Dr Traute Meyer

Traute Meyer

PhD

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Reader in Social Policy
Telephone: (023) 8059 5666
Email: T.Meyer@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Traute joined the Division in January 2000. After receiving a Diploma in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin, she had a PhD studentship at the Research Unit "Labour Market Policy and Employment" of the Social Science Research Center Berlin. In 1995 she was awarded a PhD from the Department of Political Science of the Free University of Berlin, where she taught as a lecturer between 1994 and 1999.

Research interests

Her work contributes to comparative welfare state research in Europe and it explores in particular the role of private agents as social policy players in European pension regimes. In recent years she was involved in two six-country comparative projects. She was the scientific co-ordinator (with P. Bridgen) of "Private Pensions and Social Inclusion in Europe" (January 2003-October 2005; EU, FP5), and principal investigator for the British part of "Formal and informal work in Europe " (11/02-09/05; EU, FP5). She was also a member of the COST A 13 group on "Gender and Social Care in Europe (2000-3). Since January 2007 Traute has been one of the editors of the Journal of European Social Policy and she is a board member of the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet, www.espanet.org)

Teaching activities

Traute teaches comparative social policy on undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Work in progress

Traute will be a co-investigator (with J. Clasen, P-I, and A Smith, University of Edinburgh) in the ESRC funded research project: "Welfare markets and personal risk management in England and Scotland", from October 2009-November 2011. The project will explore quantitatively and qualitatively how and why middle class households develop different strategies responding to current financial risks. Until October 2008 (10/06-09/08) Traute was team leader of the research project "The reconstruction of British and German pension regimes" (with P. Bridgen, Southampton and B. Riedmüller, Berlin). The project is a part of the research initiative "Sustainable welfare and sustainable growth - towards a new social settlement in Germany and the United Kingdom?", coordinated by Jochen Clasen (Edinburgh), funded by the Anglo-German Foundation. The results of this project will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010/11.

Roles

Head of Teaching Programmes, Sociology and Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences

