2012 Thematic DR Seminar Series - Social Policy After the Financial Crisis
Development Research Seminars
Theme:Social Policy After the Financial Crisis
October - December
Held in Aula A, from 16:15 - 17: 45 (unless otherwise stated)
The upcoming DRS series features contributions that analyse the requirements, outline visions and provide concrete models for a new transformative social policy agenda after the financial crisis and beyond the nation state. Read More
Schedule
| Speaker | Topic | Date |
| Armando Barrientos, Professor and Research Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) | Poverty, the crisis, and social policy responses in developing countries | Oct 15, 2012 |
| Mario Novelli, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex | The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and its effects on aid to education in developing countries | Nov 5, 2012 |
| Khawar Mumtaz, Chief Executive Officer, Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre | Nov 19, 2012 | |
| Helen O'Connell OBE, Independent consultant, Gender and Governance | The politics of social policy for social justice in the context of development | Nov 26, 2012 |
| Laurent van der Maesen, Director, European Foundation on Social Quality | The "crisis' and the role of 'social policy' A European and Chinese Social Quality Approach | Dec 4, 2012 |
| Marica Frangakis, Economist, Synaspismos Central Committee / Nicos Poulantzas Institute | Dec 11, 2012 | |
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Organizing team
Mahmood Messkoub, Senior Lecturer Development Studies
Wendy Harcourt, Senior Lecturer Social Policy
Susan Newman, Lecturer Development Economics
Karin Astrid Siegmann, Senior Lecturer Labour and Gender Economics
