Monday, September 14th 2020 - Friday, September 18th 2020
Short course on Agent-based modelling for social research (Workshops)
University of Southampton
Monday, September 14th 2020
Monday, September 14th 2020
Please note revised dates for this course: 14-18 September 2020.
The ERC Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies project team, based at the University of Southampton and the University of Rostock, in collaboration with the ESRC Centre for Population Change and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, are delighted to announce a call for applications for a short training course "Agent-based modelling for social research", to be held at the University of Southampton, on 6-10 July 2020.
The main aims of the course are to familiarise the participants with the most recent advances in building, analysing and documenting agent-based models of social processes. The course is aimed at PhD level students and early career researchers with prior experience with coding and interest in computational modelling in social science. Further details and the application requirements are enclosed, and the deadline for applications is midnight on 29 February 2020. For specific queries, please email abm2020@soton.ac.uk.
Wednesday, July 8th 2020 - Friday, July 10th 2020
POSTPONED: 3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities (Conferences)
University of St Andrews
Wednesday, July 8th 2020
Wednesday, July 8th 2020
David McCollum and Nissa Finney are the lead local conference organisers of the 3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities, which is being hosted by the University of St Andrews 8th-10th July 2020. This three-day conference builds on the successes of the first two iMigMob conferences (in Loughborough in 2016 and Plymouth in 2018) in bringing together scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives to discuss the latest research in migration and mobilities.
This conference is orientated around the four themes, which have been chosen to reflect key contemporary conceptual and policy concerns:
- Internal migration and urban change, keynote speaker: Prof Darren Smith, University of Loughborough
Concerns about inequalities and the unaffordability and insecurity of housing are rising up the political, policy and academic agendas. This theme encompasses scholarship in population geography and beyond on pressing concerns such as residential segregation, gentrification and shifting patterns and processes of internal migration. We welcome papers on these and other topics that are relevant to other issues of urban change, residential mobilities and internal migration.
- Forced migration and bordering, keynote speaker: Prof Nick Gill, University of Exeter
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, we are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. An unprecedented 71 million people around the world are forcibly displaced from their homes, with 26 million classed as refugees (over half of whom are under the age of 18). Understanding the involuntary movement of populations, and the responses of states to them through bordering practices, is thus a key contemporary issue of concern for migration scholars as well as governments and NGOs. We welcome papers which engage with issues of forced migration and the practices of bordering that are deployed in response to them.
- Visualising mobilities, keynote speaker: Prof Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool
The advent of the big data epoch and advances in computing power present significant opportunities for researchers to better understand and visually represent the everyday mobilities of people across space. However researchers are still grappling with ongoing challenges surrounding the accessibility and representativeness of these data and with how to analyse such overwhelming quantities of information. This theme encompasses these issues and we particularly welcome papers which showcase advances in our ability to visualise population mobilities.
- European migration in turbulent politic, Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Botterill, University of Glasgow
Contentions around migration arguably sit at the heart of the key geopolitical fractures of our times. In this theme we seek to explore how understandings of migration might need to be rethought in light of ongoing political turbulence in the European context. As such we welcome papers that engage with topics such as Brexit, the European refugee crisis, the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe and the politics of anti-immigration controls.
Official website: http://www.imigmob2020.org/38418
Early Bird Close:14th March 2020
Registration Close:9th June 2020
Friday, July 3rd 2020
CPC Webinar - Domestic labour and the "fertility gap": obstacle to childbearing or measurement fallacy? (Seminars and lectures)
Alyce Raybould, LSHTM
Webinar
Friday, July 3rd 2020
12:00-13:00
This Centre for Population Change webinar will be held on Friday 03 July at 12:00 BST. Alyce Raybould, from LSHTM, will be giving a talk entitled 'Domestic labour and the "fertility gap": obstacle to childbearing or measurement fallacy?'
To attend the CPC seminar, please join us using this link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/de981ff617d3426d9a4544f74aacb960
You may need to use Google Chrome to use BlackBoard Collaborate.
Title: Domestic labour and the "fertility gap": obstacle to childbearing or measurement fallacy?
Abstract:
In almost all high-income settings, the existence of a “fertility gap” between stated ideal and actual family size suggests there are impediments to women achieving their childbearing goals. Previous studies have suggested that female domestic burden could be a potential impediment to childbearing: when women are expected to perform both paid and unpaid labour responsibilities without additional support, continued childbearing is made untenable. This presentation explores whether division of domestic labour could help explain the fertility gap, or whether the gap is instead driven by issues of measurement.
I first explore whether domestic division of labour influences childbearing intentions and behaviour through a systematic review of 95 analyses. Despite some variation in findings, I find evidence supporting this theory. However, the review also highlights that studies focusing on the fertility gap at the individual level (typically exploring whether an intention or an ideal for children is realised) have been methodologically weak, confusing different psychological concepts and ignoring that fertility intentions can change over time. To address these shortcomings, I use data from the USA to explore whether women with less domestic burden are more likely to realise an intention for a second child. I then examine whether intentions for a second child become sacrificed after first birth, a time when domestic labour increases and becomes more gendered, using longitudinal data from the UK and USA. I find a steep drop in expected family size among one child individuals after first birth. My future work aims to further disentangle the apparent fertility gap by exploring the correspondence between intentions for a child prior to birth, contraceptive behaviour and wantedness of a child in the USA. In doing so, I hope to tease apart whether the fertility gap is truly the result of impediments to childbearing, or is driven by a lack of coherency between stated intentions to act and subsequent behaviour.
Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - Friday, June 26th 2020
Beyond EPC 2020 - The webinar series (Conferences)
Webinars
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
The Centre for Population Change was due to be exhibiting at EPC2020, with many members attending to present their research in Padova, Italy. However, the conference has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) has announced a series of EPC 2020 webinars. They aim to showcase materials from the cancelled European Population Conference. The series will connect the population research community at a time when large conferences cannot be organised.
Taking place 24-26 June, the Beyond EPC 2020 webinars are free of charge. To participate you will have to register for each event at http://epc2020.eaps.nl/days. Please note that all times advertised are Amsterdam time (GMT + 2).
CPC Director and outgoing President of EAPS, Professor Jane Falkingham OBE, will be opening the first EAPS webinar on Wednesday 24 June. The session will look back and forward with the outgoing and incoming EAPS Presidents, the Padova Organizing Committee, and two EAPS 2018 Laureates who will present their work.
Among the other sessions, CPC members and associates are chairing discussions and presenting their research:
Dr Julia Mikolai, Chair
Session 2: Economic and emotional well-being across the life course
25 June, 10:00-11:00
Professor Jakub Bijak, Chair
Session 4: Innovations in demographic data and methods
25 June, 16:00-17:00
Professor Ann Berrington, Presenter
'Birth strike? How are environmental concerns associated with young adults’ fertility intentions?'
Session 6: Fertility at times of crisis: from economic recession to climate change
26 June, 12:00-13:00
Francesco Rampazzo, Discussant
Session 8: EAPS PhD Network: Speed chit chats
26 June, 16:00-17:00
For a full list of sessions, papers and participants, please see the webinar schedule on the European Population Conference website: http://epc2020.eaps.nl/days. You can register online by clicking 'Register here' at the top of the relevant session page. You will then receive joining instructions by email. All enquiries should be directed to EAPS at epc2020@nidi.nl
Thursday, June 18th 2020
CPC Webinar - Accelerated School-to-Work transition in Britain: Still true? (Seminars and lectures)
Alina Pelikh, UCL
Webinar
Thursday, June 18th 2020
13:00-14:00
This Centre for Population Change webinar will be held on Thursday 18 June at 13:00 BST. Alina Pelikh, from UCL, will be giving a talk entitled, 'Accelerated School-to-Work transition in Britain: Still true?'.
RSVP for this webinar on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkd-ChrTMuGtUhbxd3OnpopLQXZgdDKtwd
You will be asked to register and enter your name and email address to join.
The Centre for Population Change office might use this information to collate the number of attendees during the seminar and get aggregate level statistics to justify our seminars to our funders. If you do not wish for CPC to use your personal information (name/email address) in this way, please let us know by email (Julia.Mikolai@st-andrews.ac.uk; cc: gc79@st-andrews.ac.uk & Cpc@soton.ac.uk).
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Title: Accelerated School-to-Work transition in Britain: Still true?
Abstract:
This paper investigates whether the British pattern of the transition to adulthood with an early transition from school to work still exists. We apply sequence analysis to combined life histories from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Understanding Society study (UKHLS) to gain a holistic picture of how education and employment trajectories of young adults born between 1974 and 1990 in England and Wales differ by birth cohort, gender, and socio-economic background. Next, we investigate how various trajectories lead to inequalities in labour market outcomes in later life. Around half of young people in the sample follow the rapid school-to-work trajectories with around one third of young adults obtaining a higher education degree by age 26. The distinctive British early transition from school to work is still prevalent, although trajectories have become more complex and precarious, in particular among young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Yet, the decrease in the direct school-to-work trajectories among the youngest cohort was replaced by the prolonged stay in education and increase in part-time employment. The proportion of university graduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds has increased among the youngest cohort yet remains disproportionally low. Consequently, the chances of being in professional and managerial occupations remain significantly lower among highly educated young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Thursday, May 28th 2020
CPC Webinar - Can the digital revolution promote gender equality? (Seminars and lectures)
Ridhi Kashyap, University of Oxford
Webinar
Thursday, May 28th 2020
13:00-14:00
This Centre for Population Change webinar will be held on Thursday 28 May at 13:00 BST. Dr Ridhi Kashyap, from the University of Oxford, will present "Can the digital revolution promote gender equality?". See the abstract below.
To attend the CPC seminar, please follow this zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrc-Goqj4jGtR2vyMNsBR_OQdfIQjHq_rW
You will be asked to register and enter your name and email address to join.
The Centre of Population Change office might use this information to collate the number of attendees during the seminar and get aggregate level statistics to justify our seminars to our funders. If you do not wish for CPC to use your personal information (name/email address) in this way, please let me know by email (gc79@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Participants will be muted upon entry.
