Leaving no one behind in a Pandemic Recovery
Enabling Employment Services through Governance, Collaboration and Co-Production
Friday 14th May 2021
10am - 4.15pm
Hosted by the ACA PES, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI),
Discussing enabling public employment services with an exciting lineup of national and international speakers.
Organised by Prof Mary Murphy ([email protected]) Dr Nuala Whelan ([email protected]) & Dr Michael McGann ([email protected])
Morning Schedule - Enabling activation? International best practice, assessing Irish policy
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10:00 | Welcome Professor Linda Connolly Director of Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) |
Introduction Professor Mary P Murphy, ACAPES, Maynooth University | |
Session 1: 10.10-11am | A capability and collaborative approach to employability for most distanced |
Chair Jean Michel Bonvin (University of Geneva)
Flemming Larsen and Dorte Caswell (Aalborg University, Denmark) Co-creation and employment services: lessons from Denmark Q & A |
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Session 2 11.05-12.00 | Governance, marketisation and Institutions – delivering activation |
Chair: Jay Wiggan (Edinburgh)
Impacts of marketisation on PES delivery in Ireland - (GAII, Michael McGann, MU) Re-imagining public employment services and institutions (ACAPES Mary Murphy) Q &A |
Afternoon Schedule - Enabling Employment Guidance, research perspectives on Activation in Ireland
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Session 3 2pm – 3.15pm | Model for Enabling Employment Guidance: Toolkit and Progression Metrics. |
Chair: Mary Ryan MU Dept Adult and Community Education
Deirdre Hughes OBE, DMH Associates (UK) Contextualising employment guidance Nuala Whelan (ACAPES) : Model of Enabling Employment Guidance: Toolkit and Metrics Respondents: |
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Session 4 3.15 – 4.15pm | Launch of Special Issue of Administration: Activation and Welfare Reform in Ireland |
Chair Muiris McCarthaigh (QUB) Plugging the Gaps for a More Tailored Public Employment Service: Helen Johnston and Anne Marie McGuaran (National Economic and Social Council) Navigating indifference: Irish jobseekers experiences of welfare conditionality - Philip Finn (MU)Opening the Black box of Implementing Activation in Ireland: Nuala Whelan (MU) Sacrificial citizens? Activation and retrenchment in Ireland’s political economy. Fiona Dukelow (UCC) |
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Response: Brid O Brien (INOU/ACAPES Advisory Committee) Dr Delma Byrne Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology |
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Close- Mary Murphy and Nuala Whelan (ACAPES) , Michael McGann (GAII) |
Speakers include:
Jean Michel Bonvin, University of Geneva
Flemming Larsen and Dorte Caswell , Aalborg University, Denmark
Colin Lindsay, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Jay Wiggan, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy University of Edinburgh
Mary Ryan, Maynooth University Dept Adult and Community Education
Deirdre Hughes OBE, DMH Associates
Ciaran Reid, Irish Local Development Network
Mary Stokes, National Centre for Guidance in Education
Jenny Bimrose, NI Institute for Employment Research, The University of Warwick
Muiris McCarthaigh, Queens University Belfast
Helen Johnston and Anne Marie McGuaran, National Economic and Social Council
Philip Finn, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University
Fiona Dukelow, University College Cork
Brid O’Brien, INOU/ACAPES Advisory Committee
Recordings of all 4 sessions
Sessions 1 & 2
Sessions 3 & 4