(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
Masami Iwata
Masami Iwata is professor of social welfare at the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Science, Japan Women's University and the director of Research Institute for Women and Careers since 2008. She was a visiting researcher at Princeton University during 2001-2002. She received her master degree in Social Policy from Graduate School of Economics, Chuo University in 1971 and a PhD in Social Welfare. Her research interest mainly focuses on poverty and social welfare policy, panel studies and poverty dynamics, homeless and social exclusion. She was awarded the Academy Award by the Society for the Study of Social Policy in 1995 for her book The Most Base and Metropolitan Postwar Expansion of Social Welfare (Minerva, 1995), and the Fukutake Tadashi Award in 1997. She has written extensively on public policies, social welfare in Japan, social exclusion and poverty problems.
Selected Recent Publications
Poverty and Social Work: Theory of Public Assistance (in Japanese), with Okabe, T. and Shimizu, K., Yuhikaku (2003)
"Homelessness in Contemporary Japan" Izuhara, M. (eds.) Comparing Social Policies: Exploring new perspectives in Britain and Japan, Policy Press (2003)
"New Poverty and Strategies for 'Social Exclusion'" Uyama, K. and Kobayashi, R. (eds.) Focus of the New Social Welfare (in Japanese), Mitsuokan (2004)
Poverty and Social Exclusion: What Undermine the Social Welfare (in Japanese), with Nishizawa, A., Minerva (2005)
Poverty in Contemporary Japan: Working Poor/ Homeless/ Social Security (in Japanese), Chikuma (2007)
"Social Exclusion and Homelessness" Hirayama, Y. and Ronald, R. (eds.) Housing and Social Transition in Japan, Routledge (2007)
Social Exclusion: Lack of Participation, Uncertain Attribution (in Japanese), Yuhikaku Insight (2008)
Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan (with Akihiko Nishizawa), Trans Pacific Press (2008)
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