Ignacio Madero-Cabib

Assistant Professor of Sociology Universidad de Chile Officer-at-large

Ignacio Madero-Cabib is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Public Policy Institute, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. His current research focuses on the impact of precarious employment trajectories on the health of older adults in 11 countries. His research has been published in several journals, including the European Journal of Ageing, Advances in Life Course Research, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, and Work, Aging and Retirement.


Contributions by Ignacio Madero-Cabib

Call for a PhD position (4 years) to work on ageing and migration within a big NCCR network in Switzerland

The National Center of Competence in Research nccr – on the move aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary migration patterns. Transcending disciplines, the NCCR brings together research projects from the social sciences, economics and law. Managed from the University of Neuchatel, the network comprises eleven Higher Education Institutions in…


RC11 Emerging Scholar Paper Award for Aging Research

The Executive Committee of RC11 is pleased to announce that the winners of the Emerging Scholar Paper Award are:   Patricia Homan "Rethinking the role of childhood SES in adult health: Integrating existing theories with life course perspectives on the disablement process" Ella Schwartz "The reciprocal relationship between social connectedness…


Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology / Doing Age – The Practices of Age and Ageing / November 1-3, 2018

Against the backdrop of demographic ageing, ageing research itself is transforming. While widely used concepts such as models of disengagement and active ageing have been heavily critizied for their “crypto-normativity” (Kolland & Amann, 2014), more recent approaches within a ‘cultural gerontology’ put emphasis on the subjective experience, identity construction and…


Final Conference Cost Action IS1409 – Call for Papers Institute for Lifecourse & Society November 22-23, 2018 Galway, Ireland.

Extending working life is one of the most important policy measures recommended to respond to population ageing, and the sustainability of social protection systems, in particular pension and health care systems. However, the differential impacts of these policies for various social groups and across different social policy regimes have yet…



Call for papers and sessions. Conference of the ESA Research Network (RN01) on Ageing in Europe

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS 4th Mid-Term Conference of the ESA Research Network (RN01) on Ageing in Europe "AGEING IN EUROPE: AGENCY, CITIZENSHIP AND THE DYNAMICS OF POWER" Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 5 - 7 September 2018 Conference website: http://esaageing-conf.fss.muni.cz Conference email: esaageing.conf@gmail.com  Conference Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/346869709120565 The major…


Announcement of RC11 Emerging Scholar Paper Award for Aging Research (Deadline: January 15th 2018)

The Executive Committee of Research Committee 11 (Sociology of Aging) of the International Sociological Association announces a competition for a conference participation award for best original research paper by an emerging scholar for presentation at the 2018 World Congress of Sociology 15-21 July, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Emerging scholars include…


Call for Abstracts & Registration: British Society of Gerontology Conference and Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) Pre-Conference

Call for Abstracts & Registration: Conference registration and abstract submission now open!   47th Annual British Society of Gerontology Conference: Ageing in an Unequal World, Shaping Environments for the 21st Century, 4 – 6 July 2018   AND   Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) Pre-Conference Event, 3 – 4 July 2018  …


INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) JOINT CONFERENCE FOR ISA RC06 (FAMILY) & RC41 (POPULATION) MAY 17-19, 2018

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY <-> CHANGING FAMILIES Conference website: https://singaporerc0641.nus.edu.sg/index.php Deadline for submission of abstract: November 1, 2017 ISA research committees on Family (RC06) and Population (RC41) will have its first joint meeting in Singapore hosted by the National University of Singapore Centre for Family and Population Research (NUS CFPR). We welcome…