Political Economy and Work Cluster, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth
Monday, September 22nd 2014. 9.30-2.30pm Manor Mills 1.07 NUI, Maynooth
Seminar on Irish Activation Policy and Practice
DRAFT SCHEDULE
9.00[1] – 9.30 Registration Tea and Coffee
9.30-10.30 Session One Irish Activation Setting the scene:
Chair Anna Lee (ex CEO Sth Dublin County Partnership).
Introduction: Unpacking Irish activation: Policy and Practice Mary Murphy (NUI Maynooth)
Key note – International Trends in Activation Policy and Practice Professor Evelyn Brodkin (University of Chicago) [2]
Discussion
10.30 – 12.15 Session Two: Irish Activation Updating and Unpacking Key Developments
Chair European Anti Poverty Network
Intreo Brid O’Brien Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
SOLAS and ETB’s – TBC
Job Path John Sweeny (National Economic and Social Forum)
Youth Guarantee pilot Mick Creedon (Ballymun Jobs Club)
Discussion
12.15-12.45pm light lunch
12.45pm – 1.45pm Session Three Irish Activation On The Ground
Chair TBC
Implementing activation Michael Bowe (ILDN Employment Group), TBC ( SIPTU)
Experiencing Activation Alice Mary Higgins (NWCI), AnneMarie Butler (We’re Not Leaving)
Discussion
1.45-2pm Closing Comment Observations from abroad: Professor Evelyn Baldwin
[1] Please note an 8.30 train from Dublin Connolly enables you arrive in NUI Maynooth in time for the seminar.
[2] Evelyn Baldwin’s new co-edited book, Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (Georgetown University Press 2013), which investigates the politics and practices of labour market activation in six countries (US, Australia, UK, Denmark, Germany and Netherlands). http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/work-and-welfare-state
