The candidate who will be awarded the grant offered in the present call will be based at the University of Lausanne to conduct research on the mobility of higher education programmes and institutions, also called transnational or cross-border education.

Candidates with an interest and experience in this or a closely related field are invited to apply. In addition to carrying out his/her own research, the successful applicant will supervise and monitor two doctoral students working on the transnationalisation of academic institutions.

The position starts in autumn/winter 2009-2010 (no later than January 2010).

More details in this word document.

     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

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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.”

13th -14th May 2009, jointly hosted by the University of Brighton and University of Sussex

A two-day international conference of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG

Call for Papers and Registration Form

This conference aims to explore the many ways in which different, yet possibly interconnected, forms of contemporary migration, for example internal and transnational migration, are being reconfigured in the developed and developing worlds, and how these shifts are being theorised by academics from different (sub)disciplines of academia. Key here is how and why these shifting expressions of migration flows may have major implications for new theorisations of migration. Papers are therefore sought which critically engage with one or more of the above issues.

Conference organising committee: Darren Smith, Russell King, Rebecca Elmhirst and Ron Skeldon,

Please send expressions of interest, or a 150 word abstract to either Darren Smith (D.Smith@Brighton.ac.uk) or Russell King (R.King@Sussex.ac.uk), by 30th March 2009.

Some of the papers from the conference will form the basis of an edited book publication. There is an expectation that presenters will therefore provide full papers at the conference.

 Confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Rachel Silvey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Professor Adrian Favell (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Dr Keith Halfacree (University of Wales Swansea, UK).

Details of registration and accommodation will be circulated.

XXIII European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) congress

Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009

Rural areas and people in Europe stand at a crossroads, caught between global and local flows and processes. The ESRS Congress will address this critical moment through the following five key themes:

1. Mobilities and Stabilities in Rural Space
2.The Rural Bites Back
3. Animal Farm
4. The Sciences of the Rural
5. Sustainable Ruralities

The Scientific Committee are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts of the XXIII ESRS Congress to be held in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the congress, please decide which Working Group you would like to be in, and send a title and short abstract (circa 200 – 250 words) to the convenor of that Working Group by February 28, 2009.

http://www.esrs2009.fi/index.html