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Final Conference: The State of Family Resilience in Europe today: new evidence to support policy reform — rEUsilience On 27th June 2025, the rEUsilience project concluded its three-year research project with a vibrant high-level final conference in Brussels. The event brought together over 90 participants, including ...

📣 What is the State of #FamilyResilience in Europe today?

This was the core question during our Final Conference in Brussels on 27 June 2025.

Read more about the conference on the #rEUsilience website 👇
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📖 Access the full, open access book on Elgaronline here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

This book is a key resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in social policy, sociology, and welfare studies, and a timely contribution to policy debates across Europe.

🔍 The book critically revisits the concept of resilience in the context of family life and poverty, exploring how families manage daily challenges such as low income, precarious work, and care responsibilities.

This open access volume brings together the rEUsilience research from six European countries: Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, drawing on focus group interviews with over 300 participants from low-resource families

New Published Book: Families, Welfare States, and Resilience - Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe — rEUsilience We are pleased to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing has published the book “Families, Welfare States, and Resilience – Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe”, edi...

📚 Last month, @elgarpublishing.bsky.social has published the book: “Families, Welfare States, and Resilience, Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe”, edited by Mary Daly, @ox.ac.uk.

Find out more on the #rEUsilience website 👇
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The families in households typology: searching for families in social surveys Studying families with social surveys is not always as straightforward as it may seem. The reasons for the challenges are both conceptual and methodological, stemming from the specificity of the da...

The families in households typology

In this new paper from the @reusilience.bsky.social project, we improve standard family-type variables in EU-SILC

By @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @wvlancker.bsky.social and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Working Paper “Family Dynamics and Labour Market Risks Questionnaire" — rEUsilience We are pleased to share our new working paper which introduces a novel questionnaire designed to improve the measurement of how family dynamics intersect with labour market risks, and how families’ re...

📣New #rEUsilience working paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and @wvlancker.bsky.social, introducing a novel questionnaire designed to improve the measurement of how family dynamics intersect with labour market risks and care responsibilities.

Full working paper👉 reusilience.eu/project-upda...

New Working Paper “Implications of an incomplete gender revolution for low-resourced single mothers in Sweden" — rEUsilience We are glad to share our new working paper which examines the overlooked consequences of Sweden’s gender-equality-driven family policies for low-resourced single mothers. Although the ability to combi...

🔍 How do single mothers fare in a policy context that seeks gender equality through focusing on two-parent families?

📚 You can now read it in our newest working paper focusing on the unintended consequences of Sweden's gender-equality-driven family policies 👇
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🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 NEW #OpenAccess title: Families, Welfare States and Resilience, edited by Mary Daly of @ox.ac.uk

🟠 Read the entire book #OA at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Endorsement by @kittyjstewart.bsky.social
#SocialPolicy #Sociology #LabourPolicy

Some insights into how low-resource families navigate life from the @reusilience.bsky.social project I had the pleasure to be part of. Much recommended read!

Authors: @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @thaning.bsky.social @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, Lovisa Backman

New Working Paper “the need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets. An inequalities in resilience framework” — rEUsilience We are pleased to share our new working paper, which develops an ‘inequalities in resilience’ framework to better understand how individuals respond to labour market risks in Europe, and how inequalit...

Almost one week after our #rEUsilience Final Conference on the State of #FamilyResilience today in Europe, we are pleased to publicly share our newest working paper!

💻 Find out more about our proposed 'inequalities in resilience' framework here: reusilience.eu/project-upda...

📘 Curious to learn more?
Download the full paper here 👉 reusilience.eu/wp-content/u...

🔬 Interested in using The Social Study for your own research?
Submit your proposal here 👉 thesocialstudy.be/collect-data...

#surveyresearch #probabilitypanel #panelresearch

Did you know that 22.8% of Belgians care for/provide support to family members who need help due to age, illness or disability?

A striking stat from a recent @reusilience.bsky.social paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social powered by TSS data and proposed as ESS Rotating Module.

Picture of the conference room with the speaker in Front. The PowerPoint Presentation says 'Family Resilience'

Picture of the conference and the audience, the powerpoint presentation shows the book published and the text says 'low-resource families go to great lengths the make the most of the little they have, but are often at a point of depletion'.

💭What is the state of Family Resilience today in Europe? This is the core question during our Final #rEUsilience Conference today in Brussels!