As a test, the zoom meeting will be open from 12:40pm, leaving 20 minutes for participants to get to know each other and have a chat if they wish to do so before the start of the seminar.
Title: Can the digital revolution promote gender equality?
Abstract:
The rapid proliferation of the internet and mobile phones has been one of the most significant social phenomena of the new millennium. In this talk, I will discuss the implications of this digital revolution for the realisation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 5 on gender equality. First, drawing on the survey data linked with geo-spatial satellite data in Sub-Saharan Africa, I will present findings that show how the ownership of mobile phones has empowered women to access information and resources important for health and well-being and bolstered their ability to make independent decisions. This highlights the need to monitor and close digital gender gaps to promote sustainable development. Monitoring this progress however is often challenging due to the limited availability of gender-disaggregated data on internet and mobile access, particularly in low-income countries. In this data-sparse context, I will describe how data generated from social media marketing APIs can be repurposed to track global digital gender gaps.
Thursday, May 14th 2020
CPC Webinar - Time Pressure and Mothers' Health and Well-Being During the Preschool Years (Seminars and lectures)
Belinda Hewitt
Microsoft Teams Webinar
Thursday, May 14th 2020
10:00-11:00 BST
This Centre for Population Change webinar will be held on Thursday 14 May at 10:00 BST. Belinda Hewitt, from the University of Melbourne, will be giving a talk entitled, 'Time Pressure and Mothers' Health and Well-Being During the Preschool Years'.
RSVP for this webinar: https://forms.gle/MHwERWznjJ1bvktM6. The webinar will be held via Microsoft Teams meeting.
Title: Time Pressure and Mothers' Health and Well-Being During the Preschool Years (Co-authored with Lyndall Strazdins (Australian National University, Australia), Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Amanda Cooklin (LaTrobe University, Australia))
Abstract: Time pressure is a common experience in dual-earner families, and particularly for working mothers of young children. Work and family obligations exact large allotments of time from mothers, and the time pressure they experience significantly impacts on their health and wellbeing. To date research on time pressure and health has primarily been cross-sectional and conceptualises the relationship as unidirectional and therefore offers limited insights into the reciprocal (i.e. does time pressure influence health and vice versa?) and dynamic processes of time pressure and health over time (i.e. does it improve or get worse?).
This paper uses data from a 5-wave panel study (2012 - 2015) of mothers when their children were aged 6 months - 4 years old and examines the complex relationship between time pressure and mother's health and wellbeing during these intensive pre-school child rearing years. Importantly, we were able to investigate which time demands on mothers - employment, housework or childcare - are most significant for increasing time pressure in the context of health. For partnered mothers we also take into account her report of partner's time contributions to work, childcare and housework hours when predicting mother's perceptions of time pressure.
Details of all forthcoming CPC events and seminars can be found on our website: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/latest_events/
Thursday, May 7th 2020
POSTPONED: Distinguished Lecture: Sir Ian Diamond (Public engagement events)
Sir Ian Diamond
University of Southampton
Thursday, May 7th 2020
Postponed due to COVID-19
Thursday, April 30th 2020
CANCELLED: CPC Seminar - The transition to adulthood in times of social change (Seminars and lectures)
Ingrid Schoon
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, April 30th 2020
13:00-14:00
This seminar has been cancelled due to covid-19.
Thursday, April 30th 2020
Webinar: Skills for Understanding Ageing in a Globalised World (Seminars and lectures)
Jane Falkingham & Athina Vlachantoni
Www.skillparkkerala.in/webinars
Thursday, April 30th 2020
11:30 BST
Prof. Jane Falkingham and Prof. Athina Vlachantoni will be presenting the ASAP Free Webinar "Skills for Understanding Ageing in a Globalised World" at 4pm India Standard Time (11:30 AM British Summer Time).
www.skillparkkerala.in/webinars
Monday, April 6th 2020
POSTPONED: CPC Seminar - The effect of retirement on voluntary work provision in England, Ireland and the US. (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Eibich
TBC
Monday, April 6th 2020
15:00-16:00
This event has been postponed due to travel restrictions in Europe.
This Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on Monday 02 February in building 502, room 5053, 15:00-16:00. Peter Eibich, from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, will be giving a talk entitled, 'The effect of retirement on voluntary work provision in England, Ireland and the US.'.
Refreshments will be available in the seminar room until 16:45.
Title: The effect of retirement on voluntary work provision in England, Ireland and the US.
Abstract: Voluntary work is an important contribution for many non-profit organizations, such as charities, political and religious organizations. Older individuals make up a sizable share of the volunteer workforce, and volunteering is often regarded as an example of “active ageing”. In this study, we examine whether retirement has a causal effect on the frequency of voluntary work provision in three English-speaking countries - England, Ireland and the U.S. We draw on data from the ELSA, TILDA and HRS studies and analyse these datasets using a harmonized empirical approach. We use eligibility ages for old age pensions in an instrumental variables estimation to address potential confounding. We find that retirement increases the frequency of voluntary work provision in all three countries, especially among men. This suggests that labour market policies aimed at increasing labour force participation at older ages might have unintended consequences for the size of the volunteer workforce.
Thursday, March 26th 2020
CPC Webinar - Partnering Behavior and Economic Inequality in the UK from a Comparative Perspective (Seminars and lectures)
Diederik Boertien
Zoom Meeting: RSVP required
Thursday, March 26th 2020
13:00-14:00
Our next speaker Dr Diederik Boertien will present “Partnering Behavior and Economic Inequality in the UK from a Comparative Perspective” at 1pm on Thursday March 26th.
If you wish to join the seminar, please email cpc@soton.ac.uk by Thursday 11am to recive a zoom meeting invitation. The link will be sent 10-15 minutes before the start of the seminar. You do not need to have a zoom account. If it is your first time joining a zoom meeting, don't worry, we will introduce how to use it at the start of the seminar.
Please keep an open mind with this first online CPC seminar as some might experience connection issues.
Abstract:
Dr Diederik Boertien, from the Centre for Demographic Studies (Centre d'Estudis Demográfics), Barcelona will present:
Title: Partnering Behavior and Economic Inequality in the UK from a Comparative Perspective.
Who partners with whom has become an important question in studies of economic inequality between households. If rich individuals partner with other rich individuals, inequality between households will be higher as compared to a situation where rich persons partner with poor persons. It is therefore not surprising that changes in “assortative mating” are considered to have increased inequality over time. Despite this widespread belief, empirical evidence supporting this claim is surprisingly mixed.
In this talk, empirical results will be presented on how partner selection based on education, income and social background has changed over time. Subsequently, the impact of these trends on economic inequality will be quantified. The focus will be on the UK, but results will be compared with results for other OECD countries. The results indicate that changes in assortative mating have had little impact on economic inequality between households in most countries. There are some recent and partial exceptions to this general finding, including a modest impact of assortative mating on income inequality in the UK that emerged after the mid-1990s.
Thursday, March 26th 2020
POSTPONED: Unpacking migration: regional diversity and impact on public services (Workshops)
Jane Falkingham, Jakub Bijak, Jackie Wahba
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 2LW
Thursday, March 26th 2020
10:45 - 15:15
This event has been postponed due to the cancellation of mass gatherings in UK parliament.
Join leading experts at UK Parliament to find out more about migration. What are the economic and social aspects? What do the models say?
Migration is multidimensional, complex and uncertain. In the UK, the topic of migration is one of the most debated issues facing both policymakers and the British public. Many members of the UK Parliament are deeply interested in migration and its implications, not only for the economy, but also for society and local communities. However, people have different opinions on migration, which is similarly reflected among policymakers. As the Government plans its new immigration policy, it is extremely important to bring evidence and impartial independent research to the UK Parliament to help inform good policy debate and contribute to well-informed policies in advance of upcoming legislation scrutiny.
This public conference will bring together UK parliamentarians and policy officials with responsibility for migration, representatives from UK universities and the third sector.
Two public seminars will bring leading experts to discuss the economic and social aspects of migration, and explore migration models.
This is a joint event between CPC, the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and Public Policy|Southampton.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided, and the event will conclude with a drinks reception and exhibition, to allow networking and further discussion.
A series of closed briefings for parliamentarians and staff will take place from 15:45 to 17:15.
Further info and registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unpacking-migration-regional-diversity-and-impact-on-public-services-tickets-94422118097?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Thursday, March 19th 2020
POSTPONED: CPC Seminar - The mismeasurement of same-sex couples in longitudinal studies (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Brandon
University of Southampton, Building 54, Room 10031 (10C)
Thursday, March 19th 2020
Saturday, March 14th 2020 - Friday, February 14th 2020
POSTPONED: Science and Engineering Day 2020 (Public engagement events)
University of Southampton
Saturday, March 14th 2020
Saturday, March 14th 2020
This event has been postponed.
Friday, March 13th 2020
Why COVID-19 has potential to become a global pandemic? (Seminars and lectures)
Sabu Padmadas
University of Southampton, Building 100, Room 4013
Friday, March 13th 2020
13:00-14:00
A talk by Professor Sabu Padmadas, Associate Dean (International) and Professor of Demography and Global Health.
This talk provides a synthesis of historical evidence and reasons underlying the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in the twenty-first century and examines the population risks and aetiology of the recent COVID-19 outbreak which has now surpassed over 100 countries across the world regions. Then it addresses the critical challenges that governments and public health institutions face in overcoming the complexity and uncertainty associated with COVID-19, with a reflection on mitigation strategies to prevent the virus from becoming a global pandemic.
Register on eventbrite: https://covid-19-fss.eventbrite.co.uk/ or watch the live stream online: https://southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ce3c2b76-fcd6-4c90-8caa-ab7b00f95f4a
Monday, March 9th 2020
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: Nicholas Campisi (Seminars and lectures)
Nicholas Campisi
University of Oxford, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Monday, March 9th 2020
Nicholas Campisi from St Andrews University and the Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research will be presenting on "A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends" as part of the Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: 2020. The seminar theme is Low Fertility Variation at Sub-National Levels: Historical, Demographic, and Anthropological Perspectives.
