Aging & Social Change: Fourteenth Interdisciplinary Conference
- Diversity Over Time: Changes in Individual, Organizational, and Place Contexts
- 18-20 September 2024
- University of Galway, Galway, Ireland + Online
Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Professor, Ageing & Public Policy, Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG), University of Galway, Ireland
Aging & Social Change: Fourteenth Interdisciplinary Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA
"Aging, Place and the Life Course of Societies"
Professor, University of Leicester School of Business, UK
"Seeking employment after 50: How the job market undermines older jobseekers"
Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
"Contextualising Trends in the Distribution of Older People’s Rural Support Networks over Two Decades of Social Change"
Director, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, CPEC, LSE, UK
“Supporting older people with long-term care needs: Evolving care models and challenges for the future"
Emeritus Professor and Professor of the Graduate School, Berkeley University, California, USA
(Respondent for Graham D. Rowles)
University Professor, Sociology Department, Syracuse University, USA
(Respondent for Matt Flynn)
Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, Syracuse University, USA
(Respondent for Vanessa Burholt)
Associate Professor, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice
Adjunct Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
Director, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, CPEC, LSE, UK
Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, Ireland
Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA
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 2024 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Ulster University, UK
(In-Person)
LUT University, Finland
(In-Person)
University of Galway, Ireland
(In-Person)
Syracuse University, USA
(In-Person)
University of Galway, Ireland
(In-Person)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
(In-Person)
Queen's University in Kingston, Canada
(In-Person)
University of Toronto, Canada
(In-Person)Jessica-Hsieh
University of Chicago, USA
(Online Only)
University of Manitoba, Canada
(Online Only)
La Trobe University, Australia
(Online Only)
University of Northern Iowa, USA
(Online Only)
Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda
(Online Only)
Galway, Ireland
Linköping, Sweden