Collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
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