More info: https://www.frsg.org/seminars
Monday, March 2nd 2020 - Thursday, January 2nd 2020
POSTPONED: CPC/Worldpop Seminar - From global tracking to country monitoring and learning for women's, children and adolescents' health (Seminars and lectures)
Ties Boerma
University of Southampton
Monday, March 2nd 2020
Monday, March 2nd 2020
14:30
This event has been postponed.
Abstract: The Countdown to 2030, a global collaboration of academic institutions, UN agencies and civil society organizations, aims to strengthen monitoring and measurement of reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health and nutrition (RMNCAH) at global, regional and country levels.
What is the state of inequalities in RMCNAH five years into the SDGs? Results of a Countdown BMJ Collection of papers on leaving no woman, no child, no adolescent behind launched in January 2020. How can we strengthen the monitoring and learning component in countries? Through its key partners and regional networks, the Countdown to 2030 is working with public health and research institutions in 15+ countries with GFF investment cases to inform country, regional and global assessments of progress and performance.
Ties Boerma is Director of the Department of Health Statistics and Informatics at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He obtained his degree in medicine from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and his PhD in Medical Demography from the University of Amsterdam. He has 30 years of experience working in public health and research programmes in developing countries, including 10 years in Africa. In the US, Dr. Boerma worked for Demographic and Health Surveys as Health Coordinator and as Director of the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation project, while holding an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Africa, he worked for UNICEF in primary health care and monitoring and evaluation in eastern and southern Africa, and as technical lead of a National Institute for Medical Research/Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam research and intervention project on HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania. Dr. Boerma has published extensively on monitoring and evaluation, health information, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health in epidemiological, demographic, and public health journals.
Monday, March 2nd 2020
Fertility and Reproduction Seminar: Stephanie Thiehoff (Seminars and lectures)
Stephanie Thiehoff
University of Oxford, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Monday, March 2nd 2020
11:00-12:30
Stephanie Thiehoff from the University of Southampton will be presenting on "Reflecting on the Past: Long-term Spatial Persistence of Fertility Behaviour from the First to the Second Demographic Transition in England and Wales" as part of the Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: 2020. The seminar theme is Low Fertility Variation at Sub-National Levels: Historical, Demographic, and Anthropological Perspectives.
More info: https://www.frsg.org/seminars
Friday, February 28th 2020
CPC Seminar - Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (Seminars and lectures)
Jakub Bijak, Peter Smith, Jackie Wahba
University of Southampton, Building 2, Room 5053
Friday, February 28th 2020
12:00-13:00
RSVP to attend this seminar on Eventbrite: http://ow.ly/HZE450y5Aek
Jakub Bijak, Peter Smith and Jackie Wahba cordially invite you to an informal inauguration of QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy. QuantMig is a three-year research project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, and executed by a consortium of seven top European research institutions, led by the University of Southampton. The project aims to transform the methodology of setting and analysing migration scenarios in order to more efficiently address the key contemporary challenges of complexity and uncertainty of migration flows, and to enable more timely and robust policy responses. Starting in February 2020, the project will involve many stakeholder-facing activities besides the core conceptual and analytical work.
Tuesday, February 25th 2020
PHRG/CPC Seminar - Age at parental separation and children's school outcomes in Sweden: A sibling difference analysis (Seminars and lectures)
Juho Härkönen
University of St Andrews, United College, Room 32
Tuesday, February 25th 2020
12:00-13:00
A joint PHRG/CPC seminar given by Prof Juho Härkönen on “Age at parental separation and children's school outcomes in Sweden: A sibling difference analysis”. It will take place at the University of St Andrews, free to attend, on February 25th 2020, 12-1pm, in United College, room 32. Lunch will be provided afterwards in room 36.
If you would like to attend, please let Dr Julia Mikolai (Julia.mikolai@st-andrews.ac.uk) or I, Genevieve Cezard (gc79@st-andrews.ac.uk), know.
Juho Härkönen, European University Institute, Florence
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Age at parental separation and children's school outcomes in Sweden: A sibling difference analysis
(together with Siddartha Aradhya, Stockholm University)
Parental separation is associated with a host of adverse outcomes, one of which is lower educational performance and attainment. Evidence has accumulated suggesting that part of this association is causal, and recent research has focused on understanding heterogeneity in these effects. The age at which parents separate is one source of such heterogeneity, and previous research has offered inconsistent evidence on whether the effects of parental separation are more or less severe when parents separate when the child is young. In this study, we use a sibling design with population register data from Sweden to analyze the effects of the age of parental separation on children’s GPAs at age 15. Non-twin siblings from the same family experience parental separation at different ages, which can be used to identify the effects of variation in age at exposure to parental separation on school outcomes. Our main result is a negative age gradient in the effects of parental separation: the effects of parental separation are the strongest around the ages at which grades are set, and gradually weaken the younger the child was when her parents separated. This result supports the conflict model of parental separation. Additional analyses show that a) children whose parents separated just after the grades were set (placebo test) perform better than those whose parents separated just before the grades were set, but worse than those whose parents separated when the child was young (supporting a “divorce process” perspective), b) regular regression analyses produce the opposite age pattern in the effects (suggesting strong negative selection of parents who separate sooner rather than later), c) sibling fixed effects results are sensitive to error in measuring parental separation, and d) the effects of age at parental separation are heterogeneous. Taken together, our results suggest that in many cases, the children of parents who separate later rather than sooner show worse educational performance.
Thursday, February 20th 2020
CPC Seminar - Understanding fertility trends in the constituent countries of the UK: Existing knowledge and unanswered questions (Seminars and lectures)
Ann Berrington
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, February 20th 2020
Ann Berrington (with input from Kerry Miller), Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
Abstract:
The aim of this presentation is threefold: 1) To introduce FERTILYtrends - a new ESRC-funded project that will examine the dramatic fluctuations in fertility since the late 1990s, investigate their causes, and develop improved methodologies for fertility forecasting. The project team, based at the Universities of St Andrews and Southampton are working with stakeholder input from the National Records of Scotland, the Northern Ireland Statistical Agency and the Office for National Statistics. 2) Using data from vital registration the talk outlines what is currently known (and not known) about widening country differences in the timing and quantum of fertility. 3) We evaluate one explanation for these cross-national differences - the role of differential international migration in the constituent countries. However, there remain many unanswered questions and the FERTILITYtrends team are keen to reach out to those who may be able to provide further insight.
Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - Wednesday, February 12th 2020
ESRC CASS Workshop on Healthy Ageing - Postponed (Workshops)
University of Southampton
Tuesday, February 11th 2020
Tuesday, February 11th 2020
Please note that this event has been postponed. If you have any queries, please email cpc@soton.ac.uk
Monday, February 10th 2020
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: Brienna Perelli-Harris and Natalia Permyakova (Seminars and lectures)
Brienna Perelli-Harris and Natalia Permyakova
University of Oxford, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Monday, February 10th 2020
Brienna Perelli-Harris and Natalia Permyakova, University of Southampton will be presenting a seminar on "Fertility Recuperation in a Very Low Fertility Society: Political and Economic Attitudes, Technology, and Second Births in Ukraine" as part of the Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: 2020. The seminar theme is Low Fertility Variation at Sub-National Levels: Historical, Demographic, and Anthropological Perspectives.
More info: https://www.frsg.org/seminars
Tuesday, February 4th 2020
CPC Seminar - The effects of increasing enrolment in education and variation in economic context on aggregate trends in order-specific fertility in Belgium, 1960-2000: implications for hazard-based microsimulation models of fertility trends (Seminars and lectures)
University of St Andrews, George Cumming Room, Irvine building
Tuesday, February 4th 2020
12:00-13:00
Joint PHRG/CPC seminar:
Karel Neels, University of Antwerp, Belgium
(co-authored with Jonas Wood)
The effects of increasing enrolment in education and variation in economic context on aggregate trends in order-specific fertility in Belgium, 1960-2000: implications for hazard-based microsimulation models of fertility trends
Delayed childbearing and low fertility have been prominent features of fertility trends in Europe and other developed countries since the 1970s. More recently, the same has been true of Southeast Asia and Latin America. A compilation of published evidence concluded that the main factors to which the underlying trend to later childbearing are attributed are effective contraception, increases in women's education and labour market participation, value changes, gender equity, partnership changes, housing conditions, economic uncertainty and the absence of supportive family policies. Few studies have attempted to quantify the contribution of any of these factors to aggregate change in both tempo and quantum of fertility. Based on the maternity histories of women aged 14 and older in the 2001 census, discrete-time hazard models are developed which illustrate how increasing enrolment in education and articulated economic cycles have induced aggregate change in the mean age at parenthood (MAC1) and the synthetic parity progression ratio to first births (SPPR1) in Belgium between 1960 and 2000, as well as period variation in the progression to second and higher-order births. The results encourage reflection on the potential and limitations of hazard-based microsimulation models to project short-term and long-term aggregate fertility trends, and on the expansion of such models to include additional exogenous factors.
Thursday, January 30th 2020
CPC Seminar - Partnership and Fertility Patterns among Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe (Seminars and lectures)
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, January 30th 2020
13:00-14:00
Hill Kulu is Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director for the ESRC Centre for Population Change. His substantive research interests lie in the field of family, fertility, migration and health studies; his methodological interests include the development and application of longitudinal models in social science research. Kulu's research has advanced our understanding of how family changes and residential choices interact in people's lives and how residential context shapes childbearing, migration and health behaviour of individuals. He jointly co-ordinates the migration and mobility strand of CPC, as well as working within the fertility and family strand.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020
Workshop: Modelling migration and decisions (Workshops)
Lakeside Centre, Wide Lane, Eastleigh,
Tuesday, January 21st 2020
Invited participants only, to share findings from the Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies project.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss, in an informal setting, some promising avenues of modelling migration and migrant decisions, with focus on four areas: migration data, decisions, model construction and analysis.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - Tuesday, January 21st 2020
IUSSP Scientific Panel on New and Emerging Family Forms around the World (Conferences)
Manila, Philippines
Monday, January 20th 2020
Monday, January 20th 2020
CPC member Brienna Perelli-Harris is the chair of the day, and one of the seminar organisers for the second international seminar on New and Emerging Family Forms around the World.
