by Katie Thomson (HiNEWS) Welfare states use a variety of policy mechanisms – namely public health policies, social policies and healthcare services – to improve the health of their citizens. Policies such as minimum alcohol pricing, tobacco taxation or banning … Lees meer
by Nina Biehal On July 2nd Nina Biehal and Helen Baldwin presented the findings of the HESTIA study to a regional workshop for social work professionals, managers and researchers held in the city of York. The first strand of the … Lees meer
by Peter Taylor-Gooby and Benjamin Leruth After the publication of After Austerity (Oxford University Press) last year, this is the second volume produced by the “Welfare State Futures: Our Children’s Europe” (WelfSOC) project team. This book summarizes the main findings … Lees meer
The XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology is taking place this week in Toronto, Canada. The Welfare State Futures programme is an interdisciplinary programme, with researchers from the fields of political science and economics, but also sociology. Researchers from five … Lees meer
The UPWEB project ran its final symposium at ISCTE, The University Institute of Lisbon, on the 27 and 28 June 2018. Project lead, Professor Jenny Phillimore attended with IRiS colleagues Dr Rachel Humphris, Dr Lucy Doos and Dr Antje Lindemeyer. … Lees meer
“New research using Democratic Forums (large two-day discussion groups) shows that many people reject the welfare state not through commitment to neo-liberalism but because they don’t think government is able to make their lives better. Peter Taylor-Gooby, project leader of … Lees meer
by Ohto Kanninen Policy makers need to understand the nature of risks individuals face to make informed decisions on public policy, especially social insurance. In this paper, we study empirically how sickness plays a role in the association between well-being … Lees meer
Hungarian Mobile Citizens and their Experiences with (Transnational) Social Security Access in Austria – New Working Paper by Project TRANSWEL by Noémi Bakonyi, Erika Nóra Regös, Clara Holzinger and Elisabeth Scheibelhofer The TRANSWEL working paper on ‘Any transnational social security … Lees meer
From May 17 – 19, 2018, the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health took place at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Hosted by the European Public Health Association and NHS Health Scotland, 740 people from 55 different … Lees meer
by Jana Fingarova In the past decades, cross-border migration across Europe and other world regions has contributed to the emergence of various forms of transnational social membership. The aim of the international workshop of the TRANSWEL project was to discuss … Lees meer