Grateful to all who are joining us to conclude three years of #HorizonEurope research while keeping the conversation on #FamilyResilience going.

Overview of policy recommendations for the anti-poverty strategy based on rEUsilience research (these recommendations are shared in the following messages)

As we have the final conference of @reusilience.bsky.social tomorrow, it is nice to look back on our input to a policy event on the new EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, organised by the DG Employment.

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework — rEUsilience Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This...

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework

New @reusilience.bsky.social working paper by @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman.

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rEUsilience’s Belgian Stakeholders’ event focuses on care across various types of families in Belgium and how effective policy reforms can make a difference — rEUsilience On the 26th of May 2025, rEUsilience researcher Wim Van Lancker moderated a rEUsilience Workshop: ‘Critical dialogue regarding Belgian and Flemish family policy’ which brought together a diverse group...

🌍Highlights from the Belgian #rEUsilience event organised by @wvlancker.bsky.social on care, families & policy reform: how can policy better support diverse families in Belgium?

💻 You can read the full article about the Belgian rEUsilience event on our website: reusilience.eu/project-upda...

rEUsilience’s Swedish Stakeholders’ event focuses on childhood poverty in Sweden: causes, consequences and possible interventions — rEUsilience On the 23rd of May 2025, the rEUsilience National Event in Sweden focused on childhood poverty in Sweden, where rEUsilience research insights regarding the compounded challenges for families in vulner...

🌍 Tackling Childhood Poverty in Sweden: highlights from the #rEUsilience National Event.

📣 This event focused on childhood poverty and the possible interventions to break the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage.

Read the full article here: reusilience.eu/project-upda...

New working paper: "Adult Care, Work and Well-being in Europe. Ad hoc module for submission to ESS call for rotating modules" — rEUsilience We are pleased to share our new working paper which proposes a Rotating Module to be included in the European Social Survey (ESS) concerning questions on adult care responsibilities within and beyond ...

📣 New Working Paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and @wvlancker.bsky.social, proposing a Rotating Module on adult care responsibilities to be included in the European Social Survey (ESS).

💻 You can read the full working paper on the #rEUsilience website 👇
reusilience.eu/project-upda...

Excited to be representing @reusilience.bsky.social research in Brussels, at a hearing in preparation of the new EU Anti-Poverty Strategy.

I'm speaking at an event titled "Social Protection and Inequality Reduction: Horizon Europe Insights for the Anti-Poverty Strategy"

The evidence on intergenerational poverty is limited in general, but certainly so from a migration perspective. Abrar Bawati (KU Leuven) investigates poverty persistence in Europe among second generation children from the Global South. #FISS2025

Toon Van Havere subsequently demonstrates that a trilemma of poverty reduction might be less of an issue than many may think. Reducing poverty while maintaining work incentives is possible. Fresh research from our @reusilience.bsky.social project! #FISS2025

'No cheap way to reduce poverty' says Toon from @reusilience.bsky.social research

COFACE Families Europe brings family resilience to European expert meeting on Work-Life Balance.  — rEUsilience On Wednesday 21st of May, COFACE Families Europe, consortium member of the rEUsilience research project co-organised, together with the Share the Care Foundation, the Conference “Equal at Home – Equal...

@cofaceeu.bsky.social brings #familyresilience and other relevant #rEUsilience research evidence to the European expert meeting on #WorkLifeBalance, co-organised by Share the Care in Poland.

Read more here 👉 reusilience.eu/project-upda...

Leading up to our Final Conference, we are pleased to share our second video-explainer, highlighting the importance of valuing #care as a core element of resilience in social policy, enabling families to make transitions between different stages of family life.
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulm...

Fattiga familjer berättar: Så lever vi - Syre Att ha ett arbete hjälper inte alltid mot fattigdom. Nästan var tolfte familj med somalisk bakgrund lever i fattigdom trots att båda föräldrarna jobbar, visar ny forskning.

Fattige familjer berättar: Så lever vi

Interview in @syre-tidningen.bsky.social about the situation of low resource families in Sweden, based on @reusilience.bsky.social research with Lovisa Backman, and on research by @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social

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Maandag 26 mei om 13u organiseren we aan de KU Leuven een workshop rond het Vlaamse/Belgische gezinsbeleid in het kader van het Europese @reusilience.bsky.social project. We presenteren nieuwe resultaten over gezinnen, zorg, werk en bescherming. Gratis inschrijven 👇

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