'Perspectives on Care' Seminar Series

The Hub would like to help promote the next seminar series of the Department of Social Policy at the University of Oxford on Perspectives on Care

The seminars will usually take at place Barnett House (32 Wellington Square) every Thursday 16:00-17.30 for eight weeks starting from January 23. 

The talk by Catherine Needham on February 6 will instead take place in Green Templeton Lecture Theatre.

The list of speakers can be found below:

  • Fiona Williams, University of Leeds: Care, Intersectionality, and Ethics (Jan 23)

  • Hanne Marlene Dahl, Roskilde University: Neoliberalism and Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States (Jan 30)

  • Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham: The Politics of Social Care Reform in the UK: Delivery, Drift or Decay? (Feb 6) - this event is co-organized with the Care Initiative of Green Templeton College

  • Shirin Rai, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring? (Feb 13)

  • Kate Hamblin and Grace Whitfield, Centre for Care University of Sheffield:  AI in Care: Augmentation or Depletion? (Feb 20)

  • Tania Burchardt, London School of Economics: Disability, Capability and Care (Feb. 27)

  • Jerome de Henau, The Open University: The Purposes and Pitfalls of a Post-growth Caring Economy (March 6)

  • Jo Littler, Goldsmiths University of London: From Care to Carewashing…and Back Again? (March 13)

All weekly sessions can also be attended online by signing up to each event here.