Announcements

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Socio-Economic Systems in the Post-Pandemic World: Design Thinking, Strategic Planning, Management, and Public Policy

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease that was first recognized in China in late 2019. Among the primary effects caused by the pandemic, there was the dissemination of health preventive measures such as physical distancing, travel restrictions, self-isolation, quarantines, and…

Social, Technological and Health Innovation: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Policy, Health Policy, and Environmental Policy

This Research Topic focuses on both strengths and weaknesses of social innovation, technological innovation, and health innovation that are increasingly recognized as crucial concepts related to the formulation of responses to the social, health, and environmental challenges. Goals of this Research Topic: (1) to identify and share the best recent…

PhD Position in Sociology Uppsala University, the Department of Sociology

Uppsala University welcomes applications for a doctoral student position in sociology with a specialization in social gerontology, i.e. social scientific studies focusing on older people, aging and/ eldercare. The Department seeks to appoint one candidate with excellent academic merits who can demonstrate their potential for research in this specific area…

CfP: Social Aspects of Ageing – Selected Challenges, Analyses, and Solutions

CfP: Social Aspects of Ageing - Selected Challenges, Analyses, and Solutions   E-mail Body/Content: Contribute a chapter to the Open Access book "Social Aspects of Ageing - Selected Challenges, Analyses, and Solutions"   Register here to participate: https://mts.intechopen.com/welcome?books_hash=dbf515446deb32a56696801cd224984d&editor_contacts=a80ac0e94&books_id=11479   About the Book: The book “Social Aspects of Ageing - Selected…

Calls for Participation: How Methods Matter in Childhood and Age(ing) Research – Interdisciplinary Methods Conference for Early Career Researchers (PhD & Postdoc)

Both childhood and age(ing) research have gained momentum during the past decades and have developed a range of conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches. However, even though both work on the ‘margins of the life course’, exchange between them is still scarce. The Linking Ages initiative hence wants to initiate a…

CfP: Intergenerational Solidarity at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Call for Papers: “Intergenerational Solidarity at the Beginning of the 21st Century” Special Issue of “Genealogy” journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/intergenerational_solidarity)   Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2022   Special Issue Information: The year 2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of developing an active ageing framework that coincides with the twentieth anniversary of…

CfPs: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goals – series

In collaboration with the Open Access journals of Frontiers (www.frontiersin.org) we are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to the following article collections: CfP to the Research Topic "On Poverty and Its Eradication" (journals: Frontiers in Sociology, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Frontiers in Political Science, Frontiers in Public…

Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

This encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging. It covers the breadth of the field, gives readers access to all major sub-fields, and illustrates their interconnectedness with other disciplines. With more than 1300 cross-disciplinary…