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1. Australian Social Policy ConferenceWhen: 16th SeptemberWhen: 16th SeptemberWelcome The Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will be held at the University of New South Wales from Monday 16 September to Wednesday 18 September. This is the 14th ASPC hosted by the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) centre at UNSW. The Australian Social Policy Conference is the country's leading event for the discussion and dissemination of social policy. The biennial conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across disciplines and provide an opportunity to explore research and practice. Monday 16 September - Wednesday 18 September 2013 To visit the main conference website please click here The Conference theme is: Contemporary Challenges for Social Policy. We are living through a time of major economic and social change that is presenting new challenges to social policy. In Australia and internationally, governments facing fiscal pressures are increasingly cutting back on 'welfare' spending at a time when many areas of need are increasing. Demographic change, rising inequality, environmental degradation and technological change create new challenges for social policy, but also present new opportunities to learn lessons and draw on research about what works and the impact of policy. The 2013 Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will address many of the most important challenges facing Australian policy makers, practitioners and researchers at this key juncture. It will provide a forum for some of the leading national and international (including regional) researchers, along with analysts from the government and NGO sectors in Australia to present their findings and discuss and debate their implications The theme of this year's Australian Social Policy Conference addresses these issues and invites papers that may address the following areas:  Welfare reform  Income distribution and social inequalities  Identity and diversity  Families, work and care  Disability and mental health  Organisation and delivery of human services  Community and place  Homelessness and housing  Children, young people and families  Retirement and ageing  Indigenous Australians  Chinese social policy  Social policy in low and middle income countries  Open strand Call for Papers The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers for presentation at the next Australian Social Policy Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, from 16-18 September 2013. Closing Date: 27 May 2013 The success of the Australian Social Policy Conference is based on the presentation of high quality, original papers across the range of social policy fields. We are now inviting offers of papers from researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of social policy. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to contemporary social policy, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate. We are also inviting proposals of ideas for special sessions, including groups of related papers within the contributed paper streams. Please send the proposals for special sessions to aspc@unsw.edu.au As in previous conferences, discussion will be organised around thematic strands. The topic areas from within which the final strands will be selected, and for which we are currently seeking offers of papers, include the following. The Conference discussion will be organised around thematic strands including: Submit abstracts via the Conference ManagerJohn Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington

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