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ACA PES & GAII held a series of events as part of their research, supported by MUSSI.
The webinars can be viewed below, and futher information on the project can be found here;
‘A Collaborative Approach to Public Employment Services’ (ACA PES) and ‘Governing Activation in Ireland (GAII) projects, housed at Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. ACA PES is a funded by the Irish Research Council under a Coalesce Research Grant (2019-2021), and led by Dr Mary Murphy (PI), Dr Nuala Whelan (Post Doc) and Dr Philip Finn (Research Assistant). GAII is led by Dr Michael McGann and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 841477.
The views expressed in these recordings are those of the speakers alone. If you require to use any of the information in these recordings please contact mussi@mu.ie
The Covid-related unemployment crisis has been sharp and fast, resulting in unprecedented levels of job-loss in Ireland and elsewhere. Responding to the needs of the labour force and re-igniting the economy will require a careful strategy. This zoom seminar aims to explore the impact of the crisis on the labour force and presents research conducted at Maynooth University on how the public, private and not-for-profit sectors can be part of a post Covid ‘Back to Work’ strategy. The report focuses on re-imagining a post-Covid Public Employment Eco System, who needs to be included in this strategy, and how it could be implemented in terms of institutions, governance, digitalisation and income supports. Introductions: Dr Mary Murphy What is needed: Dr Nuala Whelan How to do it: Dr Michael McGann Discussant Prof Rory O’Donnell (retired Director National Economic and Social Council) Q & A - Discussion Conclusion and Wrap-Up All documents mentioned in this video including the report and blank Road Map can be found on the MUSSI web page; https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/social-sciences-institute/research/ACAPES
The IRC Coalesce funded research project, based in Maynooth University, is led by Dr Mary Murphy (PI), Dr Nuala Whelan (Post Doc) and Dr Philip Finn (Research Assistant). An advisory committee including ILDN, LESN, INOU collaborates to support the research. Neither Maynooth University nor the IRC are responsible for any use that may be made of the information in this report. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors alone Work undertaken for this report has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 841477. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors alone. Neither Maynooth University nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information in this report. Dr Michael McGann (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, MUSSI)
Digitalising Public Employment Services: International policy developments and trends Chair: Dr Michael Mc Gann, Marie Curie Research Fellow, GAII, MUSSI
Presenters
•Ludo Struyven, Associate Professor and Head of Research on Education and Labour Market, KU Leuven, Belgium
•Ray Griffin, Lecturer in Strategic Management, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
•Jo Ingold, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
•Simone Casey, Research Associate at Per Capita and Future Social Services Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Discussant:
•John Martin, Former Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD and Chair of Irish Labour Market Advisory Council
How apps and algorithms are changing the face of welfare delivery
Session 2: Using digital tools in employment and guidance services: Practitioner and stakeholder perspectives
Chair Dr Nuala Whelan, IRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Coalesce, MUSSI
Presenters
•Colin Donnery, Director, Turas Nua and General Manager of FRS Recruitment
•Bernadette Walsh, Guidance Counsellor and Education and Guidance Liaison Manager, Careers Portal Ireland Panel discussion:
•Paul MacSweeney Fórsa, Public Sector Trade Union
•Brid O’Brien, Head of Policy and Media, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployment
•Joan O’Donnell, FreedomTech (Disability Federation of Ireland/Enable Ireland)
•Helen Ryan, Policy Officer, National Adult Literacy Agency
Rapporteur: Ciaran Reid, Irish Local Development Network
This event is an initiative of the ‘A Collaborative Approach to Public Employment Services’ (ACA PES) and ‘Governing Activation in Ireland (GAII) projects, housed at Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. ACA PES is a funded by the Irish Research Council under a Coalesce Research Grant (2019-2021), and led by Dr Mary Murphy (PI), Dr Nuala Whelan (Post Doc) and Dr Philip Finn (Research Assistant). GAII is led by Dr Michael McGann and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 841477.
Nuala Whelan (ACAPES) : Model of Enabling Employment Guidance: Toolkit and Metrics
Ciaran Reid Louth Leader Partnership & Irish Local Development Network: Usability, dissemination, standards
Respondents:
Mary Stokes National Centre for Guidance in Education (Career guidance)
Jenny Bimrose Institute for Employment Research, The University of Warwick
Session 4 3.15 – 4.15pm Launch of Special Issue of Administration: Activation and Welfare Reform in Ireland
Chair Muiris McCarthaigh (QUB)
Plugging the Gaps for a More Tailored Public Employment Service: Helen Johnston and Anne Marie McGuaran (National Economic and Social Council)
Navigating indifference: Irish jobseekers experiences of welfare conditionality - Philip Finn (MU)
Opening the Black box of Implementing Activation in Ireland: Nuala Whelan (MU)
Sacrificial citizens? Activation and retrenchment in Ireland’s political economy. Fiona Dukelow (UCC)
Response:
Brid O Brien (INOU/ACAPES Advisory Committee)
Dr Delma Byrne Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology
Close- Mary Murphy and Nuala Whelan (ACAPES) , Michael McGann (GAII)
Welfare and employment services have been undergoing continuous reform since the last crisis. The next twelve months promises even further change, with the procurement of a new national employment service and multiple regional employment services to supplement Intreo’s activation service. Focussing on those most affected by welfare reforms, this seminar brings together the latest research exploring claimants and jobseekers’ experiences of activation and employment services: How do jobseekers experience welfare-to-work? To what extend do participants find employment services helpful? What changes would service-users like to see to the way employment services are delivered?
The event is being organized as part of the Governing Activation in Ireland project and will launch a new research report on service-users’ experiences of employment services for the long-term unemployed Chair Nuala Whelan, MUSSI and MU Department of Sociology
Presenters Michael McGann, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute
Joe Whelan, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College
Philip Finn, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University
Discussants
Bríd O’Brien, National Organisation of the Unemployed
Anne-Marie McGauran, a Policy Analyst with NESC (National Economic and Social Council)
Dr Michael McGann is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University. Michael’s main research interest is in street-level bureaucracy and welfare governance, with a particular focus on issues related to welfare-to-work and the marketisation of public employment services. He is the lead investigator on the Governing Activation in Ireland project, and guest editor (with Mary P. Murphy) of a recent special issue of Administration on ‘Ireland’s activation turn-Ten Year’s on’.
Dr Joe Whelan is an Assistance Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, The University of Dublin. Joe's main area of research interest focuses on exploring the nexus of work and welfare. He is particularly interested in exploring and understanding lived experiences in the context of welfare recipiency, focusing on the processes and effects of welfare conditionality. Joe’s upcoming monograph ‘Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space’ will be published by Policy Press in May 2022.
Dr Philip Finn is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University. His research explores the lived experience and agency of welfare claimants and particularly the complex multi-layered navigation of welfare conditionality. He is a qualitative researcher with a particular interest in creative methodologies. His current research interest is in using Feminist Social Reproduction Theory to explore life-making of working-class communities including diverse intersecting forms of work and non-work activities in everyday life.
