NB! Programme has been updated 13.6.2025.
Please find the detailed programme with abstracts here: TCC Programme
10:00 Registration open
11:00 Lunch
12:15 Opening session
12:45 Professor Margarita León: Children's Rights and Welfare Paradigms?
Chair: Professor Sirpa Wrede, University of Helsinki
13:45 Break
14:15 Parallel sessions 1
15:45 Break
16:00 Parallel sessions 2
17:30 Early Career Researcher Meeting
19:00-20:30 Welcome reception at the Helsinki City Hall (requires separate registration)
8:15 Registration open
8:45 Parallel sessions 3
10:15 Break
10:45 Professor Tom Shakespeare: Who Cares? Disability Rights and Other Rights
Chair: Dr. Lina Van Aerschot, University of Jyväskylä/Tampere University
11:45 Break
12:00 Round table: Social and Human Rights in Long-Term Care and Disability Services in Finland
Chair: Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Parallel sessions 4
15:30 Break
16:00 Parallel sessions 5
17:30-18.30 TCN Members' Panel
19:00-23:00 Conference dinner in Meripaviljonki
8:30 Registration open
9:00 Parallel sessions 6
10:30 Break
11:00 Professor Håkan Jönson & Associate Professor Tove Harnett: The Rights of Older People in
Eldercare – a Matter of Comparisons
Chairs: Tine Rostgaard, Roskilde University/Stockholm University & Costanzo Ranci, Polytechnic of Milan
12:00 Closing session
12:30 Lunch
Social and Human Rights in Long-Term Care and Disability Services in Finland
Thursday 26 June 2025, 12:00-13:00
Porthania building, PI
Chair: Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä
Participants: Expert Sanna Ahola, Human Rights Centre; Lawyer Pirkko Mahlamäki, active in European Disability Forum & European Women’s Lobby; Professor Marja Jylhä, Tampere University; Professor Kirstein Rummery, University of Stirling
Four representatives from human rights and disability organisations, as well as academia, will identify and discuss the most relevant and topical issues in Finnish long-term care and disability policy from the perspective of social and human rights. The discussion will also place Finnish experiences in an international context.
Meet the Authors session 1
Wednesday 25 June 2025, 14:15-15:45
Main Building, Fuksi
Chair: Riitta Hänninen
Alisoun Milne & Mary Larkin: Family Carers & Caring: What It’s All About, Emerald Publishing, 2023.
Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong & Jacqueline A. Choiniere (eds.) The Labour Crisis in Long-term Care: The Right to Care, Edward Elgar, 2024. (presented by Susan Braedley)
Catherine Needham and Patrick Hall: Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations, Policy Press, 2024.
Riitta Hänninen, Sakari Taipale & Laura Haapio-Kirk (eds.) Digital Repertoires – Embedded and Everyday Technologies in Later Life, UCL Press, 2025.
Meet the Authors session 2
Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:00-17:30
Main Building, Fuksi
Chair: Lea Graff
Andries Baart & Guus Timmerman: Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work - A Care-Ethical Perspective, Policy Press, 2024.
Robinson, Sally & Fisher, Karen (eds.) Research Handbook on Disability Policy, Edward Elgar, 2023.
Sung, Sirin (ed.) Gender, Family and Policy: International Perspectives, Edward Elgar, 2025.
Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues & Kirstein Rummery (eds.) Care Poverty and Unmet Needs: Inequalities in Theory and Practice, Policy Press, 2025.
Meet the Authors session 3
Thursday 26 June 2025, 16:00-17:30
Main Building, Fuksi
Chair: Lea Graff
Tamara Daly & Susan Braedley (eds.) Aging Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice, Policy Press, 2025.
Doris Lydah & Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen (eds.) Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions – Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond, Springer, 2023.
Marsh, Pauline & Williams, Allison (eds.) Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration and Equity, Routledge, 2023.
Thursday 26 June 2025, 17:30-18:30
Main Building, Small Hall
The Members’ Panel aims to provide a platform for TCN members to exchange ideas and experiences about research and publishing, as well as share their work with others. The Panel can also provide input on how to advance the Transforming Care Network and improve the quality and organisation of the conferences.