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Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective

15 April 2009
11.00-11.30	Welcome & Introduction Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby University of Kent Professor ZHANG Xiulan Beijing Normal University
11.30-13.00	Plenary Papers Chair: Professor Chris Hood, All Soul's College, University of Oxford,UK Risk Governance and Public Trust Full paper pdf Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent, UK Social Risks and Human Security in China- Problems and Social Policy Responses Professor GUAN Xinping, Department of Social Work & Social Policy, Nankai University, China
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Risk and Natural Disasters	Managing Risk	National Patterns of Risk Governance
	Social Networks and Risk in Natural Disaster Full paper pdf Professor ZHAO Yandong, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development	The Risks of Managing Uncertainty: the Limitations of Control and the Potential for Trust in Healthcare Institutions Full paper pdf Dr Patrick Brown and Professor Michael Calnan, School of Social Policy and Social Research, University of Kent,UK	Managing New Media Communication in Risk Society: A Case Study on China Full paper pdf CUI Bo, Science, Technology and Society Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing
	Defining and Assessing the Risk of a Territory Being Harmed by Climate Change Full paper pdf Professor Lino Briguglio, Economics Department, University of Malta	Beijing Citizens’ Perception of Food Safety Risks Full paper pdf (in Chinese) Full paper pdf (in English) ZHANG Wenxia, ZHAO Yandong, Chinese Academy of S&T Strategic Development	Managing Political Change: Understanding the Politics of Risk in the UK Full paper pdf Adam Burgess,School of Social Policy Social Research, University of Kent, UK
		Institutional Adaptation in Risk Regulation in the Health Sector in England and Japan: Proactive Response or Staged Retreat? Full paper pdf Dr Nao Kodate, Research Associate, NIHR King’s Patient Safety & Service Quality (PSSQ) Research Centre, London, UK	Managing Risk through Enhanced Regulatory Cooperation between the EU and the US Full paper pdf Dr Anne Meuwese, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law, Belgium
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.30	Risk Governance in Particular Fields	Approaches to Valuing Risk	Policy-Making and Risk
	Social Amplification of Risk-Learning Lessons from the US Beef Crisis in Korea Full paper pdf Ji Bum Chung, Korea Institute of Public Administration	Understanding Valuing Life Expectancy Gains from Air Pollution Reduction in the UK and Poland: A Qualitative Investigation And Validation Full paper pdf Anna Bartczak, University of Warsaw, Poland. Baker, R, Chilton, S M and Metcalf, H R T, University of Newcastle, UK	Trust in Government and Risk Management: The Case of Hong Kong Full paper pdf Raymond K H Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
		Stated Preference Valuation of Environmental, Health and Transport Risks: A Meta-Analysis Full paper pdf Nils-Axel Braathen, Henrik Lindhjem, and Ståle Navrud	“So Help me God!” Exploring the Role of Religion in the Perception of and Response to Employment Risk in Hong Kong Full paper pdf Luke Yat-chung Fung, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
		How do you Prefer your Gain in Life Expectancy to be Delivered? An Experimental Approach Linking Hypothetical and Incentivised Choices Full paper pdf Jytte Seested Nielsen, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee and Hugh Metcalf, University of Newcastle, UK	Risk Society, Sustainable Development and Religion Full paper pdf Adam Possamai and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney
16 April 2009
9.30-11.00	Plenary Papers Chair: Professor Wang Huijiong, Development Research Center of the State Council, China Rural Organisations and Social Governance across the Taiwan Strait Professor Wang Chunguang, Director, Centre for Social Policy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Risk, News Coverage and Public Responses Full paper .pdf Professor Jenny Kitzinger, Cardiff University, UK
11.00-11.30	Break
11.30-13.00	Risks and Employment	Risk Communication and Responses to Risk	Risk-Taking and Risk-Making
	Unions as Countermovement? New Forms of Union Organisation in China and the Regulation of Labour Market Risk Full paper pdf Fan Youqing and Peter Gahan, Monash University	Multi-Route Models of Trust in Risk Communicators Full paper pdf Professor Nigel Harvey and Matt Twyman both of University College London, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK	A Meta-Theory of Risk: Risk as Reflexive, Social Learning Full paper pdf Dr Yim Ling Siu, School of Earth & Environment, UK
	Workers on the Rise? Union rights, Unionization and the Management of Labour Relations in China. Full paper pdf Dr. Christian Brütsch, Universität Zürich, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Zürich, Switzerland	Using Binding Communication for Risk Management Training in Industrial Chinese Context Full paper pdf Dr Cedric Denis-Remis, Tongji University, Sino-French Institute of Engineering and Management, Shangai, China	Managing ahead of Crises: Rising towards a Model of Adaptability Full paper pdf YAP Kwong Weng, Department of Business and Management, University of Glasgow
	Perception and Responses to Employment Risks of Workers in Hong Kong Full paper pdf Dr. Kam-wah Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Lai-ching Leung, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong	Justice in the Risk Society: Barthes Goes to Hollywood Full paper pdf Dr Elaine Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Plenary Papers Chair: Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent Risk Management and Governing Change: the Question of Blame Avoidance Full paper pdf Professor Christopher Hood, All Souls College Oxford and London School of Economics and Political Science How Taiwan Farmers’ Association Resists Risks in an Industrial Society Professor YANG Tuan, Vice Director, Centre for Social Policy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.30	Social Security Systems and the Management of Risk	Managing Individual Risk: New Perspectives	Societal Risk: New Perspectives
	Social Insurance as a Collective Resource: Unemployment Benefits, Job Insecurity and Subjective Well-being in a Comparative Perspective Full paper pdf Ola Sjöberg,Swedish Institute for Social Research, Sweden	A New Social Risk Facing the Most Disadvantaged Young Children in China: Changes in Chinese Child Care Policy and Practice and their Impacts on Social Equality Full paper pdf ZHANG Yanxia, D.Phil.Candidate Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, UK	A Convergence of Risk Attitudes? Attitudes towards Social Inequality and Work in Post-Communist and 'Traditional' European Market Economies Full paper pdf Andreas Cebulla, NatCen, London, UK
	The Effect of Poverty on Household-Health Risks and Insurance Decision Full Paper in English Full paper in Chinese HU Hong-wei, Centre for Social Security Studies of Wuhan University, Hubei Wuhan	Pension Reform and Long-term Old Age Income Security: The Case of Taiwan Full paper pdf Dr. Tsung-hsi Fu, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Welfare National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	Aintegration in Management of Personal and Work-Organizational Conflicting Situations in Modern Society Full paper pdf Prof. Jacob Lomranz, Professor of Psychology, Tel Aviv University Dept. of Psychology, Israel
	Housing the Urban Poor in Social Harmony? Low-Rent Housing Policy in the Contemporary Chinese City Full paper pdf GUO Peter Yuheng, PhD Candidate, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK	The New Risk Perception Emerged on: An Analysis on Articles of SARS on the People Daily Full paper pdf WU Guochun, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies	Risk and Knowledge: Solidarity in the Age of Risk Calculations Full paper pdf Dr. H.J.M. Fenger, Department of Public Administration, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

