The Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) provides a forum for population geographers to present and discuss the latest findings of research in the sub-discipline through its conference and publication activities, to debate relevant theoretical, philosophical and methodological issues, and to consider policy dimensions, both in the UK and internationally.
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Dismantling diasporas: rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, mobility and development

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Dismantling diasporas: rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, mobility and development Session convenors: Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University; and Anastasia Christou, University of Sussex This session wishes to re-energise debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in geographical scholarship and beyond. In particular, there is a need to engage [...]

Rethinking the (In) security/ Migration Nexus

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Rethinking the (In) security/ Migration Nexus Session convenors: Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University (Israel); Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regents College London (UK). While the migration / security nexus is hardly new, as exemplified by anti-migration laws implemented in some countries during both World Wars, the last decade has witnessed [...]

The geographies of graduate migration and mobility: dealing with (in)security, uncertainty and globalisation

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The geographies of graduate migration and mobility: dealing with (in)security, uncertainty and globalisation Session convenors: Aga Szewczyk (Loughborough University); Kate Botterill (Newcastle University). There has been a growing internationalisation of higher education systems with increasing numbers of people attending university within and beyond their country of origin. [...]

The spatial and job mobility nexus ‒ Migration and securing security

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The spatial and job mobility nexus ‒ Migration and securing security Session Convenors: David McCollum, University of St Andrews; Darja Reuschke, University of St Andrews. The nature of labour market trajectories in post-industrial economies has been the focus of much academic interest, as have the moves that [...]

RGS-IBG 2012 panel session

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Tweet‘Pop’ goes Population Geography Session convenor: Darren Smith (Loughborough University). For the last few decades, reviews of the state of population geography have been provided seemingly every ten years (e.g. Findlay and Graham, 1991), often highlighting the advances within the sub-discipline and offering some fruitful ways forward.  In this panel session, invited contributors will consider [...]

Call for papers – Population geography in a post-census world

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Monday, November 28, 2011

TweetIGU – Cologne 2012 – 26–30 Aug. https://igc2012.org/ The aim of the session is to discuss the consequences of the current move by numerous countries from traditional decennial censuses to population register and targeted surveys. This move has many advantages but also potential drawbacks for population geographers: some variables that were collected for decades disappear [...]

Call for papers – International Journal of Population Research, Special Issue on Transnational Migration

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Monday, November 28, 2011

TweetIn the field of International migration, transnational migration is now widely accepted as a new form of global mobility that is accompanying globalization’ s many dynamic dimensions. As a significant social, economic and political feature of our ‘runaway world’ this ‘transnational turn’ and its associated social systems, behaviors and consequences has received considerable attention both [...]

Call for papers – Modelling for Policy

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011

TweetRGS – IBG Annual International Conference 3 – 5 July 2012 University of Edinburgh Session Title: Modelling for Policy This session aims to bring together researchers to report on progress in diverse types of modelling that has direct impacts on a variety of policy domains.  We encourage the submission of papers that present novel use [...]

CALL FOR SESSIONS RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

TweetPopulation Geography Research Group RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 – University of Edinburgh -  3rd to 5th July 2012 The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) is seeking to sponsor 12 sessions at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. PopGRG session sponsorship was oversubscribed in 2011, and the number of sessions at the 2012 conference will be more limited. We are therefore seeking proposals for high quality sessions, with innovative [...]

Call for Papers – Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18th -19th April 2012

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Thursday, October 20, 2011

TweetCALL FOR PAPERS Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes   Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18-19 April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Papers are invited for a British-Irish population geography conference on inter-generational patterns and processes.  Whilst there is a focus on [...]