Migration, Diversity and Welfare: Knowledges, Gaps and Synergies by Lailah Alidu (UPWEB) Welfare State Futures in collaboration with Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS) University of Birmingham organised a thematic workshop on the topic Migration, Diversity and Welfare: Knowledge, Gaps … Lees meer
Tim Huijts, one of the Principal Investigators of project HiNEWS, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of his outstanding research. The prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based foundation which provides grants and scholarships … Lees meer
The first edition of data and documentation for European Social Survey (ESS) Round 8 (2016) has just been published. The release includes data from a rotating module on “Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe: Solidarities under Pressure” designed by a … Lees meer
By Laurie Batchelder (EXCELC) The EXCELC team caught up in Helsinki 5 – 6 October to discuss progress to date with the EXCELC project and the next steps for the study. On Thursday, the EXCELC team discussed progress with the … Lees meer
By Anita Heindlmaier and Dion Kramer (TransJudFare) On 2/3 November 2017, the TransJudFare research project (‘Transnationalization and Judicialization of Welfare’) organized its final workshop in Bremen. The aim of the workshop was doublefold: on the one hand, to present the … Lees meer
NORFACE is in search for a Scientific Programme Coordinator for its ERA-NET Cofund research programme Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course (DIAL). The Scientific Programme Coordinator will promote cohesion and cooperation in the programme by communicating the activities, outcomes and … Lees meer
A new TRANSWEL working paper by researchers Florian Zabransky and PL Anna Amelina addresses the current debate around equality in access to social rights among mobile EU citizens. Project TRANSWEL analyses the social rights of EU citizens from the new … Lees meer
The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has published a Special Issue on “Rethinking Integration. New perspectives on Adaptation and Settlement in the Era of Super-diversity”. The issue sheds new light on the question of integration addessing a range of … Lees meer
WelfSoc members presented a number of papers at the Annual ESPAnet Conference in Lisbon on 14-16 September. Katharina Zimmerman spoke on her work with Jan-Ocko Heuer on conditionality, using data from the focus groups. Heejung Chung discussed findings from her … Lees meer
Researchers from projects HiNEWS and HEALTHDOX will be convening two streams on the issue of health care at upcoming conferences in 2018. Anna Gkiouleka (HiNEWS), together with Daniel La Parra (University of Alicante), is convenor of the stream “Beyond Socioeconomic … Lees meer