Australian Social Policy Conference 2011

6-8 July, University of New South Wales

Social Policy in a Complex World

The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers for presentation at the Australian Social Policy Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, from 6-8 July 2011.

CHINESE SOCIAL POLICY WORKSHOP 6 JULY

The Chinese Social Policy Workshop about recent research on developments in Chinese social policy will be held on 6 July at UNSW in conjunction with the Australian Social Policy Conference. Its aim is to increase the capacity of Chinese and other researchers to collaborate in areas of joint policy research interest.

Chinese, Australian and other international researchers and government and nongovernment officials engaged in current research in China or an interest in developing that research agenda are welcome to present or attend the workshop. An outcome will be networks of academics, post-graduate candidates and officials to further the conclusions from the workshop.

Abstracts in English are sought for this workshop, for which the same refereeing process and closing dates will apply as for the main conference (see below). Please make it clear your paper is intended for the one-day workshop.

Papers can be presented in Chinese or English at the workshop and simultaneous translation in Chinese and English will be available. Themes for papers or working sessions are:

• Current Chinese social policy questions

• Methodological approaches to Chinese social policy research

• Australian engagement in Chinese social policy research

• Other

The success of the Australian Social Policy Conference is based on the presentation of high quality, original papers across the range of social policy fields. We are now inviting offers of papers from researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of social policy. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to contemporary social policy, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conference discussion will be organised around thematic strands including:

Identity and diversity

Labour market participation and welfare reform

Income distribution and social inequalities

Retirement and ageing

Families, work and care

Children, young people and families

Disability and mental health

Community and place

Organisation and delivery of human services

Citizenship and participation

An open strand will also exist for papers on other subjects of interest and importance outside the main themes.

Selection of Papers

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference is necessarily competitive. Selection will be the responsibility of the SPRC, in collaboration with some external session organisers, and will be based on the abstracts submitted. Criteria for selection will include academic quality, originality, accessibility and relevance to current debates in social policy. Where papers are based on empirical research, preference will be given to abstracts showing evidence of research results. We welcome papers presenting all points of view.

If you wish to offer a paper, please send the title and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Please specify the thematic area (or areas) into which you feel your paper falls. We reserve the right to place it elsewhere, where appropriate, to maintain program balance.

There will be an option once again to submit papers into a refereed scheme. Details will be available early in 2011.

The ASPC 2011 will for the first time offer a strand for Higher Degree Research Students.

The closing date for the receipt of abstracts is 8 April 2011. Please send your abstract, preferably uploaded on the ASPC conference website or email to ASPC@unsw.edu.au.

www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/File/ASPC_2011__Call_for_papers.pdf

Telephone enquiries about papers or the conference in general should be directed to (61+2+ 9385 7802. Registration details will be made available shortly. The conference website will be accessible from early 2011 through the SPRC website (www.sprc.unsw.edu.au).

ASPC 2011 PLENARY SPEAKERS

Professor Paula England, Professor of Sociology, affiliate of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University USA.

Associate Professor Bea Cantillon, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. 

Professor John Quiggin, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science, University of Queensland.

FORUMS

There will be three forums at the Australian Social Policy Conference. Speakers details will be available early in 2011: Conditional Welfare and Income Management; How Big/How Fair – Migration; and NGO forum – Translating Policy into Practice