Social Security in Crisis Mode (SoSiKri)
News Archive
News Archive
2025
- 30/09 – SoSiKri members Dr John Berten, Nicolas Barden, Tiantian Li and Olivia Whelan published two podcast episodes on the topics of eco-social policy and inequality. Click here to listen: SoSiKri Podcast
- 27-29/08 – SoSiKri members presented the following papers at the 23rd ESPAnet Annual Conference in Milan, Italy:
- Nicolas Barden – "Power and Policy Capacity in Social Security Systems – Eco-Social Policy Integration in Germany’s Social Insurance"
- Nicolas Barden and Olivia Whelan – "Eco-social policy integration in social security systems: A multilevel governance analysis of insurance models in the EU and Germany"
- John Berten and Nicolas Barden – "Adaptive and shock-responsive social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Responsibilization of individuals or tackling the structural conditions of vulnerability?"
- Tiantian Li and John Berten – "Social Security, Welfare States and Ecological Crises: A Quantitative Comparison of Social Security Reforms in Africa and Latin America"
- Olivia Whelan and John Berten – "Discursive fragmentation in the global governance of eco-social security: Competing ideas and mandate-driven agendas"
- 18-22/08 – The SoSiKri doctoral students presented the following papers at the 14th Nordwel Summer School in Odense, Denmark:
- Nicolas Barden and Olivia Whelan – "Eco-social policy integration in social security systems: A multilevel governance analysis of insurance models in the EU and Germany"
- Tiantian Li – "Social Security, Welfare States and Ecological Crises: A Quantitative Comparison of Social Security Reforms in Africa and Latin America"
- 06-11/07 – Dr John Berten presented the paper "Eco-social security: Understanding welfare state changes in response to ecological challenges" (co-authored by John Berten, Nicolas Barden, Tiantian Li, Olivia Whelan) at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco
- 04-06/06 – Dr John Berten presented the paper "Eco-social security: Understanding welfare state changes in response to ecological challenges" (co-authored by John Berten, Nicolas Barden, Tiantian Li, Olivia Whelan) at the 31st International FISS Conference in Sigtuna/Sweden
- 23-25/04 – Olivia Whelan and Dr John Berten presented their paper "Discursive fragmentation in the global governance of eco-social security: Competing ideas and mandate-driven agendas" at the workshop "The (Im)possibility of Global Eco-Social Policy", Bielefeld University
- 01/04 – The SoSiKri team welcomed a third student research assistant, Miriam Pleis
- 17/03 – Dr John Berten, Olivia Whelan and Nicolas Barden published a further blogpost on Eco-social (After)thoughts? Germany’s Election Programmes under the Microscope
- 20/01 – Nicolas Barden published a blogpost on Climate Change and Inequality
- 15/01 – Dr John Berten, Nicolas Barden, Tiantian Li and Olivia Whelan presented and discussed "How to approach eco-social security" at the DIFIS Werkstatt Sozialpolitikforschung, Bremen University, online
- 2024
- 04/12 – Nicolas Barden began conducting his first expert interviews
- 27/11 – Olivia Whelan began conducting her first expert interviews
- 01/10 – The three doctoral students Nicolas, Tiantian and Olivia began their empirical research
- 29/09 – Project leader Dr John Berten published a further blogpost "How the future impacts the present in social policy"
- 29/09 – The SoSiKri team published their first blogpost "Social Security in Crisis Mode"
- 01/08 – A second student research assistant Ghurni Bhattacharya was welcomed to the SoSiKri team
- 01/07 – The SoSiKri team welcomed a third doctoral student Nicolas Barden
- 01/06 – Two doctoral students Tiantian Li and Olivia Jane Whelan were welcomed to the SoSiKri team
- 01/04 – SoSiKri project leader Dr John Berten and student research assistant Marcel-Leon Floren began their roles in the project
- 01/04 – The SoSiKri project, funded by the Funding Network for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (FIS), commenced