2011 Conference

SPA 2011 Conference Papers

University of Lincoln, 4th-6th July 2011

Plenary sessions were given by Dr Sarah Cook of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Professor Jan Pahl of the University of Kent, and a session on ‘The Big Society: A new direction for third sector policy in England?’ with Professor Pete Alcock of the University of Birmingham, Karl Wilding of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and Ruchir Shah of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Session 1 Monday 4 July 2011

Symposium
Chair: Karen Jones
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: Nicola Horsley
Venue: MB1010
2
Chair: Richard Simmons
Venue: MB1002
3
Chair: Clare Williams
Venue: MB1003
4
Chair:Carolyn Snell
Venue:MB1004
Personalisation and Prevention 

Karen Windle; Richard Wagland; Julien Forder;Francesco D’Amico; DirkJanssen; Gerald Wistow 
The Partnership for Older People Project’s
 

Julien Forder Karen Jones Parvaneh Rabiee Hilary Arksey; Kate Baxter; Lesley Curtis; Caroline Glendinning; Alison Wide 
The Home Care Re‐ablement Study
 

Karen Jones; James Caiels; Elizabeth Welch; Julien Forder; Karen Windle; Paul Dolan; Dominic King; Caroline Glendinning; Annie Irvine; Jacqueline Davidson 
Personal Health Budgets Evaluation
 

Caroline Andow; Stephan Köppe and Traute Meyer
How the middle class cope. The impact of the financial crisis on British households above average income.
 

Jonathan Bradshaw and John Holmes 
An analysis of horizontal equity over last 20 years in the OECD and the UK
 

Hartley Dean
“Making Work Seem to Pay? The Big Illusion”
 

Alison Koslowski
Public and private forms of unemployment protection and social stratification in England and Scotland 

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Marcin Kawiński
Private insurance within social policy: usefulness, design and issues
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Julia S. O’Connor
Non‐standard employment and EU employment regulation: implications for social citizenship 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Sirin Sung
Gender and welfare state in the UK and US: Work‐family balance issue
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Tuncay Guloglu Kemal Aydın
Socioeconomic Analysis Of Relative Poverty In Turkey 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Maura Adshead; Chris McInerney 
Teaching Public and Social Policy through Problem Based Learning and Civic Engagement
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Romana Xerez 
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Comparative Social Policy: An Exploratory Research
 

Jill Jameson; Katie Strudwick; Catherine Cooper; Emma Picksley
What relevance has this to my degree?’ Reflecting on and utilising the contradictions between different interested parties in a Social Science based employability module
 
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PG Paper Session
Chair:Eddy Hogg 
Venue:MB1005
6
Chair:Fred Powell
Venue:MB1001
7
Chair:Kelly Hall
Venue:MB1007
8
Chair:
Venue:
Martin Culliney 
Youth unemployment and education in rural Britain
 

Lida Kiely 
Critical Junctures in the Development of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Ireland
 
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Emily Forster
“School’s different for me” – Young people with special educational needs experiences of inclusion
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Chris Miller
Putting the ‘social’ into environmental policy: A case study of water reform in the Murray‐Darling Basin, Australia

James Hunter; Richard Howarth; Sain Buckley; Ann McCarthey 
From Landshare to Capital Growth: Big Society Responses to Land and Food Scarcity?
 

Eunna Lee‐Gong 
The role of NGOs in welfare system: case of South Korea 

Harriet Churchill
Wither the social investment state? Early intervention, prevention and children’s services reform in the new policy context 

Elizabeth Yardley and Jayne Francis 
I wouldn’t have the kids now if it wasn’t for them”: The case for the Common Assessment Framework’
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Chris Deeming and Sharon Collard 
Securing affordable credit for low income families in the UK: Emerging lessons from overseas
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Remo Siza 
Area‐based initiatives in Italy between sectoral approaches and social cohesion

Jon Glasby 
The controversies of choice and control ‐ why some people might be hostile to English social care reforms
 
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Session 2 Monday 4 July 2011

Postgraduate Symposium
Chair: Vicki Bolton
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: Hartley Dean
Venue: MB1010
2
Chair: Harriet Churchill
Venue: MT207
3
Chair: Jill Jameson
Venue: MB1003
What is volunteering policy for? Can volunteering be harnessed for wider social ends? 

