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Program Overview
21th January
Morning		 22nd January
Morning		 23rd January
Morning
S3. Sport/Leisure/Recreation/Tourism
S5. Science and Technology

 S4.Equity/Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

 Flash Poster Session
21st January
Afternoon		 22nd January
Afternoon
 23rd January
Afternoon
S2. Disabled People/People with Disabilities (Non-Medical Coverage)

S1. The Social Nature of Health and Well-Being

IOCSO 2026 Program (Day 1)

21st January - Morning

IOCSO 2026
Session 3. Sport/Leisure/Recreation/Tourism

Date: 21st January 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET Speaker Title
9:00-9:10 Prof. Dr. Gregor Wolbring Opening Remark from Conference Chair
9:10-9:40 Prof. Dr. Orr Levental
Dr. Michal Ben-Eli
Invited Speakers		 Understanding Physical Activity Engagement Among Young Autistic People: Social Context, Motivation and Inclusion
9:40-10:00 Louis Moustakas
Selected Speaker		 Whose Cohesion? Community Voices on Sport, Exclusion, and Marginalization
10:00-10:20 Alicia Martínez Moreno
Selected Speaker		 Beyond the Game: The Contradictory Logics of Sport
10:20-10:40 Barbara Mazza
Selected Speaker		 SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AS AN ATTRACTIVE LEVER FOR A SPORT TOURISM EVENT: THE CASE OF RUNNING

21st January - Morning

IOCSO 2026
Session 5. Science and Technology

Date: 21st January 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:40 (CET, Basel) | 04:40 (EST, New York) | 17:40 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET Speaker Title
10:40-10:50 Prof. Dr. António B. Moniz
Session Chair		 Welcome from the Session Chair
10:50-11:10 Ioannis Zervas
Selected Speaker		 DigComp and Its Limits: New Human Resource Management Constructs for Generative AI Skills
11:10-11:30 Ehsan Baha
Selected Speaker		 Letters of Care: Educating Clinicians for Caring Design in the AI/Hybrid Era
11:30-11:50 Isabella Corvino
Selected Speaker		 Technology and hope: AI potential in healthcare

21st January - Afternoon

IOCSO 2026
Session 2. Disabled People/People with Disabilities (Non-Medical Coverage)

Date: 21st January 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET Speaker Title
14:00-14:10 Prof. Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Session Chair		 Welcome from the Session Chair
14:10-14:40 Prof. Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Invited Speaker		 Ability judgment concepts: A gift from the disabled people community to the academic community and society at large
14:40-15:10 Prof. Dr. Trudo Lemmens
Invited Speaker		 Death as Therapy in Canada’s ‘Assisted Dying’ Regime: A Threat to Disability Rights
15:10-15:30 Gabriela Stefkova
Selected Speaker		 Easy-to-read communication for cancer screening in people with intellectual disabilities: The Slovak perspective
15:30-15:50 Abdelrahman Elsawy
Selected Speaker		 A Proposed Guideline for Adapting School Track and Field Events for Students with Physical Disabilities in Alignment with International Standards
15:50-16:10 LIJA JACOB
Selected Speaker
 Multilingual and Region-Specific Image Captioning and Contextual Scene Recognition using Transformer-Based Architecture for Inclusive Technology Design for Visually Impaired
IOCSO 2026 Program (Day 2)

22nd January - Morning

IOCSO 2026
Session 4. Equity/Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Date: 22nd January 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET
Speaker
Title
9:00-9:10
 Dr. Roda Madziva
Session Chair		 Welcome from the Session Chair
9:10-9:40 Prof. Dr. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
Invited Speaker		 Social Representations of Teaching Controversial Issues in Secondary Education: A Study with Pre-Service Teachers from a Central Core Theory Perspective
9:40-10:00 Juan Brea Iglesias
Selected Speaker		 “They're not listening to me”: An analysis of epistemic injustice from the perspective of mental health activism in Spain

10:00-10:20		 Alba Meroño Asenjo
Selected Speaker		 “Just Show Me, Don't Do It for Me”: Characterizing Effective Informal Support for Older Adults Digital Learning
10:20-10:40 Isabella Corvino
Selected Speaker		 Labour Inclusion of People with Disabilities in the Tourism Sector: A Systematic Review from a Sociological Perspective
10:40-11:00 Xi Jiang
Selected Speaker		 The “Silver Digital Divide” and Intergenerational Support Mechanisms among the Elderly in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
11:00-11:20 Iye Ogbe-Dibia
Selected Speaker
 “AFRICA- THAT’S NOT MY NAME”: NAVIGATING HYBRID IDENTITIES AND INCLUSION FOR RECENT AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE US SOUTH FROM A DECOLONIAL FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
11:20-11:40 Eliud Kiprop
Selected Speaker
 Understanding Regional Disparities in Foreign Migration Across Japan: A Hybrid Laplacian Diffusion–Gravity Approach

