Friday, May 17th 2024
CPC-CG Webinar - George Ploubidis (Seminars and lectures)
Professor George Ploubidis
Online and In Person
Friday, May 17th 2024
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar will take place on Friday 17 May at 12:00 UK Time. Professor George Ploubidis of University College London will be presenting, "Healthy and inclusive ageing in the 21st century: A cross generational life course perspective".
Title: Healthy and inclusive ageing in the 21st century: A cross generational life course perspective
Abstract: The twentieth century witnessed significant improvements in health in most countries, including substantial increases in survival to older ages. George will propose that evidence from across the life course of several generations is needed to address the challenges and capitalise on the opportunities associated with an ageing population. Drawing on evidence observed in the UK's series of population based birth cohorts - which track large numbers of individuals from birth and throughout their lives - he will offer insights on how to promote healthy and inclusive ageing in the 21st century.
Registration:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvde-urj4pHtFxvTj6Ndy-u9BL6IJbb7pF
Speaker: George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and Director of the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. His research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health, well-being and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge.
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Thursday, May 9th 2024
CPC-CG Webinar - Monika Mynarska (Seminars and lectures)
Online
Thursday, May 9th 2024
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Seminar will take place on Thursday 9 May at 13:00 UK Time. Professor Monika Mynarska, of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, will be delivering a presentation entitled, "Doubtful ambivalence, uncertain indifference: Indecision in reproductive decision-making".
Title:Doubtful ambivalence, uncertain indifference: Indecision in reproductive decision-making
Abstract:Deciding to become a parent entails considerable deliberation and uncertainty. In demographic research, this uncertainty is often reflected in childbearing intentions, where respondents express doubts about their plans for having children. This uncertainty plays a significant role, weakening the link between intentions and actions. While external determinants of uncertainty, like economic instability or social anomie have been extensively studied, internal psychological factors, such as ambivalence towards childbearing, have received less attention. My current research project focuses on exploring the interplay between ambivalence in attitudes towards childbearing and uncertain intentions. In my presentation, I will briefly discuss the theoretical distinctions between uncertainty, indifference, and ambivalence in reproductive decision-making. I will also share insights from the project, discussing the role of ambivalence and reflecting on psychological factors, important for childbearing motivations, which might lead to weak childbearing desires or uncertain intentions.
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAud-CgqzkuGdVuyjHFalx0zeNhoC2yxFq8
Speaker: Professor Monika Mynarska is a psychologist and a social demographer at the Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. She is also a researcher at the Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics. Monika's research interests include family and fertility, and she focuses on motivations behind parenthood, examining the psychological and social factors that influence people's decisions to have children or to remain childless. An important part of her work is her involvement in the Generations and Gender Programme.
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Friday, May 3rd 2024
High Level Experts Online Conference | Why Demography Matters. Population and Policy in the 21st Century (Conferences)
Online
Friday, May 3rd 2024
10:00 CEST
The High Level Experts Conference will take place on 3 May 2024. The conference, held as a partnership between the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and Population Europe, will be hosted by the European Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Dubravka Suica, the State Secretary of the German Ministry of the Interior and Community - Juliane Seifert, BiB Director - Katharina Spieß, and other eminent speakers.
The conference aims to discuss how population changes will affect policy frameworks in the coming decades and, conversely, how policy can influence demographic developments that lie ahead.
CPC-CG Members, Jakub Bijak and Hill Kulu will be participating in the below panel discussions:
10-11 CEST | Opening panel | The role of demography in evidence-informed policy making
Knowledge about population change is essential in every area of policy - but what kind of data and research is needed by different policy actors, and who can provide it? When it comes to challenges posed by recent and future population dynamics, e.g. by migration, health impacts of climate change and population shrinking, how can demography contribute by improving understanding of these processes and by providing reliable population projections for more evidence-informed policy making? What are beneficial examples of linking data sources, e.g. by combining information from registers, surveys, social media, satellite or other data?