Vicki Bolton 
Does adolescent volunteering predict later social and political engagement? A study using NCDS 1958 cohort data
 
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Naomi Harflett 
The role of voluntary organisations in implementing government volunteering policy
 

Anjelica Finnegan 
Can volunteering really be seen to soften the blow of unemployment to both the state and the individual?
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Deborah Price; Dinah Bisdee; Tom Daly 
Financial planning for social care in later life: the taboo of fourth age dependency
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Kelly Hall 
Retirement Migration, The Other Story: Vulnerable, Older British Migrants in Spain
 

Eddy Hogg 
The Grandparents of the Big Society: volunteering in older age
 

Catherine Bochel 
Petitions, participation and inclusion
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Lynn Dobbs; Irene Hardill; Eddy Hogg 
Power to the People? The Big Society and community participation in local decision making
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Richard Simmons 
Evolving Governance in the ‘Big Society’: Self Help and Mutual Aid Approaches in Social Policy
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Sarah Swann 
Ethnic Difference in Education in the United Kingdom
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Jim Lusted
Shelving Race Equality? A critical assessment of holistic ‘equity’ policies in grass‐roots English football 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Alice Sampson
Can a healthy Stratford City be created and maintained?



PG Paper Session
Chair: Chris Deeming 
Venue: MB1004
PG Paper Session
Chair:Maura Adshead 
Venue: MB1005
6
Chair:James Hunter
Venue: MB1001
7
Chair:Jonathan Bradshaw
Venue: MB1007
8
Chair:Ian Eliott
Venue: MB1006
Hyejin Choi 
Policy volatility and the Power of Government in East Asian Welfare Regime 

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Geun Hye Park; Ha Jeong Choe 
The change and Direction of Family Policy in OECD countries: Implication in South Korea
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Lorenza Antonucci 
Applying psychosocial methods in social policy: combining the understanding of individual subjectivities and welfare structures
 

Catherine‐Rose Stocks‐Rankin 
Mapping Relationships: An Account of Knowledge and Sense‐‐Making in Commissioning of Care Services for Older People in Scotland
 

Roni Holler 
Policy towards the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in the Israeli Labor Market: Historical Development and Shaping Factors
 
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Fiona Williams 
Migration and Care Work in Europe: making connections across the transnational political economy of care
 

Kate Hamblin 
Carers@Work – Reconciling Employment and Care for Older Family Members in Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK
 

Eva Mitchell 
Who cares for whom? The state and the single‐parent families in the CEE countries
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Fred Powell 
‘Big Society’: sustainable communities, modernity and development
 

Nicola Horsley 
The Model Citizen as Performer or Player? Applying Goffman’s Sociology to Citizenship in the Big Society

Carolyn Snell; Sarah Brooks‐Wilson 
Education for sustainable development under the coalition government? 
‘We believe that schools understand their responsibilites when it comes to sustainability and, for example, will act to ensure that their buildings are as energy efficient as possible’

Tuncay Guloglu; Fatma Kahraman 
Social Policy Practices For The Aging Of The Population In Turkey: Old Problems New Solutions
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Graham Bowpitt; Peter Dwyer; Eva Sundin; Mark Weinstein 
Places of sanctuary for ‘the undeserving’? Homeless people’s day centres and the problem of conditionality
 

Sundari Anitha 
Domestic Violence Prevention: A Review of existing evidence on DV education programmes in schools in Great Britain<
 
(PDF Unavailable)



Session 3 Tuesday 5 July 2011

Symposium
Chair: Adrian Sinfield
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: Irene Hardill
Venue: MB1010
PG Paper Session
Chair: Graham Bowpitt
Venue: MB1002
3
Chair: Sue Bond-Taylor
Venue: MB1003
Health, employability and challenges for welfare reform 

Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston 
Fit for purpose? Welfare reform and challenges for health and labour market policy in the UK
 

John MacNicol 
A history of working‐age disability in the UK
 

Clare Bambra; Jon Warren and Kayleigh Garthwaite
A health problem? Health trends and employability in the UK labour market

