All Events

2025

There are currently no events.

2024

Can Work-Family Balance Policies Sustain Women's Reproduction: from the cases of the UK, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan

Date: 17 October 2024
Location:: Online
Description: The event is funded by the British Academy and jointly organised by the University of Derby, the IcPSP at the University of Nottingham and The Korean Academy of Family Social Work.

2023

There are no previous events.

2022

The Commodification of the Public Good

Date: 07 - 08 July 2022
Location:: Online
Description: This workshop is stimulated by a pattern of development in the arrangements through which public goods and services are provided.

SPS Annual Lecture – Sustainable Welfare

Date: 17 June 2022
Location:: Online
Description: The fifth annual meeting of the Journal 'Social Policy and Society' (SPS) will take place online on 17 June, from 10am to 12 noon (BST).

'Race' in Social Policy Teaching and Learning

Date: 20 May 2022
Location:: East Midlands Conference Centre, Online, University Park
Description: This Teaching and Learning Day on 'Race' In Social Policy is hosted by the Social Policy Association, Social Policy and Society, and University of Nottingham's International Centre for Public and Social Policy.

2021

Social Policy and Society annual event

Date: 15 June 2021
Location:: Online
Description: The fourth annual meeting of the journal Social Policy and Society.

Learning for Citizenship 2021 – Supporting migrant students through the pandemic

Date: 25 - 26 May 2021
Location:: Online
Description: The event will focus in particular on the new challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic in the short and long term; but it will also build on years of international research on migration and education.

Re-bordering Europe: structural inequalities and civic stratification from Brexit to Covid

Date: 22 April 2021
Location:: Online
Description: Dr Alessio D'Angelo (icPSP) will deliver the Keynote Speech of the 8th Global Social Sciences Graduate Student conference of the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Supporting Newly Arrived Migrants During Lockdown: Community Responses

Date: 18 March 2021
Location:: Online
Description: This is the second in a series of partnership events organised by icPSP and NIESR. Date and time to be confirmed.

2020

Supporting Newly Arrived Migrants During Lockdown: School Responses

Date: 15 December 2020
Location:: Online
Description: This online workshop is organised by NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) in partnership with the International Centre for Public and Social Policy, University of Nottingham.

Post-Truth Conference

Date: 07 September 2020
Description: Event organised by the Governance and Public Policy Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (GaPP), with the support of icPSP.

Current and upcoming challenges for social policy teaching

Date: 26 June 2020
Location:: Online
Description: Members of the icPSP are involved in running a round-table discussion for the Social Policy Association (SPA).

CANCELLED Research ethics, personal data and social networks

Date: 20 - 21 May 2020
Description: Organised in partnership with the University of Sheffield and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

CANCELLED Learning for Citizenship: supporting migrant students in uncertain times

Date: 11 May 2020
Location:: University Park
Description: An international event to discuss good practice of inclusion, engagement, practical and emotional support for migrant and refugee students.

CANCELLED Commodification of Public Services conference

Date: 16 - 17 April 2020
Description: For information contact Simon Roberts.

Past events

The International Centre for Public and Social Policy is an active academic community, hosting several major conferences in recent years. These include:

Organised and hosted 'From Third Way to Which Way?', the annual conference of the Social Policy Association
Co-organised Policy and Politics conference at Bristol University, 'Politics of Austerity or the Austerity of Politics?'
Hosted the Founding Workshop for The Astarte Programme, a joint initiative between the IcPSP and the Public Management and Policy Association
Hosted a workshop on research opportunities in public and social policy: 'Research Opportunities - the voluntary sector and beyond' led by Angus Anderson and Sharon Clancy
Organised and hosted annual UK conference of the treESS (Training and Reporting on European Social Security) network on behalf of the European Commission

We also organise a regular seminar programme. Recent presentations include:

How should we understand science policy and where can we find it? - Dr Sujatha Raman
Academic Publishing in the 21st century: A guide for the perplexed - Alison Shaw, Director of The Policy Press
"The third way is dead, long live the third way". The strange death of New Labour's welfare reforms - Professor Alan Deacon
Conservative social policy: A coalition of Conservatives? - Professor Hugh Bochel
"Credit Crunch": We are missing the point - Richard Minns
State welfare and political legitimacy - Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby
Financialization 'off-plan': The displacement of UK buy-to let - Professor Andrew Leyshon
What (if anything) is wrong with inheritance tax? - Professor Stuart White
Joined up (good) governance? Links and missing links between evidence and policy - Dr John Turnpenny
Trust: The first casualty of partnership working - Professor John Diamond
What is the reach and what are the limits of the European Union's influence on Member States' social secruity and healthcare systems? - Dr Rob Cornelissen (Advisor, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission)