Seminars

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20th June 20133pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1007Isabel Shutes, London School of EconomicsMigrant labour and care for older people in liberal welfare states: the case of England
14th June 2013TBCThe Dome, New Register HouseFrancesco Billari, University of OxfordWhy still marry? The role of feelings in the marriage choices of young adults
17th May 20133pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Pearl Dykstra, Rotterdam UniversityInterdependence In European families
10th May 201312.45pm-3pmThe Dome, New Register HouseEmily Grundy, University of CambridgeFamily life courses and later life health
2nd May 20131pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1065Tony Champion, Newcastle UniversityThe escalator region hypothesis two decades on: a review and critique
24th April 201310.30am-3.30pmThe Dome, New Register HouseRon Lesthaeghe, Population Studies Center, BelgiumThe Second Demographic Transition theory 25 years on: predictions, interpretations and controversies.
23rd April 20132pm-4pmSchool 1, St Salvator's Quad, University of St AndrewsCelia McIntyre (National Records of Scotland)Quality assurance in the census - with a focus on demographic outputs.
23rd April 20132pm-4pmSchool 1, St Salvator's Quad, University of St AndrewsRon Lesthaeghe (Population Studies Center, Belgium)Is the 2nd Demographic Transition just a North-West European idiosyncrasy?
4th April 201312.30-2.00pmLadywell House, EdinburghGROSOverview of key demographic statistics and latest results
21st March 20133pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Ben Wilson, London School of EconomicsThe convergence of completed fertility for migrant generations
21st March 20134pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1041Giuseppe Russo, Universita di Salerno and Centre for Studies in Economics and FinanceFiscal Revenues and Commitment in Immigration Amnesties
7th March 20133pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Andreas Klarner, University of RostockChanging Attitudes towards Marriage, Cohabitation, and Non-marital Childbearing in Eastern and Western Germany
1st March 20133pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Alexandre Sidorenko, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and ResearchActive Ageing in CIS Countries: Semantics, Challenges, and Responses
31st January 20131pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Asghar Zaidi (Centre for Research on Ageing / ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton).Active Ageing Index 2012: Results for 27 EU Member States
23rd January 201312.30pmLadywell House, EdinburghScott Tindall (CPC and University of Edinburgh)Understanding social networks at the Centre for Population Change
17th January 20133pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Sabine Zinn, NEPS (National Educational Panel Study), University of BambergFirst steps from a micro towards a multi-level approach in demography
6th December 201213.15pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Shelley Clark (McGill University, Canada)Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
30th November 201212.45pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Carol Holland and Alexis Boukouvalas (Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing)'Activity and engagement effects on ageing cognition' and 'Statistical methods for computer experiments'
28th November 201212.30pmLadywell House, EdinburghFrancesca Fiori, Elspeth Graham and Zhiqiang Feng (CPC and University of St Andrews)Geographical context and fertility in Britain
26th November 20124pmSt Andrews University Irvine Lecture TheatreEilidh Garrett (University of Cambridge and University of St Andrews)Housing, horses, movement and mortality; child loss in Scotland, Ireland and England 1891-1911 mortality; child loss in Scotland, Ireland and England 1891-1911 mortality; child loss in Scotland, Ireland and England 1891-1911
15th November 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1007Ingrid Schoon, Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of EducationBeating the odds: family poverty, family instability and children's adjustment, evidence from the Millenium Cohort Study
24th October 201212.30pmLadywell House, EdinburghRobert Macpherson, University of St Andrews and Umea UniversityLabour market segmentation in the Swedish welfare state: Evidence of a migrant division of labour?