This panel brings together researchers from around the world to discuss theories and explanations for changes in family behaviours.
More information: https://www.iussp.org/en/2nd-iussp-seminar-new-and-emerging-family-forms-around-world
Sunday, December 8th 2019 - Wednesday, December 11th 2019
Winter Simulation Conference 2019 (Conferences)
Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center National Harbor, Maryland
Sunday, December 8th 2019
Sunday, December 8th 2019
The theme of Winter Simulation Conference 2019 is "Simulation for Risk Management"
WSC 2019 will focus on the use of simulation to address a wide range of individual and societal risks.
CPC members Jakub Bijak and Martin Hinsch have published a conference paper on "Developing Agent-based migration models in pairs". Find the paper here: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/432966/1/Paper_WinterSim_2019.pdf
Thursday, November 28th 2019
CPC Seminar - Spatial Variation in Fertility across Europe (Seminars and lectures)
Nicholas Campisi
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G9)
Thursday, November 28th 2019
12:00-13:00
This Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 28 November at Ladywell House. Ladywell Road, Edinburgh EH12 7TF (12-1pm. Room 1/G/9). Please let Esther Roughsedge (Esther.Roughsedge@nrscotland.gov.uk) know if you would like to attend and need to be signed in at Ladywell House. Also, please bring your own lunch as this won't be provided.
Nicholas Campisi from the University of St Andrews will present:
Title: Spatial Variation in Fertility across Europe
Abstract: Two groups of countries have emerged in Europe over the last 20 years. The first group includes countries with very low fertility and the second includes countries with (relatively) high fertility just below the replacement level. Patterns of change are well studied using single-country studies but continental patterns creating these groups is not well understood. This project first examines how local patterns of fertility across 21 European countries contribute to continental trends in 2010, the height of bifurcation. We provide a single framework to examine fertility variation between local areas that accounts for the role of economic, spatial, and social contexts and show that continental patterns of urbanization, economic growth, and sociocultural freedoms are related to fertility variation across space. The project then focuses on recent fertility decline in high-fertility countries. Recent research suggests that converging fertility rates between socioeconomic groups contribute to national-level declines in the Nordic countries. This research examines fertility in Nordic municipalities since 2010 to understand if a convergence across geographies is also contributing to fertility decline and employs spatial modeling to understand what factors are related to spatial trends. We find that variation between geographies is not converging as expected and is diverging in some cases. Results from spatial modeling show that fertility variation is related to economic factors, the structure of the marriage market, and differences in family values between municipalities. Patterns of ‘relative importance’ are also related to fertility change within municipalities over time, as some factors are more related to fertility in urban places than rural and vice versa. We ultimately contribute a spatial perspective to fertility patterns often studied at the national level but neglected in relevant research and find strong evidence for subnational spatial variation that is related to recent trends in fertility.
Friday, November 8th 2019
ESRC Festival of Social Science: The generation game - is it fair? (Public engagement events)
University of Southampton
Friday, November 8th 2019
Our society is changing at an extraordinary rate. As housing prices and life expectancies rise, we face new challenges and opportunities to influence and shape future communities. This event aims to talk to young people about fairness and provision in society, and ask them about their expectations for the future.
We ask students to take on the roles of councillors, planners, policy-makers or pensions analysts, to solve a ‘problem’. With limited budgets and diverse priorities, who will they help and why? What services are available, and how can funds be raised? CPC researchers will be on hand to shed light on how they might use latest research findings to make decisions. Through discussion, young people and researchers can explore myths and assumptions to address core conflicts within our society.
The event allows young people to understand complex economic and social issues affecting them today, and in the future, and the gain perspective from the point of our leaders and policy makers. In the spirit in generational exchange, it also allows our researchers to discuss important findings with the young people it will affect, and to hear their views.
Thursday, October 17th 2019 - Saturday, October 19th 2019
Divorce Conference 2019 (Conferences)
Florence, Italy
Thursday, October 17th 2019
Thursday, October 17th 2019
The following CPC members will be speaking at Divorce Conference in October 2019.
Friday October 18th
10.50 Session 4 – Economic consequences of divorce (chair: Stefani Scherer)
Hill Kulu, Júlia Mikolai and Sergi Vidal
Getting Back on the Housing Ladder? Separation and Homeownership in Britain and Germany
13.50 Session 5 – Determinants of divorce (chair: Michael Wagner)
Sebastian Stannard, Ann Berrington and Nisreen A. Alwan
Understanding the Inter-Generational Transmission of Complex Family Trajectories
Saturday, October 19th
Session 1
Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu
Union dissolution and divorce among ethnic minorities in Britain
Programme: https://2019divorceconference.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/preliminary-program-divorce-conference-2019-2.pdf
Friday, October 4th 2019
CPC Seminar - SociaLab: A Census-based simulation tool for policy inquiry (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Davies
54/8031
Friday, October 4th 2019
15:00-16:00
SociaLab: A census-based simulation tool for public policy inquiry
Professor Peter Davis
It is usually neither practical nor ethical to conduct large-scale experiments in public policy with standard methodologies. One alternative for the prior testing of policy options is to use simulation, a prime contemporary example being climate change projections.
A tool – SociaLab – was developed for the counterfactual modelling of public policy drawing on longitudinal data from the New Zealand census and using microsimulation techniques. The seminar will outline the background, construction and counterfactual modelling results from the tool.
SociaLab potentially provides an open-source tool for deliberative inquiry in policy development. It has now been fully written up in Simulating Societal Change, co-authored with Roy Lay-Yee, and published by Springer in the series Computational Social Sciences.
Peter Davis is Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Emeritus Professor in Population Health and Social Science at the University of Auckland. Earlier in his career, he was the founding director of the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) in the Faculty of Arts and before that a health and applied sociologist in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He has an undergraduate degree from Southampton, Masters degrees in Sociology and in Statistics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from Auckland.
Thursday, October 3rd 2019
Thames Estuary Growth Day (Other)
Jane Falkingham
CentrEd at ExCeL, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
Thursday, October 3rd 2019
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham will be presenting and participating in a panel debate "Who are we building homes for?", at the annual Thames Estuary Growth Day.
The government has announced a multimillion pound package of commitments to drive forward growth for the Thames Estuary. Ambitious plans are in place to create 1.3 million new jobs, build a million new homes, and generate an extra £190 billion for the local economy. The Thames Estuary Growth Day will offer a day of presentations and discussions to explore how these plans can deliver growth and what opportunities for
development will be unlocked.
Now in its third year, previous events have been attended by more than 250 delegates, including members and senior officers from 23 local authorities in east London, Kent and Essex and senior personnel from the private sector.
This event is the only one of its kind, bringing all the key stakeholders in the future of the Thames Estuary together during one day, to draw national attention to this debate.
Saturday, September 21st 2019
CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2019 (Conferences)
Hector Calvo Pardo,
Rhodes
Saturday, September 21st 2019
09:45
Hector Calvo Pardo will be presenting 'Subjective Return Expectations, Inattention and Stock Market Participation' at 09:45-10:30 on Saturday 21 September 2019 as part of the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2019. For more information please find the programme online here: https://cepr.org/5728/programme
Thursday, September 19th 2019
CPC Seminar - Career Ecosystem (Seminars and lectures)
Yehuda Baruch
University of Southampton, Building 58 Room 1023
Thursday, September 19th 2019
15:00-16:00
The next Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 19 September in building 58, room 1023, 15:00-16:00. Yehuda Baruch from the University of Southampton, is going to give a talk entitled, ‘Career Ecosystem’.
Abstract: The presentation offers a novel theoretical lens – an ecosystem theory of careers – whereby new forms of institutional work arrangements emerge in response to changes in the environment. Careers and career management have changed significantly in the past generation, and labour markets have become more dynamic, with an overriding demand for flexibility due to the needs and requirements of both organizations and individuals. This meant that the psychological contract, which is the bedrock of work relations, has changed too. The “new normal” is characterized by posts carrying varied obligations and expectations that come in varying work configurations.
The ecosystem theory is applied to careers and labour markets. Labour markets, global labour market included, are presented as an ecosystem (Baruch, 2015; Baruch et al., 2016; Baruch & Rousseau, 2019) where a number of players act and interact with each other. The main thrust of this idea is that of perpetuum mobile—anything and everything are in continuous flux.
The Actors in the system are individuals, institutions and nations. Individuals act, interact and communicate. There is interconnectedness across the actors within different levels of analysis, adding to the complexity. Interactions take place, most notably the exchange of labour for wages, as well as the host of pertinent regulations and laws, such as employment and migration laws at the national level; and policies and strategies at the firm level. In the context of interdependency, different actors bring their needs, expectations, and offer their contributions. Robust ecosystem leads to overall effectiveness whereas fragile ecosystem might diminish.
Monday, September 9th 2019 - Wednesday, September 11th 2019
CPC Poster Session at BSPS (Conferences)
Cardiff
Monday, September 9th 2019
Monday, September 9th 2019
CPC will be celebrating our 10th year of research with colleagues and supporters in the BSPS community. In addition to the CPC member representation at the conference, we are sponsoring the first evening poster session. Please join us for some cake, a drink, and to hear all about our research over the last 10 years.
The British Society for Population Studies conference is an important part of the CPC calendar year, providing a forum for us to share our work and get feedback from the UK’s top population.
