Social and Human Rights in Care

The theme of the 2025 Transforming Care Conference is ‘Social and Human Rights in Care’. The conference programme will be updated on the website closer to the event.  

The programme is preliminary and subject to change. The detailed programme of the conference will be updated on the website later. 

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 

10:30    Registration open
11:30    Lunch
12:30    Opening session
12:45    Professor Margarita León: Children’s rights and welfare paradigms?
13:45    Break
14:15    Parallel sessions 1
15:45    Break
16:00    Parallel sessions 2
19:00-20:30    Welcome reception
  

Thursday, 26 June 2025 

9:00      Parallel sessions 3
10:30    Break
11:00    Professor Tom Shakespeare: Who cares? Disability rights and other rights
12:00    Lunch
13:00    Round table
14:00    Break
14:15    Parallel sessions 4
15:45    Break
16:15    Parallel sessions 5
19:00-23:00    Conference dinner

Friday, 27 June 2025 

9:00      Parallel sessions 6
10:30    Break
11:00    Professor Håkan Jönson & Associate Professor Tove Harnett: The rights of older people in eldercare – a matter of comparisons
12:00    Closing session
12:30    Lunch