Richard M. Titmus (1907-1973)
The Memorial Lecture in Memory of Prof. Richard M. Titmus began as an initiative of the winner of the Israel Prize for Social Work, Prof. Avraham Doron, and of the National Insurance Institute, which aims to commemorate the work of one of the most important voices in the field of social policy design in the past century and the forefathers of the modern welfare state. Titmus. Titmus was also a close friend of the State of Israel and the National Insurance Institute and even visited Israel on several occasions.
The memorial lecture is known as a stage for meaningful learning and therefore the research group in the social policy of the School of Social Work and Social Welfare named after Brawald at the Hebrew University each year invites one of the best academic minds in the world to give a lecture. In recent years, Prof. Timothy Smithing (Senior Lecturer and Founder of the Luxembourg Income Studies Research Center), Prof. Joachim Palma (Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute for Futures Studies), and Prof. Peter Tyler-Gobi ( OBE, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Kent) and Prof. Irving Garfinkel (Senior Lecturer at Columbia University and Director of the Retired Poverty Research Institute).