Selected publications

Books
 T. Meyer 1997 Unequally Better? - The Economic Independence of Women and the Expansion of the Welfare State (in German). edition sigma.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 3-89404-168-4)
Edited books and volumes
 T. Meyer; P. Bridgen; B. Riedmüller (eds) 2007 Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? Non-state Arrangements for Citizens at Risk in Europe Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? Non-state Provision for Citizens at Risk in Europe. www.e-elgar.co.uk: Edward Elgar.  On-line abstract
Chapters in books
 T. Meyer; G. Baxendale 2009 Formal and Informal Work in a Liberal Regime – The Case of Britain. In B. Pfau-Effinger, L. Flaquer, P. H. Jensen (eds), Formal and Informal Work. The Hidden Work Regime in Europe (pp. 117-142). http://www.routledgesociology.com/books
 P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2008 Politically dominant but socially flawed: projected pension levels for citizens at risk in six European multi-pillar pension systems. In M. Seeleib-Kaiser (ed.), Welfare State Transformations: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 111-131). Palgrave Macmillan.
 K.M. Anderson; T. Meyer 2006 New Social Risks and Pension Reform in Germany and Sweden: The Politics of Pension Rights for Child care. In Armingeon, K and Bonoli, G (eds), Post Industrial Welfare States. Politics and Policies (pp. 171-191). Routledge.
 T. Meyer 2005 Political actors and the modernization of care policies in Britain and Germany. In B. Pfau-Effinger; B. Geissler (ed.), Care Arrangements in Europe. Variations and Change (pp. 281-305). Policy Press.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 1861346042)
 K. M. Anderson; T. Meyer 2004 The Third Way in Welfare State Reform? Social Democratic Pension Politics in Germany and Sweden. In G. Bonoli; M. Powell (ed.), Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe (pp. 141-160). Routledge.  On-line abstract
 T. Meyer 2002 Path dependent or neo-classical? Lessons from the Dynamics of the British Welfare Sector. In K. Gotschall; B. Pfau-Effinger (ed.), Gender and the Future of Employment (pp. 231-248). Opladen: Leske und Budrich., (in German)
 T. Meyer 1999 The Lady and the Nuisances. Princess Diana and the Politics of the British Conservatives Against Single Parents (in German). In S. Berghahn; S. Koch-Baumgarten (ed.), Myth Diana. From the Princess of Wales to the Queen of Hearts (pp. 175-190). Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag.
 T. Meyer 1999 Childcare in Transition. The Modernisation of Conservative Social Policy since 1990 (in German). In Lost, C. & Oberhuemer, P. (eds), Children are Citizens (pp. 65-73). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.
 T. Meyer 1997 In the Shadow of Crisis - on the end of the "Working Society" and the Public Service of Women (in German). In B. Kerchner; G. Wilde (ed.), Staat und Privatheit. Leske + Budrich., (ISBN: 3-8100-1665-9)
 T. Meyer 1997 Against "Self Service Economy" and "Breadwinner Model"? An Assessment of the Possibility to Expand Employment by Subsidising Consumer Services in Germany (in German). In Behning, U. (eds), The Private is Economic. The Economisation of Services in Private Households (pp. 189-205). Berlin: edition sigma.
 T. Meyer 1994 The German and British Welfare States as Employers: Patriarchal or Emancipatory? In Sainsbury, D. (eds), Engendering Welfare States: Combining Insights of Feminist and Mainstream Research (pp. 62-81). London: Sage.
Articles in journals
 P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2009 The politics of occupational pension reform in Britain and the Netherlands: the power of market discipline in liberal and corporatist regimes. West European Politics , Volume 32, Issue 3, 586 – 610.  On-line abstract  On-line article
 P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2009 Social rights, social justice and pension outcomes in four multi-pillar systems. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, Volume 25, issue 2, 129-137.  On-line abstract  On-line article
 T. Meyer; P. Bridgen 2008 Class, Gender and Chance: the social division of welfare and the occupational pensions in the UK . Ageing & Society, 28 (3), 353-381 .  On-line abstract  On-line article
 T. Meyer; B. Pfau-Effinger 2006 Gender Arrangements and Pension Systems in Britain and Germany: Tracing Change over Five Decades. Journal of Ageing in Later Life, 1:2, 67–110 .  On-line abstract  On-line article
 P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2005 When do benevolent employers change their mind? Explaining the Retrenchment of Defined-benefit Pensions in Britain. Social Policy and Administration, 39 (7), 764-785.  On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0144-5596)
 K. M. Anderson; T. Meyer 2003 Social Democracy, Unions, and Pension Politics in Germany and Sweden. Journal of Public Policy, volume 23 number 1, 23-55.  On-line abstract
 T. Meyer 2003 Politics of the Understanding for the Weak? Explaining the expansion of family policies - the case of Britain (in German). Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 49 (4), 596-612., (in German)
 T. Meyer, J. Lepperhoff and B. Riedmüller 2001 Women's old age provision in Germany and Switzerland. An Assessment of Reform Processes (in German). Leviathan. Journal for Social Science, 2 (29), 199-217.
 T. Meyer 2000 Notes from a Booming Island. How Economic Success and Social Inequality in Britain Go Together and What Difference New Labour Makes (in German). Femina Politica, 2/2000, 38-49.
 T. Meyer 1999 More Jobs through Services? An Introduction (in German). WSI-Mitteilungen, 4 (52), Special Issue, 217-222.
 T. Meyer 1998 Retrenchment, Reproduction, Modernization: Pension Politics and the Decline of the German Breadwinner Model. Journal of European Social Policy, volume 8 number 3, 212-227.
 T. Meyer 1998 The Erosion of the traditional German Breadwinner Model - socio-economic and institutional factors (in German). Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Heft 11/12, 818-838., (ISSN: 0514-2776)
 T. Meyer 1996 Why now? The Introduction of a Right to Public Childcare During the Crisis of the Welfare State (in German). Diskurs, 2/96, 62-67.
Web based
 P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2005 Towards a ‘balanced’ approach to pensions reform? Individuals, the state and employers in the restructuring of post-retirement income in the UK. Discussion paper of the Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, City of London. 9.PI-0509  On-line article
Reports
 B. Riedmüller, J. Lepperhoff, T. Meyer 2000 Old age protection of women in the European Union and Switzerland (in German). In German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (eds), . Report to Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Research Report 282). Berlin: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
 T. Meyer 1997 Housework as Paid Work? Possibilities and Limits of Transforming Housework into Service Employment (in German). In Gersson, Raul (eds), . Report to Housework as Paid Work. Berlin: Department of Labour.15-22
 T. Meyer 1997 Is Social Policy a Risk for Women´s Pensions? (in German). In Sozialverband VdK Bavaria (ed.), . Report to Politics - A Risk for Pensions. Germany: DVFR.45-64