2018 Annual Conference
The 2018 SLLS Conference
'Qualitative and Quantitative Longitudinal Research on
Social Change and Its Impacts'
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, between 9 - 11 July 2018
(with post-conference workshops taking place on Thursday 12th July 2018)
Although the overall conference theme will focus on qualitative and quantitative longitudinal research on social change and its impacts, conference submissions from many areas of longitudinal and life course studies will be covered: physical, psychological, social developmental and ageing processes and functioning within and across life course stages from infancy to old age; methods and findings of cohort studies; other sources of longitudinal data such as panel studies and record linkage; international comparisons; household, and income dynamics; gene-environment interactions; ‘mixed’, and comparative methods; innovative methodology in design, measurement, data management, analysis and research practice (quantitative and qualitative).
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CONFERENCE TIMELINE
Call for abstracts: 1 November 2017
Close of call: 19 January 2018
Grading of abstracts: 29 January - 16th February 2018
Notifications sent out: 28 February - 9 March 2018
Earlybird registration open: April 2018
Programme released: April 2018
Conference begins: 9 July 2018
Contact Information
For programme and registration queries: Cat Westlake - cwestlake@slls.org.uk
For accommodation, travel and general queries about Milan: Monica Baroni - monica.baroni@unimib.it


Causality in Life Course Research: Do We Do Enough or Should We Even Care?
Professor Ross Macmillan
Bocconi University, Italy
Transition to Parenthood: The Contribution of Longitudinal
Qualitative Studies
Professor Manuela Naldini
University of Turin, Italy