Ageing in Time: Demography, Life-Cycles and Policy Development | Time and Temporality in Policy Making, (Free, Online session)16 Jan

Part Two of an online seminar exploring policies associated with time and ageing, and time in policy-making.

Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 

Time: 09:30 - 12:30 GMT

Place: Online, Zoom

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The questions of time and ageing and their roles in the formation of public policy are multifaceted. Societal and personal experiences of ageing are impacted by policy, and policy formation is (or, perhaps, should be) impacted by time. This event series will explore these interconnected issues of time, ageing and public policy in an Irish context. 

This second event complements the issue of ageing by considering time and temporality in policy making—balancing the short-term, election-cycle policy promises with the long-term process of policy development impact and thinking about how future generations can be ‘present’ in contemporary policy development.

Schedule | Time and temporality in policy making

Session 1 (9.30 – 11.00): Chair Colette Bennett

• Introduction: Time and Temporality in Policy Making
  • Prof Muiris MacCarthaigh, Centre for Public Policy and Administration, Queen’s University Belfast
• Global perspectives on time in policy making
  • Prof Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London
• Long Problems: Representing future generations in today’s policy-making
  • Prof. Thomas Hale, Professor of Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
• Q&A

Break 11.00 – 11.30

Session 2: (11.30 – 13.00) Chair Prof Cathal O’Donoghue

• Planning for Climate Futures
  • Rhiannon Hardiman, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
• In for the Long Haul
  • Laurie Smith, Head of Foresight Research, NESTA
• The EU: A Long-Term Actor under Permanent Time Pressure
  • Prof Klaus Goetz, Chair in Political Systems and European Integration, University of Munich.
• Q&A.

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