Sunday, December 5th 2021 - Friday, December 10th 2021
International Population Conference 2021 (IPC 2021) (Conferences)
Hyderabad, Indi
Sunday, December 5th 2021
Sunday, December 5th 2021
The IUSSP International Population Conference is the world's largest international scientific conference on population issues.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, IPC2021 will now be a hybrid conference with a small number of in-person sessions in India, while most sessions will be virtual.
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham is the theme convenor for "Older Adults and Intergenerational Relations"
Key Dates
01 March 2021
Website opens for submission of papers and posters
15 May 2021
Last date for submission of papers or posters
15 September 2021
• Deadline to submit Sponsored Research Leader Session propositions
• Author notification for papers and posters
• Website opens for Conference Registration and financial assistance applications
15 October 2021
Deadline for presenting authors to register to confirm programme slots
01 November 2021
Expiration of reduced early bird registration fee
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Conference Opening Ceremony
For details, please visit the Conference website http://ipc2021hyderabad.iussp.org/ or send an email to ipc2021@iussp.org.
Monday, September 6th 2021 - Thursday, September 9th 2021
Royal Statistical Society Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Manchester
Monday, September 6th 2021
Monday, September 6th 2021
Conference website
CPC members are organising a session on Statistical Demography.
Friday, July 16th 2021
CPC Webinar - Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula (Seminars and lectures)
Maarten Bijslma
Zoom
Friday, July 16th 2021
12:00-13:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 16 July at 12:00 BST. Maarten Bijlsma, University of Groningen / MPIDR, will be giving a talk entitled "Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula"
Title: Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula
Abstract: Theories predict that the timing of childbearing and number of children born are determined by multiple socio-economic factors. Despite this, many methods cannot investigate the interrelationships between these determinants, including the direct and indirect influence that they have on fertility over the life course. Here we use the parametric g-formula to examine the interdependent influences of time-varying socio-economic processes-education, employment status and partnership status-on fertility. To demonstrate this approach, we study a cohort of women who were born in the UK in 1970. Our results show that socio-economic processes play an important role in determining fertility, not only directly but also indirectly. We show that increasing attendance in higher education has a largely direct effect on early childbearing up to age 25 years, resulting in a substantial increase in childlessness. However, childbearing at later ages is dominated by an indirect effect of education on fertility, via partnership status and employment status, that is twice as large as the direct effect. We also use the g-formula to ex-amine bias due to unobserved heterogeneity, and we demonstrate that our results appear to be robust. We conclude that the method provides a valuable tool for mediation analysis in studies of interdependent life course processes.
Registration:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82414181273?pwd=Vy9IUjkvM2pTTHFOTmtjQ2FUT3pXUT09
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Thursday, June 24th 2021
CPC Webinar - Chris Dibben (Seminars and lectures)
Chris Dibben, University of Edinburgh
Zoom
Thursday, June 24th 2021
13:00-1400 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 24 June at 13:00 BST. Chris Dibben, University of Edinburgh, will be giving a talk TBC.
Title: TBC
Abstract: TBC
Registration: TBC
Meeting Recording:
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Friday, June 18th 2021
CPC Webinar - Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from England, Ireland, and the U.S. (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Eibich, MPIDR
Virtual
Friday, June 18th 2021
12:00-13:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 18 June at 12:00 BST. Peter Eibich, MPIDR, will be giving a talk entitled "Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from England, Ireland, and the U.S."
Title: Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from England, Ireland, and the U.S.
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.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtc-2vqjwvEtWj8KP-0B6h1TbqoCq3FIPs
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Monday, June 14th 2021 - Friday, June 25th 2021
SICSS-Oxford 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, June 14th 2021
Monday, June 14th 2021
The 2021 Oxford partner site of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) is now accepting applications.
The purpose of SICSS is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career researchers interested in computational social science for two weeks of intensive study and collaborative research that challenges disciplinary boundaries. The Summer Institutes are for both social scientists with an interest in computational research (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived) with an interest in the social sciences.
SICSS-Oxford will be held online from June 14-25, 2021 and will be organised by Chris Barrie (University of Edinburgh), Charles Rahal, Francesco Rampazzo and Tobias Rüttenauer. It is generously supported by Nuffield College (in conjunction with the Department of Sociology and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science).
The Summer Institutes will involve live and pre-recorded videos, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be research talks from speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, reproducible data carpentry and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for participants to discuss their ideas and research with the organisers and other participants and undertake group work. As we are committed to open and reproducible research, all materials created by faculty and students for SICSS are available via an open-source resource so that people who are unable to attend one of the institutes are able to learn online. Application are due by 11:59pm GMT on March 15th, 2021.
More information about SICSS-Oxford and the application procedure can be found on the SICSS-Oxford website: https://sicss.io/2021/oxford/.
Monday, June 7th 2021 - Wednesday, June 9th 2021
BSG Annual Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, June 7th 2021
Monday, June 7th 2021
50th Anniversary Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology, 7 - 9 July 2021: ‘Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change’.
CPC Research Fellow Lisa Davidson will be presenting “How are the lonely caregivers? The combined effect of caregiving and loneliness on wellbeing”.
Find out more information on the conference website.
Thursday, May 27th 2021
CPC Webinar - Ingrid Schoon (Seminars and lectures)
Ingrid Schoon, UCL, Institute of Education
Zoom
Thursday, May 27th 2021
13:00-14:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 27 May at 13:00 BST. Ingrid Schoon, UCL, Institute of Education will be giving a talk title TBC.
Provisional title: The transition to adulthood in times of social change.
Abstract: TBC
Registration: TBC
Meeting Recording:
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Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - Saturday, May 8th 2021
PAA 2021 Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Virtual
Wednesday, May 5th 2021
Wednesday, May 5th 2021
The Population Association of America's annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad.
CPC members will be attended and presenting at PAA 2021:
5 May 10:45-12:00
Session 32 - New Trends in International Migration
A "Brexodus"? European Migrants in the United Kingdom in the Light of the Facebook Advertising Data
Francesco Rampazzo*, University of Oxford; Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton; Agnese Vitali, University of Trento; Ingmar Weber, Qatar
Computing Research Institute, Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
5 May 9:30-11:00
Poster Session 3 - Children, Youth, and Intergenerational Ties; and Education, work, and Economic Inequality
For better or for worse? Economic strain, work-family balance, and Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 pandemic
Brienna Perelli-Harris*, University of Southampton; Shih-Yi Chao, University of Southampton; Ann Berrington, University of Southampton
5 May 1:00 - 2:15
Session 130 Family Structure and Child Well-being
Sleep Hours and Quality Before and After Baby: Inequalities by Gender and Partnership
Shih-Yi Chao*, University of Southampton; Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; Ann Berrington, University of Southampton; Niels Blom
5 May 3:15-4:45
Poster Session 5 - Family Demography; and Historical Demography
The Role of Religion and Forerunners During the Fertility Decline in England and Wales, 1851-1911
Stephanie Thiehoff*; Andrew Hinde, University of Southampton; Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; Agnese Vitali, University of Trento
7 May 9:15-10:30
Session 185 - Cohabitation and Nonmarital Relationships
Relationship Quality and Family Formation in Europe: How Country Context Shapes (Un)happy Couples' Transitions to Marriage and First Birth
Niels Blom*; Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; Kenneth Wiik, Statistics Norway, research department
7 May 9:15-10:30
Session 185 - Cohabitation and Nonmarital Relationships
Do Couples Face an Economic Bar to Marriage? Understanding the Contribution of Men's and Women's Economic Precariousness on First Cohabitation Outcomes in the United Kingdom, 1991-2018
Lydia Palumbo*, Max Planck Institute
7 May 1:30-3:00
Poster Session 7 - Gender and Sexuality; and Health and Health Behaviour
Is Healthy Immigrant a Wealthy Immigrant? Migrant Women's Reproductive Health in Finland, 2007-2017
Heini Vaisanen*, University of Southampton; Hanna Remes, University of Helsinki; Pekka Martikainen, University of Helsinki
8 May 9:15-10:30
Session 250 - International Comparisons and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Behaviors and Attitudes in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights From a Cross-National Facebook Survey
Daniela Perrotta*; Andre Grow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Francesco Rampazzo, Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton; Jorge Cimentada, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Emanuele Del Fava, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Sofia Gil-Clavel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Emilio Zagheni,Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
8 May 9:15-10:30
Session 256 - Outcomes of Pregnancy Intentions
The Effect of Birth Intention Status on Maternal and Child Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Fixed-Effects Analysis
Heini Vaisanen*, University of Southampton; Ewa Batyra, University of Pennsylvania
All times are U.S. Central Time (GMT -6)
Find more information on the conference website.
