Trento, 31 Augustus - 6 September 2008
The Equalsoc and ECSR joint Summer School will be held in Trento at the Conference Centre Panorama on behalf of University of Trento from the 31st to the 6th of September 2008. It will be devoted to an analysis of how globalisation processes and recent changes in labour market regulation have affected the shape of social disparities among social groups and the relative weights of class, gender and generation in determining individuals’ life chances.
Admission Procedures
The admission procedures will be as follows:- PhD students will be selected on the basis of an abstract of their papers and CVs.
- The abstract, CVs and applicant’s address must be submitted using the online application form on the EqualSoc website:
- PhD students can present papers about any aspect related to the topic of the School. Papers can focus on any European nation, but comparative studies are also encouraged.
- All PhD students are invited to apply to the Summer School.
- The deadline to send applications is May 30 2008.
- Admitted PhD students should mail their full papers in a pdf format to [email protected]. The full paper must be received by 31 July 2008.
Costs
Equalsoc and ECSR will fund, following their own rules, the Ph.D. students coming from the respective institutions. All admitted PhD students will be granted of stay expenses by EqualSoc and ECSR funds. Those coming from an EqualSoc institution will also be refunded of their travel expenses, provided that they do not exceed 350 €. Those coming from a non-EqualSoc institution should pay for their own travel expenses.
For more information and an application form visit the following link: www.equalsoc.org/97
Schedule
the Summer school will be arranged around a set of substantive lectures and a set of methodological lectures. They are as follows:
Substantive lectures:- 1st September 2008 - Changes in contemporary life courses: H. P. Blossfeld, University of Bamberg– Globalization and changes in life courses inequality
- 2nd September 2008 - Changes in the labour market regulations: D. Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford – Employment Regimes, Work Quality and Labour Market Vulnerability
- 3th September 2008 - Changing gender regimes: C. Saraceno, WZB Berlin and University of Torino – Gender inequality in production and reproduction
- 4th September 2008 - Life course disparities: M. Mills, University of Groningen – EHA techniques in comparative analysis of life course disparities
- 5th September 2008 - Well being and social deprivation: C. Whelan, ESRI, Dublin, & M. Lucchini University of Milano Bicocca – Latent class analysis and Self organising maps. Techniques in the comparative study of multiple deprivation
- 6th September 2008 - Inequality within and between households: J. Gershuny, Nuffield College, Oxford– How to measure gender and households inequalities using large data sets on time budget data
Equalsoc is responsible for the substantive lectures, while ECSR will organise the methodological lectures. For any further information on the Summer School organisation, please contact Federica Santangelo at the following e-mail address: [email protected]
For more information and an application form visit the following link: www.equalsoc.org/97