(3) Open Seminar:
Tackling Child Poverty: Lessons from the UK and New Frontiers in Japan

 

Programme

Venue: Doshisha University, Kyoto
Time: January 9th, 2012 10:00～17:00

10.00 — Opening Words
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University

10.10 — Session 1: Child Benefits
Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York:
The New Government and Family Related Benefits in the UK

Michihiko Tokoro, Osaka City University:
Policy Responses to Child Poverty and the Limits of Japanese Welfare System: Lessons from Child Benefit Reform

12.00 — Lunch

10.10 — Session 2: Understanding Child Poverty and Social Exclusion
Moderator: Hirotoshi Yano, Mukogawa Women's University

Esther Dermott, University of Bristol:
Promoting Parenting: a UK response to improving outcomes for children
Comment: Aya ABE (IPSS)

Ichiro Matsumoto, Hokkaido University:
Child poverty and 'overlapping disadvantages'
Comment: Christina Pantazis (University of Bristol)

14.45 — Break

10.10 — Session 3 Tackling Child Poverty
Moderator: M.Mensendiek, Doshisha University

Naomi Yuzawa, Rikkyo University:
Child poverty and social work →
Comment: Aya ABE (IPSS)

T. Uzuhashi, Doshsiha University:
Enhancing 'Competency of Children in Poverty (in Japanese)
Poverty and Competency of Children (in English)
Comment: David Gordon (University of Bristol)

16.45 — Closing Words
Aya ABE (IPSS)

17.15 — Close

湯澤直美　

1961年生まれ。立教大学コミュニティ福祉学部教授。社会福祉学・社会学が専門分野。1985年日本社会事業大学社会福祉学部児童福祉学科卒業、1995年立教大学社会学研究科社会学専攻修士課程修了。主要研究テーマはジェンダー、女性福祉、子どもの貧困、差別、家族福祉、家族政策。特にジェンダーの視点から、社会福祉領域における生活問題にアプローチしている。具体的なテーマとしては、(1)女性問題と社会福祉、(2)いわゆる「マイノリティ家族」の生活問題と社会福祉政策などであるが、さらに(3)「ジェンダーと暴力」をめぐる構造の理論化、(4)家族差別の社会学的研究に取り組んでいきたいと考えている。現在、子どもの貧困の現代的態様に関する研究している。日本社会福祉学会理事を務める。


主な業績

Poverty Invasion (in Japanese), Yamabuki (2007)

Cannot Take it Any More! Spread Poverty: Seeking Reproduction of Human Life (in Japanese), with Utsunomiya, K. and Inomata, T., Akashi Shoten (2007)

Anti-Poverty: Escape from Society Slide (in Japanese), Iwanami Shisho (2008)

Anti-Poverty Schools (in Japanese), with Utsunomiya, K., Akashi Shoten (2008)

Anti-Poverty Schools 2 (in Japanese), with Utsunomiya, K., Akashi Shoten (2009)

Drill through the Rock: Work of "Activist" Makoto Yuasa (in Japanese), Bunshun (2009)

Do not Come, Poverty! (in Japanese), Rironsha, (2009)

Youth and Poverty: Now, the Hope from Here (in Japanese), with Togashi, M., Uema, Y. and Nihei, N. (eds.), Akashi Shoten (2009)

Find the Light in the Darkness: From the Scene of Poverty and Suicide (in Japanese), with Shimizu, Y., Iwanami (2010)


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