Find out more about the event: http://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studies/annual-conference
Monday, September 9th 2019 - Wednesday, September 11th 2019
British Society for Population Studies Conference 2019 (Conferences)
Various
Cardiff
Monday, September 9th 2019
Monday, September 9th 2019
Monday 09 September 2019
13:30-15:00
Session: Data Quality
Title: Data quality in mixed mode mixed-device general population UK social survey: Evidence from the Understanding Society Wave 8
Authors: Maslovskaya, Durrant & Smith
Session: Ageing: Informal & formal care
Title: Pathways into informal care provision
Authors: Fuglsang-Palmer, Vlachantoni, Evandrou
16:45-18:15
Session: Telling the story in statistics 1
Title: Maximising partnerships to communicate demographic research
Authors: McGowan, Dey, Falkingham
Session: Families & Households: Divorce & Partnership transitions
Title: Union dissolution and divorce among ethnic minorities in Britain
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu
Session: Families & Households: Divorce & Partnership transitions
Title: Getting Back on the Housing Ladder? Separation and Homeownership in Britain and Germany
Authors: Kulu, Mikolai, Vidal
Session: Families & Households: Divorce & Partnership transitions
Title: Relationship quality indicators and living apart together union transitions
Authors: Ciritel, Berrington, Perrelli-Harris
Session: Families & Households: Divorce & Partnership transitions
Title: How does information spread affect migration routes? Insights from simulation modelling
Authors: Hinsch, Bijak
Tuesday 10 September 2019
11:00-12:30
Session: Fertility & reproductive health: Geographical & environmental influences on fertility & reproductive health
Title: Subnational variations in European fertility: the Nordic countries
Authors: Campisi
Session: Families & households: Intergenerational effects
Title: Understanding the intergenerational transmission of complex family trajectories
Authors: Stannard, Berrington, Alwan
Session: Innovative statistical models for estimation & forecasting
Title: Comparing fertility forecasting methods
Authors: Hilton, Dodd, Forster, Smith, Bijak
16:45-18:15
Session: Innovative data & methods
Title: Probalistic methods for combining traditional & social media bilateral migration data
Authors: Yildiz, Wisniowski, Abel
Session: Innovative data & methods
Title: Using digital traces to measure European migrant population in the UK by combining the Labour Force Survey and Facebook advertising data
Authors: Rampazzo, Bijak, Vitali, Weber, Zagheni
Session: Feminist approaches: Gender, work & production
Title: Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-national analysis using DHS data
Authors: Williams, Väisänen, Padmadas
Wednesday 11 September
09:00-11:00
Session: Ageing: Ageing, health & poverty
Title: Understanding the impact and targeting efficiency of Kenya's Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme
Authors: van der Wielen, Chepngeno-Langat, Evandrou, Falkingham
Session: Fertility: Abortion
Title: The different decisions after conceiving as a teenager: how the proportions of teenage pregnancies leading to abortion vary through England in 1998-2016
Authors: Heap, Berrington, Ingham
Session: Fertility: Abortion
Title: Understanding misoprostol use and health literacy among women obtaining medication abortions in Lagos
Authors: Väisänen, Moore, Owolabi, Stillman, Fatusi, Akinyemi
Session: Health: Public health
Title: Determinants of inequalities in low birth weight in Sri Lanka: The evidence from the first post-war Demographic and Health Survey-2016
Authors: Abeywickrama, Padmadas, Hinde
11:30-15:00
Session: Health & mortality: The life course & health
Title: Health that shapes health: The menopause and changes in health behaviours
Authors: La Valle, Channon, Väisänen
Session: Families & households: Multigenerational households, kin & friendship networks
Title: Intergenerational support and its impact on the health status of older people in China
Authors: Yang, Evandrou, Vlachantoni
Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - Friday, August 23rd 2019
ESA Conference 2019 (Conferences)
Albert Sabater; Helen Kowlewska
Manchester
Tuesday, August 20th 2019
Tuesday, August 20th 2019
Albert Sabater and Helen Kolewska will be presenting at ESA Conference 2019 in Manchester.
Wednesday 21 August 2019
11:00-12:30; UP.4.211
Helen Kowalewska: Bringing Women on Board? ‘Women-Friendly' Welfare States and Gender Balance in Top Jobs
Welfare states enable women's employment through the family policies they provide and the jobs they create. Hence, researchers, the press, and politicians hail Scandinavian societies as a gender equality 'paradise' and a role model for the UK due to their generous public sectors. Yet, Mandel and Semyonov (2006) identify a welfare state 'paradox': 'women-friendly' social policies also make it harder for women to progress to managerial roles. However, missing from existing research is a consideration of how welfare states shape women’s access to the very top board and executive positions specifically. This distinction matters because women in top management are best placed to effect organisational changes (e.g. occupational childcare, sexual harassment training) that can help lower-earning women to reconcile employment and care and secure their financial wellbeing as well as their body rights (Kowalewska, submitted).
To contribute to filling this gap, this paper analyses the relationship between women-friendly state interventions and gender balance in top-management positions across 17 OECD countries via a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The latest data reveal that women’s access to board positions is accelerating in the Nordics but stalling in liberal economies like the UK; hence, other factors (e.g. gender boardroom legislation) potentially ‘offset’ the negative effects of women-friendly policies on women’s occupational advancement. QCA can illuminate if this is the case, as it treats cases as ‘wholes’, focusing on how conditions combine with each other in producing an outcome. Data will come from the International Social Survey Programme, the OECD, the World Bank, and Deloitte. In turn, the analysis can illuminate whether women-friendly state interventions always come at the price of women’s access to the most powerful jobs.
Wednesday 21 August 2019
16:00-17:30; BS.4.06A
Albert Sabater: Ageing, Housing Affordability and Spatial Age Segregation: Evidence from the UK
In most post-industrial ageing societies, the patterns of spatial age differentiation that exist are comparatively recent phenomena. In the UK, the current policy focus on ‘ageing in place’ highlights one possible mechanism expected to increase spatial age segregation. However, the potential consequences of the so-called “affordability crisis” –the fact that both owner-occupied and private rental housing have become increasingly unaffordable– have so far been neglected. Building on previous work, this paper examines trends in spatial age segregation and provides evidence of the impact of housing unaffordability on the patterns of intergenerational space within the UK context. Combining harmonised data from 2001 and 2011 Censuses as well as rich housing market data (property sales and rentals) and income estimates for small areas, we first investigate whether, and to what degree, communities along the urban-rural continuum are becoming residentially segregated by age. Second, we study whether residential age segregation between older (aged 65 and over) and younger (aged 25-44) adults is connected to housing (dis)advantage. The results confirm an increasing trend in the age differentiation of urban and rural communities over time, and indicate that areas with higher unaffordability levels are becoming more residentially age segregated. This pattern of reduced spatial interaction between older and younger adults highlights that there is an important socioeconomic dimension to spatial age segregation. Our findings reveal that housing unaffordability is partly responsible for the lower spatial interaction between older and younger adults. Thus, we argue in this paper that a fundamental shift is needed among the group of actors who are involved in place-making and place-shaping of different communities to avoid the emergence of generationed spaces in contemporary ageing societies.
Tuesday, July 2nd 2019 - Thursday, July 4th 2019
Understanding Society Conference (Conferences)
Various
University of Essex
Tuesday, July 2nd 2019
Tuesday, July 2nd 2019
CPC involvement at Understanding Society Conference 2019:
July 2nd
Session 1 Employment and Family
Precarity and relationship quality in the UK: long-term economic uncertainty, employment shocks and perceptions of future financial outlook
13:30-14:00 Brienna Perelli-Harris
July 3rd
Plenary: family dynamics among immigrants and their descendents in Europe
11:00-12:00 Hill Kulu – keynote speaker
Session 4 Partnership and employment
The relationship between economic precariousness and union formation of young British adults
14:00-14:30 – Lydia Palumbo
July 4th
Session 7 – Event History Analyses
The transition to parenthood among Britain's 'generation rent': examining the changing role of housing tenure
14:15-15:15 Ann Berrington
Thursday, June 20th 2019
CPC Seminar - Preferences to life expectancy - new findings from international surveys (Seminars and lectures)
Vegard Skirbekk
University of Southampton, Building 54 / 1039
Thursday, June 20th 2019
15:00-16:00
The Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 20 June 2019 in Building 54, Room 1039, 15:00-16:00. Vegard Skirbekk from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (NY) is going to give the project 'Preferences to life expectancy - new findings from international surveys'.
After the talk, refreshments will be served in room 2041 on level 2 in Building 58.
Abstract: One of the most important changes that have taken place in the history of humanity has been the radical extensions taking place to life expectancy. Yet, in spite of mortality decreases being concentrated at higher and higher ages, there have been few studies on how long people want to live. Why do some people want to live a very long time, while others would rather die relatively young? We provide evidence from unique surveys on preferences to life expectancy based on surveys from a set of different countries. We use data from Germany, the US, Norway, Poland, Russia, Austria and Thailand. We present findings on preferences to the length of life across these countries. We show how these differ by individual risk factors, gender and education. We find that the extent to which the preference to die young or to live somewhat longer or much longer than average life expectancy is related to a person's positive and negative expectations of what their life will be like in old age. Having fewer positive expectations for their own old age distinguishes people who prefer to die relatively young, while having fewer negative expectations distinguishes people who want to live beyond current levels of life expectancy. The results provide evidence that pessimistic expectations of life in old age can undermine the desire to live up to and beyond current average life expectancy.
Thursday, June 20th 2019
CPC Seminar - Comparing migrant mortality versus origin: results consistent with selection hypothesis (Seminars and lectures)
Matthew Wallace
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, June 20th 2019
13:00-14:00
Abstract: A migrant mortality advantage occurs when international migrants live longer than non-migrants. This phenomenon is well documented, but often only conceptualized and estimated relative to destination populations. Here, we re-conceptualize and re-estimate the advantage relative to origin populations, providing new insight into its patterns and causes. Specifically, we calculate and compare the all-cause mortality and tertiary level educational attainment levels of the thirty-five largest migrant groups in England and Wales to their origin country populations. We use age-sex-origin-specific macro-level data from the Office for National Statistics, Human Mortality Database, United Nations World Population Prospects, and Wittgenstein Center Data Explorer. We find that nearly all migrant groups experience an age-adjusted (20+) mortality advantage-versus-origin and -destination, with variation in the size of the former linked to origin country development level. When we examine specific ages, we find the advantage-versus-origin to be most pronounced at peak migration ages and to diminish thereafter. For tertiary-level educational attainment, migrants were near systematically advantaged over age. Our findings are consistent with selection hypothesis as a pervasive explanation of the migrant mortality advantage. Moreover, we demonstrate the value of estimating the advantage-versus-origin and its potential role as a valuable complement to comparisons between migrants and the destination population.