C. Katharina Spieß | Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden | University Professor for "Population Economics", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Jakub Bijak | Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton | Principal Investigator of the European Union-funded projects 'Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy' (2020-2023) and 'Bayesian Agent-Based Population Studies' (2017-2021), Southampton, United Kingdom
Helga A. G. de Valk | Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute | Professor of Migration and the Life Course at the University of Groningen | Deputy Chair of the Dutch State Committee on Demographic Development 2050, The Hague and Groningen
Wolfgang Lutz | Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna) | Special Advisor of the European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography | Vienna and Laxenburg
13-14 CEST | High Level Expert Panel | Population Diversity and Cohesion Policy: The Life-Course Perspective
How can we ensure that basic infrastructure can be adequately maintained, adapted and updated across member states, especially outside metropolitan, urban and suburban areas and in regions suffering from massive population shrinking, low net migration and rapid population ageing? How might supply and demand patterns for vital things, such as (green) energy supply, clean water, communication and digital infrastructure, public transport, public health facilities, affordable and acceptable housing, long-term care and other services, change in an era of increasing population diversity? And what can we gain from comparing experiences and approaches across Europe, considering the specificities of each region?
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak | Vice-Rector for Science and Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at SGH Warsaw School of Economics | Member of the European Commission's High-Level Group on the Future of Social Protection and of the Welfare State in the EU, Warsaw, Poland
Róbert Iván Gál, Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute | Head of Research Centre at the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
Hill Kulu | Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews | Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations | President of the European Association for Population Studies
Christine Schnor | Professor of Demography at the Centre for Demographic Research, Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium
To learn more and register to attend visit the conference website
Friday, April 26th 2024
War, Displacement, and Migration in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Seminars and lectures)
Hartley Suite, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Friday, April 26th 2024
13:30 - 17:30
The Centre for East European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), at the University of Southampton, will be holding an event entitled, "War, Displacement, and Migration in Eastern Europe and Eurasia", on 26 April 2024. The event will be formed of a series of talks on the effects of contemporary conflicts in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border on local populations.
CPC-CG Director, Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, will be opening the event, which is open to University of Southampton colleagues only.
The event will also feature presentations from Professor Jasmin Dum-Tragut of the University of Salzberg; Dr Anna Kvit of University College London; and Dr Alun Thomas of Staffordshire University.
Sign up to attend via Eventbrite
Thursday, April 25th 2024
CPC-CG/S3Ri Webinar - James Raymer (Seminars and lectures)
Online and In Person
Thursday, April 25th 2024
14:00 UK Time
This joint CPC-CG/S3Ri webinar will take place on 25 April 2024 at 14:00 UK Time. Professor James Raymer of the Australian National University will be presenting, "Modelling the Age and Sex Patterns of Net International Migration"
Title:Modelling the Age and Sex Patterns of Net International Migration
Abstract: In this study, we test and apply a methodology to infer the age and sex profiles of net migration. Age and sex profiles of net migration are required as inputs into demographic accounting models for population estimation and projection. However, most countries in the world do not directly measure migration and residual methods for inferring age and sex patterns have proven inadequate, due to errors in the measures of populations, births and deaths. Since net migration rarely exhibits regularities across age and sex, we develop a strategy to first estimate flows of immigration and emigration by age and sex. Differences from these flow estimates represent our estimates of net international migration by age and sex. Based on promising results from empirical tests that used data from Sweden and the Republic of Korea, the methodology is extended to estimate age-sex patterns of net international migration for countries lacking migration data.
Joining Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a71f0ed99e3ce45219eef73b9cbd1b0f3%40thread.tacv2/1712938062091?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221e0ef86f-db24-4a76-a746-b7cafc60a792%22%7d
Speaker: Professor James Raymer is Professor of Demography at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the study of demographic processes, and he is especially interested in how migration influences population change. He has engaged in many interdisciplinary and international research collaborations on topics ranging from statistical estimation of migration to population forecasting.
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Thursday, April 18th 2024
CPC-CG Webinar - Professor Tony Champion (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, April 18th 2024
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar will take place on Thursday 18 April at 12:00 UK Time. Professor Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University will be presenting, "The spatial impacts of the HE-related migration of the UK's school leavers: evidence from two sources"
Title: The spatial impacts of the HE-related migration of the UK's school leavers: evidence from two sources
Abstract: The rise in higher-education participation rates and the tradition of 'going away to university' has resulted in HE-related migration becoming the single largest component of internal migration for the UK migration. It has inserted a new dimension into the life course of many school leavers, involving place-to-place flows that are considerably different from when the vast majority went straight into the labour market. This seminar reports on the findings of analysing this phenomenon using two separate datasets, neither of which is perfect but potentially allowing a degree of triangulation for checking the main features. The official mid-year population estimates allow comparison of the numbers of 16-18 with 19-21 year olds, revealing the local authorities which gain and lose most from 'going away to university' movement. Secondly, the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) enables the tracking of UK school leavers to university and then onto the subregion where they are working 15 months after graduation, such that the spatial impacts can be gauged in terms of both the numbers involved and the quality of human capital as measured via students' secondary-education Tariff Score and their type of job post-graduation. Each GOS respondent can be classified on the basis of their migration trajectories between domicile and workplace, enabling a set of migration accounts to be produced for each subregion. These demonstrate how the different places fare as a result of the migration of students/graduates, with more sub-regions suffering the 'double whammy' of losing out in both quantitative and qualitative terms than gaining from this process, with challenging implications for central government's current 'levelling-up' agenda.