Thursday, April 29th 2021
CPC Webinar - Age, gender and socio-economic differentials in co-morbidity at time of death in England & Wales (Seminars and lectures)
Emily Grundy, University of Essex
Zoom
Thursday, April 29th 2021
13:00-14:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 29 April at 13:00. Emily Grundy, Professor of Population Science, University of Essex, will be giving a talk entitled "Age, gender and socio-economic differentials in co-morbidity at time of death in England & Wales".
Title: Age, gender and socio-economic differentials in co-morbidity at time of death in England & Wales
Abstract: Multimorbidity is common in older age groups and is associated with increased disability, frailty, poor quality of life and higher risks of death, including death from COVID-19. Prior research using survey or clinical data to ascertain levels and risks of multimorbidity indicates associations with indicators of individual or area-based deprivation. Use of multi-cause coded death certificate data has been proposed as valuable additional source of information which may also provide insights into quality of cause of death coding. However, analyses of death certificate derived data generally only provide information on contemporaneous circumstances of decedents. In this study we use data from a nationally representative census-based record linkage study of the England & Wales population to investigate associations between reporting of multiple causes of death and socio-demographic characteristics recorded at death and at the census prior to death. We also compare trends and differentials in number of causes of death reported over the period 2001-17.
Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sduispj4iHdyVgKuVh4o2MrRwdVynnjDR
Meeting Recording:
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Monday, April 26th 2021 - Wednesday, April 28th 2021
Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, April 26th 2021
Monday, April 26th 2021
Session “Economics ‘Applied’: Celebrating Professor David Bell’s Impact and Contribution to Economic Policy” takes place at 16:00 on 26th April with David Bell, David Branchflower, Nicola McEwen, Arie Kapteyn and chaired by Mirko Moro. Registration to the conference is open to members: https://ses2021.org/
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Professor David Bell retired last September after a career serving the Scottish and UK economic policy scene. David's work span areas such as labour, health economics and political economy and he is an example on how our work can have a positive impact on society and national discourse. David is well known for his commitment to policy and he has served on many committees. Recently he has engaged with projects, debates and initiatives linked to constitutional changes in the UK and the impact of an ageing society. He has been working hard to set up HAGIS, a longitudinal study of ageing in Scotland that builds on well established initiatives such as HRS, ELSA, but goes beyond by linking survey data to administrative data at the onset.
Saturday, April 17th 2021
Local Population Studies Society (Conferences)
University of Southampton & Virtual
Saturday, April 17th 2021
CPC researchers Stephanie Thiehoff and Andrew Hinde are the conference organisers for the "Local Population Studies Society Conference 2021". The conference will be held on 17 April 2021, organised in conjunction with the University of Southampton. At present, this conference will be in a virtual format, though we hope to offer a face-to-face option at the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research at the University of Southampton should the disease environment allow this.
The conference is intended to showcase the work being done on local population history by postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers in universities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. 'Local population studies' is broadly defined, and includes the following topics, and the interrelationship between them:
- Fertility and mortality patterns
- Migration
- Health
- Household and family structure
- Labour force participation
- Economic, social and cultural characteristics
Papers are invited from researchers in both social sciences and the humanities using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Please submit offers of papers to the Conference organisers: Stephanie Thiehoff (S.Thiehoff@soton.ac.uk) and Andrew Hinde (PRAHinde@aol.com). Offers should include the following: title, name(s) of author(s) and an abstract of 150-200 words.
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Friday, April 16th 2021
CPC Webinar - A Bayesian cohort component projection model to estimate adult populations at the subnational level (Seminars and lectures)
Monica Alexander, Statistics and Sociology, University of Toronto
Zoom
Friday, April 16th 2021
14:00-15:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 16 April at 14:00. Monica Alexander, Statistics and Sociology, University of Toronto will be giving a talk entitled "A Bayesian cohort component projection model to estimate adult populations at the subnational level."
Title: A Bayesian cohort component projection model to estimate adult populations at the subnational level
Abstract: Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. For example, estimates of the number of women of reproductive age are important to understand the population at risk to maternal mortality and unmet need for contraception. However, in many countries, data on population counts are limited and are of poor quality, and so levels and trends subnationally are unclear. We present a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate adult populations at the subnational level. The model builds on a cohort component projection framework, incorporates census data and estimates from the United Nation's World Population Prospects, and uses characteristic mortality schedules to obtain estimates of population counts and the components of population change. The data required as inputs to the model are minimal and available across a wide range of countries, including most low-income countries. The model is applied to estimate and project populations by county in Kenya for 1979-2020.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ode6ppjIrHdSH0isyX9eS_P5NoPFeuvJd
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Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - Thursday, April 15th 2021
BSA 70th Anniversary Virtual Conference: Remaking the Future (Conferences)
Virtual
Tuesday, April 13th 2021
Tuesday, April 13th 2021
The theme of the BSA 70th Anniversary Conference, 13-15 April 2021 is Remaking the Future. Little did we know how relevant the choice of words would turn out to be. The BSA is having to remake its own future in the context of the pandemic and one major consequence is that our 2021 Annual Conference will now be a virtual event but this will not be just another Zoom-style meeting!
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Giuseppe Troccoli will be attending and presenting on work with
Derek Mcghee, Chris Moreh, Athina Vlachantoni, “Time and experience in the transnational healthcare practices of Poles in the United Kingdom”.
More info: https://britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-annual-conference-2021-remaking-the-future/
Monday, March 29th 2021
Writing for publication: A masterclass with Professor Athina Vlachantoni (Workshops)
Professor Athina Vlachantoni
Virtual
Monday, March 29th 2021
12:00-13:00 BST
Event by British Society of Gerontology's Emerging Researchers in Ageing
Register for this free event on on Eventbrite.
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Join Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Deputy Editor of Ageing & Society, for a masterclass on how to publish your ageing-related research.
Writing for publication is an essential skill for academics. Besides allowing you to share your research within the wider academic community, being published in academic journals helps establish you as an expert in the field.
Athina Vlachantoni is Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She is a member of the British Society of Gerontology, and Deputy Editor of Ageing & Society. In this presentation, she will discuss how to prepare your research for publication, as well as:
• How to target the appropriate journal for your research.
