ISQOLS E-NEWS: FEBRUARY 2019
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Introducing the 2019-2020 ISQOLS Leadership Team (Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and President Elect)
-Member of the Month: Gael Brule
- ISQOLS Webinar, "Reframing Work To Improve Well-being"
-Call for proposals, "Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being"
- QOL, Happiness, Wellbeing News
-QOL, Happiness, Wellbeing Journals
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ISQOLS 2019 CONFERENCE GRANDAD SPAIN (SEPTEMBER 4-7)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
How do I submit an abstract for the conference?
-Abstract submissions have now closed.
How do I register and pay for the conference?
How do I get the ISQOLS members discount for the conference?
-We strongly encourage you to join/renew your ISQOLS 2019 membership and pay your ISQOLS Conference fees at once!
ISQOLS members receive significant registration fee discounts. To join or renew your membership, visit:
http://isqols.org/join
Do I have to pay for the conference at the same time as I renew my ISQOLS membership?
-No, this is totally optional. You can choose to join/renew your ISQOLS membership and pay your conference fees at once, or you can join ISQOLS and pay your fees at a later time.
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ISQOLS is pleased to announce a
pre-conference trip to visit National Observatory of Human Development (NHRO) headquarters in Rabat, Morocco. (
http://www.ondh.ma).
PROGRAM FEE: $350 (ISQOLS MEMBERS)/$450 (NON-MEMBERS)
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Introducing the 2019-2020 ISQOLS Leadership Team (Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and President Elect)
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Meet the 2019-2020 ISQOLS
Board of Directors:
Don Rhatz, Andrew Clark, Daniel Shek, Joseph Sirgy, Ron Anderson, Ruut Veenhoven, Ferran Casas, Mahar Mangahas, Graciela Tonon, Habib Tilioune, Jan Delhey, Javier Martinez, Kai Ludwigs, Jeroen Boelhouwer, Christian Suter, Jorge Guardiola, Francesco Sarracino, Martijn Burger, Patsy Kraeger, Peter Krause, Stefan Höfer, Peggy Schyns, Martijn Hendricks, Gael Brulé, Kelsey O'Connor, Yoshiaki Takahashi, Talita Greyling, Stephanie Rossouw, Piotr Michon, Scott Cloutier
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Meet the 2019-2020 ISQOLS
Executive Committee:
President: Ming-Chang Tsai
Vice-President for Membership/Publicity:
Yoshiaki Takahashi
Martijn Burger
Vice-President for Publications:
Jan Delhey
Graciela Tonon
Vice-President for Programs:
Jorge Guardiola
Piotr Michon
Vice-President for Academic Affairs:
Peter Krause
Stefan Hoefer
Vice-President for Professional Affairs:
Habib Tiliouine
Masayuki Kanai
Vice-President for External Affairs:
Kai Ludwigs
Daniel Shek
Vice-President of Finance:
Stephanie Rossouw
Javier Martinez
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Meet the 2021-2022 ISQOLS PRESIDENT ELECT: CAROL GRAHAM
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ISQOLS is pleased to announce Carol Graham as the 2021-2022 ISQOLS President elect. Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup.
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All the good things that happened to me in the last years, including personally are at least remotely connected to the people I met with regards to quality of life. I think ISQOLS has a central role to play in the field, and I think this role could expand beyond academic circles."
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ISQOLS WEBINAR
"Reframing Work To Improve Well-being"
MARCH 15, 2019
10:00 A.M. (Pacific Standard Time)
*FREE* FOR ISQOLS MEMBERS
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Call for proposals: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
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This series is a collection of volumes related to community level research, providing community planners and quality of life researchers involved in community and regional well-being innovative research and application. Formerly entitled,Community Quality of Life Indicators: Best Practices, the series reflects a broad scope of well-being. In addition to best practices of community quality-of-life indicators projects the series welcomes a variety of research and practice topics as related to overall community well-being and quality of life dimensions, whether relating to policy, application, research, and/or practice. Research on issues such as societal happiness, quality of life domains in the policy construct, measuring and gauging progress, dimensions of planning and community development, and related topics are anticipated.
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QOL, HAPPINESS, WELL-BEING NEWS
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Recruitment of Four Researchers in Psychology
Opening of the recruitment process of four researchers in the field of Psychology, to collaborate in an "Experimental Study on the Impact of Singing Groups on the Well-being, Cognitive Function and Health of Older Adults."
Intervention research project with the Scientific Supervision of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Doctor Iolanda Costa Galinha) and ISCTE-IUL (Doctor Maria Luísa Lima), in partnership with the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada and the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, funded by the “Orçamento Participativo Portugal” (2017) and promoted and coordinated by the DGArtes.
Objective: Collaboration in the writing of one scientific paper and one scientific poster.
Work location: at distance (by means of two reports per month, supervised by the scientific coordination of the project).
Remuneration: € 4500 gross payment in four branches at the conclusion of the: (1) introduction (including state of the art) and method; (2) results; and (3) discussion sections of the paper; and (4) the scientific poster.
Duration: 12 months, starting 1
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May 2019.
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PhD scholarship in the field of “Well-being and international development”
PhD scholarship position at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
The PhD position will involve working on applied economics projects at the intersection of development, well-being, and labor economics. The successful candidate is expected to develop her/his own research agenda under the guidance of the PhD supervisors.
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Call for Abstracts: "Comparative Perspectives on Social Indicators”
In the context of 13th Spanish Congress of Sociology (Valencia, Spain, 3–6 July 2019)
RC55 Research Committee on Social Indicators
invitation to participate in the 2019 Mid-term Conference
“Comparative Perspectives on Social Indicators”
Call for abstracts
Grupo de Trabajo 43 (Work Group 43) ISA Research Committee 55: Social Indicators
From 3 to 6 July 2019 the 13th Spanish Sociology Conference, with the theme: Societies at the crossroads, the commitments of sociology, will be held in Valencia, Spain. The Spanish Federation of Sociology will organise the conference with the assistance of the Universidad de Valencia and the Asociación Valenciana de Sociología.
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QOL, HAPPINESS, WELL-BEING JOURNALS
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Social Indicators Research
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JOIN OR RENEW YOUR ISQOLS MEMBERSHIP
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2019 ISQOLS Membership Renewals and Conference Registration now open
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Our *NEW* ISQOLS Membership Registration system will allow you to register both as an ISQOLS 2019 member and pay your 2019 Conference Registration fee at once!
(please note we are using a new system and all current members are required to set up a new profile and password) Visit:
isqols.org/join
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ISQOLS is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization and all donations are tax deductible.
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