RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011

London, 31^st August to 2^nd September

CALL FOR PAPERS

Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility

Convenors: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester) and Naomi Tyrrell (University of Plymouth)

Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the

Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group

Migration has long been recognised as an experience associated strongly with life stage. However, it is relatively recently that substantial attention has been paid to the interaction between migration and lifecourse, as demonstrated by the publication of special issues on this topic in Population, Space and Place (2008) and Demographic Research (2007). This emerging arena of research has been propelled by findings that transitions to adulthood and migration’s relation to family change are more complex than previous understandings recognised. So too, the geographies of migration across the lifecourse have increased in their complexity. Thus Geist and McManus (2008, 283) assert that “the increasing complexity of career and family trajectories throughout adulthood call for a re-examination of geographical mobility across all age groups”.

In lifecourse research, there has been recent theorisation about destandardisation and the increase in complexity of transitions to adulthood, in parallel with more general concerns in the social sciences with individualisation of experiences. This has led to calls for the study of the experiences of subcultures and subgroups and the comment that “the life course literature has largely ignored these alternative life course patterns” (Dannefer 2003, 651).

This session engages with these debates by focusing on the implications of diverse transitions to adulthood for residential mobility. Papers are welcomed from any national/regional context. Themes of papers may include:

-          Career aspirations and trajectories

-          Access to housing; changing housing markets

-          Ethnic differences in higher education participation

-          Cultural meanings of marriage

-          Understandings of home

-          Gender and mobility

-          Intergenerational transfer (e.g. of cultural norms, economic resources) and housing choice

-          Community ties and networks

-          Family influence on housing decisions

-          Financial constraints and material resources

- Methods for researching transitions to adulthood and residential mobility

If you would like to present a paper in this session, please send an abstract of 200 words to Nissa Finney (nissa.finney@manchester.ac.uk) and Naomi Tyrrell (naomi.tyrrell@plymouth.ac.uk) by 7th February 2011.

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

http://www.trippus.se/eventus/eventus_cat.asp?EventusCat_ID=15951&Lang=eng&c=

Deadline for abstract submission 20th of February 2011

The call for paper contributions is now open. Although designed for geographers, contributions are welcome from those who would not regard themselves as population geographers, but are working in pertinent research areas. Speakers are welcome from other disciplines including Demography, Sociology, Economics, History, Anthropology, Epidemiology etc who are interested in broadly geographical aspects of population.

Preliminary programme in brief:

*Tuesday 14/6 *Registration, reception and pre-excursion for early arrivals
*Wednesday 15/6 *Registration, keynotes and parallel sessions Evening activity
*Thursday 16/6 * Keynotes and parallel sessions Conference dinner

*Friday 17/6 *Parallel sessions and closing session,
*Friday – Sunday 17-19/6* Post-conference excursion to Kiruna

We hope to see you here in Umeå next June. Please help circulate this call amongst your colleagues and on your mailing lists!

Very welcome!!

Gunnar Malmberg

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 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 presentations, keynote speaker addresses, and this year will offer an innovative panel session, allowing with contributors drawn from a range of backgrounds (e.g. public sector and charity) showing how aspects of population studies might be applied in different contexts.

The first call for papers has now been made, and is open to all postgraduate researchers engaged in the study of human populations from any social science discipline. Submissions for works-in-progress or completed reports are all welcome.

Themes might include, but are certainly not limited to:
*Health and populations
*Migration
*Reproductive and sexual behaviour
*Social participation and active citizenship
*Fertility and contraception
*Childhood and youth
*Innovative data uses and methodological approaches in population studies

Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. There will also be one dedicated poster session.

For full details of the event including a downloadable call for papers, submission guidelines, how to register, how to arrange accommodation, travel information, information about the area and details of the organising committee, please visit: www.popfest.org.uk

You can also register for email updates about the event, and contact the organisers directly with any questions via popfest2010@st-andrews.ac.uk

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 Programme through a collaboration with the University of Colorado and the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi. The fellowships foster transition from a PhD to a professional, research or academic position in Africa, and are open to graduates in demography and other population-related fields with a PhD degree from an industrialized-country university.

For full advertisement go to: http://www.iussp.org/Announcements/9jobs.php

Enquires to:

Clifford Odimegwu, Clifford.Odimegwu@wits.ac.za
Philippe Bocquier, Philippe.Bocquier@wits.ac.za
Kathleen Kahn, Kathleen.Kahn@wits.ac.za

Applications must include:

* Letter of motivation regarding your suitability for postdoctoral fellowship
* Full CV including name and contact details of three referees
* Two writing samples (journal publications or chapters of PhD thesis)
* Two reference letters sent directly by the referee to the Programme
* Certified copies of all academic transcripts and degree certificates.

Complete applications should be submitted to: Julia Mamabolo, Julia.Mamabolo@wits.ac.za

Demography and Population Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050. Tel: +27 11 717 4054;  Fax: +27 11 717 4336

Closing date again: 16th November 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.

