Session 1 Seminar Program

SPRC Seminar Program, Session 1, 2008

Date	Time	Location	Presenter	Title
Tuesday 5th February	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Dr Helen Buckley (School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)	Service users' experiences of the child protection system Flyer
Tuesday 26th February	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Professor Susan Himmelweit (with Jerome De Henau) Department of Economics, The Open University, UK	Cooperation and conflict within the household: the gendered allocation of entitlement to household income Flyer GeNet Working Paper 27, October 2007. Note: The slides above are more up to date.
Tuesday 11th March	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Associate Professor Ariel Kalil (Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, USA)	Work after welfare reform and the well-being of children: Evidence from the Michigan Women's Employment Study Flyer Associate Professor was recently interviewed on ABC Radio's Life Matters
Tuesday 25th March	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Professor Pamela Meadows (Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, UK)	The challenge of measuring cost-effectiveness in social programmes: Sure Start local programmes and the Family Nurse Partnership in the UK Flyer Sure Start Evaluation Website
Tuesday 8th April	12.30- 1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Professor Elizabeth Waters Professorial Fellow, McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne	Children and families of diverse cultural backgrounds and solution focused community partnerships to address social exclusion Flyer
Tuesday 15th April	12.30-2pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Associate Professor Amy Holtan (Visiting Academic, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, UWS and Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Tromsø, Norway)	Family types and feeling of togetherness in kinship foster care Sponsored by the Social Justice and Social change Research Centre and the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Flyer
Tuesday 13th May	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Dr Karen Fisher, (Social Policy Research Centre), Edwina Pickering, (Disability Studies and Research Institute) and Ofir Thaler, ARTD Consultants.	Supported living arrangements for people with disability – a national review Flyer
Tuesday 20th May	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Emeritus Professor Sheila Shaver, Visiting Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW	Jean Martin and a Sociology for nation-building Flyer
Tuesday 3rd June	12:30-1:30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Dr. Gyu-Jin Hwang, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney	Old-age security in Korea: the strengthened role of the state Flyer
Tuesday 10th June	12.30-1.30pm	Level 2, Room 250, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Professor Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW and Dr Simon Pinnegar, Director, UNSW-UWS AHURI Research Centre and Deputy Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW	Unpacking housing unaffordability – experiences from the margins of the housing market Flyer
Tuesday 8th July	12.30pm-1.30pm	Level 2, Room 256, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Dr Tony Fitzpatrick (Reader in Social and Political Theory Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK)	Applied ethics and social Policy: freedom and the limits of paternalism Flyer
Wednesday 23 July	12.30pm-2.00pm	Level 2, Room 256, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW	Professor Jane Millar and Dr Tess Ridge (University of Bath, UK)	Work and Care in Lone-Mother Families: A Family-Work Project Flyer
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