Archives by Tag 'demography'
6th International Conference on Population Geographies Umeå, Sweden
6th International Conference on Population Geographies Umeå, Sweden, 14 – 17 June 2011 We would like to welcome you all to the Sixth International Conference on Population Geographies, to be held at the University Campus in Umeå, Sweden next June. Call for papers and more information, including link to our website, will be send out [...]
BSPS Day meeting – Demography of London
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Day meeting on the Demography of London 7th July 2010 , City Hall, London Agenda 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 [...]
BSPS Conference – 13-15 September 2010 – Call for Papers
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 [...]
PopFest 2010: Call for Papers
The annual PopFest conference, a conference specifically open to postgraduates from all disciplines across the social sciences studying any aspect of population, has announced a call for papers for its 2010 conference in St. Andrews. Full details of the programme are still to be confirmed but will include: parallel sessions running over three days, poster [...]
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in South Africa
The Demography and Population Studies Programme at theUniversity of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa, has announced a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. The deadline is 16 November 2009. The context of the post Doc is that the Fogarty International Centre, USA, are funding postdoctoral fellowships in the Wits Demography and Population Studies [...]
Census: 2011 and beyond. Meeting 21 Oct 2009
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is hosting a meeting on the topic of the UK census. The meeting is taking place on Wednesday 21 October 2009 (1400-1700 hrs), at the RSS, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX. For details see the flyer here.
PhD studentship in demography
The newly established ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton is pleased to announce a new PhD studentship in demography. The studentship would suit a person with good computing skills and an interest in demographic measurement, who has, or expects to have, a postgraduate degree in demography, or a related social science [...]
Workshop: Fertility declines in the past, present and future
Call for participants ‘Fertility declines in the past, present and future: what we don’t know and what we need to know’ A joint workshop of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the British Society for Population Studies and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Dates: [...]
‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’ – Univ. of Oxford
Oxford Institute of Ageing Spring School ‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’ University of Oxford 19-23 April 2009 Deadline for registrations: 2 April 2009 Download the updated brochure here: http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/system/files/SpringSchoolBrochure2009.pdf This four day school will address concepts and tools in demography, bio-demography, bio-medical research and practice, economics, sociology, health and policy. Special emphasis will be [...]
BSPS Prize 2009 – Best MSc Dissertation
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 [...]