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About<\/a><\/p>\n

Important dates<\/a><\/p>\n

Keynote Speakers<\/a><\/p>\n

Organizing Committee<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT<\/h2>\n

The Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course (DIAL) research programme\u2019s mid-term conference will be held on 6\u20138 June 2019 at the University of Turku, Finland.\u00a0 The DIAL programme is focused on understanding the dynamics of inequalities as they unfold over the life course, causal processes and drivers in relation to these inequalities, and the impact of these inequalities on social cohesion.<\/p>\n

In particular, the programme is structured around four themes that reflect transitions and trajectories at key stages of the life course: (1) early life influences and outcomes; (2) early adult transitions into tertiary education, vocational training and economic activity; (3) labour market and family trajectories and the growth of inequality; and (4) labour market participation in later life and retirement. An emphasis is placed on examining inequality from a number of different dimensions, including education, employment, income, housing, living standards, health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

The organizing committee welcomes submissions that address the themes of the research programme from both researchers working in DIAL projects as well as other scholars working on these topics.<\/p>\n

Important dates<\/h2>\n

Call for Papers Opens<\/strong>: December 3rd, 2018<\/p>\n

Abstract Submission<\/strong>\u00a0Deadline<\/strong>: January 25th, 2019<\/p>\n

Notification of Acceptance\/Rejection<\/strong>: February 8th, 2019<\/p>\n

Registration Deadline<\/strong>: April 5th, 2019<\/p>\n

Stakeholder registration deadline:<\/strong> May 5th, 2019<\/p>\n

Final Abstract Submission Deadline<\/strong>: May 22nd, 2019<\/p>\n

Conference Dates<\/strong>: June 6th-8th, 2019<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers<\/h2>\n

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Karl Ulrich Mayer:<\/strong> The Contribution of Life Course Research to the Study of Inequality \u2013 More Questions than Answers? (TBC)<\/p>\n

Jo Blanden<\/strong>: New Dimensions of Intergenerational Economic Mobility<\/p>\n

Florencia Torche<\/strong>: The Effects of Early-life Exposures on Health, Cognitive, and Educational Outcomes over the Life Course<\/p>\n

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Karl Ulrich Mayer<\/strong><\/a> completed his Doctoral degree from the University of Constance (1973). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2013 by the University of Rostock. Mayer\u2019s main areas of research are social stratification and mobility, sociology of the life-course, comparative analysis of social structures and structures and processes of the labor market.<\/p>\n

To name a few of Mayer\u2019s many positions, Karl Ulrich Mayer is Founding Editor of the European Sociological Review. In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, where he became the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) and chaired the Department of Sociology from 2005 to 2010 and now is Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University, USA.<\/p>\n

Jo Blanden<\/strong><\/a> is a lecturer in School of Economics, University of Surrey. Over the years 2000-2005 she was full-time researcher in the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and completed her PhD at UCL over this time. She joined the Department of Economics at Surrey in October 2005 and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE.<\/p>\n

Blanden\u2019s research interests lie broadly in the fields of labour and family economics. Her PhD was on the topic of intergenerational income mobility. Blanden is currently studying the impact of nursery attendance on children’s outcomes.<\/p>\n

Florencia Torche<\/strong><\/a> holds a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. She’s professor in Standford University. Torche\u2019s scholarship encompasses two related areas. A longer-term area of research studies inequality dynamics with a particular focus on educational attainment, assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of wealth. A more recent area of research examines the influence of early-life exposures on individual development, attainment, and socioeconomic wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Torche\u2019s research combines diverse methodological approaches including quantitative analysis, causal inference, experiments and natural experiments, and in-depth interviews. Much of her research uses an international comparative perspective.<\/p>\n

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Chair of organizing committee<\/h2>\n

Dr. Elina Kilpi-Jakonen<\/p>\n

Scientific organizing committee<\/h2>\n