Population Geography Research Group

10.30am             Registration and tea/coffee

11am                     Welcome and introduction to historical session

11.10am              Romola Davenport – Death and the metropolitan migrant: mortality of young adults in eighteenth and nineteenth century London

11.45am              Professor Jeremy Boulton – Saving the poor worms from starving? Traffic in corpses in Georgian Westminster, 1747-1825

12.20pm             Eileen Howes – Using historical census data: housing tenure change 1961 to 2001

1.00 pm               Lunch break (lunch not provided)

2pm                       Introduction to current issues session – Andrew Collinge, GLA

2.05pm                John Hollis – 21st Century Migration: South-east England

2.40pm                Jessica Chamberlain – Population projections for the London Plan

2010

3.15pm                 David Ewens – Using the National Pupil Dataset to identify children’s characteristics and mobility

4pm       Close

This day meeting is free and open to all. Please pre-register for the meeting by emailing the BSPS Secretariat: pic@lse.ac.uk (telephone 020 7955 7666).

Please note that the venue is City Hall – for travel information see:

http://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall/visitor-information/location-map

Abstracts for individual presentations will appear on the BSPS website as available at:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/BSPS/dayMeetings/Home.aspx