The International Society for Child Indicators and the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney welcomes you to the website of the second conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) and the Symposium on Children as Experts in their Own Lives. We hope to see you in Sydney, Australia in early November 2009, for these exciting events.
The ISCI conference Counting Children In! Child Indicators: Research, Theory, Policy and Practice is planned for the 4th and 5th of November.
The themes which will structure the conference are:
Theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues in the development of child indicators
Measurement issues at levels of individual, family, community and globally
Diversity as a challenge to the construction and implementation of indicators.
There will be expert speakers from a range of backgrounds, contributed paper streams, and opportunities for dialogue and networking.
The ISCI conference will be preceded by a one-day (3rd Nov) Social Justice Social Change Research Centre (UWS) Symposium, on “Children as experts in their own lives: Child Inclusive Research’. Plans for this symposium include hearing from children and from adult policymakers and academics on the topic of child research, in plenary and panel sessions and in contributed papers.
These two events are being hosted by the University of Western Sydney, at its Parramatta campus. Parramatta has a rich Indigenous and colonial heritage and today is a major commercial, recreational and tourist hub with world class cultural, entertainment and sporting facilities. Located in the heart of Western Sydney on the banks of the Parramatta River the campus is accessible by road, rail and ferry providing conference delegates with an array of accommodation and travel options within easy reach of all the delights Sydney has to offer the international and domestic traveller.
Currently, the planning for the Conference and the Symposium are in the preliminary stages. Further details will appear on this website in the coming months.
We do hope that you will be able to join us in November 2009, for what will be significant events for furthering child and youth well-being.
Jan Mason
Chair, Conference and Symposium Planning Committee
Professor of Social Work
School of Social Sciences
Member Social Justice Social Change Research Centre
University of Western Sydney
Dr Elizabeth Fernandez
Chair, Conference Program Committee
A/Professor
School of Social Sciences &
International Studies
The University of New South Wales
Sponsor School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney
The Conference organisers wish to acknowledge and thank the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney for their support of these events including funding this website. The School of Social Sciences at UWS offers a range of courses and vocational areas, including Sociology, Criminology, Social Work, Tourism Studies, and Geography. Further information on the School of Social Sciences is available at: http://www.uws.edu.au/social_sciences/soss
