Seminar 2

Programme

Speakers at the second seminar will analyse the methods used in cross-national comparative studies of different aspects of welfare and will address issues concerning the impact of methodological approaches on the policy relevance of their findings.

9.45–10.15 Registration and coffee

10.15 Introduction: Steen MANGEN (Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK)

10.30 Mel EVANS (Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK) Adapting Methods: the role of social capital in the social economy

11.30 Noël WHITESIDE (University of Warwick, UK) Historical Methods for Comparing Pension Policies

12.30 Buffet lunch

13.45 Ingrid EYERS (Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender, CRAG, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey) Comparative Multi-methods Approaches to the Care of Older People

14.45 Judith PHILLIPS and Mo RAY (School of Social Relations, Keele University, UK) Connecting Research and Policy: service systems and intergenerational solidarity

15.45 Tea/coffee

16.00 Discussants:
Rossana TRIFÍLETTI (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Ceridwen ROBERTS (Chair of the Social Research Association, London)

17.00 Close

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