TASC-FEPS annual conference brochure 2017

Solid Foundations?

Economic Inequality & the Housing Crisis TASC-FEPS Annual Conference

16 June 2017 | Croke Park Conference Centre

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SOLID FOUNDATIONS?

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY & THE HOUSING CRISIS PROGRAMME 09:00

Registration

09:30

Welcome Proinsias De Rossa, TASC

09:45

Session 1 Setting the scene: inequality today Chair: Dr Mary Murphy, Maynooth University

10:30

Global inequalities and the challenge of populism Speaker: Prof Mike Savage, LSE Q&A

10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Session 2 Ireland’s economic inequality: presenting Cherishing All Equally 2017 Chair: Dr Lisa Kastner, FEPS Ireland’s monetised welfare state Speaker: Prof James Wickham, TASC

12:00

Inequality, financialisation and the Irish housing crisis Speaker: Dr Rory Hearne, Maynooth University Q&A

12:15

Session 3

13:15

Policies and actions to tackle economic inequality Chair: Paul Sweeney, TASC Speakers: Prof Ozlem Onaran, University of Greenwich Ethel Buckley, SIPTU Q&A

13:30

Lunch

14:30

Session 4 Parallel sessions: aspects of the housing crisis Chair: Dr Sinead Pembroke, TASC

Chair: Patrick Reid, TASC

Chair: David O’Connor, DIT

Working in construction • Prof Linda Clarke, University of Westminster • Dr Róisín Murphy, DIT • Tom Fitzgerald, Unite

Planning and inequality • Cllr Andrew Montague, Dublin City Council • Dr Sarah Rock, National Transport Authority • Orla Hegarty, UCD

Impact of the housing shortage • Dr Lorcan Sirr, DIT • John-Mark McCafferty, Threshold • Dr Tom Healy, NERI

15:30

Q&A

Q&A

Q&A

15:45

Coffee break

16:00

Session 5

17:05

The view from abroad Chair: Dr Dáithí Downey, Dublin City Council Speakers: Javier Burón Cuadrado, Barcelona City Council Anna Minton, University of East London Q&A

17:25

Close Prof James Wickham, TASC

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ETHEL BUCKLEY

Ethel Buckley is head of SIPTU’s private sector services division and led the Justice for Clerys Workers Campaign which concluded in March 2017, with a landmark Community Benefits Agreement. She was elected to the Executive Council of Congress in 2013 and re-elected in 2015. She is a member of UNI Global’s Steering Committee.

JAVIER BURÓN CUADRADO

Javier Burón Cuadrado is manager of Barcelona Housing City Council. He has previously been a consultant in public policy and the housing market, as well as in administration reform and new forms of public-private management. He was Deputy Minister for Housing and Planning Director of the Basque Government.

LINDA CLARKE

Prof Linda Clarke is co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) at the University of Westminster. She has extensive research experience on labour, equality and diversity, vocational education and training, wage relations and employment in the European construction sector.

PROINSIAS DE ROSSA

Proinsias De Rossa is chair of TASC’s board. He is a former Minister for Social Welfare (1994-1997), TD (1982-2002) and MEP for Dublin (1989-1992, 1999-2012). He is also a member of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and the European Movement.

DÁITHÍ DOWNEY

Dr Dáithí Downey is head of housing policy, research and development at Dublin City Council. He was previously director and deputy director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, and also worked as a policy analyst with Focus Ireland. He holds a PhD in geography from Trinity College Dublin.

TOM FITZGERALD

Tom Fitzgerald is regional officer for construction with Unite the union. He has been involved in several high-profile disputes surrounding the issue of bogus self-employment in the construction sector. Tom sits on the private sector committee and the construction industrial committee of Congress.

TOM HEALY

Dr Tom Healy is director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI). He has previously worked in the ESRI, the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, the OECD, the National Economic and Social Forum, and the Department of Education and Skills.

He holds a PhD in economics and sociology from UCD.

RORY HEARNE

Dr Rory Hearne is a postdoctoral researcher in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), working on the RE-InVEST project. He has a PhD in political and economic geography from Trinity College Dublin. A former policy analyst with TASC, he is author of Public Private Partnerships in Ireland (2011).

ORLA HEGARTY

Orla Hegarty is a UCD lecturer and a registered architect. Her research interests include the construction industry in Ireland, construction procurement, regulation and enforcement, housing, energy efficiency and sustainable development. She is also actively involved in professional regulation issues and architectural education at professional level.

LISA KASTNER

Dr Lisa Kastner is policy advisor at FEPS. She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris.

She was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and George Washington University in Washington, DC.

JOHN-MARK McCAFFERTY

John-Mark McCafferty is CEO of Threshold, and prior to this spent 12 years as head of social justice and policy at St Vincent de Paul. He was a member of the NESC from 2003 to 2007. He has worked for the Combat Poverty Agency and Scottish Homes.

ANNA MINTON

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and Reader in Architecture at the University of East London.

She was the Royal Commission’s Fellow in the Built Environment (2011-14). She is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (2017), an examination of the worsening housing crisis in the UK.

ANDREW MONTAGUE

Andrew Montague is a former Lord Mayor of Dublin, a councillor on Dublin City Council and chair of the council’s Planning and Development Committee.

He is a strong advocate for combining density with high quality amenities, and integrating planning with transport, promoting permeability and active transport.

