GUILLÉN (Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Nick CLARK (International and European Office of the TUC, London)

17.00 Close

For abstracts of papers to be presented at the first seminar ( click here )