Last Friday, the CRC 1342 Board met with the Scientific Advisory Board in a two-hour video conference. From the Advisory Board, Evelyne Huber (University of North Carolina), Kathleen Thelen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nicola Yeates (The Open University), Ben Ross Schneider (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Aaron Benavot (University of Albany-SUNY) and Lutz Leisering (Bielefeld University) participated in the meeting.
At the beginning, speaker Herbert Obinger reported on the progress of the work in the 15 projects and the current status of publications.
Evelyne Huber called the CRC "incredibly ambitious" and said that the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS) database "looked very promising". Especially in recent months, the number of publications by CRC members has increased significantly. For Aaron Benavot, "the productivity and output - even under the conditions of the pandemic with the associated restrictions - are very impressive".
Lutz Leisering noted that the publications of CRC 1342 members in peer-reviewed journals represent a great leap forward for the international visibility of German social policy research.
The CRC 1342 publishes a large proportion of its results in open access journals, its open access book series with Palgrave Macmillan and in its own open access publications. This publishing strategy produces "invaluable resources for scholars, students and the general public", said Nicola Yeates.
In the second part of the meeting, the advisory board members discussed the CRC 1342 proposal for the second funding phase (in the days before, they had read a summary of the proposal). With their questions, comments and constructive criticisms, the advisory boards gave valuable advice on research planning for the coming years.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger
CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Mary-Somerville-Straße 5
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-58567
E-Mail: herbert.obinger@uni-bremen.de
