Hosted in partnership with the Yonsei University Institute for Welfare State Research (IWSR), this special conference seeks to explore social security, the labour market and public health in the UK and South Korea and what lessons can be learned for post-pandemic recovery and reform.

Arranged as part of an academic partnership with Yonsei University, sponsored by the UKRI Fund for International Collaboration, experts from across the University of Bath, Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and IWSR will convene to share their research on key core areas including:

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for welfare state reform;
automation, technology, employment and the labour share;
Universal basic income;
and the social investment state in the UK and Korea pre-and-post-pandemic.

The conference is open to University of Bath staff and students only. It will take place on campus over two days and will be available to watch online. If you would like to watch the conference online, please register to receive the joining link. For further information, download the full programme.

Social security, the labour market and public health in UK and South Korea