| 2022 | June 30th 2022. Measuring welfare state effort in China through social expenditure: what differences across provinces and time? Invited talk for the “Social Policy East Asia Exchange Workshop”. School for Business and Society, University of York. Zoom meeting |
| 2022 | June 24-25 2022. Political regulation , institutional effectiveness and the differences of healthcare service performance: Empirical evidence from provincial panel data in China (2004-2020) (With Cao, G.). 18th EASP Conference “TRANSFORMATION OF POST-COVID WELFARE STATES IN EAST ASIA: BEYOND PRODUCTIVIST WELFARE CAPITALISM?”. Hosted and sponsored by EASP-Kihasa-Yonsei University |
| 2022 | March 19-21st 2022. Diversity of welfare types in China: An assessment based on provincial-level social expenditure data. 2nd Forum on Welfare State and Social Policy. Hosted by Sun yat-sen University, coordinator: Ijin Hong (online) |
| 2022 | February 7-8th 2022. How do familialism preferences for aged care services combine with long-term care policies? Insights into ageing in place from China, Japan and Taiwan. (with Chan, J.). Zoom Online Workshop Program hosted by School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute |
| 2022 | December 8 2022. Economic growth models and welfare reform. 中山共管·低淬研講. Sun Yat-sen University, Tencent meeting. |
| 2022 | November 2 2022. Basic income discourses in the public agenda in South Korea. A Multiple Streams Approach based analysis (with Choi, Y., Bae, J.). 2022 Online International Symposium on Local Governance and Public Policy. Huazhong Agricultural University. Zoom meeting |
| 2022 | October 6-7 2022. Developmentalism as a Growth Regime? Latest Welfare Developments and their Determinants in China. 2023 GTR-IYPAC International Yonsei Public Administration Conference. “Transformations of post-pandemic welfare states: new growth regimes and new social policies”. A collaboration between the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Yonsei University Institute for Welfare State Research (IWSR), and Yonsei University BK21 Four Project for Advancing Human Competence and Government Capacity. 201 Yonhee Hall, Yonsei University, Korea. Hybrid meeting |
| 2022 | July 6-8 2022. Diversity of welfare types in China: An assessment based on provincial-level social expenditure data (with Zhang, H.). Social Policy Association (SPA) Annual Conference 2022. “Inter-generationality: Challenges and Prospects”. Swansea University, Singleton Park Campus. Hybrid conference |
| 2021 | June 25 2021. SYSU Marketisation of Social Services in China: Theoretical Considerations.新發展階段的廣州服務創新研討會 |
| 2021 | June 24-26 2021. Addressing the new demand for care needs in industrialised China. 5th Transforming Care Conference, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy (online) |
| 2021 | March 20-21 2021. The modernization thesis revisited: Post-Mao reform and welfare expansion in China since the 2000s. Forum on Welfare State and Social Policy. Comparative Research from China and South Korea. Hosted by Sun yat-sen University, coordinator: Ijin Hong (online) |
| 2021 | 23-27 February 2021. When are social investment policies associated with more and better jobs for women? The role of dual labour markets. IV ISA Forum of Sociology in Porto Alegre, Brazil (online) |
| 2021 | August 19-20 2021. Does the Perception of Quality of Government Drive Public Attitudes towards Redistribution in China? (With Yeh, C., Wu, X.). An Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Rethinking of “Good Governance”: Theory, Practice, and Measurement. 香港城市大學公共政策系 Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong 中山大學政治與公共事務管理學院 School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University 復旦大學全球公共政策研究院 Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University (online). |
| 2021 | July 4 2021. The modernization thesis revisited: Social Policy Reform in the Emerging Welfare State in China (2000-2019) (with Ngok K.). The 17th Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network &The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security “MITIGATING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF COVID-19: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE”. Hosted by Lingnan University, Hong Kong (online). |
| 2021 | August 28-29 2021. From Poverty Alleviation to Human Capital Activation in China: Voices From an Underdeveloped Ethnic Minority Area in Sichuan (with Yang, Z.). 제16회 한중일 사회보장국제학술대회 “초고령사회에서의 사회보장과 경제부흥 - 팬데믹으로부터의 재건” (online) |
| 2021 | November 4th 2021. Care deficit and the marketization of social services in China: The case of the South Guangdong Housemaking Scheme (nanyue jiazheng). Australia Social Policy Conference, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre (online). |
