ISQOLS 2020: 18th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 25-28, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.isqols2020.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isqols2020 |
The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) (www.isqols.org) is holding its 18th conference in the thriving city of Rotterdam, home of the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO) (www.ehero.nl). The theme of the conference is “Towards a People First Economy: A World to Win”. Confirmed keynote speakers are Arnold Bakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Joanna Coast (Bristol), and Jan-Emmanuel de Neve (Oxford University). In addition, Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will give a special plenary lecture before the conference dinner.
ISQOLS conferences provide a space for scholars to provide their research findings on quality-of-life, well-being, and happiness, as well as to discuss their relevance for policymaking. ISQOLS gathers scholars from all corners of the world, from different disciplines, with different methodological and theoretical perspectives, and following different approaches, but with one common goal: generating research-based knowledge to contribute to the well-being in societies.
Submission Guidelines
Important Dates
Deadline Submission Proposal for Workshops and Symposia November 15th
Deadline Submission Abstracts for Presentations and Posters January 15th
Call for Workshops
On August 25th, there is the opportunity to organize a workshop for conference participants. Workshops have an educational character and cater to the PhD and postdoc community at ISQOLS. Please send an e-mail to isqols2020@eur.nl if you would like to organize a workshop before November 15th.
Call for Symposia
There is the possibility to organize a symposium (i.e. special sessions) at ISQOLS 2020. Please send an e-mail to isqols2020@eur.nl before November 15th if you would like to organize a symposium at the ISQOLS2020 conference. Subsequently, the symposium will be added to the online submission system. Please note that all participants in a symposium have to submit their abstract via this online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isqols2020) and all abstracts will still be subject to review by the scientific committee.
Call for Abstracts for Papers and Posters
Abstracts for papers and posters dealing with scientific research or best practice examples in all areas in quality-of-life, well-being and happiness are highly welcomed and need to be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isqols2020. Abstracts have to be submitted by the presenting author. Submitting authors should choose one topic or symposium in which they want to submit the abstract. In case authors are not submitting to a specific symposium, they are requested to carefully check the entire list of topics (see below) to ensure they submit to the most appropriate topic.
Deadline for the abstract submission is January 15th, 2020. Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed to the presenting author by February 15th, 2020.
Early bird submission: November 15th, 2019. If you send the abstract before November 15th you can have an answer concerning the committee decision before December 15th.
The presenting author of accepted abstracts has to be registered for the conference to be included in the conference program. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
List of Topics
Topic 1: Cultures and the History of Well-being
Tracks: Understandings of well-being. Well-being across cultures. History of well-being. Religion, spirituality and well-being.
Topic 2: Well-Being in the World and in Regions
Tracks: Arctic Circle. Africa. Asia. “Takashi Inoguchi Endowed Track on Quality of Life and Well-being in East Asia”. “Mahar Mangahas Endowed Track for the Advancement of Quality of Life and Well-Being in Southeast Asia”. Oceania. Middle East. Latin America. Caribbean. North America. Western Europe. Eastern Europe.
Topic 3: Well-Being in Different Populations
Tracks: “The Daniel Shek-Wofoo Foundation Endowed Track for the Advancement of Adolescent Quality of Life Research”. “The Kenneth C. Land Endowed Track on the Advancement of Quality of Life and Well-Being of Children”. Disabled. Elderly. “The Elizabeth Eckermann Endowed Track on Gender and Quality of Life”. Migrants. Refugees. The Poor. The Rich. “The Ronald E. Anderson Endowed Track on the Alleviation of Human Suffering”.
Topic 4: Methodological Issues in the Study of Quality-of-life, Happiness and Well-Being
Tracks: Big data. Causality issues. Composite indices. Conceptualizations. Database handling. Measurement of quality-of-life. Modelling. Psychometrics. Qualitative research. Quantitative methods. Surveys.
Topic 5: Applied Research in Well-Being
Tracks: Business and marketing. Education. Environmental. Financial. Health. Housing and neighbourhood. Pharmacology and health care. Recreation and using of leisure time. Traveling and tourism. Urban planning and policies.
Topic 6: Disciplinary Approaches to Well-Being, Happiness and Quality-of-life
Tracks: Anthropology. Biology. Ecology. Economics. Education. Medicine. Neuroscience. Philosophy. Political science. Psychology. Sociology. Social work.
Topic 7: Promoting Well-Being: Public Policy and Development
Tracks: “The Rhonda G. Phillips Endowed Track for the Promotion of Community Development and Community Well-Being”. Human development. Poverty alleviation. Sustainable development and sustainability. Social development. "The M. Joseph Sirgy Endowed Track on Well-Being and Policy".
Topic 8: Beyond GDP. New Understandings and Measures of Progress
Tracks: Measuring the performance of societies. New understandings of progress in societies and how to measure it.
Topic 9: Philanthropy. Volunteerism and Well-being
Tracks: Volunteerism. Altruism. Philanthropy.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to isqols2020@eur.nl