New NORFACE programme on democratic governance: ‘Democratic Governance in a turbulent age’12/10/18
NORFACE announces a new transnational research programme on democratic governance. The main focus of this research programme will be on understanding the precise nature of the recent turbulence in democratic politics and governance in Europe, how European states can negotiate it and how they can dev
Journal of European Public Policy Special Issue “Free Movement and Non-discrimination in an Unequal Union31/08/18
Special Issue edited by Susanne K. Schmidt, Michael Blauberger and Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen The European Union’s fundamental principles of free movement of persons and non-discrimination challenge the traditional closure of the welfare state. Whereas this appeared largely unproblematic before Easte
HiNEWS Umbrella Review of Public Health Policies31/08/18
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 junk food advertising aimed at childre
HESTIA’s Nina Biehal and Helen Baldwin Presenting Findings to Social Work Professionals, Managers and Researchers21/07/18
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 study compared the development and current nature of child protection p
New WelfSOC Book “Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare. Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times”20/07/18
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 of the project, which uses D
WSF Researchers at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology19/07/18
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 WSF projects will be contributin
UPWEB final symposium brought together three and a half years of work on healthcare bricolage11/07/18
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. The UPWEB project is a collaboration between IRiS and t
Attitudes to Welfare Turn Hostile Because of Low Trust in Government04/07/18
“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 NORFACE Welfare State Fut
Domain-specific Risk and Public Policy04/07/18
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 and income to draw conclusions on optim
Any Transnational Social Security Out There?04/07/18
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 out there?’
UPWEB members well represented at World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health01/07/18
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 countries came together to present and discuss the lates
Highlights TRANSWEL international workshop on Transnational Social Citizenship in an Age of Uncertainty01/07/18
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 facets of social membership, transnat