Dear RC17 members,
we wish you all the best for 2025 and hope you had a good start to the new year! This year we especially look forward to our sessions at the 2025 Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco. Early registration for the Forum is now available until 22 March. This month’s newsletter includes announcement for early career researchers to participate in an International Training School on “skills and health management on company and branch levels” at Linköping University, Sweden. You will also find information on the new issue of our very own Journal of Organizational Sociology. Please see the details below.
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
Due to the availability of additional places, the SIPET research network is reopening the registration. We invite interested participants to take advantage of this opportunity.
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 registration will be closed on January 22, 2025.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by email by January 24, 2025. For questions regarding the training school, please contact Lijun Peng.
Apply now!
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.
SIPET – Sustainability, inclusiveness, productivity and equity and the transformation of Swedish working life courses
SIPET is an interdisciplinary research network to push the boundaries of knowledge about the sustainability of late work in Sweden’s ageing population. It addresses health and skills for late work participation in an inequality-sensitive perspective on the transformation of work and productivity, shifts in policies and the ongoing life-course changes in ageing Sweden with an ambition for impact. SIPET is funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare, under grant number 2022-00955. For further information see www.sipet.se.
New Issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology
We are happy to share Issue 2(3) of the Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOSO) with you. We are honored to feature an article by Andreas Diedrich and Barbara Czarniawska in this issue. Barbara’s legacy will undoubtedly continue to inspire organizational researchers for a long time to come.
Please enjoy reading: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/joso/2/3/html
Research Articles
(De)Constructing the Disruption: Enacted Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Institutionally Plural Fields
Amal Kumar & Monica C. Higgins
Sensing that Something is Wrong: On the Role of Senses in Sensemaking in Frontline Safety Work
Grethe Midtlyng
Social Systems of Flexible Production: Organizational Conditions for the Resurgence of Craft
Judith Nyfeler
Organizing Integration of Refugees: Translation and Hybridization
Andreas Diedrich & Barbara Czarniawska