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Nordic ESPAnet Seminar for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers: Social Policy
Context of Life-course Transitions
The 2026 Nordic ESPAnet seminar for doctoral students and early career researchers will be
organised by the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, in
collaboration with the Sustainable Synergies research
project<http://www.su.se/english/research/research-catalogue/research-projects/2/sustainable-synergies>.
The seminar will be held in Stockholm, on 4 and 5 June 2026.
The seminar invites early career scholars (PhD and postdoc) to submit their research
abstracts on any topic relevant to social policy research and the ESPAnet community.
Priority will be given to contributions that fit the overall theme outlined below, and
that have a Nordic focus. Quantitative and qualitative papers are equally welcome, as well
as comparative research and country-case studies.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their research in a welcoming and
supportive setting. Final papers (10 pages or more) will be submitted 3 weeks prior to the
seminar. Each paper will be assigned two discussants: one other participant, and one
senior researcher. Senior discussants include Rense Nieuwenhuis, Tomas Korpi, Marie
Evertsson, and others.
Keynotes will be given by Cassandra Engeman and Jan Helmdag.
Theme: Social policy context of life-course transitions
Life-course transitions represent critical developments to people's and families'
lives, such as school-to-work, unemployment to employment, transitions related to family
formation and dissolution, and into retirement.
Life-course transitions provide a particularly interesting angle to study social policy.
Broader topics include, but are not limited to:
Transitions: What social policy contexts facilitate (successful) transitions from one
life-course stage to the next? Cumulative inequality: In what social policy contexts are
inequalities in one life-course stage less likely to transmit to, or accumulate in, the
next life-course stage? Policy Interplay: To what extent are transitions between two
life-course stages best supported by the combination of policies typically associated with
both life-course stages?
The seminar will:
Provide doctoral students and early career researchers with an opportunity to present
their current work and to receive constructive feedback from an international panel of
professors and peer-doctoral-students and early career researchers.
Develop a supportive network of PhD and early career researchers with an interest in
Nordic welfare research.
Timeline & Important dates
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 March
Notification of acceptance: 27 March
Seminar: Thursday 4 June (all day) – Friday 5 June (until lunch)
Practicalities
Participants will cover their own travel and accommodation. Lunch, dinner on Thursday, and
catering during the meeting days will be provided. There is no fee for participation.
Accepted participants will submit a draft manuscript ahead of the seminar. This can be
preliminary work, but should give the basis for a fruitful discussion (e.g. 10 pages or
more).
Submit an abstract of your paper (500 words) to:
nordic.seminar@ESPAnet.org<mailto:nordic.seminar@ESPAnet.org>
Note that on 1-3 June, the FISS conference (Foundation for International Studies on Social
Security) will be held in Sigtuna, close to Stockholm
(https://www.fisssocialsecurity.org<https://www.fisssocialsecurity.org/&g…) The FISS
conference and the ESPAnet Nordic Early Career Seminar are organised independently from
each other, but participants may be interested in combining two opportunities to discuss
their work in a single trip.
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