Dr Milena Buchs
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Position: Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy
Telephone: (023) 8059 7547
Email: M.Buechs@soton.ac.uk
Biography
Joined the Division of Sociology and Social Policy in 2005
PhD Political Science, Humboldt University Berlin, 2005 (with distinction)
MSc and BSc in Sociology, Free University Berlin (second subjects: Politics and Economics) (with distinction)
Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change Research and the Environment, London School of Economics, March-May 2009
Marie Curie Fellow (EU funded) at the Centre for Comparative Research in Social Welfare, University of Stirling (December 2002-November 2003)
Research interests
The third sector and the environment
Climate change and social inequality
Welfare governance (particularly in relation to "activation" and social inclusion)
Teaching activities
UG level
SOCI1003 Social Problems and Social Policy
SOCI2017 Class Structure and Social Inequality
MSc level
SOCI6042 Key Debates in Social Policy
SOCI6040/SOCI6041 Qualitative Methods
Milena also contributes lectures on EU climate change policy to the Green Politics modules INTR3010 and INTR6016 and a lecture on "Energy and Society" to the Civil Engineering MSc module CENV6142 "Energy, Environment and Sustainability".
Work in progress
- 2009-2012 Project on the "Third Sector and the Environment", part of the ESRC/TSO funded Third Sector Research Centre, together with Graham Smith, Politics
- The distribution of CO2 emissions across UK households (ESRC grant)
- Comparative project on the spatial reconfiguration of "activation" policies in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the US (together with Mariely Lopez-Santana, Assistant Professor George Mason University, US)
Selected publications
| Books | |
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| Buchs, M 2007 New Governance in European Social Policy. The Open Method of Coordination. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| Chapters in books | |
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| Buchs, M 2009 Directly-deliberative polyarchy – a suitable democracy model for European social policy? In Ervik, R. Kildal, N. Nilssen, E, The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy. Ideas, Actors and Impact (pp. 49-71). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. | |
| Buchs, M; Hinrichs, K 2007 Germany - Moving towards Europe but putting national autonomy first. In: The Europeanisation of Social Protection (pp. 21-40). Bristol: Policy Press. | |
| Buchs, M 2005 Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Researching the Open Method of Co-ordination. In Hantrais, L; MacGregor, S and Mangen, S (eds), European Cross-National Research and Policy, Cross-National Research Papers, Seventh Series: Special Issue (pp. 39-46). Leicestershire: European Research Centre Loughborough University. | |
| Buchs, M and Friedrich, D 2005 Surface Integration. The National Action Plans for employment and social inclusion in Germany. In Zeitlin, J; Pochet, P and Magnusson, L (eds), The Open Method of Co-ordination in Action. The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies, Brussels et al (pp. 249-285). Brussels: Peter Lang., (ISBN: 90-5201-280-6) | |
| Articles in journals | |
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| Buchs, M 2009 Examining the interaction between vertical and horizontal dimensions of state transformation. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2 (1), 35-49. | |
| Buchs, M 2009 The Open Method of Coordination – Effectively preventing welfare state retrenchment? European Integration online Papers (EIoP) (special issue 1 "What we have learnt: Advances, pitfalls and remaining questions in OMC research", Kröger, S. ed.), Vol 13 | |
| Buchs, M 2008 How legitimate is the Open Method of Coordination? Journal of Common Market Studies, 46 (4), 765–786. | |
| Buchs, M 2008 The Open Method of Coordination as a ‘two-level game’. Policy & Politics, 36, 1, 21-37. | |
| Buchs, M 2005 The European Employment Strategy - effective and democratic? WeltTrends, 13 (47), 41-54., German article, original title: "EU-Beschäftigungsstrategie - effektiv und demokratisch?" | |
| Reports | |
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| Pflüger, A; Baer, S; Schlick, G; Buchs, M and Kalender, U 2002 Beschäftigtenschutzgesetz in der Praxis. Bericht, München und Berlin: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend. Report to Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend On-line article | |
| Seminar and conference presentations | |
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| Buchs, M; Duwe, S; Bardsley, N 2009 "Green" ways of financing the welfare state? Paper presented to European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) conference. Urbino (Italy), 17-19 September 2009 | |
| Buchs, M; Schnepf, S; Bardsley, N 2009 UK households' carbon footprints. An analysis of the distribution of CO2 emissions and their association with socio-economic factors - A project outline. Paper presented to Workshop "Barriers to Environmental Sustainability". University of Southampton, 23 September 2009 | |