Speaker: Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University. His research interests include migration and its impact on population distribution and composition, with particular reference to counter-urbanization in developed countries. He chaired the IBG Working Group on Migration in Britain, which led to the publication of Migration Processes and Patterns (1992) and the IUSSP Working Group on Urbanization, which led to New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy (2004). He was President of the British Society for Population Studies 2013-2015 and co-editor (with Jane Falkingham) of Population Change in the United Kingdom (2016). His more recent and current research topics include the 'escalator region' effect in England, the role of migration in shaping the socio-demographic profile of British cities, the relationship between migration and commuting in England, long-term trends in migration rates (including the effect of COVID-19) and the local impacts of the UK's university-related migration.
The webinar recording can be watched here.
Wednesday, April 17th 2024 - Saturday, April 20th 2024
Population Association of America 2024 Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Columbia, Ohio
Wednesday, April 17th 2024
Saturday, April 20th 2024
The Population Association of America's annual meeting takes place in Columbus, Ohio from 17 - 20 April 2024.
CPC Members will be presenting:
Migration, Migrants, and Fertility and Reproductive Health | 18 April, 08:00 | Union B
Analyzing Different Fertility Levels Among Various UK Migrant Generations
J.Baek, H. Kulu, S. Christison, University of St Andrews; F. Fiori, University of Strathclyde
Flash: Contextual Influences on Fertility, Contraception, and Abortion | 18 April, 11:00 | Morrow
The Transition to First and Second Births in China: The Role of Compositional and Contextual Factors
H. Kulu, J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews
Environmental Influences on Mortality and Morbidity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | 18 April, 11:00 | Franklin A
Climate Change and Sex Ratios at Birth
J. Abdel Ghany, University of Oxford; J. Wilde, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; A. Dimitrova, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; R. Muttarak, University of Bologna
Flash: Contextual Influences on Fertility, Contraception, and Abortion |18 April, 11:00 | Morrow
Social Capital Mediates Knowledge Gaps in Informing Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors Across Africa
T. Koebe, Saarland University; T. Aidoo, Saarland University; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; D. Leasure, University of Oxford; V. Rotondi, University of Oxford; I. Weber, Saarland University
Flash: Family Care Transitions and Trajectories | 18 April, 14:00 | Taft D
Who Moves Where? Changes in Parents' Health and Their Proximity to Adult Children in Europe
S.B. Afable, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Y. C. Vierboom, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews; M. Mynarska, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews
Transitions to Adulthood | 18 April, 15:30 | Fayette Room
COVID-19, the Cost-of-Living Crisis, and Intergenerational Coresidence in the United Kingdom: New Insights From the UK Generations and Gender Survey
A. Berrington, B. Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
Migration, Immigration, and Race/Ethnicity | 18 April, 15:30 | Regency Ballroom
The Housing Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Germany
C. Liu, H. Kulu, University of St Andrews
Fertility of Emigrants via Online Retail Data: The Case of MammaPack
F. Rampazzo, J. Bell, R. Kashyap, M. Morellini, M. Mill, A. Stephen, University of Oxford
Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods | 19 April, 08:30 | Regency Ballroom
Homeownership Across Immigrant Groups and Generations in Sweden: Assimilation or Segmentation?
M. Abed Al Ahad, University of St Andrews; G. Andersson, Stockholm University; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews
Family Demography | 19 April, 10:30 | Regency Ballroom
The Interconnection of Homeownership, Marriage, and Childbirth in the Life Course of Young Adults by Immigrant Generations and Origins in Sweden
M. Abed Al Ahad, University of St Andrews; G. Andersson, Stockholm University; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews
Understanding Persistent Disparities in Smoking in Pregnancy in Finland and Sweden: A Counterfactual Decomposition Approach
R. Ganly, University of Oxford; M. Mills, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Innovative Applications of Satellite and Spatial Data | 19 April, 11:00 | Franklin A
Assessing Satellite Imagery Performance for Population Estimation in Data-Scarce Settings: A Modeling Perspective
E. Darin, D. Leasure, R. Kashyap, University of Oxford
Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health | 19 April, 13:30 | Regency Ballroom
Fertility Trends in Contemporary Northern Ireland: How Does Fertility Behavior Vary by Education and Religion?
