School of Social and Political Science

Q-Step Seminar Series - Semester 1 - 2024-25

Save the dates - Q-Step Seminar Series - Semester 1 - 2024-25 

Open to all - no booking required.

30 September - Employing the unemployed workers of Marienthal

Employing the unemployed workers of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job programme and comparison of stated versus revealed preferences

Dr Lukas Lehner - Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy, investigating social policies in a changing world of work with a focus on unemployment, poverty, and worker bargaining power.

Monday 30 September
1pm - 2pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB

14 October - Structural features of social networks

Structural features of social networks are a demonstrable cause of the fidelity or divisiveness of information flowing through them

Dr Peaks Krafft - Lecturer in Computational Sociology, whose research focuses on higher education and tech; personal and institutional accountability; anti-racism in organisations, and conflicts of interest from tech funding.

Monday 14 October
1pm - 2pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB

28 October - Post-school transitions and career decision-making among young people in Scotland

Where to next? Post-school transitions and career decision-making among young people in Scotland: Insights from the Growing Up in Scotland study

Hannah Glover - PhD student in Social Policy at SPS

Monday 28 October
1pm - 2pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB

11 November - Migration Policies, Reproductive Injustice, and Migrant Parents' Health

Migration Policies, Reproductive Injustice, and Migrant Parents' Health.

Dr Laura Sochas - Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy at SPS

Monday 11 November
1pm - 2pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB

25 November - Parental separation and early school leaving: The moderating role of institutional contexts in Europe

Parental separation and early school leaving: The moderating role of institutional contexts in Europe

Dr Kristina Lindemann - Lecturer in Education and Social Statistics, working on social and ethnic inequalities in education and the comparative analysis of educational contexts.

Monday 25 November
1pm - 2pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB