ESPANET 2025

 

Streams

 

 

 

The Organising Committee is happy to present the list of accepted streams for the 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference.

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1.           Populism, the Far-Right, and Social Policy

2.           New perspectives on non-standard work, labour market segmentation and social protection

3.           Digitalisation and datafication of the welfare state

4.           Laboratories of Social Investment: Post-industrial Cities and the Shifting Boundaries of Welfare Provision

5.           The Matthew Effect in Social and Educational Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantages Over the Life Course

6.           The Historical Political Economy of the Welfare State

7.           Redefining Work-Life Balance: Policies and Practices

8.           Political Economy of Eco-Welfare

9.           The Politics of Welfare State Reform

10.         Care Configurations: Welfare reform to address contemporary care challenges

11.         Resilience as a concept and source of inequality: A critical examination

12.         EU social policy between institutional consolidation and political challenges

13.         Public opinion on policy solutions to current and emerging societal challenges

14.         Research methodologies in social policy and politics

15.         Power Resource Theory (PRT) revisited

16.         New Social Risks 2.0? Social vulnerability in the age of AI, populism, and the cost-of-living crisis

17.         The Politics and Policies Shaping Access to Social Rights: Rethinking Social Citizenship Amidst Global Challenges

18.         Brain drain, brain gain: the socioeconomic and political consequences of human capital circulation across Europe

19.         Protecting the Vulnerable in Eastern and Central Europe: Social Policy Challenges in Times of Polycrisis

20.         Welfare state experiences: what they are, and why they matter

21.         Causal Inference in Social Policy Analysis

22.         Childcare systems fit for the future

23.         Life Course and the Politics of Social Policy

24.         Disability and Welfare in Transition: Addressing the Challenges of a Rights-Based Approach

25.         The Politics of Education

26.         Data infrastructure in social policy research

27.         Child well-being: Policies, Practices, and Challenges in a Changing World

28.         A Right to Welfare Benefits? Varieties of Deservingness in Comparative Perspective

29.         Bringing Welfare Statehood back in: A global comparative perspective

30.         Navigating Gender, Identity, and Care: Policies and Politics in European Welfare Systems

31.         Health policy and politics

32.         New Perspectives on Poverty, Inequality, and In-Work Deprivation

33.         Pension policies in changing welfare states and their impact

34.         Migration, Institutional Trust, and Social Citizenship

35.         Ideas and Discourses framing Welfare State Change

36.         Pitch your book