Thursday, May 30th 2019
CPC Seminar - Outcomes of only children across the life course: analysis using Swedish registry data (Seminars and lectures)
Katy Keenan
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, May 30th 2019
13:00-14:00
Abstract:
Increasing postponement and fertility decline in Europe mean that the proportion of children who grow up as only children is increasing, and will likely continue to increase in the coming decades. Recent analysis of Swedish data has found that only children have one of the highest mortality rates of all sibling groups, but the mechanism remains unclear. In this study we attempt to unravel this apparent health disparity using Swedish administrative data which measures health and social outcomes at various stages throughout the life course. We investigate educational and health outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood, and mortality patterns, and attempt to adjust for various confounding factors and selection mechanisms that might account for the relative poorer health of only children. Results are discussed within the context of changing fertility patterns in Europe.
Friday, May 24th 2019
CPC Seminar - Subnational variation and determinants of European fertility (Seminars and lectures)
Nicholas Campisi
University of Southampton, Building 54, Room 8033 (8B)
Friday, May 24th 2019
15:00-16:00
The Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 24 May 2019 in Building 54, Room 8033 (8B), 15:00-16:00. Nicholas Campisi from the University of St Andrews is going to give a talk entitled, 'Subnational variation and determinants of European fertility'.
After the talk, refreshments will be served in room 2041 on level 2 in Building 58.
Abstract: Since 2000, European fertility has split into two distinct groups - countries with high fertility just below replacement level total fertility, and countries with very low fertility. Countries with high fertility include those in the 'Nordic Welfare Regime' that are seen as leaders in fertility trends and forerunners of increased fertility due to their high levels of social democracy. However, since 2010, the Nordic countries have also experienced decreases in fertility that are expected to reduce fertility to levels similar to the low fertility group. Prior research also demonstrates both the persistence and importance of differences between urban fertility and rural fertility; in which urban places with high population density and relatively low fertility lead rural places with low population density and higher fertility in fertility transitions. However, the role of urban places in recent fertility declines is still unclear, especially in light of recent changes to fertility-determinant relationships. The aim of this PhD project is to understand what relationships contribute to modern European fertility patterns and what decreases will mean for future patterns and the goal of replacement level fertility.
This project begins by first analyzing fertility in small geographic units across 21 European countries to assess the relationships between fertility and economic, sociocultural, and spatial determinants. It then continues by focusing on four countries with decreasing fertility - Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Results demonstrate persistent patterns of local fertility, despite national-level convergence. Significant relationships between fertility and economic, sociocultural, and spatial factors are demonstrated across Europe, providing direction in light of changing fertility-determinant relationships. Preliminary Nordic analysis demonstrates distinct patterns by country and geography, with two distinct patterns: one of convergence and one of lag.
Thursday, May 16th 2019
CPC Seminar - Fertility under fundamental uncertainty (Seminars and lectures)
Daniele Vignoli
University of Southampton, Building 54 Room 7033 (7C)
Thursday, May 16th 2019
15:00-16:00
The Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 16 May 2019 in Building 54, Room 7033 (room 7C), 15:00-16:00. Daniele Vignoli from the University of Florence is going to give a talk entitled, 'Fertility under fundamental uncertainty'.
After the talk, refreshments will be served in room 2041 on level 2 in Building 58.
Abstract:The increasing speed, dynamics, and volatility of outcomes of globalization makes it increasingly difficult for individuals to predict their future and choose between alternatives and strategies. This generates an unprecedented level of fundamental economic uncertainty, which, we argue, represents the game-changer in contemporary societies and family life courses. So far, the forces of uncertainty have been operationalized through objective indicators of individuals' labor market situation and through their subjective perception. This presentation reviews main macro- and micro-level evidence on the relation between economic uncertainty and fertility. Beside empirical tradition, we argue that fundamental uncertainty needs to be conceptualized and operationalized taking into account that people use works of imagination, producing their own “narrative of the future” - namely, imagined futures embedded in social elements and their interactions. These personal narratives of the future are anchored in existing cultural and institutional frames, as well as public images produced by press and social media. The narratives of the future become potent driving forces of reproductive decisions in spite of uncertainty, irrespective of structural constraints and their subjective perception. The talk ends by offering prospects of research on the topic.
More information can be found Daniele's project website: https://danielevignoli.com/
Thursday, April 25th 2019
CPC Seminar - How can the recent stalling of life expectancy gains in Scotland be best explained? (Seminars and lectures)
Julie Ramsay & Maria Kaye-Bardgett
Ladywell House, Edinburgh EH12 7TF Room (1/G/8)
Thursday, April 25th 2019
13:00-14:00
Abstract:
Annual gains in life expectancy in Scotland have been slower in recent years than in previous decades. Similar trends have been observed in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the USA. This analysis explores the contribution of specific causes of death to mortality by age and cause in the two periods 2000-02 to 2012-14 and 2012-14 to 2015-17.
Life expectancy at birth was calculated from death and population counts available from National Records of Scotland disaggregated by five year age categories and by ICD-10 underlying cause of death. Arriaga’s method of life expectancy decomposition was used to produce estimates of the contribution of different age groups and underlying causes of death to life expectancy at birth for each period.
This presentation will explain the results obtained so far, and discuss the plans to extend the analysis to look at the impact of deprivation on life expectancy trends.
Wednesday, April 24th 2019
AgeUK Dissemination Event: Carers in Mid-Life (Other)
Athina Vlachantoni
AgeUK London Headquarters
Wednesday, April 24th 2019
10:00-13:00
This is a dissemination event for the research project 'Extending our understanding of informal care provision in mid-life in the UK by linking qualitative and quantitative data in the National Child Development Study', relating to Briefing Papers 46 & 47.
Briefing Paper 46: Informal caring in mid-life and its economic consequences
Briefing Paper 47: Social participation and health outcomes among carers in Great Britain
Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - Friday, April 26th 2019
British Sociological Association Annual Conference (Conferences)
Various
Glasgow Caledonian University
Wednesday, April 24th 2019
Wednesday, April 24th 2019
CPC involvement at the 2019 BSA Annual Conference 'Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities':
Agnese Vitali and Helen Kowalewska
Thursday 25 April 11:00 – 12:30 Work, Employment &Economic Life B
Work/Family Arrangements across the OECD: The Emergence of the Female-Breadwinner Model
Albert Sabater, Nissa Finney and Elspeth Graham,
Wednesday 24 April 15:30-17:00, Paper Session 3 – Cities, Mobilities, Place and Space
(Inter)generational Geographies and Housing (Dis)advantages Between Older and Younger Adults in Urban Areas
Full list of abstracts
Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - Saturday, April 13th 2019
PAA Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Various
Austin, TX, USA
Wednesday, April 10th 2019
Wednesday, April 10th 2019
CPC members will be heading to Austin, Texas, for the Population Association of America (PAA) 2019 Annual Meeting between 10-13 April. The meeting brings together demographers, social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Since PAA's first conference in 1930, much important research has been presented and discussed on topics ranging from migration to sexual reproductive health to race and gender issues.
Read more: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=644
Thursday, April 4th 2019 - Friday, April 5th 2019
5th Workshop on the Economics of Migration (Workshops)
Michel Beine, University of Luxembourg | Frédéric Docquier, Université Catholique de Louvain | Christina Gathmann, Heidelberg University
Esch-Belval, Luxembourg
Thursday, April 4th 2019
Thursday, April 4th 2019
The 5th Workshop on the Economics of Migration is organized by the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the Centre for Population Change (CPC) in order to give PhD students and early-stage researchers (post-docs and junior professors with less than 5 years of experience) an opportunity to share their work in a constructive environment,
as well as to exchange the results of recent research in different fields of migration economics.
Submissions of full original papers are invited by December 31, 2018.
Submissions and inquiries should be addressed by email to: econmigr@gmail.com.
Decisions about acceptance for presentation in the conference will be communicated by January 20, 2019.
Participation in the workshop is free and meals will be provided, although participants are expected to seek their own funding for travels and accommodation. Participants will receive updates on the workshop and a full programme as soon as possible.
Additional information is available at: http://sites.google.com/site/econmigr
The organizers: Joël Machado, Michele Tuccio and Jackline Wahba
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Thursday, April 4th 2019
CPC Seminar - Immigration and its effect on the local area (Seminars and lectures)
Corrado Giulietti
University of Southampton, Building 54 Room 7033 (7C)
Thursday, April 4th 2019
15:00-16:00
Abstract: We explore the impact of local-level immigration on the location choices of UK-born residents. Our study aims at investigating three questions: a) does an increase in the inflow rate of immigrants causally lead to a displacement of UK-born residents? b) Does displacement increase segregation within a local authority? c) What are the prevalent mechanisms behind displacement, e.g. economic channels (such as labour market and house prices) or non-economic ones (such as attitudes towards immigrants)? To empirically analyse these questions, we match data from Understanding Society – The UK Household Longitudinal Study with statistics on immigrant inflows in the neighbourhood (middle layer super output area) from the National Insurance number allocations of the Department for Work and Pensions (NINo). The core analysis hinges on panel data fixed effects models.
Friday, March 23rd 2018
Jan Hoem Distinguished Lecture: Jane Falkingham (Seminars and lectures)
Jane Falkingham
Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Stockholm University
Friday, March 23rd 2018
3.30pm
The Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) is pleased to announce the second Jan M. Hoem Distinguished Lecture in Demography 'Population Change and the Need for ‘Life Course Sensitive’ Policy' with Professor Jane Falkingham of the Centre for Population Change and University of Southampton.
