SPARC Events
Report Launch - The Role of Grandparents in Divorced and Separated Families
This study was funded by the Family Support Agency and completed by Virpi Timonen, Martha Doyle & Ciara O’ Dwyer, with contributions from Elena Moore. The report will be launched by Mary Hanafin, TD, Minister for Social and Family Affairs
Date: Monday 23rd November
Time: 2:30pm
Location: The Atrium, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin
Light refreshments and copies of the report, free of charge, will be available at the event. To book a place, please contact Colette Garry at ageing.research@tcd.ie or 01 896 2914, by Monday, 16th November at the latest.
For more information, please follow link
Seminar on Retirement
Date: Thursday 1st October, 2009
Details: The Real Transition Year(s)?: Planning for a Successful Retirement
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Boardroom, Trinity Sports Centre (near Pearse Street entrance)
The Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre (SPARC), in conjunction with TCD's Equality Office, is hosting a lunchtime seminar on planning for retirement as part of Positive Ageing Week (28th September- 2nd October). The seminar is geared towards staff and former staff of college who are currently considering how best to ensure their years of retirement are fulfilling.
To book a place for the seminar, please contact Colette Garry at ageing.research@tcd.ie (ext 2914), by Tuesday, 29th September at the latest.
SPARC/Cap Conference September 2009
Date: 16 & 17th September, 2009
Details: Planning Together: Policies and Participation in Ageing Societies
Location: Queen's University, Belfast
Call for abstracts : due by 27 Feb 2009.
For more details and registration please visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/planningtogether/
Age Action/SPARC 1 day Conference June 2009
Date: 26th June 2009
Time: 9.00am to 3.45pm
Details:Protecting Older Adults: Interweaving Formal and Informal Responses to
Elder Abuse
Location: Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross
Please follow link for Conference Presentations
Please send queries to Emer Begley at socialinclusion@ageaction.ie
ESPAnet Doctoral Workshop
Date: 14-15 May, 2009
Title: Understanding Changing Welfare
States
and Social Policies: Causes, Processes and
Consequences
Location: Trinity College Dublin
Deadline for applications: 13 February 2009
Both quantitative and qualitative studies of social policies and welfare states can bring to light similarities and differences and highlight convergence or divergence between systems. Examination of the causes and consequences of these similarities and differences is the mainstay of comparative social policy research.
This workshop seeks to bring together a group of advanced doctoral students who are investigating changes in welfare states and social policies, and the causes and consequences thereof. Papers can also address the various putative mechanisms of policy influence/policy transfer where such transfer can be demonstrated to have taken place; papers that seek to understand the balance between national and supra-national forces and actors in influencing social policy developments are particularly welcome......
SPARC News
Joint SPARC/King's College Graduate Student Conference - March 2009
The Institute of Gerontology, King's College London (Dr. Deborah Price) and SPARC (Dr. Virpi Timonen and Dr. Suzanne Cahill) are organising a one-day graduate student conference under the title 'New Insights into Ageing: An International Postgraduate Conference in Gerontology' for the students hosted by their respective institutions on 23 March 2009. Conference paper abstracts and presentations are available at:-
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/postgradconf.html
Other News
ISA World Congress - July 2010 - Call for Papers - RC11 Sociology of Ageing
Details: ISA World Congress of Sociology - ‘Sociology on the Move’
Location:
Gothenburg, Sweden
Dates: 11-17th July 2010
ISA RC11 (Sociology of Aging) is organising a full programme of 19 sessions during this congress.
Abstract Submission Deadline – 10th November 2009
Please follow link for further details