Contributed on September 3, 2020 by Anna Wanka. Posted in Jobs
Employer - The Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor Deadline - September 24, 2020POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER OPPORTUNITIES SOCIETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER AT UNIVERSIDAD MAYORPostdoc_Society_and_Health_Research_Center_UM_2020 The Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor (http://ciss.umayor.cl/en/) is seeking to sponsor postdoctoral researchers funded through FONDECYT. The overarching mission of the Society and Health Research Center is to advance well-being at the individual, social, and institutional…
Deadline - August 31, 2020Guest Edited by Magdelane Kania-Lundholm (Dalarna University College, Sweden) & Helen Manchester (University of Bristol, UK)Scholars agree that information technologies, digital devices and mediated systems of communication have profoundly shaped societies on all levels and later life is no exception. However, to date, the majority of scholarship addressing old age and digital technologies has focused either on issues pertaining to inequalities and digital divides or…
Conference/Meeting - New Pathways in Retirement Research: Innovative Perspectives on Social Inequalities and the Distribution of Transitional Risks (Research Topic)Deadline - July 31, 2020Editors: Anna Wanka, Moritz Hess, David Lain About this Research Topic The transition from work to retirement remains one of the major turning points within an individual's life course, as it entails a variety of significant changes. Income and occupational prestige may decrease, but so does work-related stress; similarly, work-related social networks may loosen, but private…
Conference/Meeting - PhD Workshop: An exploration of methodological issues in the study of age and ageingDeadline - April 16, 2020Call for applications PhD workshop, 24.-26.8. Jyväskylä, Finland An exploration of methodological issues in the study of age and ageing Organized by the ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe and the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare). Overview We invite PhD students and early-career…
RC11 wishes you a Happy New Year! As we know, most of you are looking forward to a very busy and hopefully equally exciting 2020. Do you want to share some of your activities with the RC11 community? We are currently preparing our winter newsletter, and as you know, the…
Conference/Meeting - Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research's annual volume on "Aging and the Family: Understanding Changes in Structural and Relationship Dynamics." Patricia Neff Claster & Sampson Lee Blair (editors)Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is an annual volume which publishes cutting-edge family research. The 2020 volume of CPFR will focus on the theme of "Aging and the Family: Understanding Changes in Structural and Relationship Dynamics." We are interested in a wide variety of topics related to aging and family issues, and…
Conference/Meeting - Sustainable Care International Conference 2020Deadline - September 16, 2019 / 5 PM BSTCare: challenges and solutions for a sustainable future Around the world, arrangements for the care of people who need help to manage daily life are evolving. Care is needed ‘at home’ and ‘across continents’; it must meet the needs of individuals and of families and communities; it must be possible…
Conference/Meeting - Gender, Work & Organization - 11th Biennial International Interdisciplinary ConferenceDate - June 24, 2020Deadline - November 01, 2019 / 5 PM BSTFind more information here: 2020-GWO-Call-for-Abstracts-Gendered-Ageism-and-DisAbleism-in-the-Workplace-1
Dear RC11 members, We are preparing our summer newsletter. The RC11 newsletter is all about sharing your information with other like-minded academics, so we are eager to find out what's going on in your and your community's research! If you have any announcements, news and information you want to share…
Conference/Meeting - Special Issue in Gérontologie et société "Older people and the end-of-life" Deadline - December 09, 2019 / 5 PM BSTCoordinators of this issue: Frédéric BALARD, Pierre MOULIN and Cherry SCHRECKER
Chief editors: Frédéric BALARD and Aline CORVOL
Editorial committee: Pascal ANTOINE, Frédéric BALARD, Pascale BREUIL, Catherine CALECA, Arnaud CAMPÉON, Christophe CAPUANO, Aline CHAMAHIAN, Aline CORVOL, Olivier DUPONT, Roméo FONTAINE, Agathe GESTIN, Fabrice GZIL, Dominique KERN, Pascal LAMBERT, Sylvie MOISDON-CHATAIGNER, Bertrand PAUGET, Sophie PENNEC, Bertrand QUENTIN, Alain ROZENKIER, Dominique SOMME, Benoît VERDON
Editorial coordination: Hélène TROUVÉ and Valérie ZILLIQuestions related to the end-of-life have given rise to numerous articles in scientific reviews and to extended ethical, legal and political debates. The aim of this special issue is to problematize this vast subject in the area of gerontology. We would like to consider this question from two points of…