Call for Contributions

We welcome all submissions connected with SA or related methods in the social sciences, especially applications of innovative methodology, new methodological developments, method comparisons, or theoretical discussions linking substantive theory with methodological choices. Propositions across scientific domains are welcome.

  • Examples of application domains: Life course research, familial, residential, educational and health trajectories, life span, professional careers, career management, time use, geographical development paths...
  • Examples of methods: Sequence analysis, latent class, survival and event history analysis, multistate models, Markov-based transition models, structural-equation-model-based models such as latent growth curve models, multilevel longitudinal models...

Extended abstracts of at least two pages plus references should be submitted before the 10th of January 2015, see here for detailed instructions (full papers can also be submitted as an extended abstract). Authors of accepted extended abstracts should then submit a full paper of their contribution for online proceedings before the 8th of May. At least one author for each accepted contribution will have to register to the conference for the paper to be included in the online proceedings. After the conference, authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit a possibly extended version of their papers for the post-conference volume to be published open-access in the Life Course Research and Social Policies Series by Springer-Verlag.

In addition to usual contributions, the conference will also promote a data analysis contest: Participants will be asked to run their own analysis on a provided longitudinal data set using methods of their choice and to submit results as a poster. More detailed instructions are available here.

Printable PDF version of the call.

See also the important dates and the submission guidelines pages.