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2015 SRCD Special Topic Meeting
Social Neuroscience Perspectives on Child Development Leiden, The Netherlands September 16 – 17, 2015 Deadline is May 17, 2015. This SRCD Special Topic Meeting (Sept 16 – 17) is being conducted in close partnership with the 3rd Annual Flux Congress: Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Sept 17 – 19). Flux 3 is focused on neurocognitive development and includes sessions on critical…
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN EUROPEAN BULGARIA. A SOCIOLOGICAL PORTRAIT 2014
P.-E. Mitev & S. Kovacheva ISBN 978-954-2979-23-4 Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Sofia – 2014 This book is a sociological portrait of young people in present-day Bulgaria – twenty-five years after the beginning of the Change and seven years after the country’s accession to the European Union. The path passed since 1989 is the result of…
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“Youth for What? New Generations and Social Change” – special issue of SMP
SMP. Società Mutamento Politica Special issue on “Youth for What? New Generations and Social Change” (Vol. 5, No. 10, 2014) – ISSN 2038-3150 (online) Ed. Andrea Pirni The issue is organised in 5 sections. The first one offers a wide-angle perspective on youth condition, to favour the elaboration of new analytic…
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“Youth Work, Non-Formal Education and Youth Participation” – special issue of IJSE
IJSE. Italian Journal Of Sociology of Education Special issue on “Youth Work, Non-Formal Education and Youth Participation” (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2015) – ISSN 2035-4983 Eds. Daniele Morciano, Anna Fausta Scardigno, Maurizio Merico The papers presented in the special section of this issue of the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education approach several…
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COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (CIHE) – Pre-CONFERENCE FORUM – Call for proposals 2015
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (ASHE) 40th Annual conference “Inequality and Higher Education”, Nov. 5-7 2015, Denver, CO, USA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (CIHE) Pre-CONFERENCE FORUM Call for proposals 2015 The ASHE Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) will convene its 24th Annual Forum beginning Wednesday morning, November 4th, through noon…
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Post Doctoral Fellowship
JOB POSTING – Post Doctoral Fellowship Dr. Kate Tilleczek Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier I) Young Lives in Global & Local Contexts Director, Young Lives Research- UPEI Position & Salary – Post-doctoral fellowship (one year with possibility for renewal) – Competitive salary package – Placement within vibrant, engaged, and internationally focused team and lab…
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Call for Applications: Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural call for applications for its Research Fellowship Program. The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is an internationally open, competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers focusing on child and youth development. Fellowships are awarded to the most highly talented and innovative young scholars and mid-career…
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Ladislav Macháček (In memoriam)
(21st July 1942 -30 January 2015) Ladislav Macháček was born in Communist Czechoslovakia and died in the Slovak Republic, part of the European Union. In many ways Ladislav played a part in shaping these great changes for his country and for Europe. Ladislav was always a driving force internationally. From the 1980s onwards Ladislav was…
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SLLS International Conference: ‘Life Courses in Cross-National Comparison: Similarities and Differences’
Call for Papers & Symposia SLLS International Conference ‘Life Courses in Cross-National Comparison: Similarities and Differences’ Dublin, Ireland 18 – 21 October 2015 (dates include pre-conference workshop on 18th October) Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Richard Layte –Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland Prof. Rainer Silbereisen – Center for Applied Developmental Science (CADS), Germany…
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A network of Global South Youth Scholars
March-November 2015 How are young people living in the global South the same as or differ to their peers in the global North, and what strategies, policies and theories have we developed to help them succeed? This question has prompted Sharlene Swartz (Vice President for Africa and the Middle East) to convene a Consortium of…