Forthcoming publication (April 2025) Description: Digital PES-in-Action offers a comprehensive exploration of the ongoing digital transformation of public employment services (PES) – the most radical remaking of the welfare state in a generation. As PES shifts from analogue to fully digitised services, this volume bridges… Read More »New Book: Digital Public Employment Services in Action (2025)
HECAT has published its second Policy Brief on “Labour Market Visibility: Data and the Job Search“, available at https://zenodo.org/records/10083367
Dr Aisling Tuite from the South East Technological University in Ireland, Lead Partner of the HECAT project, was interviewed by Horizon Magazine recently. The article is republished here under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Link to original story Easing job… Read More »HECAT results featured in Horizon EU Magazine
The results of the HECAT Project are featured in the latest CORDIS EU Results Pack on “Fostering skills development in the EU for more sustainable, resilient, and fair societies” (July 2023). “In her 2022 State of the Union address, President of the European Commission Ursula… Read More »HECAT results featured in CORDIS EU Results Pack on Skills
We are delighted to draw your attention to a call for abstracts for a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy on “Active social policy and labour market integration in the digital era” Guest editors: Didier Demazière (Sciences Po Paris), Minna van Gerven (University of… Read More »Call for Abstracts: Special Issue Journal of European Social Policy
The Sociological Observer has just published its latest series and we are proud to say that HECAT has 4 articles in this issue with publications by Ray Griffin, Aisling Tuite, Zach Roche, and Antoinette Jordan. The sociological observer publishes original research and reflections by scholars… Read More »The Sociological Observer: Rethinking Welfare in the New Normal
We are very excited to announce that the long awaited book – the reformation of welfare is out today (June 15). Buy it from Bristol University Press here at a temporary 20% discount! Blurb Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test… Read More »Out Now – The Reformation of Welfare
Ray Griffin and Tom Boland – March 23rd – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary states incessantly pursue welfare reform: This talk traces how welfare has been conceptualised from early twentieth century models of social insurance, through the ILO definition of unemployment to the post-war welfare state,… Read More »The Reformation of Welfare