• How the journal review process works.
• How to respond to revision and resubmission suggestions.
Take the first step towards publishing your work. Join us for an interesting and informative masterclass.
Thursday, March 25th 2021
CPC Webinar - Lifecourse of Place: how environments throughout life can support healthy ageing (Seminars and lectures)
Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh
Zoom
Thursday, March 25th 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 25 March at 13:00 GMT. Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh will be giving a talk entitled "Lifecourse of Place: how environments throughout life can support healthy ageing"
Title: Lifecourse of Place: how environments throughout life can support healthy ageing
Abstract: Providing new insights into the how the places we live and grow older can be best designed to support healthy ageing has emerged as an important research and policy priority. Previous work has identified barriers to health and effective functioning for older people, and considered how environments experienced in older age might support people to age well. However, we know little about the aspects of environments experienced throughout life that might support the maintenance of healthy functioning in later life. This study examines how place-based circumstances from childhood through onwards can enhance healthy ageing. More particularly it draws on the "life course of place" to help examine how places evolve over time and what matter at different points in the lifecourse in predicting later life health outcomes. The seminar will describe the development of a dataset that captured the lifetime environmental circumstances (including green space, air pollution and area-level deprivation) of a cohort of older people (participants of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936) alongside detailed individual-level information, including high quality indicators of healthy ageing. Early results from the study consider the impact of full lifetime exposures to these geographical indicators on indicators of healthy ageing collected through brain imaging, cognitive testing and biomarkers of biological ageing (telomere length and epigenetic clock). In particular, We will examine whether there are (a) critical periods (childhood, early adulthood, adulthood and later adulthood) in which area-level characteristics are particularly important in explaining the later life outcomes, and/or (b) whether the environmental factors accumulate over the lifecourse to affect healthy ageing.
Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ldOqoqDIrGdcPMoLtUskKK63LhOBsS77H
Meeting Recording:
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Monday, March 22nd 2021 - Friday, March 26th 2021
Understanding Society: Changing Families Mini Conference (Conferences)
Online
Monday, March 22nd 2021
Monday, March 22nd 2021
A week-long, mini-conference exploring families in the UK. Curated by CPC member and Understanding Society Topic Champion for Families, Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, the week will focus on research on families and partnerships.
Sessions take place daily every afternoon from Monday 22 March 2021.
Monday 22 March - Non-Resident Families
3.00 - 3.15: Conference welcome, Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris (University of Southampton)
3.15 - 3.30: Were relationships between children and their non-resident parents affected during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic? Caroline Bryson (LSE)
3.30 - 3.45: The mental load in separated families. Dr Renee Luthra (University of Essex)
3.45 - 4.00: The social class position of complex modern families in Understanding Society. Dr Chris Playford (University of Exeter)
4.00 - 4.15: Break
4.15 - 4.30: Poverty, family relationships and children's subjective wellbeing. Larissa Pople (University of Essex)
4.30 - 4.45: Discussant, Dr Tina Haux
4.45 - 5.15: Questions for presenters and discussion
Tuesday 23 March - Same-Sex Families
3.00 - 3.50: Keynote speaker Dr Diederik Boertien (Centre d'Estidos Demogràfics, Barcelona).
4.00 - 4.15: The long-term effect of family support on sleep problems for sexual minorities: evidence from a UK longitudinal study. Andrew Nielson (Brock University)
4.15 - 4.30: Early labour market outcomes of children in same-sex families: evidence from population data. Silvia Palmaccio (KU Leuven)
4.30 - 4.45: Discussant
4.45 - 5.15: Questions for presenters and discussion.
Wednesday 24 March - Housework and Gender
3.00 - 3.50: Keynote speaker Associate Professor Man Yee Kan (University of Oxford)
Gender division of labour: Paid work, domestic work, and total work in East Asian and Western Societies, 1980s - 2010s, and the declining significance of marriage and parental status in Great Britain, 1992 - 2017.
3.50 - 4.00: Break
4.00 - 4.15: Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK Covid-19. Anna Zamberlan (University of Trento)
4.15 - 4.30: Unpaid care work and psychological distress during the first UK lockdown: evidence from Understanding Society. Professor Anne McMunn (UCL)
4.30 - 4.45: Wage growth predicted by couple division of paid and unpaid work across the UK wage distribution. Dr Niels Blom (University of Bath)
4.45 - 5.15: Questions for presenters and discussion
Thursday 25 March - Providing Care
2:15 - 3.00 Understanding Society family developments consultation. Professor Michaela Benzeval (Director, Understanding Society)
3.00 - 3.15: Should I care or should I work? The impact of working longer on informal care. Dr Ludovico Carrino (King's College London)
3.15 - 3.30: Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey. Kelly Reeve (University of Essex)
3.30 - 3.45: Spousal care and marital quality in later life: a longitudinal analysis. Dr Ursula Henz (LSE)
3.45 - 4.00: Discussant
4.00 - 4.30: Questions for presenters and discussion.
Friday 26 March - Insecure Work and Family Relationships
3.00 - 3.15: Furlough and relationship quality. Dr Shih-Yi Chao (University of Southampton)
3.15 - 3.30: Families of austerity: welfare cuts and family stress in Great Britain. Dr Gabriele Mari (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
3.30 - 3.45: Does family life modify the effect of job security on mental health: a longitudinal analysis. Sukhdeep Kaur (Brock University)
3.45 - 4.00: Break
4.00 - 4.15: Parental socioeconomic status and young Briton's family expectations: are family structure and educational aspirations mediators of this relationship? Lydia Palumbo (University of Southampton)
4.15 - 4.30: Job instability and perceptions of employment uncertainty's effect on fertility outcomes. Brian Buh (Vienna Institute of Demography/ Austrian Academy of Sciences)
4.30 - 4.45: The future of families after Covid-19? Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris (University of Southampton)
4.45 - 5.30: Discussion
Register on the Understanding Society conference website.
Monday, March 22nd 2021 - Wednesday, March 24th 2021
Berlin Demography Days (Workshops)
Prof. Jane Falkingham
Virtual
Monday, March 22nd 2021
Monday, March 22nd 2021
CPC Director Jane Falkingham will be presenting at Berlin Demography Days, a three-day event that offers a platform for intense dialogue among scientific experts, policy makers, business leaders and representatives of international organisations and civil society.
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
On the second day, internationally renowned researchers will discuss the connection between demography, democracy and the welfare state in Europe. The lectures will deal with, among others, the question of equal access to the welfare state, aspects of generational justice, issues of social inequality and the effects of demographic changes on the composition of the electorate.
9:00 to 9:30: Opening Session (Dr Andreas Edel, Drs Nico van Nimwegen & Alanna Armitage)
9:30 to 10:00: Demography & Democracy: A Research Agenda (Prof. Dr Heike Klüver)
10:00 to 10:30: Demography & Brexit (Prof. Jane C. Falkingham OBE)
11:00 to 11:30: Migration and Access to Welfare in the EU: The Interplay Between Residence and Nationality (Dr Daniela Vintila)
11:30 to 12:00: No One Left Behind? Equality Goals of Welfare States & the Current State of Affairs in Finland (Prof. Dr Jani Erola)
13:00 to 13:30: Europe as a Continent of Pro-Elderly Welfare States within Child-Oriented Societies (Prof. Pieter Vanhuyss)
13:30 to 14:00: Why ‘Bad Jobs’ are Bad for Democracy: Precarious Work & Political Participation in Europe (Prof. Ian Ross Macmillan)
Find the full programme and registration details at the Population Europe website.
