WP24 Responsible

[NEC-7] - New Europe Centre for Regional Studies (Plovdiv)

WP24 Responsible for Spread of Excellence

[NEC-7] - New Europe Centre for Regional Studies (Plovdiv)

WP24 Objectives

• To draw upon a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to examine the interplay of work and family in the changing European societies taking into account the different historic, economic, policy and cultural contexts
• To apply a life-course approach to the changing configurations of resources, values and behaviours.
• To explore the practical implications of the different welfare regimes.
• To offer policy recommendations.

WP24 Description of Work

The work will start with a planning meeting. It is important that at this stage the team identifies possible bridges to other CINEFOGO work packages, such as U, X and P.
The second stage consists of the data collection and analysis required for the publication project. The work package will also build upon a recent FP5 research project ‘Transitions: Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace: Young Adults Negotiating the Work-Family Boundary’ and the European Quality of Life project by Claire Wallace. The second study applied a quantitative perspective while the first project used a qualitative perspective. Both involved a life-course approach and considered the gender differences in experiences, meanings and consequences of individual strategies to combine work and family. Other relevant research such as the European Social Survey Round 2 and WORKCARE project under FP6 will be considered as well. This stage will ensure the cooperation between senior scholars and PhD students.
The third stage of the work package will be to organise a workshop bringing together scholars from CINEFOGO and outside the network. The proposed papers that could become part of the edited collection will be distributed beforehand and presented by discussants at the workshop. This will be followed by an open discussion aiming to identify the contributions that could become part of the edited collection.
The fourth stage will consist of an editorial meeting with the purpose of editing a book and produce the briefing paper with policy recommendations.
Draft papers will be exchanged in M 25 (October 2007), final papers will be submitted M 31 (April 2008).
Mobility: Doctoral student Neli Demireva (NEC) to visit the University of Aberdeen for one month to work on a comparative paper about the patterns of work-life balance in Europe.

WP24 Participants

• [NEC-7] - New Europe Centre for Regional Studies (Plovdiv)
• [UNIABDN-47] - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Science (Aberdeen)
• [RUC-1] - Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences (Roskilde)

WP24 Documents

For documents of this work package, please go to CINEFOGO Outcomes Database and type WP24 in the Search field.