Growing up in Ireland Annual Conference

2026 Annual Conference

Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) is pleased to announce that its annual research conference will be held as an in-person event in The Gibson Hotel, Dublin 1 on November 5th, 2026. The conference is an important forum for sharing new research based on the GUI datasets with policy makers, fellow researchers and other stakeholders.

The event this year will be extra special as we mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Growing Up in Ireland study! We are delighted to announce that Paul Bradshaw, Director of the Scottish Centre for Social Research and lead on the Growing Up in Scotland study will deliver the keynote lecture.

Call for Abstracts

The call for abstracts is now open to researchers in all disciplines. Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words and arranged, where relevant, under the headings of background/context, methods, results, and conclusions. Methodological and theoretical papers are also welcomed but all submissions should draw primarily on GUI data. Researchers must be able to present their paper in person. The authors of successful submissions will be invited to have their presentations considered for the Department’s award for best paper with a policy focus.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 13th July 2026 and should be completed using this template. Please send completed submissions to GUIConference@equality.gov.ie. Researchers will be notified by early August. The Growing Up in Ireland team look forward to welcoming researchers and stakeholders to the conference.

Further updates on registration will be announced here and to our mailing list.