Training School 3: Skills and health management on company and branch levels

International Training School for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Researchers 3rd Training Event, February 13-14, 2025

Skills and health management on company and branch levels 

Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden 

The SIPET research network invites early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to participate in the third event of its international training school. Participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures on various aspects of ‘Skills and health management on company and branch levels’, to join in workshops that will allow to present research designs and approaches related to the topic and to discuss with the faculty and participants of the training school.   

Accommodation for accepted applicants will be covered by SIPET.   

The deadline for applications is January 22, 2025. 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by email by 18 December. For questions regarding the training school, please contact Lijun Peng.  

Apply here

Agenda 

Thursday 13th February: 9-17 

9.00-10.00 Opening and first lecture  

• Andreas Motel-Klingebiel Welcome (Professor, Division Ageing and Social Change, Linköping University)  
• Päivi Rasi-Heikinnen “Digital competences and their learning in late working life in private, public and nonprofit organizations: Case Finland” (Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Finland) 

10.00-10.15 Coffee  

10.15-11.45 Lectures  

• Daniel Seldén “Job Autonomy and Health: Bridging the Equality-Equity Gap in the Context of Extended Working Lives – a European Perspective” (Associate professor and senior Lecturer, Social Work, Södertörn University, Sweden)  
• Wendy Loretto “Health, ageing and work: opportunities for company interventions” (Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Business School, University of Edinburgh, online)  

12.00-13.00 Lunch 

13.00-13.45 Lecture 

• Liam Foster and Rachel Crossdale “Age management on company and branch levels” (Professor of Social Policy, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK; Research Associate, University of Sheffield, UK) 

14.00-15.00 Individual 5–10-minute visual presentations on own research, as related to the Training School topic 

15.00-15.30 Coffee 

15.30-17.00 Discussing Training School themes (Group work) 

18.00 Social event  

Friday 14th February: 9:12  

9.00-10.30 Preparation of presentations (Group work) 

10.30-11.00 Coffee 

11.00-12.00 Group presentations and end of the event 

Please note that the schedule is subject to minor changes.