Book Launch: 'A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights? Where next for the UK Post-COVID'
Tuesday 20 July 2021, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Venue
OnlineOpen to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
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Book is available through Policy Press:
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-watershed-moment-for-social-policy-and-human-rights
Event Details
Launch of the new book 'A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights? Where next for the UK Post-COVID' by Drs Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, and Bran Knowles.
We are very pleased to announce the release of the book 'A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights? Where next for the UK Post-COVID’, by Drs Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, and Bran Knowles.
Register on Eventbrite to attend the Book Launch Event on 20th July 14:00 – 15:30 BST. We will start with the brief introduction of the book, followed by some insightful talks by the guest speakers Drs Aaron Reeves, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Daniel Greene. Professor Karen Broadhurst will be Chairing the event.
Schedule:
- A peek at the book chapters
- Talks by the guest speakers
- Q&A with the authors
- Open discussion space
Speakers
Oxford University
Dr Aaron Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE. He is a sociologist working on public health, political economy, and elites.
University of Maryland
Dr Daniel Greene is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. His ethnographic, historical, and theoretical research explores how the future of work is built and who is included in that future. He published his first book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with MIT Press in 2021. His research has also appeared in such venues as Research in the Sociology of Work, New Media & Society, and the International Journal o
University of Birmingham
Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology & Criminology, University of Birmingham. Her research interests focus on poverty and inequality, social security, and health, specifically investigating charitable food provision and food insecurity. She has published extensively and across multi-disciplinary fields, including two monographs: Hunger Pains: life inside foodbank Britain (Policy Press, 2016) and Poverty and insecurity: life in low-pay, no
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