17 April 2009
9.30-11.00	Plenary papers Chair:Professor Wang Chunguang, Director, Centre for Social Policy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Building Social Resilience Professor ZHANG Xiulan, Dean of the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing University Risk Perception and Misperception of Disasters —the Case of 'Earthquake Orphans' Professor HU Xiaojiang and Miguel Salazar, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University
11.00-11.30	Break
11.30-13.00	Managing High-Risk Technologies	Risk in Changing Societies	Risk, Crime and Managing Disorder
	Design Organization to Manage High-Risk Systems: The Case of Chemical Industry Full paper pdf Cynthia Colmellere, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France	The impact of job insecurity on risk perception Full paper pdf Anna Olofsson, Associate Professor Sociology and Dr Saman Rashid, Economics, Mid Sweden University, Sweden	Futurity, Governance and the Terrorist Risk: Exploring the Impacts of Pre-emptive Modes of Regulation on Young Muslims in the UK Full paper pdf Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool, UK
	Rethinking the Regulation of Risky Technologies within Global Regulatory Regimes and Dynamic Local Contexts Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith, Patrick van Zwanenberg, Ding Shijun, Jin Chenggang, Chen Chuanbo and Liang Xiaoyun	Young People’s Attitudes to Smoking and Healthy Diet: an Exploration of Perceptions of Risk Full paper pdf Martyn Denscombe, Professor of Social Research, Dept of Public Policy, De Montfort University, UK	“Is there a Plan B? How Transitioning Youth Perceive Risks Awaiting them in Working Life and How they Plan to Deal with them” Full paper pdf Junya TSUTSUI, Assistant Professor, Ritsumeikan University,Japan. Tuukka TOIVONEN, Phil Candidate, University of Oxford, UK. Haruka SHIBATA, PhD Candidate, Kyoto University, Japan.
	Contingency in Corporate Communications Risk Perception in Organisational Change Full paper pdf Ivana Modena, Universität Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland. Tino G.K. Meitz, Jahns and Friends AG, Duesseldorf, Germany - University of Surrey (affiliated), UK	Comparisons and Contrasts: Perceptions of the Risk of Exposing Children to Second- hand Smoke in the UK and in China Full paper pdf Jude Robinson, Deputy Director of the Health and Community Care Research Unit, Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences, HaCCRU, UK. Mao Aimei, PhD student, University of Liverpool	What Not to Fear when you are Expecting: Self-help Literature in a Risk Society Full paper pdf Dr Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, University of Western Sydney Lecturer School of Social Sciences, Australia
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Plenary Papers Chair: Professor Michael Calnan, University of Kent Heading Into the Unknown: Everyday Strategies for Managing Risk and Uncertainty Full paper.pdf Dr Jens O. Zinn, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and University of Melbourne, Australia The Work of RCUK in China Professor Chris Godwin, Research Council UK, Beijing Office
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.00	Closing session Professor ZHANG Xiulan and Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby

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Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective

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Social Contexts and Responses to Risk