18th October 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Priya Khambhaita, School of Social SciencesBritish Indians & Indian Americans. Drawing parallels between second generation return migrants to India in their motivations to return
19th June 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Karen Gask, Office for National Statistics (ONS)Work on families at the Office for National Statistics
15th June 2012National Records of Scotland (Edinburgh)Zhongwei Zhao, Australian National UniversityAn introduction to some studies of long-term mortality changes and health impact of environmental conditions in East Asia
17th May 20122pm-4pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1007Mario Rutten, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of AmsterdamLiving abroad and returning home: young Indian migrants in London and in Gujarat
11th May 201212pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Vern Bengtson, University of CaliforniaHas parental influence on young adults declined? A longitudinal study of families and religion
19th April 201211amNew Register House, EdinburghTomas Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) / Austrian Academy of Sciences and Wittgenstein Centre for Demography & Global Human CapitalEconomic recession and fertility: past evidence and recent trends
18th April 201211amUniversity of Southampton 58/4121MiYoung An, Kookmin UniversityIs policy succeeding? Gender differences in national pensions in Korea
13th April 20121pmUniversity of Southampton 02/2043Dominic Kniveton, University of SussexMigration and climate change: an agent-based approach
27th March 201212.30pmLadywell House, Edinburgh, room 1/G/9Sharani Osborn, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of EdinburghMen on becoming fathers: preliminary findings from qualitative research with fathers of two
22nd March 20123pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Laurent Toulemon, Institut national d'etudes demographiques (INED)People with two places of residence: who are they? why should we care?
16th March 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Sara Seims, Population & Reproductive Health David and Lucile Packard FoundationThoughts on the Unfinished Agenda for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
12th March 201211amNew Register House, EdinburghPeter McDonald, Australian National UniversityThe relatively high fertility of the English-speaking countries
9th March 201212.30pmUniversity of Southampton 37/Senate roomRt.Hon. David Willetts MPThe Pinch: How the baby boomers took their children's future and why they should give it back
8th March 20121pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1007Sue Heath, Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of ManchesterGifts, loans and intergenerational support towards the costs of living independently in young adulthood
6th March 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1039Marc Suhrcke, University of East AngliaObesity in developing countries: what do we learn from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys?
24th February 201211amUniversity of Southampton 58/3017Asghar Zaidi, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy & ResearchSustainability and adequacy of pensions in EU countries. A cross-national perspective
26th January 20123pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1065Alasdair Rutherford, University of StirlingWho Cares for Whom? Rural Ageing, Migration and Networks of Informal Care
19th January 20122pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Karel Neels, University of AntwerpFemale education, labour markets and fertility outcomes: tempo and quantum of first births in Belgium between 1960 and 2000
9th December 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1007Yves Berger, University of SouthamptonEstimating Population Change from Repeated Surveys
6th December 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9David McCollum, University of St AndrewsEmbodying the 'good' migrant: the imagination and production of the ideal Latvian worker
2nd December 20111pmNational Records of Scotland (Edinburgh) The DomeChris Dibben, University of St AndrewsUpdate on the Scottish Longitudinal Study
17th November 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Michael Murphy, LSE Health/Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political ScienceFuture British mortality prospects
17th November 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Marina Shapira, University of EdinburghMigration, Mobility and its Impact on Socio-Demographic Processes: Moving on and moving up: The implications of socio-spatial mobility for union stability/dissolution
2nd November 20114pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Frans Willekens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)Multistate survival analysis with R
20th October 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Nissa Finney, Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of ManchesterA lifecourse perspective on the role of ethnicity in internal migration in young adulthood in Britain.
16th September 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Gunnar Malmberg, University of UmeaFamily networks and mobility - experiences from research on Swedish register data.
1st September 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1065John Bryant, Statistics New ZealandDemographic Estimates and Projections Using Multiple Data Sources: A Bayesian Approach
22nd July 20112pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Anu Kou, University of GroningenA life course approach to high-skilled migration: migrant biographies of Indians in the Netherlands and United Kingdom
14th June 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Chris Wilson, University of St AndrewsIntergenerational replacement and migration: European examples
27th May 20111pmUniversity of Southampton 58 / 1023Jennifer Baird, University of SouthamptonGoing Solo Revisited: The dynamics of living alone at older ages in two Nairobi slums.
26th May 201112pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1065Paul Bridgen, University of SouthamptonSocial democracy and social policy change in liberal welfare states
24th May 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Alasdair Rutherford, University of StirlingWho Cares for Whom? Exploring Informal Caregiving in the BHPS
20th May 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Irene Mosca, Trinity College DublinThe impact of migration on the mental health of older adults in Ireland.
19th May 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58 / 1023Melanie Frost, University of OxfordThe Value of Children and Theories of Fertility Transition
12th May 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9William Clark, University of California Los AngelesDo women delay family formation in expensive housing markets?
