Geschlechter- und diversitätssensible Gesundheitsversorgung In Europe, there is a social consensus on providing high-quality healthcare to everyone. Greater data availability, alongside traditional and AI-supported evaluations and interventions, enables much greater personalisation. To mark International Women's Day, we would like to discuss: How well are women, men and non-binary people cared for in terms of health,
ECPD is pleased to announce our next event on March 19th, 2026. Please find more information below. To register for the event, please click here. Or, scan the QR Code below.
Studies in social sciences adopting the life course approach have shown that the sequencing, timing, and duration of events in the work, partnership, and fertility domains shape health in late adulthood and old age. Drawing from several ongoing empirical contributions, the lecture discusses two advances in the field: first, the explicit inclusion of partners’ life courses, that are currently absent or, at best, indirectly captured through individuals’ own life
Kinder mit Behinderungen in Familien und in der Schule Children with disabilities are all too often an invisible population, despite numbering more than 240 million worldwide and around 3.5 million in Europe. What does it mean to live day to day with a child or a sibling with a disability within the family? And what
Migration und Medien Migration has a significant demographic, political, and social impact on Germany—and is also a central topic in media coverage. This talk presents the findings of a study conducted by the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism for the EU-funded We-ID: Identities - Migration - Democracy project, which links reporting on migration in
A presentation by Kim Weeden (Cornell). This event is part of the Social Policy Research Colloquium. For registration, and if you have any questions, please send an email to socialpolicygroup@hertie-school.org. For the registration, please click here.
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Advances in medical technologies mean that older adults are living longer than ever before, with most dying of chronic diseases that have protracted symptoms and require difficult decisions about end-of-life care. Most older adults rely on their families for advance care planning, advocacy, and decision-making – raising concerns about the rising numbers of adults growing
Zum Mismatch zwischen Migrationsbedarfen und Migrationsabwehr - welchen Kompass sollte eine zukunftsorientierte Migrationspolitik anlegen? There is a growing contradiction between structural migration needs and the political resistance to migration, which raises fundamental questions about the ability of modern immigrant societies to steer their course. This lecture analyzes this area of tension in light of empirical
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Held on June 29-30 at Hertie School in Berlin, this workshop aims to bring together scholars working on topics related to family diversity and health. Researchers will discuss how register-based data can advance research on family dynamics and health across Europe, covering topics such as partnership dissolution, fertility, caregiving, sibling dynamics and mental health. See
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Wer schafft noch den Sprung ins Eigenheim? Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, Professor für Soziologie der Sozialpolitik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Forschungsgruppenleiter am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) | Professor of Sociology of Social Policy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
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Titel wird bekannt gegeben Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Klüsener, Forschungsdirektor des Bereichs „Alterung, Mortalität und Bevölkerungsdynamik” am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB), Wiesbaden, sowie Außerplanmäßiger Professor am Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie an der Universität zu Köln und Gastprofessor an der Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas, Kaunas, Litauen | Research Director, Head of the research area “Ageing, Mortality
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Titel wird bekannt gegeben Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christiaan Monden, Professor für Soziologie und Demografie an der University of Oxford und Nuffield College. Die Veranstaltungen finden jeweils online von 13:00 Uhr bis 14:00 Uhr MESZ/MEZ statt. | The Tuesday dialogues always take place online (Zoom) from 1-2 pm, CEST/CET. Während der Veranstaltung wird eine Simultanübersetzung Deutsch-Englisch angeboten. | Simultaneous translation
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