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SPRC Seminar Program, Session 2, 2006

Date Time Location Presenter Title
28th June 1:00-2:30 pm

SPECIAL TIME:

Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW

Professor Ivan Szelenyi (Yale University, USA) Poverty and post-communism: research from six former socialist
societies
4th July 1:00-2:30 pm

Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW

Professor Anita Nyberg (The National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm) Accessible, affordable, equitable and of high quality? The development and experience of the Swedish childcare system
20th July 1:00-2:30pn

Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW

Dr Hartley Dean (London School of Economics) The significance of the human rights agenda for the future of social policy: iminent threat or strategic opportunity
15th August 1:00-2:30 pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Dr Anthony Shakeshaft (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre)

Alcohol action in rural communities: a randomised controlled trial

Flyer.

5th September 1:00-2:30 pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Dr Andrew Leigh (Australian National University) with Chris Ryan

How and why has teacher quality changed in Australia

Flyer.

19th September 1.00-2.30pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Dr Sharon Wright (University of Stirling)

Employment advice and guidance for unemployed adults in the UK: the missing link between welfare-to-work and career guidance services

Flyer

24th October 1:00-2.00pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Dr Kristy Muir (SPRC)

Parsimony, predisposition and politicisation: Australian psychiatric casualties and post-war stress disorders, a contested legacy of war

Flyer

MONDAY
6th November

1.00-2:30pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Dr Hilary Arksey (Social Policy Research Unit,
University of York)

Combining work and care: evidence from a study of carers in England

Flyer

14th November 1.00-2.30pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Professor Peter Saunders, Yuvisthi Naidoo and Megan Griffiths (SPRC)

The essentials of life and who is missing out on them: towards a new poverty measure

Flyer

12th December 1.00-2:30pm Room 2,
Building G2, South Wing, Green Office, Western Grounds UNSW
Professor Marta Szebehely (Stockholm University) and Associate Professor Jane Mears (Social Justice and Social Change
Research Centre)

Comparing the provision of home care services in Sweden and Australia:
What can we learn?

Flyer

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