The changing nature of work and family life will be examined – past, present and future – during a day-long seminar at the University of Aberdeen’s Linklater Rooms tomorrow, Thursday, .
The day will bring together policy makers, including Ceridwen Roberts, Director of the Family Policy Studies Centre, Barnados, Children in Scotland, Health Promotions, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, employers, and more with prestigious speakers from the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol, Essex and London to talk about how policy makers and practitioners – academics and research users – can work together.
Issues to be discussed will include the future of work, work intensification, family-friendly policies and flexible working. New forms and features of work, such as job insecurity, flexible working and the feminisation of paid work will be explored, as well as their likely future trends and their impact on gender relations, family life and well being. The seminar will also include discussion of policy responses to these changes.
The seminar is the first in a series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and hosted by the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research and the Department of Management Studies at the University of Aberdeen. The series will provide a forum for the discussion of cutting-edge research on the impact of the changing labour market on families, children and mental health. Four seminars are planned, The Changing Nature of Work and Family Life (November 23), Experiencing New Forms of Work (May 2001), Households, Families and the Changing Nature of Work (November 2001), and Work-Family Challenges Across the Generations (February 2002).
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University Press Office on telephone +44 (0)1224-273778 or email a.ramsay@admin.abdn.ac.uk.