Grahame Whitfield 
The ‘Big Society’: an opportunity to recognise that government alone cannot (and should not) always deliver alone and that voluntary doesn’t always mean free?
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Peter Alcock 
Legislating for a Big Society? The Case of the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill in England
 

Hugh Bochel
Policy making and implementation under the Coalition: towards the Big Society?
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Herwin Kurniadi; Muhammad Rusdi 
Role of Conscience Actor In Free Health Policy Formulation In South Sulawesi, Indonesia
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Yaoli Wen 
The Summary and Review the history of famine from 1911 to 1949 in china
 

Siti Susanto 
Social Learning, Material Domestic Interests, and the Dynamic of Norm Diffusion in Developing Countries: Case Study of Cleaner Production Norm Diffusion in Germany‐ Indonesia Environmental Bilateral Project (Pro LH II)
 

Smita Tripathi 
Strategic leadership at the apex of local authority: Some preliminary findings
 

Christoforos Skamnakis
Smaller Governments – Social Policy Light?
 

Yekaterina Chzhen; Jonathan Chzhen 
Lone parent families in comparative perspective
 
(PDF Unavailable)



4
Chair: Richard Parry
Venue: MB1004
5
Chair: Mark Murphy
Venue: MB1005
6
Chair: Shereen Hussein
Venue: MB1007
Symposium
Chair: Gough/Fitzpatrick
Venue: MT207
Barbara Fawcett 
Reconsideration and reconfiguration of ‘Day Clubs’ for Older People: Issues of Ownership, Autonomy and Enablement
 

Min Tak 
Transition and Choice in Long‐Term Care for Older People
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Rana Jawad
Beyond revolutions and social welfare as women’s work: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab Countries
 

Tim Freeman; Dickenson; Robinson; Williams
Policy as practice: prioritysetting in the UK NHS
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Elaine Arnull 
That is not it at all: unintended effects and policy outcomes
 

Ed Carson; Lorraine Kerr 
Discretion by default: limits to accountability in the contracting‐out of services
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Bettina Leibetseder 
Jobcentre Plus: McDonaldization of Unemployment and Poverty 

Ian Elliott 
Young workers’ experiences of customer abuse and violence
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Gianfranco Giuntoli; Jane South; Judy White 
The impact of involuntary unemployment on mental well‐being at a time of economic recession and the role of community interventions to strengthen people’s resilience

Climate Change, Social Policy and Future Research Agendas 

Ian Gough 
Climate Change and Social Policy
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Tony Fitzpatrick 
Environmentalism and Social Justice
 
(PDF Unavailable)



Session 4 Tuesday 5 July 2011

Symposium
Chair: Peter Dwyer
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: John Clarke 
Venue: MB1001
2
Chair: Steve Iafrati
Venue: MB1002
3
Chair: Andrew Defty
Venue: MB1003
4
Chair: Grahame Whitfield
Venue: MB1010
The next generation on the new politics: The Coalition’s treatment of supposedly’vulnerable’ groups 

Kate Brown 
The Prioritisation of Vulnerable Groups in the Age of Austerity
 

Laura Davies 
Lone parents: unemployed or otherwise engaged?
 

Jenny McNeill 
Employment for homeless people under the Coalition: Support or coercion?
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Ruth Patrick 
Deserving or undeserving? The Coalition, welfare reform and disabled people
 

Ludovica Gambaro 
Higher qualifications, better pay? The importance of qualifications for the pay of British childcare workers
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Tina Haux 
‘Able to work’ in the case of lone parents: comparing different constructions
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Majella Kilkey and Laura Merla 
Situating transnational family care practices within national contexts: migration, welfare, gender, work and care regimes

Kate Baxter 
Changing choices: the durability of service‐related choices
 

Steve Smith 
‘What happens when things go wrong? Critically examining the concept of wellbeing and its implications for disability policy and practice’
 

