Growing Up in Ireland – the National Longitudinal Study of Children, will hold its eighth annual research conference on Thursday 3rd November 2016 in Croke Park. The conference will focus on research based on Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) data.

The Growing Up in Ireland team invites abstracts for papers from researchers working on Growing Up in Ireland data.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to gui.conference2016@esri.ie by 15^th July. Abstracts should include (where possible): the paper title; context; methods; results and conclusions. They should also include the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Steering Committee and authors of selected papers will be notified by 12^th August. In selecting papers preference will be given to those with applied policy relevance.

Growing Up in Ireland is a government study. It is being funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in association with the Central Statistics Office. It also receives a subsidy from The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.