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EASP × FISS 2027 · Taipei
Call for Papers
Digital Futures & Ecological Challenges: Rethinking Social Policy for a Just Transition in the AI Era
The 23rd EASP and 33rd FISS Joint International Conference invites individual papers, panel proposals and posters on the conference theme. Postgraduate and early-career researchers are especially encouraged to apply.
Conference theme
About the theme
Welfare states stand at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence is remaking labour markets and care systems, while climate change compels countries to pursue net zero and to rethink the social risks that transition brings. Added to these are the pressures of super-ageing and ultra-low fertility, and the gaps in social safety nets exposed by the pandemic. What social policy faces is no longer the repair of a single programme but the reconstruction of a paradigm.
The conference takes the coming of an AI society as its principal axis and eco-social policy under the environmental transition as its second. It places both within the structural context of rapid demographic transition around the world, and draws them together around two lines of policy response: social investment and social innovation.
Conference streams
Streams
Submissions are invited in the following streams.
- AI and Social Policy: Automation, Platform Work and Social Protection
- Eco-social Policy: Climate Change, Just Transition and Sustainable Welfare
- East Asian Welfare Regimes: Theories, Debates and Transformations
- Euro-Asia Comparative Welfare
- Population Ageing, Pensions and Old-age Income Security
- Long-term Care and Care Policy
- Family Policy, Gender and Ultra-low Fertility
- Labour Market Change, Employment and Skills Policy
- Poverty, Inequality and Social Assistance
- Health, Mental Health and Disability Policy
- Migration, Migrant Workers and Social Policy
- Housing and Urban Policy
- Social Investment, Social Innovation and Welfare Governance
Submission types
How to take part
Individual papers
Abstracts of 250–300 words.
Submit a paper →Panels
A panel consists of three to four papers on a common topic.
Submit a panel →Posters
Research may also be presented as a poster.
Submit a poster →Review and language
All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by members of the EASP Executive Committee and the FISS Board of Governors. The conference language is English.
Awards
Best Paper Awards for PhD students and early career researchers
EASP presents Best Paper Awards for PhD students and early career researchers. There are two awards.
Early Career Researcher Award
For researchers who received their PhD within the past six years.
How to be considered
Applicants must be the first or corresponding author of a paper accepted for the conference programme. Please indicate the award you wish to be considered for when you submit your abstract. Candidates will be invited to submit a full paper before the conference. The deadline will be announced.
Full papers will be reviewed by the EASP Postgraduate Award Committee. Papers must be original and unpublished. A full paper is not required to present at the conference. The winners will be announced at the conference.
Awards
FISS Best Paper Prize
In 2011 FISS introduced the Best Paper Prize competition. In collaboration with Policy Press, the prize is awarded to the best, previously unpublished paper presented at each year’s FISS conference. The winning paper is published in the Journal of Poverty & Social Justice. Selection and publication are subject to a refereeing process. In addition, the prize winner will receive a personal subscription to the Journal for 2 years.
The winning paper is selected by members of the FISS Board of Governors who draw up an initial short-list of papers presented at the conference. The authors of the short-listed papers are asked whether they would like to be considered for the prize, and any potential revisions will be discussed at this stage. A deadline for submitting the papers for consideration will then be set, and the final decision will be made by a committee of FISS Governors. The winning paper will be subject to the Journal’s normal peer review processing prior to publication.
Key dates
Dates and submission
Abstract submission opens
Online portal goes live for paper and panel proposals.
Abstract submission deadline
Final date to submit abstracts for review.
Notification of acceptance
Authors notified of review outcomes.
Early-bird registration deadline
Reduced registration rate closes.
Conference
Three days of keynotes, panels, and networking.
Proposals can be submitted using the submission form.