Goup of people in a seminar room.

Previous Conferences

INVEST Conference 2024: Digitalization, social inequality and behavioural change

Wednesday 15 May

People in a walking tour
Turku city walk tour

Welcome reception

Thursday 16 May

Opening words: Jani Erola, Flagship captain

Open Science: We need each other! Lydia Laninga-Wijnen, Senior Research Fellow, INVEST Research Flagship Centre, Open Science Turku Community coordinator

Keynote: Welfare and education in the age of cloud empires
Vili Lehdonvirta
Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Vili Lehdonvirta speaking.

Lunch

Parallel sessions 1–5

  • Youth disadvantages
  • Work and care arrangements
  • Equity, ethics and employment in digital technology
  • Migration and migrant population
  • Interventions

Coffee break

Parallel sessions 6–10

  • Parenting and child well-being
  • Social experiments I
  • Social inequalities and standard of living
  • Social welfare system and policy research
  • Inequality in learning

Coffee break

Parallel sessions 11–15

  •  Open science
  • Digital interventions and mental health
  • Impacts of economic and educational contraction
  • Family background effects
  • Social aspects of digital technology

Dinner

After Science

Friday 17 May

Keynote: Digital treaments for pediatric anxiety disorders: Current status and future directions
Eva Serlachius
Adjunct Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet

Eva Scherlacius speaking

Parallel sessions 16–19

  • Family formation: antecedents and consequences
  • Register-based research in health
  • Social experiments II
  • Stress and health

Coffee break

Parallel sessions 20–24

  • Cross-cultural research on mental health
  • Genetics
  • Peer relations
  • Covid-19 and wellbeing
  • Parental Leave and Work-Family Dynamics

Happy People.