Time Use Conferences
2025 Conference 2024 Conference 2023 Conference 2021 Conference
Time is one of the most valuable and contested resources in contemporary societies. Analyses of variation in daily time use patterns over time, space, and social groups is needed to advance understanding of determinants and consequences of time use for well-being.
MPRC scholars and their colleagues have sponsored a biennial Time Use conference since 2006. The most recent conferences are summarized below, including a link to the conference program for that year.
2025
Time Use as a Social Determinant of Health
April 8-9, 2025
University of Maryland and online
Co-Sponsored with the Eunice K. Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Maryland Population Research Center, Minnesota Population Center, and the Maryland Time Use Lab
Time is a health resource but critical gaps remain in understanding how time use is associated with health and well-being. Focus will be on submissions on (a) innovative data, measures, and analyses of daily time use and health and well-being disparities; (b) time use and sleep; (c) sedentary and physically active leisure across the life course; (d) variations in time-related health behaviors among children, adolescents, and parents; and (e) associations of daily time use behaviors, energy expenditures, and obesity. We also encourage research on other dimensions of time use as a social determinant of health.
See / Download the 2025 conference program
2024
Temporal Dimensions of Structural Racism and Racial and Ethnic Inequities
Sponsored by NICHD, MPRC, Minnesota Population Center, and the Maryland Time Use Laboratory
June 13-14, 2024
University of Maryland and online
Time is a critical but under-researched aspect of racial and ethnic disparities in daily life, including social and public interactions, health and well-being. The focus of the 2024 Time Use Conference will be using time use and well-being data to investigate temporal dimensions of racial and ethnic inequities and structural racism.
Panel Session on Advancing Time Use Research on Structural Inequalities (l to r) Deborah Carr, Boston University; Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland; Cindy Cohen, Ohio State University; Lawrence Stacy, Vanderbilt University; Deadric Williams, University of Tennessee Knoxville.
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2023
Time Use Data for Health and Well Being
June 8-9, 2023
University of Maryland and online
Co-Sponsored with the Eunice K. Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Maryland Population Research Center, Minnesota Population Center, and the Maryland Time Use Lab
Time is a critical but under-researched aspect of individual, family, and societal health and well-being. The focus of the 2023 University of Maryland (UMD) Time Use Conference will be time inequalities and how these influence daily activities, interactions, and well-being. Research is expected to addresses question related to the collection or analysis of time use data, with a priority on (a) intersectional and critical analyses of the consequences of time-related inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic for children’s, adolescents', and adults’ daily life, experiences, and health; (b) structural racism, time use and health across the life span; and (c) time use as a social determinant of health across the life span.
The Conference will offer in-person and virtual attendance to provide a more inclusive venue for the global and interdisciplinary time use research community to interact and share ideas.
See / Download the 2023 conference program
2021
Time Use Data for Health and Well Being
Sponsored by MPRC, NICHD, and the Maryland Time Use Laboratory
June 23-25, 2021
Online
The 2020 (rescheduled for 2021) UMD Time Use Conference will give members of the growing interdisciplinary time use research community the opportunity to interact with one another and share ideas. The focus will be on papers that address the 2020 conference theme, intersecting influences of macroeconomic conditions and micro-level factors on time use and well-being across the life course. Registration is open to all individuals with an interest in how patterns of daily time use affect child, adult, and family well-being.
This conference is being held online due to COVID travel / meeting restrictions.
See / download the 2021 conference program