In this seminar Professor Fiona Williams will talk about her most recent book, Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Polity, 2021). The book provides a new and critical analytical and ethical agenda for social policy and social work. The lecture will be followed by comments from a panel of scholars in social work and social policy from OsloMet, and a Q&A session with the audience.
Discussants
Dr Håvard Aaslund, Dr Ariana Guilherme Fernandes, Professor Cecilie Basberg Neumann and Dr Alejandro Miranda Nieto
Chair
Professor Rune Halvorsen
About Fiona Williams
Fiona Williams is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds. Her roles at Leeds included Director of the ESRC CAVA Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare. Fiona’s publications have for many years been central to developing critical approaches to social policy. Her latest book Social Policy. A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Polity, 2021) brings the global crises of care, climate change, and racialized borders to bear on an understanding of social policy.