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Friday, March 19th 2021
CPC Webinar - Paleodemography of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods (Seminars and lectures)
Sylwia Łukasik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań & Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton
Zoom
Friday, March 19th 2021
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 19 March at 12:00 GMT. Sylwia Łukasik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań and Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton, will be giving a talk entitled "Paleodemography of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods".
Title: Paleodemography of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods
Video
Read the full paper by Sylwia Łukasik, Jakub Bijak, Marta Krenz‐Niedbała, Vitaly Sinika: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24211
Abstract: In this talk we present an application of Bayesian methods for assessing age at death in ancient societies, by using an example of a Black Sea Scythians population from 5th to 2nd century BCE, whose remains were excavated in Glinoe, Moldova. We offer brief background information about Scythians, before reviewing methods for assessing age at death based on the skeletal material, with focus on Bayesian methods used in that area of contemporary paleodemography. We illustrate the discussion with the results of the analysis for the Glinoe Scythian population, based on the multinomial-Dirichlet model proposed by Caussinus and Courgeau (2010) but with a range of prior reference populations, including a hypothetical, subjective one. The results indicate high uncertainty of age estimation, and high sensitivity to the assumptions and modelling choices, but still enable identifying some important features of the age at death distribution, such as elevated mortality risk in young adulthood, characteristic for this population of ancient warriors.
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Friday, March 5th 2021 - Sunday, March 14th 2021
CPC at SOTSEF 2021 (Public engagement events)
Virtual
Friday, March 5th 2021
Friday, March 5th 2021
Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) is the University of Southampton's annual award-winning science festival that allows everyone to explore and discover what the world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Medicine) has to offer.
The ESRC Centre for Population Change will be showcasing the following activities at the festival:
CPC Population Pyramids: Minecraft edition
We invite you to explore our Minecraft world to learn about Population Pyramids! Log onto our Minecraft Java server to explore the world we have created.
Population Pyramids are graphs used to illustrate the population structure of a particular place at a particular time. Players are able to explore different types of population pyramid, learning how to read what the pyramid says about the population now and what may have happened to the population in the past.
CPC Q&A: What is computer modelling and why do we use it?
What is modelling and why is it helpful? Computer models are used to simulate, predict estimate things that have or may happen. You may have learnt about them at school or heard of them on the news for example, models can tell us how effective wearing fabric masks can be during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this series of videos CPC modelling experts explain how models simulate the behaviour of people in different environments and how understanding this can help inform society.
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If you have enjoyed learning about human populations change and the causes and consequences of these changes, then a BSc in Population Geography might be for you!
Covering topics on migration, population growth, global health, inequality, and globalisation, these skills will allow you to pursue careers such as population analyst, regional planner or social researcher.
Visit the University of Southampton Population Geography course page for more details.
Thursday, February 25th 2021
CPC Webinar - A new look at the geography of housing careers in Great Britain (Seminars and lectures)
Rory Coulter, UCL, Department of Geography
Zoom
Thursday, February 25th 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 25 February at 13:00 GMT. Rory Coulter, UCL, Department of Geography will be giving a talk entitled 'A new look at the geography of housing careers in Great Britain'.
Title: A new look at the geography of housing careers in Great Britain
Abstract: Housing inequality has been a major focus of UK public policy debates during the last decade. Much of the attention has centred on intergenerational disparities and in particular the tendency for recent cohorts of young adults to delay entry into homeownership. However, surprisingly little is known about the geography of housing careers and the ways these may have changed over time.
This presentation introduces ongoing project research examining spatial variation in housing careers across Great Britain. The talk has two dimensions. First, preliminary results from cross-sectional and longitudinal survey analysis will be presented. Second, the talk will report on the process of assembling, validating and analysing a new resource for geographical analysis of migration and housing careers. This is being created by repurposing a range of non-traditional data resources including (a) Electoral and Consumer Register data, (b) commercial data on private lettings from Zoopla and (c) administrative property transactions records compiled by the Land Registry/Registers of Scotland.
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Tuesday, February 23rd 2021
Exploratory Meeting (Workshops)
Virtual
Tuesday, February 23rd 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT / 14:00-15:00 CET
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021, Population Europe will host a meeting between the Vice President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography Dubravka Šuica, and leading demographers at the EU.
The purpose of this first of what is planned to be a regular series of meetings of the European Commission’s Vice-President for Democracy and Demography with European demography experts is: a) to fuel the European Commission’s reflection on initiatives in the field of demography on the basis of substantiated expertise and evidence; b) to identify, with the experts’ help, the most burning areas where initiatives on a European level would be necessary and of added value c) to feed ideas and themes into the Commission’s newly established internal demography networks which are conceived to support the work of the Vice-President.
Participants include:
- Gunnar Andersson
- Francesco Billari
- Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak
- Ivan Čipin
- Helga de Valk
- Jane C. Falkingham
- Juho Härkönen
- Wolfgang Lutz
- Melinda Mills
- Rainer Münz
- Zsolt Spéder
- Dubravka Šuica
- Magda Tomasini
- Emilio Zagheni
Friday, February 12th 2021
CPC Webinar - Carrying out rapid qualitative research during a pandemic: Emerging lessons from COVID-19 (Seminars and lectures)
Cecilia Vindrola, University College London
Zoom
Friday, February 12th 2021
14:00-15:00 GMT
Please note the change of start time - this webinar will now take place at 14:00 GMT.
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 12 February at 14:00 GMT. Cecilia Vindrola, University College London will be giving a talk title entitled "Carrying out rapid qualitative research during a pandemic: Emerging lessons from COVID-19".
Title: Carrying out rapid qualitative research during a pandemic: Emerging lessons from COVID-19
Abstract:Social scientists have a robust history of contributing to better understandings of and responses to disease outbreaks. The implementation of qualitative research in the context of infectious epidemics, however, continues to lag behind in the delivery, credibility and timeliness of findings when compared to other research designs. The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on our experience of carrying out a study aimed at exploring healthcare delivery in the UK in the context of COVID-19. I will discuss the importance of qualitative data to inform evidence-based public health responses and provide a way forward to research teams who wish to implement similar rapid qualitative studies. I will reflect on the challenges of setting up research teams, obtaining ethical approval, collecting and analysing data in real-time and sharing actionable findings.
Bio
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a medical anthropologist interested in applied health research and the development of rapid approaches to research. She works across five interdisciplinary teams, applying anthropological theories and methods to study and improve healthcare delivery in the UK and abroad. She has written extensively on the use of rapid qualitative research and currently Co-Directs the Rapid Research Evaluation and Appraisal Lab (RREAL) with Dr Ginger Johnson. Cecilia works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention, UCL and as a Social Scientist at the NIAA Health Services Research Centre (HSRC), Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA). She is the past director of the Qualitative Health Research Network (QHRN) and a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
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Thursday, February 4th 2021
CPC Webinar - Studying health and migration using social media: tools for survey participant recruitment complement digital trace data (Seminars and lectures)
Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research/University of Washington
Zoom
Thursday, February 4th 2021
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 04 February at 12:00 GMT. Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of Washington, will be giving a talk entitled "Studying health and migration using social media: tools for survey participant recruitment complement digital trace data".
