Navigating Family Policies in Precarious Times: Examining Diverse Approaches in European Countries

Shirley Gatenio Gabel is a Professor and holds the Quaranta Chair for Justice for Children at Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service in New York. Dr. Gatenio Gabel's research focuses on human rights and social policies, particularly those affecting children and families. She has served as a consultant to UNICEF, UNESCO and UN member countries on child poverty and advocacy strategies, and social protection in developing countries. She represents the International Association of Schools of Social Work at the United Nations. Her newest book is A Human Rights-based Approach to Justice in Social Work (Oxford in 2024). She is the editor of a book series on rights-based approaches to social work practice, authored A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy, and is the co-founder/co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.

Piotr Michoń is an associate professor at Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland. His mostly interdisciplinary research work is mainly devoted to: family and family policy, quality of life, youth labour market, well-being and justice in social policy. He has managed numerous research projects funded by the European Commission, the Ministries of Education and Science, Visegradfund, the National Science Centre, the National Academic Exchange Agency, etc. He has been on research internships in numerous universities and research centres in number of countries: USA, Netherlands, Scotland, Portugal, Australia and many more. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Science (since 2020), The Network for European Social Policy Analysis (board member 2015- 2020), and The International Society of Quality of Life Studies (Board of Directors since 2019).

Shirley Gatenio Gabel 是紐約福坦大學社會服務研究所的教授，並擔任兒童正義的 Quaranta 教席。Gatenio Gabel 博士的研究專注於人權和社會政策，特別是那些影響兒童和家庭的政策。她曾擔任 UNICEF、UNESCO 及聯合國成員國在兒童貧困和倡導策略以及發展中國家的社會保障方面的顧問。她代表國際社會工作學校協會參加聯合國會議。她最新的著作是《以人權為基礎的社會工作正義方法》（Oxford，2024）。她還編輯了一系列關於以權利為基礎的社會工作實踐的書籍，撰寫了《以權利為基礎的社會政策》，並共同創辦及編輯《人權與社會工作期刊》。

Piotr Michoń 是波蘭波茲南經濟與商業大學的副教授。他的研究工作主要是跨學科的，主要致力於家庭及家庭政策、生活品質、青年勞動市場、福祉和社會政策中的正義。他管理過多個由歐洲委員會、教育與科學部、維謝格拉德基金、國家科學中心、國家學術交流機構等資助的研究項目。他曾在美國、荷蘭、蘇格蘭、葡萄牙、澳大利亞等多個國家的多所大學和研究中心進行研究實習。他是波蘭科學院的成員（自2020年起）、歐洲社會政策分析網絡的董事會成員（2015-2020年），以及國際生活品質研究學會的董事會成員（自2019年起）。