Announcements

CfP: Special Issue in Gérontologie et société “Older people and the end-of-life”

Conference/Meeting - Special Issue in Gérontologie et société "Older people and the end-of-life" Deadline - December 09, 2019Coordinators 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…
Coordinators 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 ZILLI (2021).CfP: Special Issue in Gérontologie et société “Older people and the end-of-life”. Gérontologie et société . ():

Announcement of 12 PhD positions in the research training group “Doing Transitions”

Employer - Goethe University Frankfurt am Main & Eberhard-Karls-University TuebingenDeadline - September 13, 2019Goethe University Frankfurt and Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen are inviting applications for  12 doctoral student positions  (TV-L E13, 65% part-time)  in the DFG Research Training Group „Doing Transitions“ starting on 1st of January 2020 for a fixed term of 3 years, located in Frankfurt and in Tübingen respectively.  The Research Training Group„Doing Transitions“ investigates…

GENDER-Net Plus Funded PhD Fellowship in Gender and Ageing Intersections in Exclusion from Social Relations across the Life Course

Employer - National University of Ireland GalwayDeadline - June 21, 2019 / 05:00 PMApplications for PhD Doctoral Position Sought: Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, four-year PhD research fellowship in the area of ageing and gender intersection in exclusion from social relations, to be based at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) in the National University of Ireland…

Postdoctoral Researcher (Qualitative) at NUI Galway

Employer - National University of Ireland GalwayDeadline - June 06, 2019 / 05:00 PMApplications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time 18-month fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This is a key post in a qualitative research programme that adopts a life-course approach and which…

Two  job openings (PhD, Postdoc) at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), digital health innovation and ageing

Employer - Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht UniversityDeadline - June 19, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is looking for an excellent, motivated and goal-oriented Postdoctoral Researcher and one PhD candidate with a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and/or Innovation Studies. It will be the primary task of the Postdoc to contribute to the international research project GATEKEEPER, funded under…

Fully funded PhD position at NUI Galway: Disability, Old Age and the Life Course: Voices of Experience

Employer - National University of Ireland GalwayDeadline - May 06, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Disability Advocacy Research in Europe (DARE) Marie Curie ETN, based at NUI Galway, Ireland, is seeking applications for the following fully funded PhD position at NUI Galway: Disability, Old Age and the Life Course: Voices of Experience. This individual project will explore the continuities and discontinuities in policy and legal discourses…

Postdoctoral fellow in Ageing and Later Life Norrkoping

Employer - LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY, Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV), Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC)Deadline - April 07, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC), Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV) at Linköping University, Sweden, is seeking to recruit to the following position: Postdoctoral fellow - ageing, gender, life course and social exclusion The postdoctoral fellow will work within the international comparative research project ‘GENPATH - GENdered…

CfP Social Networks and Retirement

Conference/Meeting - 4th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN)Date - September 09, 2019Deadline - April 12, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe aging of societies across Europe is not only fundamentally changing the demographic composition of populations as a whole, but also the structure of the workforces within. As working populations are ageing and simultaneous shrinking, the quest of extending working lives and - as rather new phenomena - enabling post-retirement…

CfP: Workshop on Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe — and Beyond

Conference/Meeting - Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe -- and BeyondDate - September 04, 2019Deadline - March 15, 2019 / 05:00 PMOn behalf of the European Association for Population Studies Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality; ISA RC41 (Soiology of Population) and the local organising committee at the Medizinische Hochschule, Hanover are pleased to announce a workshop on "Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe – and Beyond”, to be held…

LKAS PhD Scholarship

Employer - University of GlasgowDeadline - January 11, 2019 / 05:00 PMINNOVATION IN COMMUNITY MODELS OF ‘HOUSING WITH CARE' Project Summary: Ageing is often depicted as a burden for society, but there is now a growing realisation that it also provides many opportunities for economic growth and innovation in housing, care and co-production. Aligned to this, a shift in thinking can be…