Further information and registration at: http://ow.ly/jOyf30ihzDS
Wednesday, January 24th 2018
CPC Seminar - 'Immigration after Brexit' with Professor Jonathan Portes (Seminars and lectures)
Jonathan Portes
Building 58/ Room 1067, University of Southampton Highfield Campus
Wednesday, January 24th 2018
5 - 6pm
We are delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Portes will be speaking at our January Seminar.
Jonathan started his career at HM Treasury in 1987, and spent most of his career as a civil servant, serving as Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2002 to 2008 and Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2011. He led the Cabinet Office’s economic analysis and economic policy work during the financial crisis and on the G20 London Summit in April 2009. From 2011 to 2015, he was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Jonathan's talk will discuss the growth in immigration from the rest of the EU to the UK was a central issue in the referendum. What do we know about the impacts of immigration on the UK economy and labour market: and after Brexit, what will happen to over 3 million EU27 citizens who now live in the UK (and more than a million Brits elsewhere in the EU). How will UK immigration policy, both towards EU citizens and those from outside the EU, change after Brexit?
This event is open to anyone with an interest in this subject, but places are limited so please register for your free ticket here
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Thursday, January 18th 2018 - Friday, January 19th 2018
Workshop: Going beyond the country: Exploring sub-national effects on socio-demographic phenomena with European Social Survey data. (Workshops)
Dr Agnese Vitali and Dr Bruno Arpino
University of Southampton
Thursday, January 18th 2018
Thursday, January 18th 2018
Call for papers: CPC's Dr Agnese Vitali and Dr Bruno Arpino of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra will be holding an ESS ERIC Academic Workshop from 18 - 19 January 2018 at the University of Southampton.
Individuals' decisions, values and attitudes are influenced by the context in which they are embedded. Often, socio-demographic studies analyse how specific attitudes or behaviours (e.g. timing of life-course event, attitudes towards immigration, gender equality, etc.) vary geographically across countries. However, for several outcomes the regional context may exert more influence than the national one. The European Social Survey proves to be a unique source of comparable socio-demographic data for mapping and understanding geographical differences in behaviours and attitudes across and within European countries. We invite contributions which make use of European Social Survey (ESS) data and propose to explore the sub-national dimension in socio-demographic outcomes including (but not restricted to): family; fertility; gender; migrants; ageing; health and wellbeing. We especially welcome contributions which make use of multilevel and spatial regression models.
Scope
The workshop will bring together academics who are interested in exploring the sub-national dimension in socio-demographic studies and will promote ESS as an invaluable instrument in this respect. The aims of the workshop are:
• To reflect on the role of sub-national contexts for explaining differences in socio-demographic attitudes and behaviours across Europe;
• To discuss how new attitudes and behaviours spread spatially across geographical areas that may overcome national boundaries;
• To discuss how multilevel and spatial models can be fruitfully applied to study the regional vs. national influence on individuals' outcomes.
Agenda:
18 January (afternoon only)
Short course: Introduction to multilevel and spatial modelling
The course introduces the key ideas in multilevel and spatial analysis. The focus will be on the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches from a substantive point of view and will be illustrated with examples from the social sciences. Limitations of the application of multilevel and spatial models to ESS data will be discussed.
19 January (all day)
Presentations of research papers
Panel discussion on opportunities and challenges of exploring the sub-national dimension using ESS data.
Call for papers: how to apply
Please submit an original extended abstract (5 pages maximum) or a full paper to: ess-apw@soton.ac.uk by no later than 15 November 2017.
In the email please specify: name, surname, affiliation and current position of the applicant(s). Further information is available on the attachment below.
Funding
No fee is required to participate in the workshop. Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided, but participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. A limited number of travel and accommodation grants are available (preference will be given to early-career researchers).
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Friday, December 8th 2017
'Different societies, same solutions?' A keynote speech about ageing as a burden. (Conferences)
Professor Traute Meyer
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Friday, December 8th 2017
4.00pm
CPC’s Professor Traute Meyer will be giving a keynote speech: ‘Different Societies, Same Solutions? A Critical Reflection on ‘Ageing as a Burden’ in China and the European Union’ at 4.00pm on 8 December at the international conference ‘Doing’ comparative social policy analysis in changing global context. The conference will be given in English and will take place at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
The question whether welfare states can be classified into distinct types has remained subject to lively debates. Far from a unifying convergence of comparative social policy trends, a more global perspective suggests continued variation and difference, with a multiplicity of forms of globalisations encountered and/or engendered in diverse contexts.
To reveal the complexities of national, extra-national and transnational drivers of welfare formation and development under contemporary but diverse conditions, this two-day conference combines papers that understand national social policies in a global context, compare national social policies in a global/multi-level context or explore global ideas and discourses on national social policy. It also includes comparative studies that analyse social policy via developing analytical frameworks that reach across individual world-regions and global actors.
Further information and a detailed agenda can be viewed in the attachment at the bottom of this page.
Please register your free place here
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Friday, December 8th 2017
Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS) Conference (Conferences)
Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh
Friday, December 8th 2017
9.15am
The Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) conference will take place on Friday 8 December at Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh.
HAGIS is a study of people aged 50+ in Scotland, it collects data on their economic and social circumstances and on their health. Its goal is to help to improve the lives of older Scots by increasing understanding the stresses, strains and successes of their lives, and so ensure that policy meets their needs.
The HAGIS Conference is a special event to celebrate the success of this pioneering new study and CPC’s Professor David Bell, who is also the project’s Principle Investigator, will be presenting the HAGIS Conference welcome address ‘Past, Present and Future’.
David, who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, is also working within the migration, life course and constitutional change strands of the CPC and is involved with many projects including ‘Rural ageing, migration and care’ and ‘Carers and time use’.
Please register here for this exciting event and also visit the website here for further details.
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Thursday, December 7th 2017
Celebrating 10 years of Research Projects at the SLS (Conferences)
The Dome, New Register House 3 W Register St Edinburgh EH1 3YT
Thursday, December 7th 2017
1.15pm
The Scottish Longitudinal Study Development and Support Unit (SLS-DSU) has been supporting research projects for 10 years and will be marking the achievement with a celebratory event taking place from 1.15pm - 5.30pm on Thursday 7 December in The Dome, New Register House, Edinburgh.
Two CPC colleagues will be speaking at the event:
Prof John MacInnes, who is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean in Quantitative Methods at the University of Edinburgh and currently working within the fertility and family and life course strands of the CPC, will be presenting ‘Population Ageing in Scotland’.
Dr David McCollum, who is Senior Lecturer School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews and currently working within the migration strand of the CPC, will be presenting ‘Administrative health data linked to the SLS, the potential opportunities for migration research’.
To find out more about this event and register your free place online, please visit the SLS-DSU Eventbrite here
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Saturday, November 18th 2017
CPC at Hands-on Humanities Day (Public engagement events)
Avenue Campus
Saturday, November 18th 2017
10.30am - 4.30pm
On Saturday 18 November, CPC exhibited our Migration research with interactive games and activities at the University of Southampton Hands-On Humanities Day that took place from 10.30am – 4.30pm in Building 65 of the University’s Avenue Campus.
Hands-On Humanities Day was part of the University’s Human Worlds Festival – an annual festival organised by the Public Engagement with Research unit (PERu) to showcase the fantastic humanities research that is taking place at the University of Southampton. This was a free day out for all the family, with a programme packed full of interactive exhibits, workshops and talks. Everyone was invited to come along, find out about what we are working on at CPC and join in with the activities that included:
– Archaeology activities
– Anglo-Saxon wind instruments
– Short story writing
– Augmented reality
– Queen Elizabeth I’s perfume
– Minecraft
– Film making
For further information to book your free tickets, please visit: http://www.humanworldsfestival.com/hands-on-humanities-day/
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Tuesday, November 14th 2017
CPC Director to Chair Demography session at Big Data, Small Area Symposium (Conferences)
Professor Jane Falkingham
The Royal Geographical Society
Tuesday, November 14th 2017
CPC's Director Professor Jane Falkingham was invited to Chair the demography session 'Small area denominators and confounders' at the Big Data, Small Area Symposium at The Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London.
This two-day international Symposium celebrated thirty years of the Small Area Health Statistics Unit that has become nationally and internationally recognised for research into environment and health. The Unit has produced over 200 peer reviewed publications, are currently working on over 20 research projects and is based at the School of Public Health at Imperial College London.
Jane, who is Dean of the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, aswell as Director of CPC at the University of Southampton, has a long and successful career of studying demographic change and its consequences for the distribution of social and economic welfare. Her current research projects include the CPC, funded to examine the drivers and consequences of population change; the EPSRC Energy for Development, aiming to enable a step-change in collaborative research and project development addressing the energy needs of rural communities in developing countries; the Liveable Cities Programme grant, a five-year programme of research to develop a method of designing and engineering low-carbon, resource-secure, wellbeing enhanced UK cities.
The Demography session chaired by Jane on the first day of the Symposium followed the Keynote welcome by Professor Sir Mark Walport, SAHSU, Introduction by Professor Paul Elliott and Public Health England Introduction by Professor John Newton. It featured:
- What future for the Census? - Professor Dave Martin
- Using mobile phone data - Professor Andrew Tatem
- SAHSU approach to population modelling and confounder control - Dr Daniela Fecht
For further information about the Symposium, including the full programme, please visit the Small Area Health Statistics Unit Symposium webpage.
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Wednesday, November 8th 2017 - Thursday, November 9th 2017
ESRC Festival of Social Science (Public engagement events)
Jason Hilton, Maja Palmer, Natalia Permyakova
One-O-Four Kitchen & Lounge, Southampton
Wednesday, November 8th 2017
Wednesday, November 8th 2017
7.30pm
CPC opened its first Festival of Social Science public engagement events organised in collaboration with other Southampton ESRC funded Research Centres: the Administrative Research Data Centre - England (ADRC-E), National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the University of Southampton Public Engagement with Research team. An invitation was extended to all, to attend two evenings of informal and interactive talks designed to educate and celebrate Social Science. Two nights, two questions:
Wednesday 8 November
'Is migration really changing the UK as we know it?'
