Growing Up in Ireland Annual Conference

Growing Up in Ireland Research Conference 2016

Thursday 3rd November 2016

Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin 3

The Growing Up in Ireland Study Team invites you to Growing Up in Ireland’s Annual Research Conference to be held in the Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin on Thursday 3rd November 2016. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone T.D., will launch a series of key findings on several aspects of the lives of 17/18-year-olds.

Keynote Speaker:  The keynote address will be given by Professor Gordon Harold from the University of Sussex.  It will focus on the importance of longitudinal studies across the life course.  Professor Harold’s primary research interests focus on the role of the family as a context for understanding children’s normal and abnormal psychological development.

Conference Presentations:  Twenty-five papers will be presented at the conference.  These will be based on Growing Up in Ireland’s Child and Infant Cohorts and will focus on a range of topics including health, parenting, education and socio-emotional well-being.  This year’s conference also features a methodology session which will include presentations on topics relating to the practical aspects of collecting and using data from longitudinal studies such as Growing Up in Ireland.

Growing Up in Ireland is a government study. It is being funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in association with the Central Statistics Office. It also receives a subsidy from The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.