MiSoC is pleased to co-sponsor the third European Social Science Genetics Network Conference which will be held this year at Erasmus University, Rotterdam on 30-31 May.
MiSoC has co-organised two previous successful conferences in Bologna, with prestigious keynote speakers including Dr Adam Rutherford and Professor Kathryn Paige Harden, attracting delegates from across the world to discuss new cutting-edge research using genetic, social and economic data to understand complex inequalities in life chances.
This year’s ESSGN Conference aims to improve our understanding of how genetic endowments and environmental circumstances shape life choices and outcomes across the life-course of individuals.
Dorret Boomsma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will give the opening keynote lecture on “The Future of Social Science Genetics”. Tom Emery (ODISSEI & Erasmus University Rotterdam) will give the closing keynote lecture on “Challenges in Linking Genetic and Administrative Data”.
The conference programme will be soon announced here.
We encourage submissions in the form of papers or extended abstracts from the following fields:
- Methodological advances in social science genetics
- Gene-environment interplay
- Inter- and intragenerational social mobility
- Equality of opportunity
- Family formation and fertility
- Ethics, history, and philosophy of social science genetics.
We also welcome submissions from related strands of the literature. We strongly encourage Ph.D. students and early career researchers to participate.
Submit papers and abstracts here.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024.