Call for Contributions
European Child Cohort Network and Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
International Conference
Childhood and Beyond: tracing cohorts across the lifecourse
PARIS, France
29-31 October 2012
This is the final conference of the ESF-funded European Child Cohort Network (EUCCONET), combined with the third conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS). It comprises keynote lectures and parallel group and poster sessions.
It will feature reports and research from the teams following the multi-purpose child cohort studies in EUCCONET, research on the whole lifecourse and longitudinal methodology. Examples of the topics for which contributions are sought:
Methods and findings of child cohort studies, other sources of longitudinal data such as panel studies and record linkage; international comparisons, all lifecourse stages from infancy to old age (including physical, psychological, social developmental and ageing processes and functioning); household, and income dynamics; intergenerational transfers and returns to learning; gene-environment interaction; ‘mixed’, and comparative methods; innovative methodology in design, measurement, data management, analysis and research practice (quantitative and qualitative); longitudinal research and policy.
Keynote addresses by:
Marie-Aline Charles, INSERM, Director of the French child cohort ELFE
Early origins of obesity.
Professor Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Socio-economic inequality in childhood and beyond: international evidence from cohort studies.
Professor Ian Deary, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology University of Edinburgh.
From 11 to 90: following up the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947.
Proposals are sought for three kinds of presentation at the conference, for which a 200 word abstract must be submitted using this form.
- A symposium comprising at least 3 papers to be presented in a one and a half hour session or a series of up to four sessions. For symposium we require an abstract of no more than 200 words and an abstract of no more than 200 words for each paper.
- An individual paper for oral presentation for which an abstract of no more than 200 words is required.
- Papers which do not fit well into regular sessions may be allocated to Round table discussion moderated groups with smaller numbers and 10-15 minutes per (200 word abstract)
- A poster presentation for which an abstract of no more than 200 words is required.
The closing date for abstracts is March 15th 2012.
Decisions will be made about the presentations offered for the conference by the 15th of May 2012 when all contributors will be notified.
The conference will take place in Paris, France, the most beautiful city in the world and home of the organization of the 2011-launched Growing Up in France Study ELFE. The conference venue is the FIAP Jean Monnet, an international accommodation and conference center located in a quiet area on the rive gauche, with easy access from Parisian airports and train stations. The city center and its many activities are just a few metro stations away and various hotel rates can be found in the area.
A certain number of papers or posters about child cohort studies (research results as well as methodology) will receive a full grant from EUCCONET covering their travel, accommodation and registration fee.
There will be charges for other delegates, discounted for SLLS members. So if you have not joined yet, please consider doing so soon. Click here for full details and a membership form to complete on-line.
The Society’s journal, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, will be a possible outlet for the publication of conference papers, as it has published the abstracts for the 2011 conference and three special issues in 2011 based on symposia from the 2010 conference.
Click here if you would like to submit an abstract.
Henri Leridon (Chair of Eucconet and Local Organiser) and Heather Joshi (Eucconet co-chair and SLLS President)
SLLS International Conference 2011
Bielefeld, Germany Venue: Ravensberger Spinnerei
26th- 28th September 2011
Nearly two hundred people assembled at Bielefeld, Germany for the Society's second annual conference, taking place from 26-28th September 2011.
Participants enjoyed the interdisciplinary and international exchange of ideas in the well-appointed setting of a converted linen mill, bathed in warm sunshine. The final programme can be found below and a list of abstracts will be published in the Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Journal early in the new year.
Many thanks to everyone who made a contribution and particularly to Martin Diewald, Birgit Monhof-Halbach and the local organising team. We are also grateful to our sponsors - listed below right.
This was all a great start to the Society's second year of life.
Programme
To view the programme please click here
Keynote addresses by:
Hans-Peter Blossfeld (National Education Panel Study, University of Bamberg, Germany) Jutta Heckhausen (University of California, USA) Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin (Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London
With thanks to our 2011 sponsors:
