Eastern Arc DWP Workshop: programme and registration available
11 June 2021
The programme for our forthcoming workshop with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now available. It’s a great opportunity to hear from DWP and discuss their plans with them, but also to hear about the research going on in the area across Eastern Arc.
The event is free and open to anyone, within EARC or beyond.
Format of the event
The event will take the form of two half-day online workshops on 28 and 29 June 2021. Each day will open with an introduction to the DWP ARIs, and then a series of short (15 minute) research presentations given by academics and researchers from the three EARC universities. These will be followed by Q&As, before breaking out into parallel sessions when participants can discuss the research in more depth with individual speakers.
Programme
The programme is available in a simple form below, or as a formatted Google doc with speakers’ biographies and abstracts.
To register, click here.
| Session 1: Monday 28 June | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and introductions | |
| 10:00 | Welcome
Phil Ward, Director of Eastern Arc |
| 10:10 | The development of the DWP working-age modelling and forecasting approach through the Covid period
Dr Dave Pankhurst, Working Age Model Development Lead, DWP Working Age Modelling & Forecasting Division |
| 10:30 – 12:10 Academic spotlight sessions | |
| 10:30 | New maps of economic insecurity
Prof Matteo Richiardi, University of Essex |
| 10:45 | The added worker effect as a coping strategy for everyone? Transitions to activity of inactive ethnic minority women in the UK
Katrin Gasior, PhD student, University of Essex |
| 11:00 | Q&A
Chair: Prof John Preston, Social Sciences Faculty Dean (Research), University of Essex |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:25 | Intrahousehold inequality and gender impacts of taxes and benefits: UK vs other European countries
Dr Silvia Avram and Dr Daria Popova, University of Essex |
| 11:40 | Falling behind? Eligibility for parental leave in the UK and EU27
Dr Matthew Aldrich and Prof Sara Connolly, University of East Anglia |
| 11:55 | Q&A
Chair: Prof John Preston, Social Sciences Faculty Dean (Research), University of Essex |
| 12:10 – 12:30 Breakout room discussions | |
| 12:10 | Join the academic speakers for informal discussion and collaboration |
| 12:30 End | |
| Session 2: Tuesday 29 June | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and introductions | |
| 10:00 | Welcome
Phil Ward, Director of Eastern Arc |
| 10:10 | Overview from the DWP Central Analysis and Science Strategy Unit
Dr Tim Willis, Principal Research Officer, DWP Central Analysis and Science Directorate |
| 10:30 – 12:10 Academic spotlight sessions | |
| 10:30 | Workers’ access to and the outcomes of flexible working
Dr Heejung Chung, University of Kent |
| 10:45 | Hours and pay uncertainty in the UK
Dr Silvia Avram, University of Essex |
| 11:00 | Q&A
Chair: Phil Ward, Eastern Arc |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:25 | Developing a tool to guide cost-evaluation and implementation of workplace health and wellbeing practices
Prof Kevin Daniels, University of East Anglia |
| 11:40 | Investigating the role of debt advice on borrowers’ wellbeing: an encouragement study on a new sample of over-indebted people in Britain
Dr Laura Fumagalli, Prof Peter Lynn and Dr Jair Muñoz-Bugarin, University of Essex |
| 11:55 | Q&A
Chair: Phil Ward, Eastern Arc |
| 12:10 – 12:30 Breakout room discussions | |
| 12:10 | Join the academic speakers for informal discussion and collaboration |
| 12:30 End | |