DWP Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) Workshop
In May 2019 Public Policy|Southampton have organised a workshop for colleagues from DWP to discuss key topics around the Department’s Areas of Research Interests. The one day agenda included the following presentations:
Employment and Progression
- Pauline Leonard, Professor of Sociology, talk on skills, work and diversity
- Corrado Giulietti, Head of Economics, Professor of Economics, talk on migration and its broader impact
- Dr Krishanthi Vithana, Lecturer in Accounting, talk on living wage and wage equality
Disability and Health
- Mike Wald, Professor in Accessible Technologies, talk on AI and inclusion
- Dr Cathy Linaker, Senior Research Fellow, Co-investigator on the Health and Employment after Fifty (HEAF) study, talk on HEAF and how to minimise the adverse impacts of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace
Security in Later Life
- Traute Meyer, Professor of Social Policy talk on pensions
- Paul Bridgen, Associate Professor in Social Policy talk on the impact of auto-enrolled workplace pensions on attitudes towards work, savings and finance
- Maria Evandrou, Professor of Gerontology, Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing, talk on informal care and employment trade-offs in mid-life
- Athina Vlachantoni, Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy, talk on ethnic differentials in pension protection
Cross-cutting research methods
- Dr Christine Currie, Associate Professor of Operational Research, Director of the Centre in Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems (CORMSIS), talk on introduction to CORMSIS
- Martin Kunc, Head of Departmental Decision Analytics and Risk, talk on analytics and operational research
Service Delivery
- Nikos Tzavidis, Head of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, Professor of Statistical Methodology talk on statistical methods relevant to DWP work
- Sally Brailsford, Professor of Management Science at Southampton Business School talk on service delivery
Children and Families
- Ann Berrington, Professor of Demography and Social Statistics, talk on families and housing inequalities
- Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris, Associate Professor in Demography, talk on partnership dynamics and relationship quality