Roundtable on Austerity and its Consequences: What can Interdisciplinary Research Tell Us?

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Who this event is for

• Invite only

Location

St. Cross College, University of Oxford, Address: St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LZ

Details

This half-day event aims to develop a shared understanding of the findings, insights and challenges various austerity based projects in the UK faced, to enable networking and future collaborative research. It will also showcase examples of what inter-disciplinary research has actually taught us about understanding the consequences of austerity, with output and discussion available in terms of podcasts, blog articles, presentations and papers.

The Participants

Participants include researchers from several projects within the UK that look at austerity and its consequences from various disciplinary lenses: economics, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology and history. The specific projects include:

• The Politics of Austerity (Oxford),
• The WelfSOC project (Kent),
• Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (De Montforte University),
• Authors/editors of ‘The Children of Austerity' (York, UNICEF, Leeds, inter alia), Regimes of Austerity (Cambridge),
• Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (Sheffield Hallam), and
• Social Policy in a Cold Climate Programme in the UK (LSE)

 Download the full list of participants

Program

12:30	Registration, Lunch
13:00	Introduction from the Chair (Prof. Christopher Hood, Oxford)
13:05	Presentation 1: Divisive Austerity (Prof. Peter Taylor-Gooby, Kent),
13:25	Presentation 2: The Children of Austerity (Prof. Jonathan Bradhaw (York), Dr Gill Main (Leeds), Dr Yekaterina Chzhen (UNICEF) The Children of Austerity PDF
13:45	Presentation 3: Urban Austerity (Prof. Jonathan Davies, De Montforte)
14:05	Tea/Coffee
14:35	Presentation 4: A Century of fiscal squeeze (Dr Rozana Himaz, Oxford Brookes)
14:55	Initiation of Roundtable discussion (Prof. John Hills, LSE)
15:05	Roundtable discussion
16:35	Closing comments from the Chair
19:00	Dinner

Venue and Travel Details

St Cross College is ideally located in the centre of Oxford. Click here to download a location map of St Cross College.

Funding

This roundtable is funded by the Oxford Brookes University Business School Internal Small Grants Scheme, round 13, awarded to Dr Rozana Himaz.

Related Materials

A Century of Fiscal Squeeze Politics	When the Party's Over

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Resources and Papers

• Human development and fiscal policy - Bruno Martorano, Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart
• Governing in and Against Austerity International Lessons from Eight Cities - Jonathan Davies
• Austerity urbanism: Patterns of Neo-liberalisation and Resistance in Six Cities of Spain and the UK - Jonathan Davies
• Reluctant Individualism: Using Deliberative Forums to Investigate Attitudes to Welfare in the UK - Peter Taylor-Gooby
• The Divisive Welfare State - Peter Taylor-Gooby
• Austerity, Welfare State and Eco-Socialism - Pritam Singh
• The Coalition’s Social Policy Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes - John Hills
• The Coalition’s Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty and Inequality - John Hills