The AISSN is pleased to announce that Professor Ruth Patrick will be the keynote speaker at our first conference in June 2024 at Maynooth University.
Ruth Patrick is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York where she leads a number of research programmes including Changing Realities and the Benefit Changes and Larger Families Study, which investigated the impact of the UK”s two-child limit and benefit cap on families with three or more children. She has a strong commitment to participatory research approaches, and to co-producing solutions to the pernicious and persistent problems of poverty and the inadequacy of the UK’s social security system. In this work, she has been interested to understand the differences that exist within the UK arising both from devolution and increasing discretion in the delivery of social security support.
In her keynote, Designing dignity and adequacy into social security systems: learning from diverse places and forms of expertise, Ruth will reflect on learnings from across this work and will make the case for doing much more to learn from differences in how social policies are delivered and designed both within the UK and comparatively. The All-Island Social Security network makes a vital contribution to this learning, and it is especially important to work with a wide range of expertise and experience to draw out and learn from these differences in order to develop better policy for the future.
For those who are interested in submitting a presentation outline, the full details are available here – https://aissn.blog/2024/03/14/call-for-presentations-aisnn-june-conference/
This event is kindly supported by a Social Policy Association Opportunity Grant.
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