| 2021 | October 19th 2021. Addressing the new demand for care needs in industrialised China: The pioneering experience of the South Guangdong Housemaking Project (with Zhu, Y.). Research workshop at the Nordic Centre, Fudan University. THE CHANGING CONDITIONS FOR SOCIAL RESILIENCE – SINO-NORDIC PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL POLICY |
| 2020 | 7 October 2020. Characteristics of the Southern European Welfare States and Covid19 policies. Colloquium no.1 for Soongsil University, Graduate School of Social Welfare, Social Welfare Research Institute(online). 남유럽 복지 모델의 특성과 코로나 대응. 2020년 숭실 사회복지연구소, 사회복지대학원 콜로키움1 (비대면 특강) |
| 2020 | 2 December 2020. Does the perception of quality of government drive public attitudes towards redistribution in China? (with Wu, X., Yeh, C.). RC19 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (online). |
| 2019 | 15 March 2019. Southern European Welfare States: The Case of Italy, Welfare State Research Association, Seoul, Sungkyungkwan University, South Korea. (남유럽 복지국가: 이탈리아 사례. 복지국가연구회, 서울, 성균관대학교). |
| 2019 | 24-26 June 2019: How are Childcare Services Used According to Socioeconomic Status? A Comparison of the UK and South Korea (with Choi H.), Transforming Care Conference 2019, Copenhagen |
| 2019 | 1-4 July 2019: The emerging politics of basic income: agenda-setting dynamics in South Korea (with Choi, Y.J., Bae, J.). The 16thAnnual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network“EAST ASIAN WELFARE FUTURES: BETWEEN PRODUCTIVISM AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT” July 2nd-3rd 2019, National Taiwan University. Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2019 | 7-8 September 2019 Do universal childcare services help to reduce Matthew effects? Insights from England and South Korea. 제15회 한중일 사회보장국제학술대회 ‘혁신적 포용국가의 전망과 과제-동아시아 복지국가의 새로운 방향’ 건강보험공단 본부(강원도 원주) |
| 2019 | 9-10 November 2019. Which institutional settings help decreasing inequality in childcare service use? Insights from England and South Korea (with Choi, H.J.). Conference SYSU. |
| 2019 | 21-22 September 2019 Not just another 'welfare paradox' story: A multilevel analysis of social investment policies and female employment (with Kang, J., Lee, J.). International Conference on Social Governance and Public Policy: Comparative Studies on East Asia, SYSU, Guangzhou, P.R. China |
| 2018 | 27 April 2018: Ways out of dualism? The politics of ideas and labour market reform in Japan and South Korea (with Kwon, S., and Ahn, J.). 2018 Conference of the Seoul Association for Public Administration Studies, Seoul National University |
| 2018 | 15-21 July 2018: Ways out of Dualism? the Politics of LM Reform in Japan and South Korea (with Kwon, S., and Ahn, J.); The Uses of Social Investment in East Asia: How Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Make the Labour Market ‘Flow’ in Japan, Korea and Taiwan (with Lee J.). 19th World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Toronto. |
| 2018 | 23-25 June 2018: Public opinion on social investment in the developmental states (with Yeh, C., and Lee, J.). 2018 annual SASE conference, Kyoto |
| 2018 | 24-25 November 2018. Ways out of dualism? The politics of labour market reform in Japan and South Korea (with Kwon, S., Ahn, J.). International conference “Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy”. Guangzhou, China |
| 2018 | 9 November 2018. The emerging agenda of basic income in South Korea. Institutions, ideas and challenges ahead (with Choi, Y., Bae, J.). New directions in welfare state reform: Innovation, social investment, and basic income. Yonsei University, Seoul |
| 2018 | 30-31 August 2018. The emerging discourse of basic income in South Korea: Institutions, ideas and challenges ahead (with Choi, Y., and Bae, J.). 16th ESPAnet conference, Vilnius. |
| 2017 | June 23rd 2017: Is there a link between welfare regimes and citizenship attitudes? An exploratory LCA with multilevel data. The World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2017, Seoul, Yonsei University |
| 2017 | 2-3 August 2017: Social investment policies and women’s employment across 16 industrialised countries (with Kang, J., Lee, J.). 14th EASP conference “East Asian Social Policy in a Changing Environment: Comparisons, Visions and Futures”. Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2017 | July 6-8 2017: Social investment for whom? A quantitative analysis of attitudes on gender roles and family policy reform in East Asia (with Lee, J.). British Academy International Exchange. University of Leeds, Leeds |
| 2016 | May 26th2016: Issues of the Italian welfare state. Graduate School of Social Welfare, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul. |