Sue Bond‐Taylor 
In charge of their own destiny? Agency and empowerment within local service provision
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Sevasti‐Melissa Nolas 
From hoodies to heroes and back again? A discourse analysis of youth development policy in England (1997‐to date)
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Nicola Yeates; Ross Fergusson 
Governing youth disengagement: from global policy agendas to strategies of micro‐management
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Myra Hamilton; Bettina Cass; Deb Brennan; Cathy Thomson; Elizabeth Adamson and Christiane Purcal 
Experiences of young carers and young adult carers: Life‐course stage dimensions of caregiving and the implications for policy and practice
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Peter Taylor‐Gooby 
Root and branch restructuring to achieve major cuts: the social policy programme of the 2010 UK Coalition government
 

Martin Watts 
The Imperative for Fiscal Austerity? Challenging Orthodox Economics
 

Jay Wiggan 
Defining the present and reframing the future: a critical discourse analysis of welfare reform under Brown’s New Labour and the Coalition Government
 
(PDF Unavailable)



PG Paper Session 
Chair: Elaine Arnull
Venue: MB1005
6
Chair: Barbara Fawcett
Venue: MB1004
7
Chair: Tania Burchardt
Venue: MB1007
8
Chair: Ben Baumberg
Venue: MT207
Muslih Irwani 
Compensational Social Security Scheme:Prerogatives and Rights for Martyrs and Genocide Victim Families in Kurdistan Regional Government – Iraq
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Chatthip Chaichakan 
Examining Basic Impact of Regional Empowerment on Thailand’s Social Insurance Administration 

Irene Hardill 
Staying connected: Exploring the challenges of sustaining digital inclusion amongst older adults in the UK
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

John Woolham; Guy Daly; Liz Hughes 
Loneliness and Isolation amongst Older People – Inter‐related factors ‐ findings from a survey in Coventry
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Jodie Croxall 
Bereavement in Later Life: Personal trouble or Public Issue?
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Richard Parry 
The Public Sector Workforce in Recession 2010‐11 – the course of policy development in the Euro area and the UK
 

Nevra Esenturk 
European Social Dialogue in Transformation Process
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

John Hudson 
Welfare Regimes and Global Cities: a Missing Link in the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States?
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Kirstein Rummery; Alison Bowes; David Bell; Alison Dawson and Elizabeth Robertson
Counting the Cost of Care: the case of self‐directed support in Scotland
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Howard Davis and Ian Philp 
Easy‐Care: Improving the Lives of Older People through Better Assessment and Response to their Health and Care Needs
 

Beth Watts 
Comparing rights‐based and non rights‐based approaches to homelessness: a comparison of Scotland and the Republic of Ireland
 
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Session 5 Tuesday 5 July 2011

Symposium 
Chair: Alison Porter
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: Rana Jawad
Venue: MB1001
2
Chair: Alan Roulstone
Venue: MB1002
3
Chair: Peter Taylor‐Gooby
Venue: MB1010
Commissioning of health care in a time of transition 

Judith Smith; Ian Blunt; Alison Porter; Rebecca Rosen; Sara Shaw and Nick Mays 
Developing effective health commissioning for longterm conditions
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Trish Greenhalgh and Jill Russell 
Commissioning as categorising: a discourse methodology
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Jon Glasby 
Health and social care commissioning: an exploration of processes, services and outcomes
 

Stephan Köppe 
Welfare markets as political institutions. Discussing a concept for social policy research
 

Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving
Driven by economics, determined by politics: Social policy in the age of austerity
 

Liam Foster 
’I might not live that long!’ A study of young women’s pension planning in the UK

Chris Warburton‐Brown 
The impact of paying tax credits directly to mothers
 

Shereen Hussein; Jill Manthorpe and Martin Stevens 
In the minority: migrant men employed in female dominated long term care jobs in England
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Tania Burchardt 
Identifying inequalities in autonomy through the Equality Measurement Framework

Andrew Defty 
Can you tell what it is yet? Public attitudes towards the ‘Big Society’
 

Steve Iafrati 
Big Society: A new role for the voluntary sector and the potential for new inequalities

Ruth Naughton‐Doe 
Delivering the Big Society: Time Banks and Coproduction in public services
 
(PDF Unavailable)



PG Paper Session 
Chair: Tim Freeman
Venue: MB1002
5
Chair: Ross Fergusson
Venue: MB1005
6
Chair: Majella Kilkey
Venue: MT207
7
Chair: Kirstein Rummery
Venue: MB1007
8
Chair: Peter Alcock
Venue: MB1003
Alfia Mangano 
Public policy and care of older people: a comparison between England and Italy
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Michaela Wilmott
Any working with anyone is good opportunity”: Local voluntary and community organizations’ perceptions of participating in health policy
 

Kate Blackman 
Equality and Diversity: Exploring perceptions through the NHS staff survey
 

Byeong Hee Kwon 
Active Ageing in South Korea: from a Productivist to a Comprehensive Approach?

