CIRCLE - Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities

Recent keynote speeches and other contributions by CIRCLE staff  

Fiona Williams

2012

• Developing the conceptualisation of care as a social good: the case of the European Social Platform's Recommendations on Care, SPRC, University of New South Wales, Australia, 13 March.

2011

• 'Recognition, Rights and the Redistribution of Care in Europe' public seminar, University of Melbourne, 25 February.
• In the 'So What?' Series 'Who Cares? Migrant Care Workers in the Transnational Care Economy' Public Lecture, University of New South Wales, 24 February.
• 'The Morning Interview' with Margaret Throsby, ABC Classic FM, Sydney, Australia, 22 February.
• 'Life Matters' ABC Radio, Sydney, Australia, 22 February.
• 'Recognition, Rights and the Redistribution of Care in Europe', public seminar, SPRC, Sydney, New South Wales,  Australia, 8 February.

2010

• Plenary Speaker at Social Sciences History Association Conference  (SSHA) 2010, Chicago, 18-21 November.
• Address to 200 representatives of NGOs and grass roots organisations from 17 EU countries at Social Platform Annual Conference on Care, Brussels, 4/5 November.
• 'Transnational political economy of care' presentation to Meeting with OECD DELSA on the EU, North America, and the Challenge of Global Policymaking for Migration and Care Work, OECD Headquarters, Paris, September 28.
• 'Towards and analysis of convergences and divergences in the employment of migrant care workers in European welfare regimes' Paper presented to Annual Conference of American Sociological Asociation, Atlanta, USA, August 15.
• 'Towards an explanation of convergence and divergence in the employment of migrant care workers in Eurpoean welfare regimes' Paper presented to Annual Conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 19, Goteborg, Sweden July 14.
• 'Claiming and Framing in the Making of Care policies: the Recognition and Redistribution of Care', Paper presented to 5th International Carers' Conference, The Royal Armouries, Leeds, July 8-11.
• Paper presented to Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana University, 18 May 2010.
• 'Recognition and the Redistribution of Care in Europe: Political Tensions and Spaces [PDF: 230KB]' Paper presented to the International Conference, The Changing Social Organisation of Care and its Implications for Social Policies, Peace Institute for Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13/14 May 2010.
  
  • Article in 'Dalo' newspaper, 12 June 2010 [PDF: 2.1MB]
• Invited guest to Agenda Setting Workshop on Family, Regulation and Society at Nuffield Foundation, London, 15/16 March 2010.
• Presentation to Seminar at Tubingen University, Germany, 22 February 2010.
• 'Comparing Migrant Workers in Home-Based Child Care in Europe: the Intersection of Care, Migration and Employment Regimes and Analysing the Transnational Political Economy of Care' workshop, "The EU, North America, and the Challenge of Global Policymaking for Social Care" held in Berlin, 18/19 February 2010.
• 'What are the aims of care claims and care policies?' Speaker at 'European Social Platform NGO's-Launching seminar on Annual Theme of Care', held in Brussels, Thursday 11 February 2010.

2009

• Speaker at the launch of the second term of the ESRC funded Oxford University research centre COMPAS – the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society – at the House of Lords in April 2009.  The launch was hosted by Lord Parekh.
• Presentation "Care, commitments and family lives" to a seminar about 'Family Parenting and Change: is parenting becoming more difficult?' at the Department of Children, Schools and Families on 13 July 2009 to inform the new Green Paper on families and relationships due out this autumn.
• Report "Claiming and Framing in the Making of Care Policies: Recognition and Redistribution of Care" was presented at The Political and Social Economy of Care Conference held on 6 March 2009 at Barnard College, New York. You can find details of this paper at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

2008

• Paper presented to 'Transnational domestic workers and the national welfare state' conference, Amsterdam, 4-6 December 2008.
• Discussant at 'Transformation of work and welfare' seminar at Leeds Business School, 12 Septemer 2008.
• 'Theorising Migration and Home-based Care in European Welfare States.' Panel presentation at the Congress 08, Vancouver, 4 to 6 June 2008.