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Youth Employment in France: Action and Reaction

with Professor Dan Bechmann
University of Paris VIII (St. Denis)
Please note that this event will be held in
Room 421, 4th Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton.

Biography
Dan Ferrand-Bechmann is titulary (full) professor sociology at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis). She specializes in sociology of associations and in voluntary sector of civil society. She has received her PhD for the dissertation on secondary residences from the University of Paris X (Nanterre). Her advanced degree (doctorat d'Etat) has been granted by the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris) in 1991. The subject of her work was "Le Phénomène Bénévole". She started her academic career at the Université Mendès France in Grenoble (1971-1991) where she served as assistant to associate professor.

At the University of Paris VIII she is the director of the program of graduate studies  (DESS) on social and educative actions. She chairs the university committee (presidential level) on associations. During 1985-1986 she was working for the Secretariat of State for Social Economy. During 1986-1988 she directed the research project on poverty at the Ministry of Social Policy, and from 1988 to 1989 she was program director in the office of Bernard Kouchner, then the Minister of Humanitarian action.

She has co-founded and directs research at the Center for Study of Social Solidarities (<http://www.cesol.org/>) and is member of the executive committee of the French Sociological Association and leads "la société française des chercheurs sur les associations".
 
Research interests Social movements, empowerment, social actions and tenants' associations; Poverty, social exclusion and social disadvantage; Voluntary actions and social problems in Europe.

Download Professor Bechmann's paper (MS Word 103 kb)

Respondent:
Professor Rob Watts
RMIT

Professor Rob Watts has been a teacher and writer for over 30 years. He is a Discipline Leader in the social sciences and a Professor of Social Policy at RMIT. Professor Watts has sat on the editorial boards of Australian Historical Studies and Thesis Eleven. He has also been a foundation editor of  Just Policy since 1996. Professor Watts is co-author of a number of books including: Foundations of the National Welfare State (1987); Arguing About the Welfare State (1997); Youth Studies: An Australian Introduction (1998); Sociology Australian (1999, 2002); Risky Business: the Idea of Risk and Contemporary Social Problems (2002) and Criminology: A Critical Introduction (2003). He is currently completing a study on heorin users and has completed a major study (along with Judith Bessant, Tony Dalton and Paul Smyth) of social policy making under the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996.
Chairperson:

Professor Paul Smyth
General Manager Social Action and Research, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Professor of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne

Professor Smyth's diverse career combines academic and social action experience. Professor Smyth undertakes research and development of policy with emphases on social investment, promoting social inclusion and partnership governance of solutions to Australia's social problems. Before starting at the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the University of Melbourne, Paul was at the University of Queensland. Prior to that he was a senior researcher with Uniya, the Jesuit social research and action centre at Kings Cross in Sydney. A former Catholic priest, he also worked for 20 years in youth and family care.

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