| 2016 | April 22nd 2016: Impact evaluation of a community development program in Doti, Nepal (with Roh, K.). 2016 Conference of the Korea Association for Policy Studies “Policy issues for social inclusiveness”. Seoul, Korea Research Institute for Public Administration |
| 2016 | March 5th 2016: What social rights for migrants in Korea? A research agenda. Social Policy Research Meeting, Sogang University, Seoul. |
| 2016 | August 22-24th 2016: Do Family Policies Influence Attitudes on Gender Roles and Behaviours in East Asia? A Social Investment Perspective from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan (with Kang, J., Lee, J.).. British Academy International Exchange. Yonsei University, Seoul. |
| 2016 | July 1-2nd 2016: Do Family Policies Influence Attitudes on Gender Roles and Behaviours in East Asia? A Social Investment Perspective from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan (with Kang, J., Lee, J.). 13th EASP conference “Social Policy and Gender in East Asia”, Ewha Womans University, South Korea: |
| 2016 | June 11th 2016: Reloading the Dependent Variable Problem in South Korea: Implications from Survey-Based Welfare Recipiency Data (with Kim, B., Kwon, E.). Welfare Forum, Korea Research Institute on Welfare, Yonsei University |
| 2016 | September 22nd – 24th2016: I sistemi di welfare nell’Est asiatico a confronto: tra produttivismo e diritti sociali. ESPAnet Italia. University of Macerata, Italy |
| 2015 | September 3rd-5th 2015: From Productivism to Inclusiveness? Recent Welfare Recipiency Trends in the Maturing South Korean Welfare State (with Kim, B., Kwon, E.). 13th ESPAnet conference “The lost and new worlds of welfare”, Odense, Denmark. |
| 2015 | June 27th 2015: Social Citizenship as a Balance Between Welfare Rights and Needs: in Search of a Theoretical Framework for Asian Welfare Systems. Japanese Association for Social Policy Studies (JASPS) conference, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo. |
| 2014 | August 27-29 2014: Access to welfare for immigrants in South Korea: a social policy analysis 11th IMISCOE conference “Immigration, Social Cohesion and Social Innovation”. Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones (IUEM), Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid |
| 2014 | July 24-25 2014: Social citizenship in South Korea: a comparative social policy perspective. 11th Easy Asian Social Policy (EASP) Conference “Managing Changing Welfare Needs in a Growing Transborder East Asia: Social Policy Responses., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu |
| 2014 | November 29th 2014: Neoliberalism and community welfare in Italy. Research Institute for Life Studies, Seogang University |
| 2014 | September 18-20 2014: Access to welfare for immigrants in South Korea: a social policy analysis. Espanet Italia, 7th conference, Turin University, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino |
| 2013 | May 24th 2013: Italian welfare in the aftermath of crisis: applying the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) for understanding the rationale behind policy change and neoliberal reforms. Social Welfare Policy Spring Conference, Sogang University, Seoul. |
| 2013 | April 6th 2013: Italian welfare in the aftermath of crisis. Neoliberal reforms and limits to the path dependency approach. Social Policy Research Meeting, Sogang University, Seoul. |
| 2013 | November 14th 2013: Labour Market, Social Cohesion and Much More: a Primer on Welfare in Italy. Invited presentation for Institute of Public Affairs & Administration Studies Department, Yonsei University, Seoul. |
| 2012 | June 18-20 2012: Migrant Workers in South Korea: A Community Needs Assessment of Ansan City, (with Atteraya, M.), 8th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice “Evaluation as a Tool for Research, Learning, and Making Things Better”, City of Pori, Finland |
| 2011 | August 25-27 2011: Linking Welfare Regimes and Attitudes on Social Citizenship: a Comparative Perspective, Annual Meeting of RC19, ISA Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy RC19, Seoul National University, Korea |
| 2010 | August 20-21 2010: Trends and Determinants of Social Expenditure in East Asia, EASP 7th Conference “Searching for new policy paradigms in East Asia: initiatives, ideas and debates”, sponsored by OECD Korea & Sogang University, Seoul |
| 2009 | January 7-9 2009: Pension Reform in the Italian and the Korean Debate, “Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective”, co-sponsored by APPAM, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore) and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore |