(1) Research Seminar:
The State of Art of Measuring Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK and Japan
Programme
Venue: Meeting Room 4 & 5, IPSS, Tokyo
Time: January 6th, 2012 9:00～17:00
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9:00-9:15 — Welcome
Dr Nishimura, Director, IPSS
9:15-10:00 — Session 1
Masami Iwata, Japan Women's University:
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Japan —
An Overview from the 1990s and Recent Policy Responses
10:00-11:30 — Session 2: Inequality in Comparative Context
Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield:
Is Japan more equal than the UK?
Tomoki Nakaya, Ritsumeikan University:
Regional inequality in UK and Japan
11:30-12:00 — Lunch
12:00-13:30 — Session 3: Measuring PSE
David Gordon, University of Bristol:
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: The State of the Art
Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York:
Child Poverty and Social Exclusion
13:30-15:00 — Session 4: Comparing Socially Perceived Necessities
Christina Pantazis, University of Bristol:
The Necessities of Life in the UK
Aya Abe, IPSS:
Public Perception of Necessities in Japan
15:00-15:30 — Break
15:30-17:00 — Session 5: Comparing Minimum Income Standards
Abigail Davis, Loughborough University:
Comparing Minimum Income Standards: MIS in the UK →
18:00 — Welcome Dinner
Abigail Davis
Abby Davis is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at the University of Loughborough. She has contributed to projects across all the Centre's key areas of work, in particular specialising in designing and using qualitative methodology and researching vulnerable groups. She has worked on the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) programme since its inception. The MIS research is an ongoing programme of work based at CRSP. The MIS is rooted in social consensus about the goods and services that everyone in modern Britain needs, while at the same time drawing on expert knowledge about basic living requirements.
Contact details: A.A.I.Davis@lboro.ac.uk
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