14- 17 June 2011, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Deadline for abstract submission 20th of February 2011

We are happy to invite you to the Sixth International Conference on Population Geographies, to be held at the University Campus in Umeå, Sweden June 14th to 17th.

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.

A very warm welcome to Umeå in June!!

The conference is organized by Umeå University and The Department of Social and Economic Geography and Centre for Population Studies.

For more information, visit the conference website below:

http://eventus.trippus.se/populationgeographies

The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) invites proposals for sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in London, 31^st August-3^rd September 2011.

The conference theme is the geographical imagination.

Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops.  Innovative sessions and formats are encouraged.

Sessions are 1 hour 40 minutes long.   Most sessions will contain five 20-minute presentations which include time for questions, or four 20-minute presentations with discussion and questions at the end.  Interactive short papers sessions (5 to 10 min presentations with plenary discussion at the end) usually accommodate up to 8 papers.

To apply for a PopGRG sponsored session, please forward your proposal (max. 350 words), the name of the session convenor(s), and the session format (e.g. panel, paper session, discussion) to Joanna Sage (j.sage:lboro.ac.uk) by Friday 26^th November 2010.

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 2009 annual general meeting (AGM) of the Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) will take place at the University of Manchester  on Wednesday 26 ^th August 2009 13.10-14.25 (Room 142).

The agenda for the meeting can be downloaded from this site.

The AGM will coincide with the Royal Geographical Society with Institute for British Geographers Annual International Conference, which this year takes place in Manchester.

The Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations

The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) of the RGS-IBG has set up three prizes (£100 for 1st; £50 for 2nd; £25 for 3rd) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of 2009 in the broad field of Population Geography. 

Would you or your colleagues like to nominate a dissertation from your institution?  If so, please send a copy of the dissertations to me by the end of July this year (2009).  Please note that for practical purposes we can only accept one dissertation from any institution and to be eligible that institution has to be in the UK.

The prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield died in 2004.

Any further enquiries can be directed to Sam Scott (sam.scott@liv.ac.uk ) PopGRG Awards Officer

Chair in Spatial Analysis and Policy

School of Geography, University of Leeds

The School of Geography, rated sixth in the 2008 RAE Ranking, is seeking applications from individuals of international standing who will complement and strengthen existing expertise in the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP), one of the School’s research clusters, in any of the following areas: demography and population geography; regional science and spatial economics; quantitative social policy (including health, deprivation, education and crime).

For more information, please see: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/jobs/index.html

Informal enquiries to:

Prof John Stillwell, School of Geography, tel +44 (0)113 343 3315, email j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk <mailto:j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk>  or

Prof Adrian Bailey, Head of School, tel +44 (0)113 343 3322, email a.j.bailey@leeds.ac.uk <mailto:a.j.bailey@leeds.ac.uk> .

Closing date: Friday 20th February 2009

Interviews likely to take place: Thursday 19th March 2009