MARY MURPHY

Dr Mary Murphy is a lecturer in Irish politics and society at Maynooth University. She has represented anti-poverty interests in national policy institutions and processes. She was a member of the National Expert Advisory group on Taxation and Social Welfare and a member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

RÓISÍN MURPHY

SARAH ROCK

DAVID O’CONNOR

MIKE SAVAGE

ÖZLEM ONARAN

LORCAN SIRR

SINÉAD PEMBROKE

PAUL SWEENEY

PATRICK REID

JAMES WICKHAM

Dr Róisín Murphy is a senior lecturer in the School of Surveying and Construction Management at DIT. She holds a DBA from Heriot Watt University, concentrating her research on strategic planning in Irish quantity surveying practices. She is coauthor of Employment Opportunities and Future Skills Requirements for Construction and Property Surveying.

David O’Connor is senior lecturer in transport planning at DIT. He has international experience of a broad range of innovative transport strategies in the public and private sectors. He is a committee member of the Irish Transport Research Network and is on the Dublin City Council public transport committee.

Prof Özlem Onaran is Professor of Economics at the University of Greenwich and the director of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre. She has done extensive research on issues of inequality, wage-led growth, employment and globalisation. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Hans Boeckler Foundation.

Dr Sinéad Pembroke is a researcher on the social implications of precarious work at TASC and was previously an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar. She holds a PhD in sociology from UCD. She has worked on numerous health-related projects including co-authoring a report on women living and working with social exclusion.

Patrick Reid is research assistant at TASC on the Ireland, Europe and the multinationals project. He holds an MSc in energy policy for sustainability from the University of Sussex. He has previously worked as a journalist and writer in Italy.

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Dr Sarah Rock is a transport planner, urban designer and researcher with over 15 years’ experience in Ireland, England and Australia. She is a principal transport planner with Jacobs Engineering, currently on secondment with the National Transport Authority, and lectures in spatial planning in DIT. She holds a doctorate in civil engineering from UCD. Prof Mike Savage is co-Director of the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, where he is the initial Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows programme. He was elected an Academician of the Social Sciences in 2003 and Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. He is the author of Social class in the 21st Century (2015).

Dr Lorcan Sirr is a lecturer in housing at DIT, and Visiting Professor of Housing at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain. He is a housing columnist with The Sunday Times, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. He is editor of Renting in Ireland: the private, social and voluntary sectors (2014), and is on the board of Housing Ireland.

Paul Sweeney is chair of TASC’s Economists’ Network and is the former chief economist of the ICTU. He is a member of the Economic Committee of the ETUC, and was president of the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, a member of the National Competitiveness Council of Ireland and the National Statistics Board.

Prof James Wickham is Director of TASC and previously was Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies and Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. His latest book Unequal Europe: Social divisions and social cohesion in an old continent (2016) analyses the collapse of the European social model.

ABOUT TASC TASC has been leading on the issue of economic inequality for many years; it published the first ever report on the levels of economic inequality in Ireland in 2015 and produced updates in 2016 and 2017.

These reports identify the areas requiring attention if such inequality is to be reduced.

Never before has the issue of economic inequality been so high on the agenda of policy makers, with governments and international agencies worldwide committed to its analysis and to identifying policies to reduce it. As in many countries, in Ireland the gap between rich and poor is resulting in challenges to the social fabric, with large numbers of people experiencing powerlessness, insecurity and mental health difficulties as a result.

TASC’s raison d’être is to serve as a catalyst for ideas and action, mobilising that expertise to inform the policy-making process. It seeks to capture the popular and political imagination through being an independent voice, by identifying issues, stimulating debate and offering innovative, yet practical approaches to addressing societal problems. www.tasc.ie @TASCblog

ABOUT FEPS FEPS is the European progressive political foundation; the only progressive think tank at European level. FEPS establishes an intellectual crossroad between social democracy and the European project, putting fresh thinking at the core of its action.

As a platform for ideas and dialogue, FEPS works in close collaboration with social democratic organisations, and in particular national foundations and think tanks across Europe, to tackle the challenges that Europe faces today. It is close to the Party of European Socialists (PES), the S&D Group in the European Parliament, the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions, Young European Socialists and PES women, but nevertheless independent.

FEPS’ main purpose is to nourish a fresh progressive dialogue through its research, which includes Next Left and Millennial Dialogue programmes. It publishes the Progressive Post magazine and the European Progressive Observatory digital platform, amongst other outputs as evidence of its work. www.feps-europe.eu @FEPS_Europe

SOLID FOUNDATIONS?

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY & THE HOUSING CRISIS Inequality and what to do about it is very much on the political agenda. The annual conference of TASC-FEPS is a recognised international forum for progressive thinkers, activists, academics and policy makers to discuss key social issues.

The 2017 conference has as its theme the relationship between economic inequality and the housing crisis.

This is also the focus of this year’s economic inequality report, Cherishing All Equally, which will be launched at the conference.

Amongst the sessions will be presentations on: • Global inequalities and the challenge of populism • Ireland’s monetised welfare state • Inequality, financialisation and the Irish housing crisis • Policies and actions to tackle inequality The conference will explore various aspects of the housing crisis, including international perspectives from Barcelona and London.

Solid Foundations? is the must-attend conference in 2017 for anyone concerned with economic inequality.

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