Understanding Society and the Institute for Social and Economic Research are hosting the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) annual conference in September 2024.
he theme of the conference is Inequalities across life courses and generations: interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference will focus on inequalities in life outcomes that are experienced by individuals across key stages of their lives, and if these persist or reduce across generations.
SLLS is now looking for suggestions for individual papers, symposium of up to four papers, panels, or posters. There is also the option to run a pre-conference workshop. The conference is an entirely in-person event.
The SLLS conference will take place on 24-26 September, at the University of Essex.
Conference submissions from all areas of longitudinal and life course studies are welcomed:
- sociological, psychological, epidemiological, economic, social developmental and ageing processes and functioning within and across life course stages;
- methods and findings of cohort or household panel studies and record linkage, household, and income dynamics; intergenerational transfers and returns to learning; gene environment interactions;
- ‘mixed’, and comparative methods; innovative methodology in design, measurement, data management, analysis and research practice (quantitative and qualitative).
The deadline for abstracts is Thursday 29 February. Go to the SLLS website for more information and to submit an abstract.