The Irish Child Cohort Network: Promoting International Comparisons

Dr. Carmel Hannan is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and organiser of the Irish Child Cohort Network.The Irish Child Cohort Network is funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth through an Irish Research Council New Foundation’s Award and it involves a series of networking events to bring together Irish researchers, international researchers and national policy makers to discuss child cohort research, to draw lessons from other child cohort studies and to develop future research projects on under-developed areas of research with growing social and policy significance.

Carmel Hannan

The Irish Child Cohort Network involves a series of funded networking events to promote use of the Growing Up in Ireland study.

The Town Hall, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50-58 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2. D02 XWI4

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Funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth through an Irish Research Council New Foundation’s Award, the Irish Child Cohort Network involves a series of networking events to bring together Irish researchers, international researchers and national policy makers to discuss child cohort research, to draw lessons from other child cohort studies and to develop future research projects on under-developed areas of research with growing social and policy significance.The first of these events will be on Wednesday 27th April, 2 to 5pm, in the Town Hall of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in Dublin. It features a keynote presentation by Professor Robert Crosnoe, Rapoport Centennial Professor, at the Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin and an opening address by Dr. Anna Visser, Head of Research and Evaluation, at Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.Professor Crosnoe will present the results of his research on international comparisons of alcohol and substance abuse among adolescents. The event concludes with a small roundtable discussion on how best to promote international use of the Growing up in Ireland study. Please note that they keynote address will be live streamed (please contact carmel.hannan@ul.ie for details). Places are limited.Event Schedule:2pm: Welcome and Introduction Dr. Anna Visser, Head of Research and Evaluation, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth2.15: Keynote Address: Professor Rob Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin.3.30: Tea/coffee break4:00: Roundtable Discussion: How best to promote the international use of the GUI.Close: 5pm.7pm: Event Dinner (by invitation).

Professor Robert Crosnoe is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology at Texas. His main research areas include the life course and human development; specifically, the connections among children’s and adolescents’ health, psychosocial development, and educational trajectories and how these connections contribute to population-level inequalities (e.g., race, social class, immigration).He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Carolina Population Center and the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For further information on ICCN events, please contact carmel.hannan@ul.ie Supported by the DCEYI, the IRC and the Department of Sociology at UL.

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