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Meeting on Migration Statistics: Interim Report

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 19, 2009

Tweet Migration Statistics: Interim Report  A meeting to discuss the interim findings of a review by the UK  Statistics Authority on improvements to migration statistics will be  held at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX  on 22nd April 2009, 2pm-4pm (coffee and registration from 1.30pm).  Please email: authority.enquiries@statistics.gsi.gov.uk  to reserve your  place – attendance is free [...]

BSPS meeting: Health & mortality using record linkage data in the UK

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009

TweetBSPS day meeting: Health and mortality using record linkage data in the UK  LG03, New Academic Building, London School of Economics 14th  May 2009   Programme 10.30 Registration and Coffee 11.00 Introduction by the Chair 11.10 Marital history and mortality using ONS Longitudinal Study data, Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  3.50 Final [...]

Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009

TweetChallenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics Wednesday May 13 th 2009 10.30 -16.00 London School of Economics Room LG01, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields The BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSPS are taking the opportunity of the publication of ‘Sleepwalking to Segregation’? Challenging myths about race and [...]

PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 20, 2009

TweetPGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory: intersections and cross-fertilisations 13th -14th May 2009, jointly hosted by the University of Brighton and University of Sussex A two-day international conference of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Call for Papers and Registration Form This conference aims to explore the many ways in which different, yet possibly [...]

POPFEST 2009 – Call for papers

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 6, 2009

TweetWe would like to draw your attention to Popfest 2009, the 17th annual conference of postgraduate students in Population-related studies. Popfest 2009 will be taking place from the 2nd July to the 4th of July 2009, and will be hosted by the Population At LSE research students at the London School of Economics and Political Science [...]

RGS Session: Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 6, 2009

TweetCALL FOR PAPERS Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference Manchester, 26-28th August 2009 Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and [...]