The major objective of this workshop is to probe the enhancement of consumer research by providing evidence and theoretical inspiration from non-Western contexts for a more reliable and inclusive body of knowledge. Given the low number of publications on consumer research in non-Western...

Programme Structure: There will be six main forums for the presenting and discussing research and scholarly thought. - Special Topic Sessions provide opportunities for focused attention on cutting-edge and important topics. Successful sessions offer a coherent perspective on emerging...

The State of the Economy conference, now in its 27th year, will offer the perfect forum for these stimulating discussions. As always, an excellent line up of speakers will guarantee an exclusive insight into the major topics of discussion, which range from an assessment of the Bank of England's...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Health and welfare at the local and regional scale • Happiness and wellbeing: definitions and indicators • Poverty, exclusion and wellbeing • Social impacts of housing • The personal, social and financial costs of housing •...

The conference will convene development practitioners, policy experts and academic researchers from around the world to examine the ways in which the food and fuel price volatility, financial market volatility and global economic slowdown are affecting children and youth in both developing and...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

This conference provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on longitudinal data. While priority will be given to papers based on research using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the European Household Panel (ECHP), or the European Union Statistics of Income and...

The Conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of recent research on growth and business cycles from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Issues such as inflation, the credit crunch and loss of a confidence in the economy means this conference will come at a crucial time and delegates will have the opportunity to debate these key topics with some of the UK's leading economic commentators. Whilst the economic crisis continues to...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...