Title: Studying health and migration using social media: tools for survey participant recruitment complement digital trace data
Abstract: Passively-collected information about social media users as well as posts and related content have been increasingly used for demographic research related to health and migration. These digital traces, often made available via advertisement platforms, offer new insights into socio-demographic processes, but also have a number of imperfections and limitations. The same advertisement platforms can be used as a tool to rapidly recruit survey participants across countries and to reach hard-to-reach populations. This talk discusses recent work done at MPIDR to complement the two approaches. It concentrates on two main components: (i) assessing cultural assimilation of Mexican immigrants in the US via Facebook data, as well as via a Facebook migration survey that is about to be fielded; (ii) the Covid-19 Health Behavior Survey: an online opt-in survey based on targeted Facebook advertising campaigns across eight countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States), that was conducted daily from March 13-August 12, resulting in 144,034 completed questionnaires. This survey collected information on people's health, attitudes, behaviors, and social contacts. The talk discusses methodological approaches to correct for biases and to combine digital trace data with survey estimates, as well as provides initial substantive results from these initiatives.
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Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - Thursday, February 4th 2021
PAA 2021 Applied Demography Conference (Conferences)
Virtual
Tuesday, February 2nd 2021
Tuesday, February 2nd 2021
CPC members will be presenting at the PAA virtual conference 02-04 February 2021.
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PAA is excited about providing applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference built to showcase their work, strengthen their personal network, and to bring the applied demography community together. Join us virtually February 2-4, 2021, for this first-ever event! #PAA-Event
The entire conference will be virtual, and schedule times will be Eastern Standard (EST).
Starts: Feb 2, 2021 9:00 AM (ET)
Ends: Feb 4, 2021 5:00 PM (ET)
Thursday, January 28th 2021
CPC Webinar - Understanding Society COVID-19 Study (Seminars and lectures)
Michaela Benzeval, University of Essex
Zoom
Thursday, January 28th 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 28 January at 13:00 GMT. Michaela Benzeval, University of Essex, will be giving a talk entitled "Understanding Society COVID-19 Study"
Title: Understanding Society COVID-19 Study
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown is the biggest shock to society since World War 2. Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, therefore mobilised itself very quickly to start collecting monthly data on how families across the UK have been affected by it. This presentation will describe the Understanding Society COVID-19 Study - its design, content, response rates and representativeness, breadth of use and impact. It will then present some findings from the Study on the mental health consequences of the pandemic for the population as a whole as well as specific vulnerable groups such as those shielding and carers.
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Friday, January 22nd 2021
Femquant & CPC Athena Swan Webinar - Reconsidered Disadvantage in the United States: An Intersectional Analysis (Seminars and lectures)
Dominique Green, University of St Andrews
Zoom
Friday, January 22nd 2021
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC Athena Swan webinar will be held jointly with Femquant (https://femquant.squarespace.com/) on Friday 22 January at 12:00 GMT. Dominique Green, University of St Andrews will be giving a talk entitled "Reconsidered Disadvantage in the United States: An Intersectional Analysis".
Title: Reconsidered Disadvantage in the United States: An Intersectional Analysis
Abstract: Poverty and disadvantage in the United States is commonly defined in terms of low income. This definition and its subsequent measurement neglects the multidimensional nature of the phenomena. Most research acknowledges that this reductionist measure is insufficient but there have been few attempts at quantifying US poverty and disadvantage multidimensionally. In this seminar, I will draw on the European social exclusion literature and apply the Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix to indicators from the US Census Bureau produced American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample - with a sample size of 3 million addresses - in order to uncover factors of disadvantage in the United States. Additionally, I will discuss the relationship between these dimensions and sociodemographic characteristics primarily via the use of intersectionality as an analytic tool. This research explores how the intersection between race and gender better informs understandings of the experience of disadvantage at the individual level than an exploration of gender alone, particularly for Black women. Overall, using a conceptualisation of disadvantage not previously applied to the US, the research quantitatively shows that income is just one piece of a complex social issue and that women, minorities, and those at the intersection of those characteristics face disadvantage across dimensions.
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Thursday, December 17th 2020
CPC Webinar - Understanding the lives of immigrants and their descendants: From selection to adaptation (Seminars and lectures)
Ben Wilson, Stockholm University and London School of Economics
Zoom
Thursday, December 17th 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 17 December at 13:00 GMT.
Title: Understanding the lives of immigrants and their descendants: From selection to adaptation
Abstract: In this seminar, I will discuss some of the most important problems that social scientists face when studying immigrants and their descendants. I will focus on: (a) the challenges of testing theories and hypotheses, (b) the problems of generalisation, and (c) future directions for empirical research. Throughout the seminar, I will provide an overview of some recent socio-demographic research on immigrants and their descendants, with a focus on several of my own studies as examples from the literature. I will show how immigrants are selectively different from those who remain in their origin countries, how their socio-economic lives adapt after arrival, and how their demographic behaviours change across generations. Reflecting on what we know, I will then propose some directions for future research that I hope will help us to gain a deeper understanding of the lives of immigrants and their descendants. My aim is that this will facilitate a constructive discussion and debate, both during the seminar and afterwards.
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Monday, December 14th 2020 - Friday, December 18th 2020
Winter Simulation Conference 2020 (Conferences)
Prof Jakub Bijak
Virtual
Monday, December 14th 2020
Monday, December 14th 2020
Winter Simulation conference is going virtual for 2020. Find out more: http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2020/
Prof Jakub Bijak will be presenting on work with Philip A. Higham, Jason Hilton, Martin Hinsch, Sarah Nurse, and Toby Prike; Oliver Reinhardt; Peter WF Smith; and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher in session 'Simulation for Global Challenges' on Thursday 17 December.
Thursday 12:00pm-1:30pm
Technical Session · Simulation for Global Challenges
Simulation for Global Challenges
Chair: Stewart Robinson (Loughborough University)
Modelling Migration: Decisions, Processes and Outcomes
Jakub Bijak, Philip A. Higham, Jason Hilton, Martin Hinsch, Sarah Nurse, and Toby Prike (University of Southampton); Oliver Reinhardt (University of Rostock); Peter WF Smith (University of Southampton); and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher (University of Rostock)
Abstract
Human migration is uncertain and complex, and some of its distinct features, such as migration routes, can emerge and change very rapidly. Agency of various actors is one key reason for why migration eludes attempts at its theoretical description, explanation and prediction. To address the complexity challenges through simulation models, which would coherently link micro-level decisions with macro-level processes, a coherent model design and construction process is needed. Here, we present such a process alongside its five building blocks: an agent-based simulation of migration route formation, resembling the recent asylum migration to Europe; an evaluation framework for migration data; psychological experiments eliciting decisions under uncertainty; the choice of a programming language and modelling formalisms; and statistical analysis with Bayesian meta-modelling based on Gaussian Process assumptions and experimental design principles. This process allows to identify knowledge advancements that can be achieved through modelling, and to elucidate the remaining knowledge gaps.
Friday, December 11th 2020
CPC Webinar - The spatial diffusion of nonmarital childbearing in Belgium (1968-2017) (Seminars and lectures)
Yoann Doignon, UCLouvain, Centre for Demographic Research
Zoom
Friday, December 11th 2020
12:00-13:00 GMT
Please note the change of date - this webinar will now be held on Friday 11 December.
