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.

The title of Paul’s keynote will be:

From aspiration to reality: tracking the transitions and outcomes of Scotland’s young people from 14 to 20.

Paul Bradshaw is Director of the Scottish Centre for Social Research, an independent, not-for-profit research institute and the Scottish arm of the National Centre of Social Research. Over his career, Paul has worked on a wide range of research studies involving quantitative and qualitative methods and across several policy areas. His principal research role has been the management and development of the Growing Up in Scotland study – a large-scale, prospective longitudinal cohort study – which he has led since 2005.

Abstracts

The call for abstracts is now closed. 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 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.