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 or quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

The project is part of a wider programme of research into the determinants of recent fertility and partnership trends in the UK. The specific purpose of the PhD project is to generate updated time series of period parity progression indicators for Great Britain. It is an ESRC +3 studentship linked to the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change, where the student will work under the direction of Professor Máire Ní Bhrolcháin. The PhD project will use the combined file of General Household Survey maternity histories, supplemented by own child reconstructions in the most recent period, to extend previous sets of estimates and will evaluate these measures against alternative estimates and sources.

This ESRC award pays all University tuition fees, plus an annual maintenance stipend, set at £13,290 for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Further details of the project, of eligibility and of how to apply, are available at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/socstats/funding/cpcstudentship.html

Informal inquiries may be made to Professor Máire Ní Bhrolcháin (M.Ni-Bhrolchain@soton.ac.uk)

The deadline for applications is the 15th May 2009.

Interviews will be held on 28th May 2009.

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: 15-17^th July 2009

Location: Cambridge Group for the History of Population, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge & Downing College, Cambridge, UK

Organising committee

Dr Eilidh Garrett, Cambridge Group (eilidh.garrett@btinternet.com )

Dr Rebecca Sear, London School of Economics (r.sear@lse.ac.uk )

Dr Mikolaj Szoltysek, Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research (szoltysek@demogr.mpg.de )

Administrative Team:

Anne Shepherd BSPS

Birgit Moeller MPIDR

Workshop description

Fertility decline is now universal. But, despite decades of research, we still have no universal explanation for why fertility declines. Changes in reproductive patterns due to the demographic transition have been a central focus of research within post-war demography. However, over recent years fertility research has confronted challenges to almost all its initial presumptions, models and theories. This critical process has been accompanied by an extensive accumulation of detailed empirical evidence which has emphasized localized cultural, economic and environmental factors affecting family formation rules and couples’ reproductive decisions in a variety of ways. Unfortunately, this new evidence has been piling up faster than its theoretical implications could be assimilated.

The time is therefore right to assess the current state of research into fertility decline, and the theories underpinning it, to suggest future directions for both research and policy. At this meeting, we intend to gather an inter-disciplinary and international group of researchers to discuss what is known about fertility decline, what remains unknown, and how might the unknown become known and better understood. It is our hope that bringing together representative demographers, economists, historical demographers, evolutionary biologists  and anthropologists drawn from of all three ‘strands’ of fertility research  –  i.e. working in the context of historic, contemporary developed and contemporary developing populations – who do not often have the opportunity to meet and communicate fruitfully with one another,  will facilitate new energies and research initiatives to understand fertility change in the past, present and future. Our intention is to re-evaluate ways in which fertility research has been conducted so far, and to open new horizons by pushing forward methodological and theoretical frameworks for the study of human reproduction. Such an endeavour to generate a new understanding of fertility trends is particularly timely given current concerns across the contemporary developed world about extremely low rates of fertility. 

Conference programme

We intend the format of the meeting to a mix of short presentations of pre-read papers followed by discussion panels, leading to more general discussion. The pre-read format will allow participants to make best use of the time available during the workshop to move forward the discussion. The number of participants will be limited so that all those attending can actively take part in the discussions.

Speakers & discussants

The following have stated their intention of attending as either speakers or members of discussion panels:

George Alter, Indiana University

Greg Clark, University of California, Davis

John Cleland, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

David Coleman, University of Oxford

Paul Demeny, Population Council

Tim Dyson, London School of Economics

Joshua Goldstein/Sebastian Klüsener, Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research

Ruth Mace, University College London

Geoffrey McNicoll, Population Council

Mike Murphy, London School of Economics

Lesley Newson, University of Exeter

Máire Ní Bhrolcháin, University of Southampton

Dimiter Philipov, Vienna Institute of Demography

David Reher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Tomáš Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography

Simon Szreter, University of Cambridge

Arland Thornton, University of Michigan

Dirk Van de Kaa, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Frans van Poppel, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Sarah Walters, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Chris Wilson, University of St Andrews

Bob Woods, University of Liverpool                 

Call for participants

We would like to invite applications for the remaining places for participants from individuals working in the field of fertility decline who wish to contribute to this workshop. We already have a full line-up of speakers but would like to invite non-presenting participants to attend the workshop and engage in discussion and debate. Please copy your email response to all 3 members of the organising committee (at the addresses given above) by 15 May 2009 including a short statement of your research activities and the reasons for your interest in participation in this meeting. Owing to the limitation on the number of participants it may not be possible to accept all applications to take part in this workshop, so please state as clearly as possible your reasons for wishing to take part.

Those responding to this call should be aware that they will be expected to meet their own travel, subsistence and accommodation costs. However, a small number of travel bursaries (to a maximum of £100 each, on provision of receipts) will be available for post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. Please state in your email whether you would like to be considered for one of these bursaries.

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 placed on developing methodological skills, both from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Additional opportunities for networking and informal discussion will be provided through poster sessions and workshops.

Costs for participation:
£550 (without accommodation)
£800 (including 4 nights B&B).

Places are limited, and registration will close on 2 April 2009.
For more information on the School and registration details please go to:
http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/education/spring-school
or email to: angelika.kaiser@ageing.ox.ac.uk .