[Commpsych] FW: Australian Social Policy Conference July 2009 and China Social Policy Workshop: Call for papers

[Heather Gridley]

AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL POLICY CONFERENCE

8-10 July 2009
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

 

KEY DATES

Special session proposal:       19 December 2008.

Refereed paper submission:      13 February 2009.

Non-refereed abstract proposal: 9 April 2009.

 

ENQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

ASPC2009 at unsw.edu.au 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers from researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of social policy for presentation at the 2009 Australian Social Policy Conference. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual or theoretical approaches to contemporary social policy, raise issues for debate or discuss questions of methodology. 

 

Keynote speakers at the conference will include Naomi Eisenstadt, UK Social Exclusion Task Force, Tom Calma, Australian Human Rights Commission and Ann Orloff, Northwestern University.

 

The overarching theme of the conference will be "An Inclusive Society? Practicalities and Possibilities". However, as in previous conferences, discussion will cover a wide range of social policy topics, including 

*     Labour market participation and welfare reform 

*     Social exclusion and economic inequalities

*     Retirement and ageing

*     Children, young people and families

*     Identity, diversity and citizenship

*     Housing, place and the environment

*     Organisation and delivery of human services

*     Community, social participation and care

*     Chinese social policy (special pre-conference workshop - see below)

*     An Open strand for papers on other subjects of interest and importance outside the main themes.

 

SELECTION OF PAPERS

For the 2009 conference there will be three categories of presentations: full refereed papers (with double-blind refereeing to satisfy requirements for Higher Education Research Data Collection points) and papers and poster presentations based on refereed abstracts. 

 

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference is necessarily competitive. Selection will be the responsibility of the SPRC, in collaboration with external session organisers and referees. Criteria for selection will include academic quality, originality, accessibility and relevance to current debates in social policy. Where papers are based on empirical research, preference will be given to papers showing evidence of research results. We welcome papers presenting all points of view. Please specify the thematic area(s) (listed above) into which you feel your paper falls. We reserve the right to place it elsewhere, where appropriate, to maintain program balance.

 

Papers submitted for full refereeing should be no more than 3000 words in length and should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. Author details should be provided only on a separate cover sheet to facilitate double-blind refereeing. The closing date for the receipt of these papers is 13 February 2009.

 

For other papers, the closing date for receipt of abstracts (maximum 200 words) is 9 April 2009. Please send your abstract or paper (preferably as a Microsoft Word attachment to an email) to ASPC2009 at unsw.edu.au.

 

Telephone enquiries about papers or the conference in general should be directed to (02) 9385 7802. Registration details will be made available shortly. The conference website will be accessible from late 2008 through the SPRC website (www.sprc.unsw.edu.au). Information on the papers presented at the previous (2007) conference can be found at www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/ASPC2007.

 

 

SPECIAL SESSIONS

In addition, we also invite proposals for special sessions (to be organised by the proposers). These might include groups of related papers within the contributed paper streams, or themed research workshops. Proposals for special sessions should be sent to b.bradbury at unsw.edu.au by 19 December 2008.

 

 

CHINESE SOCIAL POLICY WORKSHOP 7 JULY 

In conjunction with the Australian Social Policy Conference, a workshop on developments in Chinese social policy will be held on 7 July at UNSW. Its aim is to increase the capacity of Chinese and Australian researchers to collaborate in areas of joint policy research interest. 

 

Chinese, Australian and other international researchers and government and nongovernment officials engaged in current research in China or an interest in developing that research agenda are welcome to present or attend the workshop. The expected outcome will be the formation of networks of academics, post-graduate candidates and officials to further the conclusions from the workshop. Peer reviewed papers from the workshop will be published in an international special issue journal.

 

Refereed papers and abstracts in English are sought for this workshop, for which the same refereeing process and closing dates will apply as for the main conference (see above). Please make it clear your paper or abstract is intended for the one-day workshop. Papers can be presented in Chinese at the workshop and simultaneous translation in Chinese and English will be available. Themes for papers or working sessions are: 

*     Current Chinese social policy questions

*     Methodological approaches to Chinese social policy research 

*     Australian engagement in Chinese social policy research

*     Other

 

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