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 11 December. Yoann Doignon, Centre for Demographic Research, Université, will be giving a talk entitled 'The spatial diffusion of nonmarital childbearing in Belgium (1968-2017)'
Title:The spatial diffusion of nonmarital childbearing in Belgium (1968-2017)
Abstract: This presentation focuses on the spatial dynamics of nonmarital births in Belgium. The objective of the analysis is to determine the extent to which the spread of nonmarital births follows a process of spatial diffusion. For this purpose, both a detailed geographical level (municipalities) and a long study period (50 years: 1968-2017) are used, which is the originality of this study. Mapping is used to draw up the evolution of the spatial pattern of nonmarital births in Belgium. In a further step, we use spatial panel models to measure if a spatial diffusion effect persists, taking into account the characteristics (demographic, socio-economic and cultural) of territories.
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Thursday, December 3rd 2020
CPC Webinar - Utilizing population register data to understand socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 mortality: The case of Sweden (Seminars and lectures)
Gunnar Andersson,Stockholm University
Zoom
Thursday, December 3rd 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 03 December at 13:00 GMT.Gunnar Andersson, Professor in Demography and Head of the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) will be giving a talk entitled "Utilizing population register data to understand socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 mortality: The case of Sweden".
Title: Utilizing population register data to understand socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 mortality: The case of Sweden
Abstract: As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second wave, global deaths continue to rise. This holds for countries across Europe, including Sweden which was particularly hard hit in the first wave of the pandemic. Owing to the high quality and coverage of Swedish population register and administrative data, Sweden offers unique possibilities for more in-depth research on the role of different socio-demographic factors in COVID-19 mortality. In our project, we use data on all recorded COVID-19 deaths in Sweden up to May 7 2020 linked to high-quality and accurate individual-level background data from different registers. Using individual-level survival analysis we demonstrate that being male, having less disposable income, a lower education level, not being married, and being an immigrant from a low- or middle-income country all independently predict a higher risk of death from COVID-19. We also observe differences in mortality between people with different household arrangements and work-place characteristics. The main finding is that COVID-19 exerts a disproportionally heavy burden on the more disadvantaged members of society.
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Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - Friday, December 4th 2020
HumMingBird Expert workshop 'Mind the gap: critical perspectives on migration theories and data' (Seminars and lectures)
Online
Thursday, December 3rd 2020
Thursday, December 3rd 2020
09:00 - 17:00 CET
Jakub Bijak will be presenting at this expert meeting on 03 December 2020:
11:25-11:40 CET Jakub Bijak - Towards quantitative scenarios of European Migration: From uncertainty to knowledge
Find out more and watch the live stream on the HumMingBird project website.
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Thursday, November 26th 2020
CPC Webinar - Britain's first demographic transition: an integrated geography (Seminars and lectures)
Alice Reid, University of Cambridge
Zoom
Thursday, November 26th 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 26 November at 13:00 GMT. Alice Reid, University of Cambridge will be giving a talk entitled "Britain's first demographic transition: an integrated geography"
Title: Britain's first demographic transition: an integrated geography
Abstract: This talk will introduce our new ESRC-funded project which aims to re-examine the population history of Great Britain not as the story of as two, or three, separate countries, but as a spectrum of experiences over time and space, providing exciting new perspectives on, and understanding of, the demographic history of these islands. The project is still at an early stage, but builds on a previous project on fertility in Victorian England and Wales, and the talk will provide some results and conclusions from that study including a reappraisal of the decline in fertility during the first demographic transition. The new project incorporates Scottish data as well as considering a wider range of demographic processes, and the presentation will examine the challenges and opportunities of working with historical Scottish micro-data and melding that with the data and results from England and Wales.
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Tuesday, November 24th 2020
Pandemic Response & Data Driven Decision Making: with Professor Andy Tatem (Public engagement events)
Professor Adny Tatem, WorldPop. Professor Jane Falkingham, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Francesca Barnes, University Council.
Webinar
Tuesday, November 24th 2020
18:00-19:00
In conversation with Professor Andy Tatem, a virtual discussion followed by a live Q&A.
Register: [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pandemic-response-data-driven-decision-making-with-professor-andy-tatem-tickets-128265971975]|https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pandemic-response-data-driven-decision-making-with-professor-andy-tatem-tickets-128265971975
The University of Southampton is delighted to invite you to join Professor Andy Tatem on Tuesday 24 November, for an insightful discussion about the impact that data has in the fight against COVID-19.
Co-hosted by Professor Jane Falkingham, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Population Change, and Francesca Barnes, University Council, this virtual event will explore how we can harness data to influence our decisions and planning.
This event will explore what the analyses tell us about the early spread of COVID-19 within and beyond China and how data can help us design better strategies to control COVID-19.
Andy is Professor of spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton and is the Director of WorldPop and Flowminder, leading a group of more than 50 researchers and data scientists. Andy’s research has led to pioneering approaches to the use and integration of satellite, survey, cell phone and census data to map the distributions of vulnerable populations for disease, disaster and development applications. Andy runs international collaborations with national governments, UN agencies and data providers, and leads multiple research and operational projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, World Bank, Clinton Health Access Initiative and others.
This virtual discussion will be followed by a live Q&A, where you are invited to ask your questions to the panel. If you would like to submit your questions in advance, please email them to events@soton.ac.uk.
Thursday, November 12th 2020
ESRC Celebrating Impact Finalist Ceremony (Public engagement events)
Zoom
Thursday, November 12th 2020
14:00-15:45 GMT
Professor Jane Falkingham OBE and CPC colleagues have been shortlisted for this year’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding Public Policy Impact.
Join the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist ceremony, where you can watch a short film on our outstanding policy impact and find out who the winners are, on 12 November at 14:00-15:45.
Saturday, November 7th 2020 - Sunday, November 22nd 2020
CPC Population Pyramids: Minecraft Edition (Public engagement events)
Virtual
Saturday, November 7th 2020
Saturday, November 7th 2020
We invite you to explore our Minecraft world to learn about Population Pyramids as part of the University of Southampton's Human Worlds Digital Festival and the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences.
Population Pyramids are graphs used to illustrate the population structure of a particular place at a particular time. You will see some examples of different populations in this popular format. Using your Minecraft character to explore the area, you will learn to read the graphs.
Download the file below to find out how to connect to the game (you will need a copy of Minecraft Java). The server will be open from 07-22 November 2020.
To get started, use Java/PC Minecraft v1.16.4 to connect to multiplayer server "CPCpopulation.mc.gg"
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Friday, November 6th 2020
Public webinar B: Forecasting migration (Public engagement events)
Prof Jakub Bijak, Prof Laura Hammond, Prof Richard Black, Jon Simmons,
Webinar
Friday, November 6th 2020
11:00-12:30 GMT
oin leading experts at UK Parliament to find out more about migration. What are the economic and social aspects? What do the models say? Public and closed webinars will be taking place throughout November 2020.
Register on Eventbrite
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.
In November, a series of online public events and closed briefings will bring together UK parliamentarians and policy officials with responsibility for migration, representatives from UK universities and the third sector.
The first two webinars are open to the public and anyone can register.
The final three webinars are closed briefings and will only be open to Parliamentarians and Parliamentary staff. While anyone can register their interest for the closed briefings and ensure they receive a summary of the event after its completion, only those registered with a @parliament.uk email address will be invited to attend on the day.
