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The TCN organises an ESPAnet stream and the call for papers is closing soon!
The Transforming Care Network management team invites submissions for a dedicated stream focusing on “Care Configurations: Welfare reform to address contemporary care challenges” at the European ESPAnet conference at the University of Milan, 27th – 29th August 2025. In light of increasing unmet care needs and the inequities faced by various population groups, this stream seeks to explore contemporary welfare reforms that can enhance care outcomes.
The call for paper abstracts is open until April 24th, 2025. Don’t miss the opportunity!
TCN Spring Research Seminars
The TCN Members’ Panel will host two research seminars featuring network members’ scholarly work:
From ‘crisis’ to the ordinariness of life-making: Care (and) work among Ukrainian migrants in Warsaw by Dr. Daria Krinovos will be held online on April 15, 2025 at 12-1 pm (GMT). Please register in advance here.
Life-making of voluntary accommodation of displaced people in private homes by Dr. Olga Tkach will be held online on May 27, 2025 at 12-1 pm (GMT). Please register in advance here.
You can find more information here
New TCN Writing Workshop
This workshop provides a friendly space and protected time for writing. The sessions may also represent a supportive and informed environment for the participants to progress towards submitting conference papers for the 2025 Transforming Care Conference. Next sessions:
Session 5 on March 25, 10.30-13.30 (GMT). Please register in advance by clicking here.
For information of future events organized by the TCN Members’ Panel, join the TCN mailing list.
We look forward to your participation!
Next TCN Members’ Panel Writing Workshops
This workshop provides a friendly space and protected time for writing. The sessions may also represent a supportive and informed environment for the participants to progress towards submitting conference papers for the 2025 Transforming Care Conference. Next sessions:
Session 2 on December 17, 10.00-13.00 (GMT). Register here.
Session 3 on January 14, 10.00-13.00 (GMT). Register here.
For information of future events organized by the TCN Members’ Panel, join the TCN mailing list.
We look forward to your participation!
Call for Session Convenors!
The 2025 Transforming Care Conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland on June 25-27, 2025, and the call for session convenors is now open.
Please send your expression of interest by 16 September 2024 to tcc2025@helsinki.fi. Information about accepted proposals will be sent out on 14 October 2024.
We hope to see you in Helsinki in 2025!
Best wishes,
Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard, TCN Chairs
Spring School: Researching Care and Care Policy in Europe
Polytechnic of Milan (5-7 June, 2024)
We invite PhD students and early career researchers in sociology, political science, social work, and economics to apply for the Spring School in Researching Care and Care Policy in Europe: challenges for care resilience in turbulent times to be held at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, from Wednesday 5th June 2024 (h. 14) to Friday 7th June 2024 (h. 14).
Continue readingTransforming Care Conference 2025, in Helsinki

The 7th Transforming Care Conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland in 2025. It will take place from Wednesday 25 June 2025 to Friday 27 June 2025 in the recently renovated Main Building of the University of Helsinki in the very centre of Helsinki.
Upcoming Transforming Care Book Seminar: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes – Flexible Boundaries
We invite you to participate in the upcoming Transforming Care book series seminar Dec. 4th, 16:30-18:00CET, where the edited book Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries will be presented by the authors and discussed. Register for the seminar here.