Past Event

Emerging Researchers Conference “Demography, Ageing and Health” 26-28 September 2017, University of Oxford

                  

The Emerging Researchers Conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to network and present research to an international research community. The conference will provide a key opportunity to disseminate among a growing international research community drawn from Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and Australia.

The Conference will combine international keynote speakers with themed sessions:

• Biology and Ageing
• Cognition and the Brain
• Changing demographic and socio-economic environments and ageing
• Technology and ageing

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Keynote Speakers

• Dr Louise Lafortune, Cambridge Institute of Public Health – Keynote speaker
• Professor Shuzhuo Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University – Keynote speaker
• Professor Lena Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen  - Keynote on Biology of Ageing
• Dr Xiaoying Zheng, Beijing University  – Keynote on Demography of Ageing

             

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Conference Programme

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Key dates

• Deadline for paper abstract submission: 24th March 2017
• Deadline for poster presentation submission: 31^st May 2017
• Full programme available: April 2017
• To guarantee a place please register by 31 May; registration closes 28 July

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Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts

• Name and affiliation
• Themed session
• Abstracts word limit is 250 words

Abstracts should be sent as an attachment and emailed to administrator@ageing.ox.ac.uk

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Fees

• Delegate residential package - £465
• Delegate non-residential package - £150

Registration fees include refreshments, lunches, and a conference dinner (and 3 nights’ accommodation in residential package). Bursaries to support paper and poster presentations will be available on competitive basis: for BSG members please contact Dr Theodore Cosco  theodore.cosco@ageing.ox.ac.uk; for non-BSG members please contact administrator@ageing.ox.ac.uk

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Online Registration has now closed - please contact administrator@ageing.ox.ac.uk for more information

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We are grateful to the International Alliance of Research Universities and colleagues from:

University of Cambridge University of Cape Town University of California, Berkeley Peking University National University of Singapore

Yale University Australian National University ETH Zurich University of Copenhagen University of Tokyo

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