The purpose of the Workshop is to focus on specific challenges around measuring performance in education and other public services sectors. The Workshop will bring together scholars from various disciplines and fields to debate the present and future challenges in education and public sector...

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

The past months and years have led us to questioning the nature of what we consider normal and what we consider a crisis. The COVID crisis, the war and its consequences, the climate crisis, they are all changing the way we think about the world and act in it. How do these rapid changes affect...

Conference theme: "Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies". The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the...

Social network analysis is focused on uncovering the patterning of people's interaction. Network analysis is based on the intuitive notion that the patterns of social structure are important features of the lives of the individuals who display them. Network analysts believe that how an...

The purpose of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) is to promote scholarly investigation of issues involved in the economics of the arts and cultural activities.

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics.

The 5th Annual Conference on European Studies: Europe in Unchartered Territories brings together economists and political scientists to address European socio-economic issues, with the objective of contributing to the evaluation and design of institutions and policies in and for Europe. This...

In our third year of a global pandemic, we are stretched thin, suffering touches us all, and our wells of empathy seem to be running dry. And yet, despite this suffering many of us are also paying closer attention to our own well-being and to the well-being of those around us. In this spirit of...