6 November 2020, 11:00 to 12:30
Public webinar B: Forecasting migration
• Prof Jakub Bijak, Joint Head of Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton
• Prof Laura Hammond, Head of the London International Development Centre’s Migration Leadership Team, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• Prof Richard Black, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Head of the College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Jon Simmons, Deputy Director for Analysis on Migration and Border Policy, Home Office
CPC Staff will also be speaking in Public webinar A: Economy, society and migration on 3 November 11:00-12:30.
Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - Thursday, November 5th 2020
HKIAPS: Mobilizing Regional Collaboration in Policy Research (Conferences)
Keynote: Danny Quah, Jane Falkingham & Cai Fang
Zoom
Wednesday, November 4th 2020
Wednesday, November 4th 2020
The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies 30th Anniversary Conference, "Mobilizing Regional Collaboration in Policy Research" will be held online on zoom in November 2020.
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham will be presenting Keynote Session 2 "Demographic Change in the Asia-Pacific Region and it's Implications for Policy" on Wednesday 4th November 2020 at 15:00 HKT (7:00 GMT).
Full Programme and Register: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=11025035
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
ABM & CPC Webinar - An agent-based modelling approach to account for social interactions in demography (Seminars and lectures)
Prof. Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography
Webinar
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
This event is also part of the "Short course on Agent-based modelling for social research".
This ABM & CPC webinar will be held on Tuesday 03 November at 13:00 GMT. Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, executive director of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will be giving a talk entitled “An agent-based modelling approach to account for social interactions in demography”.
To attend the CPC webinar, please register via zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeqorTstGNfGhtWSyHKNL6FPMi_9EZCO
Title: An agent-based modelling approach to account for social interactions in demography
Abstract:
Demographic behaviour cannot be explained and understood in isolation from the social network one is linked to (e.g. Åberg 2003; Montgomery and Casterline 1996). These networks may consist of family members, friends and other peer groups which will have an impact through social learning and social influence on each other. However, the formalisation of such network effects to explain individual demographic behaviour lags behind the empirical evidence or is often simplified in terms of macro-level diffusion mechanisms that do not allow understanding the mechanisms of social network effects from the bottom up. Agent-based models allow to integrate such network effects into models of individual demographic decision processes and to build up the macro-level demographic patterns (e.g. aggregate fertility rates, marriage rates, etc.) from the bottom up.
Meeting Recording:
We will be recording the seminar and your participation in the meeting may be captured. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please ensure your microphone and camera are turned off for the duration of the talk. The Q&A session will not be recorded.
Your Details:
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Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
Public webinar A: Economy, society and migration (Public engagement events)
Jean-Christophe Dumont, Prof Jane Falkingham, Prof Brian Bell, Becca Briggs
Webinar
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
11:00-12:30 GMT
Join leading experts at UK Parliament to find out more about migration. What are the economic and social aspects? What do the models say? Public and closed webinars will be taking place throughout November 2020.
Register on Eventbrite
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.
In November, a series of online public events and closed briefings will bring together UK parliamentarians and policy officials with responsibility for migration, representatives from UK universities and the third sector.
The first two webinars are open to the public and anyone can register.
The final three webinars are closed briefings and will only be open to Parliamentarians and Parliamentary staff. While anyone can register their interest for the closed briefings and ensure they receive a summary of the event after its completion, only those registered with a @parliament.uk email address will be invited to attend on the day.
3 November 2020, 11:00 to 12:30
Public webinar A: Economy, society and migration
• Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of Migration Division, OECD
• Prof Jane Falkingham, Director of ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton
• Prof Brian Bell, King’s College London, Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee
• Becca Briggs, Migration Statistics Division, Office for National Statistics
CPC Staff will also be speaking in Public webinar B: Forecasting migration on 6 November 11:00-12:30.
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - Wednesday, November 25th 2020
Short course on Agent-based modelling for social research (Workshops)
Online
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020
Please note revised dates for this course: 03 - 25 November
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".
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.
Applications have now closed. For specific queries, please email abm2020@soton.ac.uk.
Preliminary programme (the main live sessions will take place at 13:00-15:00 GMT)
• Day 1 (Tue, 3 November) - Live sessions, with a welcome and an open keynote lecture
• Day 2 (Wed, 4 November) - Live sessions, with pre-recorded background videos and reading
• Day 9 (Wed, 11 November) - Live sessions, with pre-recorded background videos and reading
• Day 16 (Wed, 18 November) - Live sessions, with pre-recorded background videos and reading
• Day 23 (Wed, 25 November) - Live sessions, with stock-taking, summary and farewell
Thursday, October 29th 2020
CPC Webinar - The link between previous life trajectories and a later life outcome: A feature selection approach (Seminars and lectures)
Matthias Studer, University of Geneva,
Zoom
Thursday, October 29th 2020
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 29 October at 12:00 GMT. Matthias Studer, University of Geneva, will be giving a talk entitled, "The link between previous life trajectories and a later life outcome: A feature selection approach".
Provisional title: The link between previous life trajectories and a later life outcome: A feature selection approach
Abstract: Several studies have investigated the link between a previous trajectory and a given outcome later on in life. Trajectories are complex objects. Identifying which aspects of the trajectories are relevant is of primary interest in terms both of prediction and testing specific theories.
In this work, we propose an innovative approach based on data mining feature selection algorithms. The approach works in two steps. We start by automatically extracting several properties of the sequences. Using a life course approach, we focus here on features related to three key aspects of the life course: sequencing, timing and duration. Then, in a second step, we use feature selection algorithms to identify the most relevant properties associated with the outcome. We discuss the use of two features selection approaches, namely random forest (Boruta) and a LASSO (Stability Selection). We also discuss the inclusion of control variable such as socio-demographic characteristics of the respondent in this selection process. The proposed approach is illustrated through a study of the effects of family and work trajectories between age 20 and 40 on women's earning in mid-life.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuceurqD0iH9L8G_dYdfUKOdEcqoXmr0FK
Meeting Recording:
We will be recording the seminar and your participation in the meeting may be captured. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please ensure your microphone and camera are turned off for the duration of the talk. The Q&A session will not be recorded.
Your Details:
We require your name and email to process the event registration. We use this information to collate the number of attendees at our seminars and produce get aggregate level statistics to justify our seminars to our funders. If you have any issues with the way your data is collected, please email us at cpc@soton.ac.uk. Further information about the way we manage data can be found on our website here: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/privacy_notice/
Friday, October 23rd 2020
CPC Webinar - Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid: Bayesian models and applications (Seminars and lectures)
Carl Schmertmann, Florida State University
Zoom
Friday, October 23rd 2020
14:00-15:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 23 October at 14:00 BST. Carl Schmertmann, Professor of Economics at Florida State University and former Editor of Demographic Research, will be giving a talk entitled, "Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid: Bayesian models and applications".
Title: Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid: Bayesian models and applications
Abstract:When vital event registration is missing or inadequate, it is possible to approximate a population's total fertility (TFR) from its age-sex distribution. For example, if child mortality is low then TFR is often close to seven times the child/woman ratio (CWR), the number of 0-4 year olds per 15-49-year-old woman. We analyse the formal relationship between CWR and TFR to identify sources of uncertainty in indirect estimates. We construct a Bayesian model for the statistical distribution of TFR conditional on the population's age-sex structure, in which unknown demographic quantities in the standard approximation are parameters with prior distributions. We apply the model to produce first-ever estimates of TFR for several hundred indigenous populations in Brazil.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcemoqzguHtAmoyW_wl7Kqbeyqi8nVQkT
Meeting Recording:
We will be recording the seminar and your participation in the meeting may be captured. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please ensure your microphone and camera are turned off for the duration of the talk. The Q&A session will not be recorded.
