School of Sociology and Social Policy

The Transformations of Work and Welfare

12 September 2008 | 9.00am to 5.00pm | Conference

Leeds University Business School

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Plenary Speakers

• Frank Field MP (Former Minister for Welfare Reform)
• David Coats  (Associate Director of The Work Foundation)
• Mark Lovell (Executive Chairman, A4e)

Panel of Discussants

• Prof. Fiona Williams
• Richard Excell (TUC)
• Thea Stein (Yorkshire Forward)
• Prof. Peter Dwyer

Papers presented

• Competition, contracts and contestability. Welfare to work in Australia and the UK
  Greg Marston (Queensland University)
• Activation and marketisation policies in the UK and Australia
  Sharon Wright (Stirling University)   
• Old Dogs and New Tricks; Activation and Training Older Workers in the UK, Australia and USA
  Kirk Mann (Leeds University)
• From Welfare to What? Low Paid Work in the context of Leitch and Lisbon
  Tim Bickerstaff (Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Effects of Activation in the German Labour Market
  Kai Marquardsen (University of Jena)
• Employment Relations in the Work-fare Industry: an Anglo-German comparison
  Ian Greer, Mark Stuart and Ian Greenwood (Leeds University)
• Why the privatisation of public services matters. Tales from health and social care
  Ian Greener (Durham University)
• A Comparison of outcomes in countries that vary in their return to work policies for people with chronic illnesses and disability
  Steve Clayton (Liverpool University)
• Welfare Regimes, Unemployment and health; a comparison of 23 EU countries
  Clare Bambra (Durham University)
• Welfare Domains and Welfare Conditionality
  Brian Lund (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Transitions from welfare to work for mothers in the Irish context
  Anne Coakley (St Patricks College, Carlow, Ireland)
• Activating lone parents based on the child's age
  Tina Haux ( University of Bath)
• Older Men, work for all and transitions out of work
  Richard Crisp (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Yearning to Labour, Low Skill Men, Work Identity and Unemployment
  Darren Nixon (Leeds Metropolitan University)

Registration

• Waged: £35
• Unwaged: £25

Fees includes lunch, tea and coffee. Pay by cash or cheque on the day.

To register, please contact one of the following people.

• Kirk Mann by email at K.Mann@Leeds.ac.uk or by telephone on 0113 3434424.
• Jennifer Tomlinson by email at J.Tomlinson@Leeds.ac.uk or by telephone on 0113 3434482.
• Jodie Dyson by email at J.C.Dyson@Leeds.ac.uk or by telephone on 0113 3434438.