Annual Conference 2001

"Families, children and social policy"
Thursday 16th and Friday 17th September, 2004 Croke Park, Dublin

In the summer of 2001, ISPA and SPA successfully joined forces to host two conferences.

The SPA conference was held in Belfast from Midday 24th-Midday 26th July followed by the ISPA conference in Dublin from the evening of 26th July - Evening of the 27th July.

Discussion Papers

The following are a selection of discussion papers from the conference.
These papers represent work in progress.
Please do not cite it or quote from them in their present state.
Full references will be posted on the website on publication.

• Reversing New Labour's welfare discourse: strategies for an inclusive society
  Charlie Cooper and Gerard Strange, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside
   
• Neighbourhoods and Social Exclusion
  The Research and Policy Implications of Neighbourhood effects
  Rowland Atkinson and Keith Kintrea, Department of Urban Studies University of Glasgow
   
• Civil Society versus market in Irish Social Policy
  Joe Larragy
   
• Measuring Poverty in Ireland
  Seosamh Mac Crthaigh
   
• Persistent Income Poverty and Deprivation in the European Union: An Analysis of the First Three Waves of the European Community Household Panel
  Christopher T. Whelan, Richard Layte, Bertrand Matre, Brian Nolan
  The Economic and Social Research Institute
   
• On No Man's Land: Asylum Seekers in Ireland and the Limits of Social Citizenship
  Dr Bryan Fanning
  Department of Social Policy and Social Work
  University College Dublin
   
• Housing Policy Frameworks and the Social Exclusion of older people in Northern Ireland and the Republic
  Malcolm J. Fisk, MA, BSc, DipSoc, MCIH
   
• Development Regeneration and Social Policy
  Bernadette Barry
  Community Education Department, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee
   
• Privatising Public Housing Estate Regeneration: A Case Study of Ballymun Regeneration Ltd, Dublin.
  Michelle Norris, Director, The Housing Unit.
   

Development, Regeneration and Social Policy (at TCD)
Contributions relating to the following issues as they impact on social policy were invited for the Dublin Conference:

1. economic development;
2. The role of partnerships (local, national, international, public-private etc);
3. urban or rural regeneration (including issues such as taxation incentives, marginalisation and community participation). Suggestions for other relevant sub-themes will also be welcome. Preference will be given to papers which examine Ireland, especially those adopting a comparative approach.

Keynote speakers:

• David Donnison, Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow speaking on 'Equality: archaic or coming issue'
  
• Prof. Seamus O' Cinneide, NUI Maynooth speaking on 'Faith, Fatherland and Social Policy'
  
• Prof. Anne Power, LSE speaking on 'Social exclusion, urban regeneration and neighbourhood renewal'

Reconstituting Social Policy: Global, National, Local (at QUB)
Midday 24th-Midday 26th July

Contributions for the Belfast Conference were invited on the impact or implications for social policy of the following themes at any level in society:

1. Equality and human rights;
2. Political violence;
3. New constitutions and societies in transition;
4. Supra and international governmental and non-governmental organisations;
5. Devolution;
6. Federalism;
7. Reconciling criminal and social justice;
8. Effective teaching and learning in social policy.

The themes were discussed in relation to one country, cross nationally and comparatively. For those whose work did not fit into these themes there was also an open stream.

Keynote speakers included Guy Standing from the ILO speaking on 'Human Rights and Social Policy' and Mary Daly from QUB, speaking on 'Governance and Social Policy'

Other sessions included symposia on key theoretical debates, special sessions on a range of social policy issues relating to research, policy and practice, meetings for special interest groups, poster presentations, and post-graduate reception.