In this Issue:
- Update regarding the ISQOLS 2020 Annual Conference
- *FREE* ISQOLS Webinar: "Consumption that counts- Exploring links between consumption and well-being"
- Social Indicators Network News (SINET) Winter/Spring 2020 Issue
- *New* Endowed Track: "The Valerie Møller Endowed Track for the Advancement of Quality of Life and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa”
- Fundraising Campaign: Help support students from developing countries
- ISQOLS Call for Conference Proposals to Host
- ISQOLS Member News
- QOL, Happiness, Wellbeing News
- QOL, Happiness, Wellbeing Publications
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Important message regarding COVID-19 and the
International Society for Quality-of- Life Studies (ISQOLS)
18th Annual Conference (August 25 – 28, 2020)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dear ISQOLS community,
We want to ensure all of you that the 2020 ISQOLS Conference Committee and Leadership Team is carefully monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The health and wellness of our ISQOLS community is our first priority.
As a precautionary measure, we have also extended the Early Bird Registration deadline to June 21st and the final registration deadline will be extended to July 15. We understand that many will want to wait until this deadline to make a decision on whether or not to travel, and we will be sure to send timely updates and notifications as we near these deadlines.
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ISQOLS WEBINAR
"Consumption that counts –
Exploring links between consumption and well-being"
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APRIL 2, 1:00 PM (13:00) Pacific Standard Time/
APRIL 3, 9:00 AM New Zealand Time
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FREE
Consumption has a somewhat negative reputation when it comes to well-being. Research frequently focuses on over-consumption and its impact on individual, social and ecological well-being. Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft and Ben Wooliscroft investigate facets of well-being and their links to meso- and macro-level aspects of consumption – particularly sustainable consumption and mobility. We believe it is necessary to better understand the complexity of these relationships to achieve sustainable levels of consumption, while maintaining or improving peoples’ well-being.
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SOCIAL INDICATORS NETWORK NEWS (SINET) WINTER/SPRING ISSUE
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SINET is the official quarterly newsletter of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and is available first to current members. Please read the Winter/Spring 2020 issue
HERE
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New Endowed Track:
The Valerie Møller Endowed Track for the Advancement of Quality of Life and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Named for an ISQOLS leader and pioneer in the advancement of the theme of the quality-of-life studies in sub-Saharan Africa, contributions made to the "Valerie Møller Endowed Track” will permanently endow a track on the “The Valerie Møller Endowed Track for the Advancement of Quality of Life and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa” to be held as part of each ISQOLS international conference program. This track will include as least two sessions consisting of three or more participants whose research activities overlap with the purpose of this endowment.
This endowed track aims to showcase insights on sub-Saharan quality of life gained by local scholars that contribute to a better knowledge of universal and unique experiences of well-being.
Read more...
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Help Support Students From Developing Countries
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As of March, we received 20 applications for our Education Travel Grant. All applicants are students from developing countries. Unfortunately, ISQOLS has only 7 grants available. Will you help us raise more funds to provide an education grant for at least one more student? Make a donation of $25 USD or more to our "Education Grants" travel scholarship and as a "thank you", we will send you a special anniversary shirt.
To make your contribution, please visit
isqols.org/donate
and select "Education Travel Grant" as your choice for your donation.
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ISQOLS Call for Conference Proposals To Host
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Call for Conference Proposals to Host: 2023, 2024, 2025
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The ISQOLS Conference Committee invites interested organizations to submit a proposal for hosting future ISQOLS Conferences.
Application Deadline for proposals to host conferences for 2023-2025 is June 30
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, 2020.
Applications will be reviewed at the August 25-28, 2020 conference by the Board of Directors/Executive Committee. Decisions will be announced by September 30
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Help us reach our goal of 400 members in 2020! Join, renew and refer your friends to ISQOLS. See more details at
isqols.org/join
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Applied Research in Quality of Life,
Official ISQOLS Journal
ISQOLS members, you have automatic access to online articles!
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Current 2020 ISQOLS Members:
Did you receive our March 2020 *MEMBERS ONLY* email?
Please check your email (be sure to mark
office@isqols.org
as a "safe sender").
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Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing in Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in Saudi Arabia.
Vice Dean for Quality, Development and Community Service at the College of Nursing.
"I am interested to collaborate with researchers from different countries to conduct HRQoL research studies and develop guidelines for linking HRQoL findings to healthcare interventions. I also wish to participate in future ISQOLS conferences and nethwork with researchers from different disciplines. Furthermore, I think of linking QoL assessment to community service were QoL would be framed in a different manner that could serve the community."
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Happiness in the Time of Corona
Authors: ISQOLS Members: Talita Greyling and Stephanie Rossouw
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Click on any of the following articles to read:
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ISQOLS Members: do you have a publication or article you wish to share with our society? Please send it to office@isqols.org.
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QUALITY-OF-LIFE, HAPPINESS, WELL-BEING NEWS
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QOL Related Organization:
Australian Centre on
Quality of Life
This site contains substantial resources useful to students, academics and practitioners who are concerned with the science of life quality. Members also receive a weekly issue of our ‘ACQol Bulletin’ which, inter alia, includes a published paper for discussion.
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Send your organization's name and info to office@isqols.org.
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World Happiness Report 2020
MARCH 20, 2020
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.
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The Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus
Global Virtual Conference, March 30
The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards achieving the SDGs, this disease is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on communicable disease, education, life expectancy, and decent work. This virtual conference event will seek to examine the implications of COVID-19 for public health and the SDGs, as well as make recommendations on science-based responses
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Call for Papers
WITTGENSTEIN CENTRE CONFERENCE 2020 Vienna, Austria, 30.11.-1.12.2020
“Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences”
COVID-19 is causing serious health, social and economic challenges, several of which are directly related to demographic factors. Given that older persons have a weaker immune system and are likely to have underlying chronic illness, they are particularly vulnerable to viruses like SARS-CoV-2.
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Join a Happiness & Health Conversation - an Open Forum Hour on Wednesdays until Earth Day
March 25 and April 1, 8, 15 & 22 (Earth Day)
12 pm PT/3 pm ET /7 pm GMT
n these days of physical isolation, it's important that we find new ways to socially connect. It's also important to be able to name and talk about your feelings.
We are hosting a weekly hour for open discussion on how you are feeling and why & what you are doing for your happiness just now. We will begin with short introductions, and each person will have 3 minutes to share how they are feeling and why, and, if they like, one thing they are doing for their happiness and health these days.
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"A happiness report in the age of Corona" Meik Wiking, CEO
The Happiness Research Institute
Today, the World Happiness Report 2020 was published on March 20th, which is the International Day of Happiness. However, it does not take a happiness researcher to recognize that it is a strange time to talk about happiness. The day when the World Happiness Report normally hits the global news agenda is overshadowed by a very unusual event: a global pandemic crisis.
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QOL, HAPPINESS, WELL-BEING PUBLICATIONS
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APA Journals
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: Call for Papers
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Special Issue: Leadership and Health/Well-being
Occupational stress has been shown as a major risk for workers’ physical and mental health and mortality. Leaders play an important role in shaping the work environment and their behaviors are often associated with their subordinates’ health/well-being (Arnold, 2017) but also their own well-being
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Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being
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Journal of Happiness Studies.
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JOIN OR RENEW YOUR ISQOLS MEMBERSHIP FOR 2020
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Join or renew your 2020 ISQOLS Membership. Visit
isqols.org/join
to submit your membership application.
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