10th May 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/4121Shayla Goldring, Office for National StatisticsAn introduction to the ONS Longitudinal Study
29th March 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Beata Nowok, University of St AndrewsMigration and Life Satisfaction
18th March 20111pmUniversity of Southampton 54/7033Vicky Hosegood, University of Southampton'Missing' men: Family health in rural South Africa
17th March 201112pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Dr Traute Meyer, University of SouthamptonThe financial crisis as emergency - lessons for welfare research
11th March 20111pmUniversity of Southampton 58 / 1065Maarten J. Bijlsma, University of GroningenAge, period and cohort effects in the prescription of benzodiazepine and statin in the Netherlands 1994 - 2009.
4th March 20111pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Ewa Tabeau, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, United NationsDemography of Armed Conflict in the Perspective of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
3rd March 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1023Máire Ní Bhrolcháin and Eva Beaujouan, University of SouthamptonUncertainty in fertility intentions in Britain 1979-2007: how real are reproductive goals?
28th February 201112:30pmLadywell House, room 1/G/9Francesca Fiori, University of St AndrewsThe role of economic insecurity on the intention of having two children in Italy
24th February 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Adam Dennett, University College LondonUnderstanding inter-censal migration in Britain using a new migration classification framework
6th January 20113pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Nick Parr, Macquarie UniversityThe Contribution of Recent Increases in Family Benefits to Australia's Early 21st Century Fertility Increase: An Empirical Analysis
6th December 20102pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/2097Corrado Giulietti, Institute for the Study of LaborSocial Networks and the Labour Market Outcomes of Rural to Urban Migrants in China
18th November 20102pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Sylvie Dubuc, University of OxfordFertility of ethnic and religious groups in the UK
20th September 20102pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Vernon Gayle, University of StirlingYouth Transitions in the 21st Century - future directions for data, methods and theory
30th June 20101pmUniversity of St Andrews, Arts/003Tomáš Sobotka, Vienna Institute of DemographyFertility in Europe:Cloudy past and uncertain future
28th June 20103pmUniversity of St Andrews, Arts/003Catherine De Wenden, Centre for International Studies and Research, ParisMigration flows, migration policies and citizenship in Europe (working title)
6th May 20104pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Assaf Razin, Cornell University/Tel Aviv UniversitySkill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
1st April 20101pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, AustriaNo Country for Young Men
4th March 20103pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Helga de Valk, Vrije Universiteit BrusselMigrants in Europe: a view on life courses and the family
4th February 20103pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Steve Smallwood & Sofie De Broe, Office for national StatisticsSex ratio patterns in population estimates
6th January 20103pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1009Nick Parr, Macquarie UniversityThe Contribution of Recent Increases in Family Benefits to Australia's Early 21st Century Fertility Increase: An Empirical Analysis
11th December 20091pmUniveristy of SouthamptonJakub Bijak, ESRC Centre for Population ChangeMIMOSA: Migration Modelling for Statistical Analyses
24th November 20093pmUniversity of Southampton, 58/1009Anne Solaz, Institut National Etudes Demographiques (INED)The Child of Last Chance: the Role of Biological Clock in Fertility Timing in France and Germany
5th November 20093pmUniversity of Southampton 2/2043Shayla Goldring, Office for National StatisticsPopulation ageing in the UK: an interactive tool
22nd October 20093pmUniversity of Southampton 39/3013Hill Kulu, University of LiverpoolWhy do Fertility Levels Vary between Urban and Rural Areas?
11th September 20091pmUniveristy of University of Southampton B58/2097Eva Beaujouan, ESRC Centre for Population ChangePartnership trajectories and childbearing after the disruption of a first union in France
28th August 20091pmUniversity of Southampton 58/3017Andrei Rogers, University of ColoradoDemographic Modelling of Migration and Population: A Multiregional Perspective
6th July 20092pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Robert Wright, University of StrathclydeDemographic Change and Macroeconomic Performance: Evidence from Scotland
27th May 20091pmUniversity of Southampton 58/3017K.S. James, Institute for Social and Economic Change, BangaloreEconomic Growth and Health Status in India
22nd May 20091pmUniversity of Southampton 58/2097Wike Been, University of GroningenThe influence of the division of domestic labour between spouses on fertility in a context of gender equity
15th May 20092pmUniversity of Southampton 58/1037Ben Wilson, Office for National StatisticsThe Proportion of Marriages Ending in Divorce