Aging & Social Change: Eleventh Interdisciplinary Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
                                        "Ageing (un)equally? The role of active ageing, extending working lives and pension policy on women’s retirement in the UK"
Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Social Work, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
                                        "Heterogeneity in the retirement transition of the self-employed"
Associate Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
                                        Professor, University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Germany
"Extending working lives in Europe and retirement's (in)voluntariness."
                                        Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2021 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
                                        AnHui Normal University, China
                                        Researcher, Journal Reviewer & Department of Cooperative, Bangladesh
                                        The Ohio State University, USA
                                        Associate Professorial Lecturer, Graduate Studies College of Science & Computer Studies, Philippines
                                        Doctoral Researcher, Örebro University, Sweden
                                        Researcher, Health Sciences Research Unit, Nursing of the Nursing School of Coimbra, Portugal
                                        University of Vienna, Austria
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
                                        University of Cambridge, UK
                                        University of the Philippines, Philippines
                                        University of Ottawa, Canada
                                        University of Alberta, Canada
University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
Chief Executive Officer, Ganador Healthcare Services Ltd, Nigeria
Concordia University, USA
                                        Linköping, Sweden