Symposia

The Transforming Care Conferences Symposia are parallel sessions focussing on a particular and topical theme.

Each Symposium is organized by a Symposium Chair and includes up to four identified paper authors who will present their papers during the session. One or more Discussants will comment on the papers.

2025 Symposia: 

  1. Au pairs, nannies and child wellbeing: navigating care, vulnerability, and children’s rights within family dynamics
  2. The impact of the financial costs of care on the social and human rights of older adults
  3. Talking about rights in LTC: a polysemic pool of terms and ideas
  4. New research on ageing and care: key findings of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare)
  5. A new metric to assess long-term care as a human right: care poverty and unmet needs
  6. Understanding, enhancing and sustaining the quality of life at work for long-term care workers
  7. Understanding inequalities in long-term care needs and care provision using quantitative methods: QAR-Net Care Network
  8. Long-term care (LTC) policies and intergenerational care support in China
  9. Routes out of the care crisis: exploring care system innovations in comparative perspective
  10. Equal social rights to care and living environments for older people – a question of collaboration: CollAge
  11. The right to access and provide quality long-term care
  12. Strengthening supports available to long-term care workers and informal carers for improving their resilience and mental well-being through care partnerships – the EU WELL CARE project
  13. Transforming care in the lives of people with learning disabilities and their family carers through co-production research
  14. The FAMCARE project: care and wellbeing in Dutch families in different policy contexts
  15. Ambivalent care and (non)emancipatory human rights approaches