British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

0900

Registration and coffee

0930

Introduction and Welcome
Baroness O'Neill, President, The British Academy

0940

Keynote Speech
Dr Achilleas Mitsos, Director General, Research Directorate General, The European Commission

Morning sessions chaired by Baroness O'Neill

1000

Session 1

National and international security

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King's College London
Professor Stuart Croft, Professor of International Relations, University of Birmingham
Professor Beatrice Heuser, Director of Research, Office of Military History, Potsdam

1115

Coffee

1145

Session 2

Employment and labour market.

Professor Stephen Nickell, Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
Professor Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics
Professor Bruno Frey, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich

1300

Lunch

Afternoon sessions chaired by Frances Cairncross, Chair, ESRC

1400

Session 3

Educational achievement and social mobility

Professor John Ermisch, Professor of Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Professor Jutta Allmendinger, Director, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg
Dr John Goldthorpe, Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

1515

Tea

1545

Session 4

Demographic change and the changing role of the family

Professor Kathleen Kiernan, Professor of Social Policy and Demography, University of York
Professor Judith Dunn, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Professor Goran Therborn, Swedish College for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, University of Uppsala

1700

Keynote Speech

The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Minister of State for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Roundtable Discussion

Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
Ms Sue Duncan, Chief Government Social Researcher, Cabinet Office
Professor Duncan Gallie, Vice-President for the Social Sciences, The British Academy

1745

Closing remarks

Frances Cairncross, Chair, Economic and Social Research Council

Drinks reception