History
Our History ...
Our History ...
Founded in 2011, Aging & Social Change Conference provides an international forum for the discussion
The Aging & Social Change Conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
The Aging & Social Change Research Network enables members to publish through two media. First, network members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non- hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Journal of Aging and Social Change provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the Aging & Social Change Book Imprint, which publishes cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.
The Aging & Social Change Research Network offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the network YouTube channel. Quarterly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Members may also join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter or explore our new social media platform, Scholar.
The Aging & Social Change Conference has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including:
Director of Centre for Global Leadership, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, USA
(2011)
Reader in Sociology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
(2012)
Director, Aging, Mobility, & Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
(2012)
Project Co-Director, The Greying of AIDS, New York City, USA
(2013)
Honorary Professor, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
(2014)
Executive Director, Midlands Community Development Corporation, Columbia, USA
(2015)
Professor, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
(2016)
Professor & Director, Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
(2016)
Acting Director, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology; Director, Project Lifecourse, Institute for Lifecourse and Society
(2017)
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; The Norman and Honey Schipper Chair, Gerontological Social Work; Senior Scientist, Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
(2019)