Your Details:
We require your name and email to process the event registration. We use this information to collate the number of attendees at our seminars and produce get aggregate level statistics to justify our seminars to our funders. If you have any issues with the way your data is collected, please email us at cpc@soton.ac.uk. Further information about the way we manage data can be found on our website here: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/privacy_notice/
Thursday, October 22nd 2020
SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Nicholas Campisi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Seminars and lectures)
Nicholas Campisi, CPC, UoS & MPIDR
Zoom-ID 677 6680 2564
Thursday, October 22nd 2020
14:00-15:30 BST
A spatial perspective on Nordic fertility trends: the role of economic and social uncertainty in fertility decline
Open to the public - all welcome
Online via Zoom (and in B800): Zoom-ID 677 6680 2564
Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - Friday, October 16th 2020
18th Annual Meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce (Conferences)
Niels Blom and Brienna Perelli-Harris
Cologne/Optional
Wednesday, October 14th 2020
Wednesday, October 14th 2020
Niels Blom and Brienna Perelli-Harris will be presenting “Is there a "bar" for relationship quality? Examining the association between relationship happiness, economic conditions, and family transitions in the UK”
Brienna Perelli-Harris is a keynote speaker: “Comparing separation and divorce across countries: Perks and Pitfalls”
https://divcon2020.uni-koeln.de/sites/divcon2020/user_upload/Divorce_Conference_2020_Prel_Program.pdf
Tuesday, September 29th 2020
National EMN Conference 2020: Forecasting the Future of Global Migration (Conferences)
Vienna, Austria and Online
Tuesday, September 29th 2020
09:00-17:00
Jakub Bijak will be presenting “Forecasting International Migration: Dealing with Uncertainty Across a Range of Time Horizons” at the National EMN Conference 2020: Forecasting the Future of Global Migration.
The objective of the conference is to provide a critical reflection and a differentiated understanding of future migration scenarios and proactive migration policies. It will provide an overview of existing models, studies and tools to predict and anticipate migration developments, including their underlying assumptions and key results. Finally, the event will discuss how migration predictions can best inform policies and how policy makers can make use of predictive methodologies.
The speakers include international migration researchers, national and European policy makers with experience in developing and applying migration forecasts and scenarios, as well as representatives from policy think tanks.
You can join the conference in Vienna or participate online. Your participation is free of charge. If you are interested, please send an email with your contact details to emnaustria@iom.int. More info and full programme: https://www.emn.at/en/national-emn-conference-2020-forecasting-the-future-of-global-migration/
Associated Downloads
Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - Wednesday, September 16th 2020
CPC at BSPS Virtual Conference 2020 (Conferences)
Online
Tuesday, September 15th 2020
Tuesday, September 15th 2020
The BSPS 2020 Conference will be a virtual Conference, to take place on Tuesday & Wednesday 15 & 16 September. BSPS membership will be required to participate via access codes. There will be no other registration charges. Conference website.
CPC Member & Associate contributions
Strand Organisers
Ageing in Place - Dr. Yazhen Yang, Dr. Maja Palmer
Data science: Innovative data, methods and models - Dr. Jason Hilton
Fertility & reproductive health - Dr. Heini Vaisanen
Internal & international migration - Dr. Júlia Mikolai, Dr. Michael J. Thomas
Immigrant integration across industrialised countries - Professor Hill Kulu, Dr. Júlia Mikolai
Papers
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Social disparities in residential mobility and children's outcomes in early and middle childhood (Fiori)
Assessment of cognitive health during various marital phases: Evidence based on the Health and Retirement Study, 1998-2014 (Sharma, Hale, Myrskylä, Kulu)
Understanding fertility trends in the constituent countries of the UK: What role do births to foreign-born mothers play (Berrington, Kuang)
Accumulative reproductive life histories and grip strength in Indonesia: 1993-2014 (Leone, Vaisanen, Witoelar)
Reflecting on the past: Forerunners and spatial diffusion of the fertility decline in England and Wales, 1851-1911 (Thiehoff , Hinde, Perelli-Harris, Vitali)
Do couples face an economic bar to marriage? - Understanding the contribution of men's and women's economic precariousness on first cohabitation outcomes in the UK, 19912018 (Palumbo, Berrington, Eibich)
Is there a bar for relationship quality? Examining the association between relationship happiness, economic conditions, and family transitions in the UK (Blom, Perelli-Harris)
Birth strike? How are environmental concerns associated with young adults' fertility intentions? (Berrington)
Early Career Plenary: Dr Julia Mikolai
The trend in mean height of Guatemalan women born between 1945 and 1995: a century behind (Arriaza, Hambidge, Krebs, Garcés, Channon)
Sex and socioeconomic disparities in the development of multimorbidity in Scotland: the benefits of applying a sequence based, longitudinal approach (Cezard, Sullivan, Bowles, Keenan)
Marital vs. non-marital births in England and Wales: Changing patterns over space and time (1951-2011) (Thiehoff, Perelli-Harris, Hinde, Vitali)
Wednesday 16 September 2020
The family dynamics of immigrants and their descendants in France: Evidence using Multichannel Sequence Analysis (Delaporte, Kulu)
Timing of childbirth of a changing composition of immigrants in Germany (Liu, Kulu)
The intersection of partnership and fertility histories among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom: A multistate approach (Mikolai, Kulu)
Fertility behaviour of post-1990 immigrants and immigrant descendants in Sweden (Campbell, Andersson, Kulu)
How do we ensure informal carers discontinue care carefully? (Palmer)
Does informal caregiving predict loneliness? A comparison of loneliness measures (Davison, Willis, Langat)
Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage among British women (Vaisanen, Keenan)
Early career panel: Reviewing journal articles (Jakub Bijak & Heini Väisänen)
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Monday, September 7th 2020 - Thursday, September 10th 2020
Royal Statistical Society Conference (Conferences)
Online
Monday, September 7th 2020
Monday, September 7th 2020
The annual international conference of the Royal Statistical Society takes place every September for anyone interested in statistics and data science. This year's conference takes place virtually between 7-10 September 2020.
Session "Bayesian Demography" on Monday 7th at 14:35 has been organised by Peter W.F. Smith , Jakub Bijak, Erengul Dodd, Jon Forster, Jason Hilton on behalf Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton. Details below:
Capturing basis risk in insurance books: a Bayesian model for portfolio and population mortality'
Katrien Antoinio (KU Leuven)
Forecasting fertility with Bayesian parametric mixture models
Jason Hilton (University of Southampton)
Bayesian analysis of agent-based models for migration
Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton)
Bayesian demographic accounts
John Bryant (Independent Consultant at Bayesian Demography)
Population estimation and forecasting is a vital function of official statistical bodies, with implications for many areas of public policy. Population models are typically composed of separate models of mortality, fertility and migration. In order to make decisions on the basis of the estimates and forecasts arising from such models, quantification of the corresponding uncertainty is essential. Bayesian methods are well suited for this task. This session will feature presentation of contemporary Bayesian approaches to forecasting all three components of population change.
More information and register: https://rss.org.uk/training-events/rss-2020-conference/
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.
To keep up to date with this and future events please follow @FattoreMamma and @CPCpopulation on Twitter.
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.