(PDF Unavailable) 

Camila Arza 
Towards universal protection for older adults? Alternative routes to close the pension coverage gap in Latin America
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Herve Hudebine 
The vulnerable elderly. Recasting the relationship between the state, civil society and the market in French social policies
 
(PDF Unavailable)

John Clarke and Jenny Ozga 
Governing by Inspection? Comparing school inspection in Scotland and England
 

Gaby Ramia 
The Regulation of International Student Welfare:The Australian Model

(PDF Unavailable) 

Mark Murphy 
Under suspicion: accountability and jurisphobia in the public sector
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Tracey Heath 
Liberating the NHS –Does ‘leadership at all levels’ provide the answer?
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Kelly Hall and Ross Millar 
Unlocking Innovation in Health and Social? An Evaluation of the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF)
 

Geoff Crocker 
Financial Crisis ‐ A Neo‐ Keynesian Diagnostic and Policy Response
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Alan Roulstone 
Coalition Disability Policy ‐ A Consolidation of Neo‐Liberalism or Benign Pragmatism?
 

Ben Baumberg 
Moving from bad jobs to sickness benefits: the role of working conditions and employability
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Clare Williams 
Big Society? – Big Gaps? The Unintended Consequences of Big Society on Children and Young People



Session 6 Wednesday 6 July 2011

Symposium
Chair: James Duggan
Venue: MB1008
1
Chair: Lesley Hoggart
Venue: MB1001
2
Chair: Robert Page
Venue: MB1002
PG Paper Session
Chair: Adam Formby
Venue: MB1003
Cutting the beast down to size: The Big Society in action, from Whitehall to community hall 

James Duggan 
Public Management and Governance for Co‐producing Community Resilience in the Big Society
 

Jenni Viitanen 
Co‐production in local public service reform: perspectives from a network of Northern Town Halls 

Beth Carley 
Connecting the grid: Big Society lessons from a networks survey of community engagement and co‐production in the regeneration of east Manchester

Jodie Croxall and Tracey Sagar 
New Localism and some implications for the local governance of street sex work
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Rachela Colosi 
Over ‘sexed’ regulation and the disregarded worker: An exploration of the impact of sexual entertainment policy on lap‐dancing club workers
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Susanne Ross; Ailsa McKay 
The Gendered Impact Of Recession and Recovery: Has Devolution Made A Difference for Women in Scotland?
 

Naomi Finch 
Why do women work longer than men? The impact of work‐family history on a decision to extend working life beyond state pension age 

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Fran Bennett 
Money matters in low/moderate income families and the gender implications of welfare reform in the UK

Sarah Brooks‐Wilson 
’The lightbulbs what we get them off council, by the time you’ve actually done the thing you went into the room for it’s just lighting on’: using an adaptive visual research approach to consult with overlooked pupils about sustainable development
 

Claire Markham 
The social role of the public house in sustaining rural communities
 

Claire Preston 
Resisting Disability Benefits Cuts in the Digital Age



4
Chair: Hannah Lambie
Venue: MB1004
5
Chair: Alison Green
Venue: MB1005
6
Chair: Jay Wiggan
Venue: MB1003
7
Chair: Trude Sundberg
Venue: MB1007
Costas Dikeos 
How Old Is ‘Big’ Society? How New Is ‘Small’ Governement? Charities and Health and Social Care Provision in 19th Century Greece and UK. A comparative historical approach mirroring today.
 

