As “resilience” is increasingly used in European policy circles, it is important to acknowledge structural inequalities that are present in the capacity of families to be resilient. In this next working paper, we have developed (a first version of) an...
A core purpose of the rEUsilience project is to assess the utility of the concept of resilience to understand how families cope with care- and labour market-related challenges and identify lessons for policy. This second working paper – which is the...
Holly Shorey and Mary Daly From the 7th to the 9th of September 2023, the social policy research community gathered in Warsaw for the 21st European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) conference. rEUsilience consortium member LabFam from the University of...
The first working paper from rEUsilience maps how resilience is being used in the EU policy discourse, noting how there is a lack of a clear conceptualisation of how it applies to families. For example, the EU social and economic resilience dashboard monitors Member...
Mary Daly, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford Department of Social Policy and Intervention, is lead editor of a major new publication, The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy: A Life-Course Perspective, which forms part of the...
It is important for us to engage in regular critical discussion with the broader research community on what and how ‘resilience’ can contribute to social policy development. Resilience as a concept for social policy use has not yet been fully utilised or understood,...
