A two-day part-BSPS funded interdisciplinary workshop on childbearing and evolutionary theory will take place in St John’s College, Oxford between March 31st and April 1st 2011. BSPS members are cordially invited to apply to participate. There are a limited number of places available.

Registration is free but participants will be expected to pay for travel, food and accommodation (although we can arrange accommodation at St John’s College on your behalf). The cost of a package of overnight accommodation and meals at the college will be around £100, although participants are welcome to make their own arrangements.

If you wish to apply to participate, please e-mail a short statement of your professional interests to anna.rotkirch@socres.ox.ac.uk by 18.2.2011. Please indicate in the email that you are a member of BSPS. We will notify you of acceptance by 25.2.2011.

The workshop is organised by the Oxford Centre for Population Studies and the research project “Reproductive behaviour in contemporary societies”. It has received funding by St John’s College, the Kone Foundation, the Galton Foundation and the British Society for Population Studies.

IAOS Conference 2011: Belfast, Northern Ireland 17-19 August 2011 “The Demography of Ageing and Official Statistics”

An International Association for Official Statistics conference will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland between 17th and 19th August 2011. The theme of the conference will be “The Demography of Ageing and Official Statistics”. The conference will consist of 12 invited speakers. Amongst others confirmed speakers include

Dr Richard Suzman: Director of Social Research at United States National Institute on Aging – Keynote Speaker

Professor James Banks: Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London Professor David Canning: Professor of Economics and International Health, Harvard University Dr. George Leeson: Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford Professor Nico Keilman:  Professor of Economics, University of Oslo and Editor of Demographic Research Journal Professor Brendan Whelan: Professor of Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin and Director of The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing

On-line registration for the conference will open in March and the cost will be around £200GBP. If you wish to be put on the conference mailing list or require further details please e-mail: IAOS2011@dfpni.gov.uk

The 2010 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Exeter from 13-15 September. Preliminary abstracts of papers – which may be in the form of declarations of intent- are invited. These abstracts are to be of a maximum of 250 words in length with a provisional title. The deadline for submission is 30th April 2010. Submission itself is online at the following site:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/bsps2010/

More information is available in this pdf.

The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) are holding two workshops regarding the ONS Changes to Mid Year Estimates. One event is at the University of Leeds, and one is at the Local Government Association (LGA) in London. The workshops will take place in Leeds on the 7th of January and in London on the 11th of January 2010.

The meetings will be looking at the revisions proposed by ONS to the Mid Year Estimate series from Mid 2002 to Mid 2008. The latest changes revise methodology for the distribution of International migrants between local areas and include new data on Students to enhance moves within the UK. These meetings will give Local Authorities the chance to compare findings, assess the changes and receive some feedback from the ONS IMPS team.

The programme for both events are available at the bottom of this post. If you would like to contribute to the events by giving a short (10 minute) presentation as part of Session 2, and get instant feedback from the ONS IMPS team, please let the BSPS Secretariat know when you register for the event.

To register please email pic@lse.ac.uk and indicate which venue you will be attending and whether you would like to do a short presentation.

Meeting Flyer here.

Leeds Schedule here.

LGA Schedule here.

Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence

BSPS day meeting

Sponsored in collaboration with the ESRC

Venue: New Academic Building (NABL09), LSE

Friday 29th May, 2009

Background

The burden of out-of-pocket expenditure related to reproductive health service

use remains largely unexplored in poor country contexts. The knock-on effect of

poverty on reproductive health is difficult to quantify given limited crosssectional

and longitudinal evidence as well as lack of representative data on

health related expenditure at the individual level. Apart from the indirect costs,

there is a lack of evidence on user-fees and institutional subsidies in the public

and private sector and how these influence treatment/ care seeking behaviour,

both short-term and long-term. Generating evidence through cross-country

studies is essential to design effective and sustainable policies to enhance

reproductive wellbeing of individuals.

Aims

1. To examine evidence on the pathways through which poverty affects

reproductive health at the individual, household, institutional and community

levels in poor countries, with a regional focus on Asia and Africa.

2. To provide a forum for debate on the short- and long-term impact of poverty

on reproductive wellbeing

3. To discuss the challenges in measuring and interpreting empirical evidence

on poverty and reproductive health

This day meeting is open to all, and is free-of-charge but there is only limited space available.

However, PRE-REGISTRATION is essential, also for access to New Academic Building and for security related reasons – please email Ms. Anne Shepherd (pic@lse.ac.uk ) or phone: 020 7955 7666.

BSPS Prize 2009

Entries are invited for the 2009 BSPS Prize.
This is awarded to the entry judged to be the best MSc. Dissertation on a demographic topic during the year 2008 (which would normally be at or around distinction level). Applicants should supply four copies of their dissertation, which do not need to be bound – electronic submissions can also be accepted.

Please note that all entries should be submitted by the institution awarding the degree, or by the supervising academic, and not by the authors themselves. A maximum of two entries per institution will be accepted. A word limit of 12,000 words per entry is encouraged, on the basis that it is very difficult to judge and compare entries of vastly differing lengths. However, longer dissertations may also be entered, with a section not exceeding the given word limit being nominated for judging.

A cash prize of £300 is offered, which will be increased to £400 if there is a tie for first place and the Prize is split between two winners. The winner(s) will be announced at the BSPS Conference in September.

For the purposes of this prize, demography is defined as
1. the scientific study of human populations, especially with reference to their size, structure and distribution
2. the scientific study of the determining processes, such as fertility, mortality and migration, and
3. the relationship of these with the social, economic and cultural context within which they exist.

Entries should be received by 31 May 2009 at the BSPS Secretariat, PS201, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, or pic@lse.ac.uk

BSPS Annual Conference 2009 – The University of Sussex, 9-11 September.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2009 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Sussex, from 9-11 September. The University campus is at Falmer, just outside Brighton. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/annualConference/2009_Callforpapers.htm

There will be a full programme of simultaneous strand sessions of submitted papers. Proposals or abstracts for papers and posters are invited across the entire demographic and population studies spectrum. For organizational purposes, strand organizers have been allocated to specific themes, but if you wish to submit a paper that does not appear to come under any of the headings given, please enter either ‘to be agreed’ in the relevant space on the online submission form, or leave the space blank . If accepted, the paper will be allocated to an appropriate strand session when the programme is timetabled. Submissions of quantitative and qualitative papers are most welcome.

Plenary speakers are confirmed as Professor Ron Lesthaeghe and Professor Jane Falkingham. A third plenary or an alternative session is also planned. Additionally, there will be special sessions in tribute to John Hajnal (on 9 September) and John Blacker (on 10 September), both of whom sadly died recently. Information updates on the Conference will be posted to this BSPS website as available. .htm

Presenters of posters will be expected to attend the scheduled poster session on the first evening of the Conference, but posters will remain on display for the duration of the Conference.

Preliminary abstracts of papers – which may be in the form of a declaration of intent – (maximum 250 words, please), plus a provisional title, should be submitted online by 20 May 2009 at:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/bsps

If you are unable to submit online, please contact pic@lse.ac.uk  for alternative arrangements.