5th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI)

ISCI 2015 Conference "From Welfare to Well-being: Child indicators in research, policy and practice" is hosted by Childwatch member the Children´s Institute, University of Capetown, in partnership with the African Child Policy Forum, UNICEF and the Poverty and Inequality Initiative. Abstracts must be between 300 and 500 words. Deadline for abstracts 31 March 2015.

Conference will be held on September 2-4, 2015,at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Researchers, practitioners, policy makers and child advocates from across the world will gather for three days to share and discuss the latest child indicator research methods, findings and implications for policy and interventions.

Call for abstracts are now open, see below.

Themed sessions will be organized on substantive and methodological topics including the following:

Children’s subjective well-being
Early childhood development
Youth transitions to adulthood
Child-focused indicators of social change
Measurement of child poverty and inequality
Child protection and violence against children
Making sense of household form and care arrangements
Combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies
New information technologies and alternatives to traditional surveys
The use of administrative data in child indicator work
The power of surveillance site and longitudinal panel data
Conceptualising and communicating child indicator research to influence policy
Lessons learnt in establishing indicator projects

Email: info@isci2015.org

Visit the ISCI page for more information and registration

See here Call for Abstracts

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Published Feb. 15, 2015 2:08 PM - Last modified Feb. 20, 2015 4:55 PM