Population Footprints 25-26 May 2011,

The Mermaid Conference Centre, London EC4V 3DB

1st Announcement & Call for Poster Abstracts

www.populationfootprints.org

We would like to bring to your attention this major UCL and Leverhulme Trust symposium on human population growth and global carrying capacity to be held in London on Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2011. The symposium will aim to provoke debate on themes often regarded as simply too controversial and difficult to be tackled through rational analysis, with sessions addressing:

• The likely causes and effects of both northern and southern population migration in the 21st century
• The most appropriate public policy responses to projected changes in population dynamics, and common ground for meaningful dialogue
• The most important determinants of population growth and how to prepare for it
• How paradigms of gender and sexual rights should be developed to meet the challenges
• The medium term implications of different global patterns in ageing
• The ‘fair’ and sustainable level of carbon emission for each person

The themes will be discussed by an impressive list of internationally renowned speakers from universities, NGOs and civil societies, multinational and government agencies. You are invited to register your interest through the website www.populationfootprints.org as soon as possible. If you know of networks or organisations to which this event would be of interest please do let us know, or pass on this email.

We are asking for registration of interest by 28th January 2011. The deadline for submission of abstracts for posters is 21st February. We are offering three full scholarships (travel, accommodation and conference fee) to the best three poster submissions from the global south and three full scholarships from the UK. To ensure active involvement outside the UK, we will award at least two grants to local agencies in Africa and South Asia to host a meeting of local experts, advocates and researchers and the conference will be ‘streamed’ live, with a Twitter feed to encourage participation from outside the Hall. The live streaming will be available globally to anyone registering on the site at the time of the symposium, and the Twitter feed is available to all. We look forward to your involvement with Population Footprints 2011.

With best wishes

Claire Lister, Event Coordinator

On behalf of the UCL Institute for Global Health and the Symposium Organising Committee

I C H Events, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH

Phone: 020 7905 2232 Fax: 020 7831 6902

Email: claire@ichevents.com www.ichevents.com

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies International Conference 2010, on the topic of Understanding ageing: Health, wealth and wellbeing at fifty and beyond, is being held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford from the 14th to 16th of April.

This is an international conference bringing together researchers working in the economic, social, psychological and health fields to present state of the art analyses of ageing processes; pinpoint existing gaps in knowledge and identify priorities for future research and data collection.

The keynote speakers are: Jim Heckman, University of Chicago; David Barker, University of Southampton and Jack Guralnik, National Institute of Ageing.

The focus of this conference is the use of longitudinal data from studies such as the British Birth Cohorts and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to understand life-course determinants of healthy ageing, including the effect of early-life circumstances on outcomes in later life.

Research using such data is essential to inform sound policy that can address the needs of an ageing society. Themes addressed in the conference include: Frailty, disability and physical functioning at older ages; Ageing and cognition; Employment at older ages and transitions to retirement; Economic and financial circumstances over the life-course; Ageing, social participation and wellbeing in later life; Government policies and the ageing population.

Further information and booking is available as the conference website: www.ageingconf.org

Booking is now open, with an ‘early bird discount’ available.

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), on Tuesday 16 June at 19.00, are hosting a discussion entitled:

“Britain’s population time-bomb: The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society”

Britain’s 17 million baby boomers are fast approaching retirement age, with over 65′s now outnumbering under 16′s for the first time. What are the challenges and opportunities that this presents Britain?

An expert panel including Rosie Winterton MP, George Magnus and chaired by Channel 4 News presenter Samira Ahmed will explore issues such as the changing nature of retirement; the importance of older people in the workforce; the pressures on public services; and how Britain should be adapting to an ageing society.

For details click here.

Book tickets online here or call +44 (0)20 7591 3100.

The Oxford Institute of Ageing would be more than happy to host joint applications with prospective Fellows and invites applications for the Marie Curie fellowships detailed below.

The Oxford Institute of Ageing (OIA), University of Oxford, is a multi-disciplinary research institute which believes that the production of high quality, strategic research, which informs and is informed by good policy and practice, will lead to a greater understanding of societies as they age.

1. Intra-European Fellowships for career development (IEF)

Researchers from EU Member States or Associated Countries can apply for an IEF; you must have a doctoral degree or at least 4 years full-time equivalent post-graduate research experience. The Fellowship offers financial support for 12-24 months.

Deadline: 18 August 2009

2. International Incoming Fellowship (IIF)

Researchers from “Third Countries” (all countries outside the European Union that are not recognised as an Associated Country) can apply for an IIF; you must have a doctoral degree or at least 4 years full-time equivalent postgraduate research experience. The Fellowship offers financial support for 12-24 months; there is the possibility to fund a “return period” if you are coming from an International Cooperation Partner Country.

Deadline: 18 August 2009

More information here.

If you would be interested in applying for one of the above mentioned schemes, please contact Dr Andreas Hoff andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk in the first instance. Submission deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is 15 June 2009.

A new book launched under the Understanding Population Trends and Processes  (UPTAP) programme, edited by John Stillwell,  Ernestina Coast and Dylan Kneale

     Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility

      Understanding Population Trends and Processes – Volume 1

      Stillwell, John; Coast, Ernestina; Kneale, Dylan (Eds.)

      2009, Approx. 350 p., Hardcover

      ISBN: 978-1-4020-9681-5

      More information

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book examines some of the important trends that have underpinned reductions in fertility, including delayed child-bearing and increased childlessness. It demonstrates how relationships between partners have resulted in new living arrangements with changing attitudes from marriage to co-habitation as the social norm, and it considers the health and well-being for particular at risk groups such as the elderly and stepparents as well as aspects of mobility such as household migration and commuting to school.

The book brings together a series of studies that all involve quantitative analyses of secondary data from censuses, surveys or administrative records. The trends and patterns reported provide new and interesting insights into behaviour of the household and the roles of adults and children, and point to questions of critical importance for practitioners and policy makers.

“This book is the first of three volumes on ‘ Understanding Population Trends and Processes’. Volume 2 will report the findings of research on a further set of dimensions including population change, deprivation, educational attainment, employment, health and well-being, identity, religiosity, social values and trust, whilst Volume 3 will have a more specific focus on ethnicity and integration.”

Conference – ‘Ageing in Latin America: Developing the Research Agenda’

The demographic ageing of societies represents one of the major challenges for the 21st century. As fertility has fallen, longevity has increased, with older people living longer and healthier old ages. The experience and meaning of old age is being transformed. However, in Latin America the context for this is very different from other world regions. Population ageing is taking place much more rapidly than it has done in Europe and North America for example, and against a background of limited health care and social protection. Both collaborative research and data collection are now needed to better understand the implications.

The Oxford Institute of Ageing is pleased to announce the first conference in Oxford on “Ageing in Latin America”, which will take place at the Oxford Institute of Ageing on July 2-3, 2009.

The programme includes key speakers from all over Latin America and from the UK, including:

Armando Barrientos, Manchester University, UK

Sylvia Beales, HelpAge International, London, UK

Ricardo Iacub, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rosita Kornfeld Matte, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile

George Leeson, Institute of Ageing, Oxford University, UK

Blanca Lopez La Vera, Pontificia Universidad Católica, San Miguel, Peru

Conference attendance is free, registration is mandatory; deadline for registrations is 1 June 2009.

Please download the programme and registration form from our website:

http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/events/conferences-workshops

A flyer is available here: http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/system/files/LARNAConferenceflyer.pdf   

This conference is sponsored by the British Academy.