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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in South Africa

By Dan - Last updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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 [...]

MSc Scholarships in Population Studies at LSE

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

Master’s degrees  in population studies: £15,000 scholarships available
Are you thinking about doing a Master’s degree in the field of population studies in 2009/2010?
Students accepted for the
MSc in Population and Development, or
MSc Health, Population and Society, or
MSC Social Research Methods (Population)
at the LSE will be eligible to be considered for nomination for a £15,000 scholarship from [...]

Workshop: Fertility declines in the past, present and future

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 19, 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: 15-17th July 2009
 
Location: Cambridge Group for the History [...]

Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009

Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Wednesday May 13 th 2009 10.30 -16.00
London School of Economics
Room LG01, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields

The BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSPS are taking the opportunity of the publication of ‘Sleepwalking to Segregation’? Challenging myths about race and immigration by Nissa Finney [...]