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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