22nd January - Afternoon

IOCSO 2026
Session 1. The Social Nature of Health and Well-Being

Date: 22nd January 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CET
Speaker
Title
14:00-14:10
 Dr. Katie Aubrecht
Session Chair		 Welcome from the Session Chair
14:10-14:40 Prof. Dr. Nicola Magnavita
Keynote Speaker		 Eating Disorders in the Workplace
14:40-15:00 Gintarė Vaznonienė
Selected Speaker		 Women's subjective well-being – a micro-level analysis for Poland and Lithuania
15:00-15:20 Elena Fusar Fusar Poli
Selected Speaker		 Ethical Mapping of Agricultural Arenas: Wellbeing, Equity, and Sustainability in the Ebro Lands
15:20-15:40 Sultana Ali Norozi
Selected Speaker		 Integration and Belonging Through Relationships: Immigrant Youths’ Experiences of Community-Based Mentoring
15:40-16:00 Davide Costa
Selected Speaker		 The 'Cinderella Disease' Reconsidered: A Qualitative Study on Health Professionals’ Perception of Chronic Venous Disease through the Lens of Medical Humanities
16:00-16:20 Florence Akumu Juma
Selected Speaker		 Perceptions of psychotherapy among African Caribbean and Black Identifying (ABCI) young adults in Southwestern Ontario: Towards an exploration of best practices in psychotherapy
16:20-16:40

Guilherme Welter Wendt
Selected Speaker

 Understanding Sexual Abuse Risk: A Brazilian School-Based Study
IOCSO 2026 Program (Day 3)

Flash Poster Session

IOCSO 2026

Date: 23rd January 2026 (Friday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Session
Poster Presenter
Title
Session 1

9:00-9:10 Calla Glavin Beauregard Detecting sub-populations in online health communities: A mixed-methods exploration of breastfeeding messages in BabyCenter Birth Clubs
9:10-9:20 Liviu Tatomirescu Understanding Dementia through Caregivers’ Experiences: Behavioral Challenges and Quality of Life

9:20-9:30		 Suzana Turcu Wellbeing of Cancer Caregivers: Scoping Review
9:30-9:40

Klaudie Němečková

 Continuity of care for children with mental health problems: experiences of children, parents and social workers
9:40-9:50

Adriana Rodrigues Machado

 Umuarama Circular: Social Transformations in the Construction of a Circular City
9:50-10:00

Zhaoyang Xie

 Gender specificity of teachers' stress sources and health problems: evidence from a network analysis
Session 2

10:00-10:10 Ashmita Singh Immersive Virtual Reality for Peer Support in Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Pilot Study
Session 3
10:10-10:20 ELENI ROMPOTI Human Resource Management and Labor Relations in Tourism and Cultural Enterprises: Evidence from Crete
10:20-10:30 Miloș (Ilie) Constantina Alina From Risk to Resilience: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review of Tourist Loyalty and Sustainable Tourism in Coastal and Post-Pandemic Contexts (2020–2025)
10:30-10:40 Mariana Floricica Călin Psychological Values and Attitudinal Predictors of Sustainable Tourism Consumption
10:40-10:50 H. Antonio Pineda-Espejel Motivation and intention to performphysical activity in secondary-school students
Session 4
10:50-11:00 SABRINA BELLAFRONTE Precarious empowerment on TikTok: gendered digital informality and the paradox of new survival economies
11:00-11:10 Pariya Parchini Immersive Behavioural Assessments for Autistic Job Seekers: A Protocol of a Participatory Approach to Autism-Inclusive Hiring Practices
11:10-11:20 Elitsa Dimitrova Equal in Sharing, Unequal in Care: Social Differences in Attitudes toward Shared Parental Leave in European Societies
Session 5
11:20-11:30 POLYDORA ANNA ELENI Digital and Social Ethography: The Case of Youth Digital Platforms
11:30-11:40 Jingsheng Wang Super AI Evolution Theory: Algorithmic Competition and Civilizational Risk in the Data Colonial Era
11:40-11:50 Lisa D'Errico A Scoping Review of Sociological Literature on Sex Dolls and Sex Robots (2000–2025)
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