Thematic Panels

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

List of Thematic Panels:

  1. Social care and the changing service pathways of older adults
  2. Carer rights and risks of inequalities throughout the life-course
  3. New technologies in care work – imaginaries, phantasms and new practices of care
  4. Participatory rights as social rights: institutions, consequences, and concepts in long- term care
  5. The emergence and potential of a rights agenda for unpaid/family carers: the roles of state actors, carers’ organisations and international agencies 
  6. Digital technology and care: resources, rights and risks
  7. A human rights approach to dementia care: actors, policies, and provisions
  8. Caring beyond cure in the narratives from Global South
  9. Strengthening informal carer’s social rights through public policies
  10. The emerging interaction between familial and paid care: a comparative Global South perspective
  11. Care responsibility and social rights in a welfare mix
  12. Disability and worker rights in cash for care programs – where are we now?
  13. Dark side of care
  14. Climate change and long-term care: a perspective on human and social rights of people who receive and provide long-term care
  15. Miles to go before we truly care? Decolonization and care among Indigenous Peoples
  16. Children’s role as unpaid carers and its social consequences from human and social rights perspectives
  17. Navigating entangled systems: institutional interplays in care systems
  18. Inequalities in care
  19. Disability and human rights: addressing support gaps across communities and institutions
  20. Care on trial: critical perspectives on the jurisprudence on care and human rights
  21. Autonomy in long-term care – ideas, discourses, regulations, and practices
  22. Changing policies and cultures of motherhood and fatherhood
  23. Transformations in home care markets: organisational intermediaries, platformisation, and the impact of digitalisation on care regimes
  24. Democracy starts at the nappy-changing table – participatory care in early childhood education
  25. Transforming early childhood education and care services
  26. Transforming care work: changing working conditions, actors, approaches and outcomes
  27. Bringing “care” back into ECEC: new agendas for research, policy and practice