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Archives by Tag 'migration'

RGS-IBG Session on Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, January 17, 2011

TweetRGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 London, 31st August to 2nd 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 [...]

Erste Foundation Social Research Fellowships 2010/2011

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Friday, June 18, 2010

TweetThe Erste Foundation has published a new call for expression of interests, this time focusing on “Migration and its effects on demographic and economic development in Central and Eastern Europe”. Submission deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is 20 July 2010. For more information please visit: http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/research/regions/europe/east/opportunities .

Lecturer in Human Geography – Liverpool

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Thursday, April 15, 2010

TweetThe University of Liverpool are advertising for a lecture in Human Geography, specialising in the areas of Human Migration and Mobility, and Global population change. The position is based in the People, Space and Place research cluster within the school of Environmental Sciences. The principle research thems of this cluster are: spatial planning and governance, [...]

Post-doc Research Associate job in migration modelling at UCL (CASA)

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 25, 2010

TweetResearch Associate (ENFOLD-ing project: Migration stream) Salary (inclusive of London allowance) £31,778 per annum Duties and Responsibilities This is an EPSRC-funded research position working on the Explaining, Modelling & Forecasting Global Dynamics (ENFOLD-ing) project.   The main purpose of this post is to initiate, develop, design and be responsible for the delivery of a programme of [...]

PhD studentship opportunity at University College London in migration statistics and modelling.

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Wednesday, March 24, 2010

TweetPhD studentship opportunity at University College London in migration statistics and modelling. —- PHD Studentship – (ENFOLD-ing – Explaining, Modelling and Forecasting Global Dynamics), – UCL Department / Division Department of Geography Specific unit / Sub department Migration Research Unit/CASA Duration of Studentship 3 Years Stipend £15,290 plus £3,390 tuition fees per annum Vacancy Information [...]

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Monday, June 22, 2009

TweetA new report released today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn Meeting, says climate change may cause vast human migrations on an order not previously experienced. The report, In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Displacement and Migration, was written by CIESIN, the United Nations University, and CARE [...]

ESRC Research Seminar Series: Understanding the Migrant Experience

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Friday, June 12, 2009

TweetThe Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience. The first seminar in the series was held in April and explored the links between micro-level understanding of ‘the migrant experience’ and [...]

Research workshop: Rethinking Migration

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

TweetRethinking Migration. New Glances on Migration/s   Research-Workshop, Sept, 29th and 30th 2009, Graz/Austria   CALL FOR PAPERS   The Research-group Migration at the Centre for Cultural Studies (University of Graz, Austria) invites you to submit an abstract (3000 char. incl. space) for the Research Workshop “Rethinking Migration.  New glances on Migration/s” in September 2009. [...]

International Conference on North-South migration

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, April 20, 2009

TweetInternational Conference on North-South migration The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) is holding a conference on African Transnational and Return Migration on June 29-30th 2009, at Radcliffe House, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. The conference is concerned with the following themes: Conceptual issues in transnationalism, remittances and homeland development; Public policies affecting [...]

Security, Insecurity and Migration in Europe

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, April 20, 2009

TweetSecurity Insecurity and Migration in Europe Organised by IMEPO (Hellenic Migration Policy Institute) and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester. Venue: University of Leicester, 18-19 September 2009  The end of the Cold War division of Europe and the recent enlargement of the European Union (EU) have generated new, complex forms of [...]