Bernard Harris 
The ‘big society’ and the historiography of welfare provision 

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Jackie Gulland 
Excessive sickness claims’: controlling sickness and incapacity benefits in the early 20th century
 

Davidson; Bertram; Durante; Vegeris; Vowden 
Is this working? Mandatory work‐related activity – Implications for future employment programmes
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Durante; Vowden; Bertram; Davidson; Vegeris 
Supporting jobseekers from professional and managerial backgrounds ‐ Lessons for the Work Programme
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Bertram; Davidson; Durante; Vegeris; Vowden
The Black Box approach: Personalisation in the Flexible New Deal
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Lei Jie 
The ‘Poor’ Poverty Line: A Reassessment of Poverty Definitions in China
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Anahely Medrano 
Protecting children´s rights in Mexico: assessing alternatives beyond neoliberalism 

Ilana Shpaizman 
Load shedding and reloading: Privatization and the increase in government involvement – The case of Israeli immigrant integration policy
 

Margaret Greenfields 
“Bigger Societies, Smaller Governments?” The Impact of the Big Society on Gendered Community Employment Opportunities for Minority Ethnic Women ‐ threat or promise? 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Jaqueline Davidson 
Exploring employers’ recruitment behaviour in relation to disabled people in small and medium enterprises
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Robin Jamieson 
”The staff actually care now”: ‘Supporting People’, intervention and the development of supported accommodation for homeless males
 
(PDF Unavailable)



Session 7 Wednesday 6 July 2011

1
Chair: Bernard Harris
Venue: MB1010
2
Chair: Susanne Ross
Venue: MB1001
3
Chair: Tina Haux
Venue: MT207
PG Paper Session
Chair: Jackie Gulland
Venue: MB1003
Ellen Van Reuler 
From Voluntary Sector to NHS and Back? The changing position of hospices in the English health care system as an example of the dynamics of the relationship between the government and the voluntary sector
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Andrew Wallace 
Shifting Sands and Moving Targets: evaluating and contributing to complex system change in the NHS
 
(PDF Unavailable)

Michael Orton and Karen Rowlingson 
Looking up to the rich: exploring public attitudes to high incomes
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Stephan Kuehner 
Government ideology, constitutional ‘road blocks’ and beyond: a fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis of welfare state reform in 12 high‐income countries (1970‐2006)
 

Mary Collins 
Applications of virtue theory to public policy: A compassion example
 

Nicholas Johns; Martin Powell; Alison Green 
Social Justice as Social Policy
 

Robert Page 
The Welfare State: Which Way Next for British Social Democracy?
 
(PDF Unavailable) 

Alban Knecht 
The Production of Inequality: The Distribution and Conversion of Resources in the Welfare State
 

Adam Formby 
The transition from higher education to employment: An exploration on what the state can do 

Maria Lehane 
Governance and Multi-agency work: Children and Families 

(PDF Unavailable)



4
Chair:Margaret Greenfields
Venue:MB1004
5
Chair:Fran Bennett
Venue:MB1005
6
Chair:Rachela Colosi
Venue:MB1013
7
Chair:Tracey Heath
Venue:MB1007
Alice Sampson 
The rhetoric and reality of community‐based performing arts on the life course of young adults
 

Lesley Hoggart 
‘I didn’t like killing my baby’: teenage pregnancy, the construction of risk, and value judgements about abortion

(PDF Unavailable) 

Trude Sundberg 
Immigration and attitudes towards welfare: analysing the relation between immigration and harsher judgement of welfare claimants in Europe

Peter Somerville; Philip Brown; Lisa Scullion and Gareth Morris 
Working together and making sense: service provision and homelessness

Tracey Heath 
Collaborative Endeavour and the Big Society: The Importance of Relationships 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Karen Nielsen Breidahl 
Ethnic diversity, social policy and the Scandinavian welfare state: Similar or different policy responses? 

Hannah Lambie 
The rise of food banks in the UK: key questions for social justice and social policy in an era of austerity 

(PDF Unavailable) 

Alison Green and Nicholas Johns 
Substitutes for trust: the example of Street Pastors
 

Eluska Fernández 
Exploring the smoking ban as a neo‐liberal project: from social solidarity to social distance?
 

Marian Urbina Ferretjans and Rebecca Surender 
China’s cooperation with African states: a new paradigm for social policy analysis?
 
(PDF Unavailable)