Thematic Panels are parallel sessions hosted by Panels’ convenors that, within the general conference theme, address a specific topic.

List of Thematic Panels and Open Sessions:

TP1: Social care and the changing service pathways of older adults

TP2: Carer rights and risks of inequalities throughout the life-course

TP3: New technologies in care work – imaginaries, phantasms and new practices of care

TP4: Participatory rights as social rights: institutions, consequences, and concepts in long- term care

TP5: The emergence and potential of a rights agenda for unpaid/family carers: the roles of state actors, carers’ organisations and international agencies 

TP6: Digital technology and care: resources, rights and risks

TP7: A human rights approach to dementia care: actors, policies, and provisions

TP8: Caring beyond cure in the narratives from Global South

TP9: Strengthening informal carer’s social rights through public policies

TP10: The emerging interaction between familial and paid care: a comparative Global South perspective

TP11: Care responsibility and social rights in a welfare mix

TP12: –

TP13: Dark side of care

TP14: Climate change and long-term care: a perspective on human and social rights of people who receive and provide long-term care

TP15: –

TP16: Children’s role as unpaid carers and its social consequences from human and social rights perspectives

TP17: Navigating entangled systems: institutional interplays in care systems

TP18: Inequalities in care

TP19:Disability and human rights: addressing support gaps across communities and institutions

TP20: –

TP21: Autonomy in long-term care – ideas, discourses, regulations, and practices

TP22: Changing policies and cultures of motherhood and fatherhood

TP23: Transformations in home care markets: organisational intermediaries, platformisation, and the impact of digitalisation on care regimes

TP24: –

TP25: Transforming early childhood education and care services

TP26: Transforming care work: changing working conditions, actors, approaches and outcomes

Open Sessions:

OS1: Methodological and ethical approaches in care research 

OS2: Support and services to improve carers’ wellbeing 

OS3: Reconciling care, work, studies and well-being 

OS4: Technology-assisted care

OS5: Gender, precarity and new care futures 

OS6: Policies of long-term care 

OS7: Relational, emotional and supportive aspects of care 

OS8: Inequalities and ambivalences of migration and care 

OS9: Vulnerabilities and care