[Commpsych] FW: Invitation to a CRAE lecture by Emeritus Professor Diane Elson, 20 August 2012

[Lauren Breen]

A public lecture that might be of interest to those of you in Perth (details below and attached). Attendance is free but they ask that you book.



Lauren

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From: Ellen Young
Sent: Monday, 30 July 2012 4:48 PM
To: CRAE
Subject: Invitation to a CRAE lecture by Emeritus Professor Diane Elson, 20 August 2012

Dear Colleagues and Interested Members of the Public,

The Centre for Research in Applied Economics (CRAE) at Curtin University is pleased to invite you to a special lecture by one of the fifty key thinkers in development, renowned academic, author and internationally recognized expert on gender responsive budgeting, Emeritus Professor Diane Elson.  Diane has been a member of the UK Women’s Budget Group for more than 10 years, and is currently Chair of the Group. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Diane has published widely on women’s rights and on government budgets and has acted as an advisor for gender responsive budgeting to the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the United Nations Development Programme and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Her current research includes auditing economic policy from a human rights perspective, macroeconomic policies, and gender equality.

The lecture will take place at 5:30pm on 20 August in downtown Perth. A flyer describing the event is attached to this email. If you have received this email in error or wish to be removed from this mailing list, please respond to this email accordingly. If you would like to attend this event, please note that bookings are essential as the venue is strictly limited. Please register your interest in attending by return email to this address at your earliest convenience. Bookings will be on a first come, first served basis.

Lecture abstract
The financial crisis of 2008 led to a 2009 UK recession, described by some as a ‘mancession’, as male unemployment rose faster than female unemployment.  However, by spring 2012, male unemployment had begun to decline, and female unemployment was growing fast and had reached its highest level for 25 years. Leading UK women’s rights campaigners, like the Fawcett Society, talk of the clock being put back on gender equality.  Journalist Polly Toynbee wrote that ‘This marks the first era in living memory that British women’s freedoms have gone into reverse.’ Why and how has this happened? Is this situation linked to the Euro crisis even though the UK is not a member of the Eurozone? What can be done to reverse this trend?

Brief biography
Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her academic degrees include a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in economics from the University of Manchester. She has acted as advisor to UNIFEM, UNDP, Oxfam and other development agencies, and is a past Vice President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has been a visiting researcher/professor at the following universities: Carleton (Ottawa), South Australia (Adelaide), the Ruhr (Bochum) and Rutgers (New Brunswick).  In 2006, she was honoured by the inclusion of a chapter on her research in D. Simon (ed). Fifty Key Thinkers  in Development,  Routledge.  She is Chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a network that monitors the impact of UK government budgets on gender equality and she is an internationally recognized expert on gender responsive budgeting.

Her recent publications include Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW, UNIFEM, New York, 2006;   ‘Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006’, Feminist Economics 15(3) 2009; (with R. Sharp) ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s’ Poverty’ in S. Chant(ed) International Handbook on Gender and Poverty, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2010. (with R. Balakrishnan and J. Heintz) ‘Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing’ Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12(1) (pp.153-168) 2011. ‘Social Reproduction in the Global Crisis: Rapid Recovery or Long-Lasting Depletion?’ in The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change, edited by Peter Utting, Shahra Razavi and Rebecca Buchholz (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development), Palgrave, London,  2012. ‘The reduction of the UK budget deficit: a human rights perspective’, International Review of Applied Economics, 26 (2) (pp.177-190) 2012.

With kind regards,

Ellen Young on behalf of Siobhan Austen, Director of CRAE
Project Officer | Centre for Research in Applied Economics
School of Economics and Finance
Curtin Business School

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