Migration is a complex issue that continues to make headlines and spark debate around the country. This event helped to separate the fact from the fiction and provided an opportunity to discuss the issue with social science researchers.
Talks included: 'Why is it so hard to get detailed counts of UK migration?' by Professor Dave Martin, 'The future of UK migration', by CPC's Dr David Hilton and 'How does migration impact the UK in the context of an ageing population?', by Dr Julie Vullnetari.
Thursday 9 November
'Will welfare and pensions really ensure we have a happy and healthy retirement?'
Happiness and health in retirement is an issue we will all face as we get older. Is it really possible to have both, who and what can we rely on to support us and what are the impacts on others as we age?
Talks included Johannes Hechler from the Office for National Statistics, who discussed the demographic background of an ageing population, CPC's Maja Palmer who discussed caring and ageing in Western Europe and the impacts this has on couples, families and individuals and CPC's Natalia Permyakova who compared this information with caring and health based on studies in Eastern Europe. What can we learn from these studies and is there a right or wrong answer?
These informal and entertaining evenings also included exhibition stands from each of the research centres and visitors even tried out an 'ageing suit', courtesy of Winchester School of Art Design Management Lecturer Dr Yuanyuan Yin.
Further information about these events and how to register for your FREE ticket is available on the University of Southampton Public Engagement with Research website.
To keep up to date with this event, please follow @CPCpopulation and @ESRC on Twitter and tag #esrcfestival
Tuesday, November 7th 2017
CPC Director to open the ESRC Festival of Social Science (Conferences)
The Royal Society
Tuesday, November 7th 2017
6.30pm
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham was invited to open the fifteenth ESRC Festival of Social Science at an event that took place at the Royal Society, London.
The event was a debate entitled ‘Impactful Social Science: How the social sciences are helping to tackle global grand challenges’ and was an opportunity for an invited audience to question leading social scientists on a range of global issues. The panel (below) was hosted by Laurie Taylor of BBC Thinking Aloud:
• Professor Lord Stern - Chair, ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
• Professor Shamit Saggar CBE – Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex and new Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
• Professor Felicity Callard - Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
The ESRC Festival of Social Science is an annual event, designed to promote and increase awareness of social sciences and ESRC's research, enable social scientists to engage with non-academics and increase awareness of the contributions the social sciences make to the wellbeing and the economy of the UK society. This year the Festival took place from 4 – 11 November 2017 and included a full programme of 316 events across the UK. As part of the Festival, this year CPC joined other University of Southampton Research Centres: ADRC-E and NCRM to host two evenings of informal and interactive talks designed to educate and celebrate Social Science. The talks were based around two important questions for society: ‘Is migration really changing the UK as we know it?’ and ‘Will welfare and pensions really ensure we have a happy and healthy retirement?’.
To keep up to date with this event, please follow @CPCpopulation and @ESRC on Twitter and tag #esrcfestival
Sunday, October 29th 2017 - Saturday, November 4th 2017
CPC at 28th IUSSP Annual Population Conference (Conferences)
Cape Town, South Africa
Sunday, October 29th 2017
Sunday, October 29th 2017
CPC was delighted to be part of the 28th International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference that took place in Cape Town, South Africa.
This conference is a major international event drawing over 2,000 scientists, policy makers and practitioners in the global population community to meet and address issues of common concern. The Conference takes place once every four years, providing a unique forum for population experts to take stock of recent research on population trends and issues and to debate possible actions and policy responses to the challenges posed by population phenomena.
This year many CPC researchers including our Directors Professor Jane Falkingham and Professor Maria Evandrou travelled to Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa to present their research in scientific sessions, share papers and giveaways on our exhibition stand, and provide visitors with an opportunity to 'meet the researcher'.
Sessions covered a wide range of topics including international migration, sexual and reproductive health, poverty and inequality, population and environment interactions, the consequences of population ageing and issues related to children and youth, education, the labour force, and gender and human rights.
Registration was open at http://ipc2017capetown.iussp.org/about-the-conference/.
Wednesday, October 11th 2017
CPC's David Bell opens SLLS 2017 Annual Conference (Conferences)
Professor David Bell
Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2017 Annual Conference
Wednesday, October 11th 2017
CPC's Professor David Bell presented the opening keynote speech 'If you build it, they will come' on Wednesday 11 October at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2017 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Stirling.
David is a professor of Economics at the University of Stirling. He is an esteemed member of CPC, working within the Migration, Changing life course and Constitutional change strands and has been involved with or is currently working on projects including: Carers and time use, Rural ageing, migration and care, Fiscal aspects of constitutional change, Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland. David's vast amount of research experience, repertoire of publications, presentations and media activities ensured a fascinating, knowledgeable and thought-provoking speech on 11 October.
The conference was packed with symposiums, poster session, workshops and social events across three days. For further information and the full programme, please visit the SLLS Website conference page.
To keep up to date with the latest news from Professor David Bell, the SLLS and CPC, please follow @DavidNFBell and @SLLShome @CPCpopulation
Wednesday, October 4th 2017
CPC's Dr Agnese Vitali gives keynote speech in family marketing conference, Milan (Conferences)
Dr Agnese Vitali
Milan
Wednesday, October 4th 2017
Dr Agnese Vitali gave a keynote speech at the 'Momketing: new moms, new marketing' Conference in Milan.
The Momketing conference is organised for marketing and communication professionals, including researchers, journalists, students and bloggers to compare successful marketing tools and practices that are targeted at mothers and family.
Agnese, who is currently leading the 'Female-Breadwinner families in Europe' project with CPC, spoke about the changing role of women, and about the fact that advertising may be still targeting the idea of the traditional woman/mother - which is outdated.
Further information is available on the website.
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Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - Sunday, August 6th 2017
CPC makes 'Migration' research fun at BBC Countryfile Live (Public engagement events)
Oxford
Thursday, August 3rd 2017
Thursday, August 3rd 2017
CPC was delighted to have joined BBC Countryfile presenters, the National Trust Theatre and a full programme of exciting exhibitors and talks to share our interactive 'Migration-themed' exhibition with visitors of BBC Countryfile Live in Oxford as part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow.
Using engaging activities including a giant connect four game, the CPC exhibition shared world leading social science research in a fun, easy to understand and accessible way to help tackle public misconceptions about Brexit and EU migrants.
The exhibit refers to research highlighted in CPC Briefing Paper 33 'Who are the EU migrants in England and Wales?', CPC Briefing Paper 34 'Expense turns to investment: How the welfare state supports EU migrants' economic achievements' and CPC Briefing Paper 35 'Should I stay or should I go? Strategies of EU citizens living in the UK in the context of the EU referendum'.
CPC will also be joining the University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow at Bournemouth Airshow from 31st August - 2nd September. More information to follow!
To keep up to date with the latest news about our exhibition, follow @CPCpopulation and @UoS_Roadshow on Twitter.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - Sunday, July 30th 2017
CPC takes interactive research activities to Winchester Science Festival (Public engagement events)
Winchester Discovery Centre
Saturday, July 29th 2017
Saturday, July 29th 2017
CPC was excited to share our interactive and educational 'Migration-themed' exhibition with visitors of Winchester Science Festival as part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow. Using engaging activities including a giant connect four game, the CPC exhibition shared world leading social science research in a fun, easy to understand and accessible way to help tackle public misconceptions about Brexit and EU migrants.
The exhibit refers to research highlighted in CPC Briefing Paper 33 'Who are the EU migrants in England and Wales?', CPC Briefing Paper 34 'Expense turns to investment: How the welfare state supports EU migrants' economic achievements' and CPC Briefing Paper 35 'Should I stay or should I go? Strategies of EU citizens living in the UK in the context of the EU referendum' .
CPC will also be joining the University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow at BBC Countryfile Live from 3 - 6 August. More information to follow!
To keep up to date with the latest news about our exhibition, follow @CPCpopulation and @UoS_Roadshow on Twitter.
Tuesday, July 11th 2017
Prof Berrington organises Understanding Society Conference session on family dynamics (Conferences)
Professor Ann Berrington
University of Essex
Tuesday, July 11th 2017
A special session on comparative research using harmonised fertility and partnership history data took place from 15:30 - 17:30 on Tuesday 11 July at the Understanding Society UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) biennial research conference at the University of Essex.
The session, organised by CPC's Professor Ann Berrington brought together researchers working with data from the Generations and Gender Survey, in conjunction with other surveys including the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). The session included discussion of future possibilities to include new partnership and fertility data from UKHLS into the Harmonized History database.
The session programme was as follows:
Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton. "Is There a Link Between the Divorce Revolution and the Cohabitation Boom?"
Julia Mikolai, University of St Andrews. "The Role of Education in the Intersection of Partnership Transitions and Motherhood in Europe and the United States."
Gunnar Andersson, University of Stockholm. "Life-table Representations of Family Dynamics in the 21st Century".
Tom Emery, Netherlands Institute for Demographic Research. "Comparative research on family dynamics and harmonised data"
Chair: Ann Berrington
Follow @CPCpopulation and @usociety using #usociety17 to keep updated with this event.
Tuesday, April 25th 2017
CPC's Dr Bijak talks Bayesian Statistics in Liverpool (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Jakub Bijak
University of Liverpool
Tuesday, April 25th 2017
CPC's Dr Jakub Bijak presented his research in a University of Liverpool Seminar on the topic of '(Population and Spatial Analysis) - Migration, demography and Bayesian statistics'.
Jakub's research interest focuses on the applications of quantitative methods in demography, especially in migration and population forecasting, agent-based population modelling, demography of conflict and violence and international migration studies, as well as on research on population ageing, mortality, links between population and the environment and demographic uncertainty.
For further information about the event, please visit the seminar page here.