Our conference will be fully online, with an exciting mixture of live and pre-recorded events. All live events will be recorded and available for later on-demand viewing. All theme sessions will be pre-recorded in advance of the event and released across the three weeks of the conference- details coming soon to presenters.
You will be able to submit questions to presenters and watch their answers in Q&A sessions planned for the end of each week, in podcasts (released online in the following months) or via an online forum (details of this coming soon).
Keep an eye on this page and our Twitter account for more updates!
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Week one
Monday 12th April
09:00- 10:30
LIVE EVENT
KEYNOTE Professor Loretta Baldassar
Emotional geographies of transnational family care: from social death to digital kinning and homemaking over a century of Australian migration
15:00- 16:30
LIVE EVENT
Examining Carer-Friendly Workplace Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Panel
Chair: Dr. Allison Williams, McMaster University
Professor Linda Duxbury, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Nadine Henningson, Canadian Home Care Association & Carers Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Regina Ding, PhD Student, McMaster University
Sophie Geffros, PhD Student, McMaster University
Andrea Rishworth, Post-doctoral Fellow, McMaster University
Tuesday 13th April
Theme 1: Inequalities in care: global, local and transnational dynamics in an age of migration
1A: Transnationality and care in contexts of ageing
1B: Migration, policies and separated families
1C: Migration and care work
Wednesday 14th April
Theme 1: Inequalities in care: global, local and transnational dynamics in an age of migration
1D: Ageing Migrants in place
1E: Transnationality, inter-generationality and technology
Theme 7: Care workforce wellbeing
7A: Care workforce wellbeing
Thursday 15th April
Friday 16th April
09:00- 10:30
LIVE EVENT
Q&A Session: The week
11:00- 11:45
LIVE EVENT
IJCC meet the editors
Join Michael Fine and Yueh-Ching Chou, Editors of the International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC), to find out more about the journal, upcoming special issues, the Debates and Issues section and how to submit your article. Bring your questions.
13:00- 14:00
LIVE EVENT
Join the Debate: Care workforce
A live session discussing Care workforce – details soon!
Week two
Monday 19th April
09:00- 10:00
LIVE EVENT
Join the Debate: Care across borders
A live session discussing Care across borders – details soon!
13:15- 14:45
LIVE EVENT
Policy Panel
Chair: Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham
Helen Walker, Carers UK
Karolina Gerlich, The Care Workers Charity
Simon Bottery, King’s Fund
Stecy Yghemonos, Eurocarers
Luke Clements, University of Leeds
15:00- 16:30
LIVE EVENT
KEYNOTE Professor Joan Tronto
Ending Wealth-Care: The Future of Caring Democracy
Tuesday 20th April
Theme 2: Work, care and wellbeing: new solutions, ongoing challenges
2A: Government, cross-sectoral and workplace policies and supports
2B: Fresh approaches: Enablers and solutions to balancing work and care
2C: Work-care reconciliation: Inequalities and impacts on health, well-being and labour force participation
2D: Retaining talent: Workplace challenges
Wednesday 21st April
Theme 6: Caring relations: toward sustainable arrangements with wellbeing outcomes
6A: Concepts and caring democracy
6B: Care worker wellbeing
Thursday 22nd April
Theme 6: Caring relations: toward sustainable arrangements with wellbeing outcomes
6C: Concepts and caring democracy
6D: Caring, Society and Policy
Friday 23rd April
09:00- 10:30
LIVE EVENT
Q&A Session: The week
10:45- 11:45
LIVE EVENT
Join the Debate: Balancing work and care
A live session discussing Balancing work and care – details soon!
Week three
Monday 26th April
09:00- 10:30
LIVE EVENT
Caring about Wellbeing: a concept for positive change?
A special panel to honour the work and contribution of Dr Annie Austin 1980 – 2020
Chair: Professor Sue Yeandle
Professor Ian Bache
Dr Tania Burchardt
Dr Karen Scott
Patrick Hall
10:45- 12:15
LIVE EVENT
Panel
Chair: Jill Manthorpe, King’s College London
Martin Green (Care England) on ‘the power of collaboration’
Rob Anderson (Chair, SCP Advisory Board) on ‘the power of good evidence’
Alyson Scurfield (TSA) on ‘the power of technology’
Madeleine Starr (Carers UK) on ‘the power of (carers’) voice’
13:15- 14:15
LIVE EVENT
Join the Debate: Sustainable care
A live session discussing Sustainable care – details soon!
Tuesday 27th April
Theme 5: Sustainable care at home: understanding the ‘care mix’
5A: Care mix and aging in place
5B: The evolving nature of the formal care workforce
5C: The role of policy and systems in shaping the care mix
5D: Informal carers within the care mix
Wednesday 28th April
Theme 3: Technology in care: opportunities and obstacles in place-based care contexts
3A: Technological design and entanglements for people ageing in place
3B: Technology advice and information to support care
3C: Digitising social policy and its implications
3D: Evaluating technologies to support care systems and outcomes
Thursday 29th April
Theme 4: Care markets: how and for whom do they work?
4A: Equity and inclusion
4B: The paid and unpaid care workforce
4C: The design and operation of care markets
Friday 30th April
13:15- 14:45
LIVE EVENT
Q&A Session: The week
15:00- 16:30
LIVE EVENT
Closing panel
Chair: Sue Yeandle, University of Sheffield
Judith Phillips: ‘Sustainable care: a reflection’
Mary Daly: ‘Sustainable care: a warning’
Karla Zimpel-Leal: ‘Sustainable care: a vision’
For further information, please contact the Sustainable Care Programme Manager, Dr Kelly Davidge k.s.davidge@sheffield.ac.uk.
