Keynote Speech I by Prof Lee Shulman, Stanford University
Teaching and Learning in an unscripted world

Keynote Speech II by Prof Chris Husbands, UCL Institute of Education
Great Expectations: the Grand Challenges of Education in the 21C

Keynote Speech III by Prof Nicola Yeates, Open University
Situating Regions in Global Worlds: Towards a ‘New’ Politics of Social Policy?

Discussion Forum I

• Prof Joshua Mok, HKIEd [Managing Changing Labour Market Needs and “Brain Drain” Problems: A Study of Motivation of Students and Implications for Social Development in China]
• Prof Ywen-wen Ku, National Taiwan University [To Be or Not to Be Part of Greater China: Social Development in the Post-Ma’s Taiwan]
• Dr. Antonios Roumpakis, University of York [Exploring the Institutional Conditions for Family Provision in South Europe and East Asia]

Discussion Forum II

• Prof Aki Yonezawa, Nagoya University [Japan’s Higher Education Reforms in the Global Age Role of Social Sciences of Education]
• Dr Stefan Kuhner, University of York [Human Capital, Redistribution and Growth: When do we know what we think we know?]
• Prof Nick Ellison, University of York [Transferring What From Whom? Policy Learning in a Highly Competitive World]

Discussion Forum III

• Prof King-lun Ngok, Sun Yat-sen University [Reconstructing Chinese Welfare State in the New Century: Process, Dynamics and Regime Orientation]
• Dr Keerty Nakray, O.P. Jindal Global University [India’s Emerging Social Policy Paradigm: Productivist, Protectionist or a Rentier State?]
• Dr Mulyadi Sumarto, Gadjah Mada University [Welfare Regime Transformation and Global Social Policy: Evidence from Indonesia]