Visitors to the Chair

Monica Threlfall is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University and Editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies.

Her current research focuses on the social implications of European integration, the effect of EU policies on employment, women’s social citizenship, as well as the statistical presentation of employment data. She is also a specialist on Spanish politics and gender issues.

Publications include (2003) "European social integration: harmonization, convergence and single social areas", Journal of European Social Policy, Vol.13, No.2.; (2002) "The European Union’s social policy focus: from labour to welfare and constitutionalised rights?" in R.Sykes et al (eds) Social Policy Review 2002, Bristol: Policy Press, and (2000) "European employment: a new approach to analysing trends", European Journal of Social Quality, Vol. 2, Issue 2.

She is editor of "Consensus Politics in Spain" (2000) and "Mapping the Women’s Movement: feminist politics and social transformation" (1996), and co-author of "Gendering Spanish Democracy" (forthcoming 2004).

Martin Papillon is invited as a visiting scholar in summer 2003. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto and a sessional lecturer at Glendon College, York University. His research interests are mainly on questions related to the theory and historical development of citizenship in Canada, immigration policy, Aboriginal peoples’ self-government, federalism and national minorities, as well as political participation and democratic practices for minorities. Some of his recent work has been published in the International Journal of Canadian Studies and in Politics and Society.

Some of his publication:
Immigration, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Canada's Cities.
http://www.cprn.org/fr/doc.cfm?doc=160

Marylène Lieber is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

In April 2003, Marylène received a research scholarship from the Fonds national scientifique suisse (FNSS).  The scholarship permits her to finish her doctoral thesis, which focuses on social security policies in France and, more specifically, how they incorporate concerns around violence against women.  Marylène’s thesis, which she is completing under the supervision of Jacqueline Heinen, considers public policy, notably through a statistical analysis, and the impact of fear on the mobility of women within the public space.

The scholarship also permits Marylène to spend some time at the Université de Montréal where she can gain access to literature in English and make links to researchers working on gender and municipal politics, such as the CAFSU.

From February 2000 to March 2003, she was a research assistant for an inquiry financed by the European Commission, "Genre et gestion locale du changement dans sept pays de l’Union éuropéenne", which focused on the place of women in local power relations and the impact of their present on public policies.

Bruno Palier was a visiting professor to the Department of Political Science as well as the Chair.

On February 12, 2003, he presented the following paper at Université de Montréal:  Mondialisation et politiques sociales: Le rôle des organisations internationales.

Philippe Pochet has been the director of the Observatoire social européen (Brussels) since 1992.  He is the Digest Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.  Philippe is a scientific collaborator at the Institut d’études européennes (Université libre de Bruxelles).  He is a guest lecturer at the Université Catholique de Louvain, where he was also co-director of a group studying the active social state.  Philippe’s research interests include the social consequences of monetary union, the social dimension of the European Union and the challenges of globalization processes.

He co-wrote "Employment and Social Policy since Maastricht:  Standing up to the European Monetary Union" with Jane Jenson during his time at the Chair.  This paper was prepared for The Year of the Euro, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, December 5-8, 2002.