Skopje Conference
A few weeks ago I was - out-of-the-blue - invited to speak at a conference in Skopje, Macedonia, on ‘Contemporary Challenges in Theory and Practice of Social Work and Social Policy’ organised as part of a celebration of 50 years of social work and social policy education in Macedonia. The conference took place a few days ago:
Skopje Conference Poster
It was my first trip to the region and a great opportunity to meet some new people. Amongst those from or working in the region there were: former York PhD student Eda Tahiraj; conference co-organiser Maja Gerovska Mitev (University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia); Adrian Dan (Research Institute for Quality of Life, Bucharest, Romania); Mojca Novak (Business and Management School in Novo mesto, Slovenia), Natalija Perišić (University of Belgrade, Serbia); Paul Stubbs (Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia); Vanja Branica (University of Zagreb, Croatia).
I presented a paper from the fuzzy set ideal type analysis of productive and protective welfare state types that I have been working on with Stefan Kühner; a book from the conference with a chapter by us will be appearing in early 2008. An earlier version of the work can be downloaded from the ASPC 2007 website.
