CPC at BSPS 2020

The British Society of Population Studies Annual Conference 2020 is taking place 15-16 September 2020.

The BSPS organising committee has been busy putting together a virtual programme for this year’s event. They committee has taken great care to ensure the conference is suitable for this new format, by adopting “flash sessions” and encouraging audience interaction. We are excited to join the sessions and share new research and achievements from what has been an eventful and challenging year so far.


CPC researchers have been contributing to BSPS by volunteering as strand organisers, submitting papers to present, and chairing sessions. We are delighted that our researcher, Júlia Mikolai has been given the 2020 BSPS early career award, and will be sharing her research on the PartnerLife Project (PI CPC Co-Director Hill Kulu), in the early career plenary on “Partnership dissolution, residential mobility, and housing in Britain and Europe”.

There is no registration cost associated with the BSPS 2020 virtual conference, but all attendees must have BSPS membership to gain the access codes. Memberships can be renewed on the LSE website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studies/annual-conference

Attendees of BSPS 2020 can hear more about CPC research in the sessions below, and you can follow our live tweets on twitter, @CPCpopulation or by following the event #BSPS2020.

Tuesday 15 September 2020
09:00-10:30

Session: Migration: Residential and spatial mobility & immobility
Title: Social disparities in residential mobility and children’s outcomes in early and middle childhood
Authors: Fiori

Session: Ageing in place: health
Chair: Lisa Davidson

Title: Assessment of cognitive health during various marital phases: Evidence based on the Health and Retirement Study, 1998-2014
Authors: Sharma, Hale, Myrskylä, Kulu

Session: Fertility: Childbearing and child outcomes in Europe
Chair: Katherine Keenan

Title: Understanding fertility trends in the constituent countries of the UK: What role do births to foreign-born mothers play
Authors: Berrington, Kuang

11:00-12:00

Session: Health & the life course
Title: Accumulative reproductive life histories and grip strength in Indonesia: 1993-2014
Authors: Leone, Väisänen, Witoelar

Session: Historical demography: census-based research
Title: Reflecting on the past: Forerunners and spatial diffusion of the fertility decline in England and Wales, 1851-1911
Authors: Thiehoff, Hinde, Perelli-Harris, Vitali

Session: Families & Households: Marriage and cohabitation
Title: Do couples face an economic bar to marriage? - Understanding the contribution of men’s and women’s economic precariousness on first cohabitation outcomes in the UK, 1991-2018
Authors: Palumbo, Berrington, Eibich

Title: Is there a “bar” for relationship quality? Examining the association between relationship happiness, economic conditions, and family transitions in the UK
Authors: Blom, Perelli-Harris

Session: Statistical uncertainty
Title: Measuring statistical uncertainty in  population estimates ‐ New data ‐ 
Authors: Castaldo, Martin‐Drury, Galezewska,  Blackwell, Hanso

13:00-14:00

Session: Fertility: Childlessness & low fertility
Title: Birth strike? How are environmental concerns associated with young adults’ fertility intentions?
Authors: Berrington

Title: Age at first birth and completed  fertility across the 1940s–1970s birth  cohorts 
Authors: Zeman, Beaujouan, Nathan

Session: Demography, inequality & social policy
Chair: Nissa Finney

15:00-15:30

Session: Early Career Plenary: Júlia Mikolai
Title: Partnership dissolution, residential mobility, and housing in Britain and Europe
Chair: Hill Hulu

16:00-17:00

Session: Health & mortality: Determinants of health
Title: The trend in mean height of Guatemalan women born between 1945 and 1995: a century behind
Authors: Arriaza, Hambidge, Krebs, Garcés, Channon

Title: Sex and socioeconomic disparities in the development of multimorbidity in Scotland: the benefits of applying a sequence based, longitudinal approach
Authors: Cezard, Sullivan, Bowles, Keenan

Session: Fertility: Sources of variation in childbearing behaviour
Chair: Ann Berrington

Title: Marital vs. non-marital births in England and Wales: Changing patterns over space and time (1951-2011)
Authors: Thiehoff, Perelli-Harris, Hinde, Vitali

Wednesday 16 September 2020
09:30-10:30

Session: Big data & machine learning
Chair: Erengul Dod

Session: Migration: Family formation of immigrants and their descendants across Europe
Title: The family dynamics of immigrants and their descendants in France: Evidence using Multichannel Sequence Analysis
Authors: Delaporte, Kulu

Title: Timing of childbirth of a changing composition of immigrants in Germany
Authors: Liu, Kulu

Title: The intersection of partnership and fertility histories among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom: A multistate approach
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu

Title: Fertility behaviour of post-1990 immigrants and immigrant descendants in Sweden
Authors: Campbell, Andersson, Kulu

Session: Ageing in place: informal care
Title: How do we ensure informal carers discontinue care carefully?
Authors: Palmer

Title: Does informal caregiving predict loneliness? A comparison of loneliness measures
Authors: Davison, Willis, Langat

Session: Fertility: Inequalities in reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes
Title: Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage among British women
Authors: Väisänen, Keenan

11:00-12:00

Session: Health & mortality: Population health
Chair: Amos Channon

13:00-14:00

Session: Health & mortality: Access to health  care
Title: An investigation into factors  associated with delivery and repair of  prostheses in a Cambodian clinic 
Authors: Channon, Owen, Dickinson, Harte,  Kheng, Metcalf, Ostle

14:00-14:45

Session: Early career panel: Reviewing journal articles 
Chair: Júlia Mikolai
Panel members include: Jakub Bijak & Heini Väisänen


16:00-17:00

Session: Fertility: contraceptive use
Chair: Heini Väisänen

Session: Ageing in place: housing & decision making
Chair: Maja Emilie Fuglsang Palmer

Title: Late life decision making
Authors: Mulkey, Schröder‐Butterfill, Willis

Strand Organisers

CPC members have also been involved in organising the following strands:
Ageing in Place - Yazhen Yang & Maja Palmer
Data science: Innovative data, methods and models – Jason Hilton
Fertility & reproductive health – Heini Väisänen
Internal & international migration – Júlia Mikolai & Michael J. Thomas
Immigrant integration across industrialised countries – Hill Kulu, & Júlia Mikolai

Posted 12/08/2020 16:17