| Buchs, M May 2008 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Stakeholder Involvement . Paper presented to Energising Europe: Climate Change, Energy Security & Europe’s Next Big Project. London, 16-17 May 2008. UACES | |
| Buchs, M; Lopéz-Santana, Mariely 2008 The Multilevel Governance of Welfare States in Europe: The decentralization of labour market policies in four member states. Paper presented to the Social Policy Association Conference, Edinburgh, 25 June 2008 | |
| Lopez-Santana, Mariely; Buchs, Milena 2008 Labor Market Policy Decentralization in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy—Dynamics and Reasons, presented at the 16th International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, 6-8 March 2008 | |
| Buchs, M 2007 Directly-deliberative polyarchy - a suitable democracy model for European social policy? Paper presented to workshop 'International Actors and Naitonal Welfare Policies', Stein Rokkan Centre of Social Studies, University of Bergen, 8-9 June 2007 | |
| Buchs, M 2007 A new role for the varieties of (welfare) capitalism approach in examining welfare state 'decentration'. Presented at the 5th ESPAnet Conference 'Social Policy in Europe: changing paradigms in an enlarged Europe'? Vienna, 20-22 September 2007 On-line article | |
| Buchs, M; López-Santana, M 2007 New Governance and Decentralisation in Employment Policy. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (LSA), Humboldt-University Berlin, 25-28 July 2007 On-line article | |
| Buchs, M; Lopez-Santana, Mariely 2007 Labour market policy decentralisation in Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy. Paper presented to the Regional Studies Association Working Group 'Employability and Labour Market Policy in European and International Perspective, Napier University Business School, Edinburgh, 4th October 2007 | |
| Buchs, M 2006 Legitimacy concepts in the European Employment Strategy. Paper presented to ECPR Joint Sessions, Nicosia, 25-30 April 2006 | |
| Buchs, M 2006 The European Employment Strategy – different responses and how to make sense of them. Paper presented to Employment Research Institute Seminar Series. Friday 30th June 2006, Napier University, Edinburgh | |
| Buchs, M 2006 'Invited dutifulness' and accountability: the Open Method of Coordination's role in national policy-making. Paper presented to DVPW Congress, Ad-hoc group 'European Social Policy in multi-level governance systems', 29 September 2006, Münster | |
| Buchs, M September 2004 Asymmetries of policy learning? The European Employment Strategy and its role in labour market policy reform in Germany and the UK. Paper presented to ESPAnet conference "European Social Policy. Meeting the Needs of a New Europe". 9-11 September 2004, Oxford On-line article | |
| Buchs, M June 2003 The Implementation and Effects of the Open Method of Co-ordination in a Federal System: Employment and Social Inclusion Policy in Germany. Paper presented to Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 5-8 June 2003 | |
| Buchs, M May 2003 The Open Method of Co-Ordination as a model of European Social policy? The effects of the European Employment Strategy on Labour Market Policy in Germany and the United Kingdom. Paper presented to Young Researchers Workshop 'Social Policy in a Changing Europe', organised by the Marie Curie Training Site with ES-PAnet, Centre for Comparative Research in Social Welfare, University of Stirling. University of Stirling, 16th-17th May 2003 | |
| Buchs, M 2003 Zwischen Europäisierung und Diversität - Kompromissbildung durch Recht in der Europäischen Sozialpolitik? Paper presented to Ein Beitrag zur Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin an Prof. Fritz W. Scharpf. 27th November Humboldt-University Berlin | |
| Buchs, M 2003 Formen der Interdisziplinarität und Spezifika der interdisziplinären Rechtsforschung - unter besonderem Bezug zu Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft vorgetragen auf der Konferenz für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen "Rechtsforschung als interdisziplinäre Herausforderung" in Halle, organisiert vom Berliner Arbeitskreis Rechtssoziologie, der Sektion Rechtssoziologie der DGS und der Projektgruppe Rechtspluralismus des Max Planck Instituts für ethnologische Forschung. Paper presented to Proceedings zur Konferenz, veranstaltet vom Berliner Arbeitskreis Rechtswirklichkeit. 2.-3. Juni, Halle an der Saale On-line article, , | |
| Book reviews | |
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| Buchs, M 2008 Welfare Policy from Below: Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe; edited by Heinz Steinert and Arno Pilgram; Aldershot; Ashgate (2007) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 30 (1), 87-89. | |
| Buchs, M 2007 Ashiagbor, D., The European Employment Strategy: Labour Market Regulation and New Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 Journal of European Social Policy, 17 (2), 183. | |
| Buchs, M 2006 Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization Sociology, 40, 6, 1222 - 1223. | |
| Buchs, M 2006 Patricia Kennett (ed.), A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy European Journal of Social Security, 8 (2) June 2006, 223-225. | |
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