Global Alliance for Educational Change and Social Development
Programmes

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10 April 2015 ( Friday )
0930 - 1145 Keynote Speech III
by Prof Nicola Yeates, Open University
Situating Regions in Global Worlds: Towards a ‘New’ Politics of Social Policy?
(Facilitator: Prof Xiu Chen Cravens, Vanderbilt University)
Council Chamber
1200 - 1300 Discussion Forum I
(Moderator:)
  • Prof Joshua Mok, HKIEd [Managing Changing Labour Market Needs and “Brain Drain” Problems: A Study of Motivation of Students and Implications for Social Development in China]
  • Prof Ywen-wen Ku, National Taiwan University
  • Dean Julia O’Sullivan, University of Toronto
  • Dr. Antonios Roumpakis, University of York [Exploring the Institutional Conditions for Family Provision in South Europe and East Asia]
Council Chamber
1415 - 1530 Discussion Forum II
(Moderator:)
  • Prof Aki Yonezawa, Nagoya University
  • Dr Stefan Kuhner, University of York [Human Capital, Redistribution and Growth: When do we know what we think we know?]
  • Prof Nick Ellison, University of York [Transferring What From Whom? Policy Learning in a Highly Competitive World]
Council Chamber
1545 - 1700 Discussion Forum III
(Moderator:)
  • Prof King-lun Ngok, Sun Yat-sen University
  • Dr Keerty Nakray, O.P. Jindal Global University [India’s Emerging Social Policy Paradigm: Productivist, Protectionist or a Rentier State?]
  • Dr Mulyadi Sumarto, Gadjah Mada University [Welfare Regime Transformation and Global Social Policy: Evidence from Indonesia]
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