S. Christison, H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; B. Kuang, A. Berrington, University of Southampton
Spatial Demography of Environmental Risks | 19 April, 15:15 | Knox
Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution Increases the Hospital Admission Burden in Scotland: A 16-Year Individual-Level Analysis
M. Abed Al Ahad, U. Demsar, F. Sullivan, H.Kulu, University of St Andrews
Digital and Computational Demography | 19 April, 15:15 | Franklin A
Mapping Subnational Gender Gaps in Internet and Mobile Adoption Using Social Media Data
C. Breen, University of Oxford, M. Fatehkia, Qatar Computing Research Institute; J. Yan, D. Leasure, University of Oxford; I. Weber, Saarland University; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford
Shocks, Disruption, and Fertility and Reproductive Health | 19 April, 15:15 | Union A
Romantic Partnerships and Childbearing During War: Virtual Interviews With Women in Two Ukrainian Cities Under Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
T. Gerber, A. Popovych, University of Wisconsin-Madison; B. Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
Mate Selection | 19 April, 15:15 |Delaware B
Do Night Owls and Morning Larks Flock Together? Homophily and Convergence by Chronotype in 43,000 UK Couples
M. Mills, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science; R. Taiji, University of Oxford; E. Akimova
Education, Employment, and Inequality | 19 April, 15:30 | Regency Ballroom
From Mobile Wallets to Stable Wages: Assessing the Employment Impact of Mobile Money in Developing Countries
V. Rotondi, University of Oxford, C. De Gasperin, Alumna, University of Milano Bicocca, S. Maione, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of South Switzerland; G. S. Ayele, University of Pavia and University of Milan; L. Stanca, University of Milano Bicocca; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford
Access to Technology and Secondary Educational Outcomes: Empirical Evidence From India
P. Poddar, R. Kashyap, V. Rotondi, University of Oxford
Flash: Gender Inequality | 19 April, 08:00 | Taft D
Gender Differences in Online Visibility of Early Career Researchers
X. Zhao, A. Akbaritabar, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; E. Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Friday, April 5th 2024 - Saturday, April 6th 2024
Lisbon Migration Economics Workshop (Conferences)
ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Friday, April 5th 2024
Saturday, April 6th 2024
The ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management will be hosting the Lisbon Migration Economics Workshop. The conference aims to bring together junior and senior researchers with specialisation in the field of migration economics.
CPC-CG Member, Dr Valentina Di Iasio will be presenting, "Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe".
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
Race, place and home | St Andrews School of Geography and Sustainable Development Lecture (Seminars and lectures)
University of St Andrews, School III, St Salvator's Quadrangle
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
17:15
CPC-CG Member, Professor Nissa Finney, will be delivering an inaugural lecture at the University of St Andrews, entitled "Race, place and home". The lecture will take place on Wednesday 3 April 2024, in person at the University of St Andrews, in School III, St Salvator's Quadrangle.
Abstract: In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more ethnically mixed than a few decades ago but less age-mixed and less wealth-mixed. In other words, neighbourhoods are becoming more similar to one another in their ethnic make-up but more different from one another in their age and wealth profiles. This lecture will demonstrate how this has come to be, how housing markets and individual preferences intertwine to shape local populations and housing experiences.
The talk will then unpick this portrait of social and spatial dynamics in terms of inequalities: how the global and national processes of migration and ageing unravel locally and are threaded with economic disadvantage and racism that create injustice in the ability to find and make a home. The lecture will conclude on a hopeful note, with examples of how innovative Social Science is illuminating inequalities and how, even in contexts of great hardship, strong sense of belonging nationally and to local places pervades.
To learn more and sign up visit: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-nissa-finney/
Thursday, March 28th 2024 - Wednesday, February 28th 2024
CPC-CG Webinar - Professor Andrew Geddes (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Andrew Geddes
Online
Thursday, March 28th 2024
Wednesday, February 28th 2024
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 28 March 2024 at 13:00 UK Time. Professor Andrew Geddes of the European University Institute presented, "Migration governance for, of and against crisis"
Date: Thursday 28 March
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 UK Time
Speaker: Professor Andrew Geddes, European University Institute
Title: Migration governance for, of and against crisis
Abstract: It's well known that there are real and pressing global challenges that could lead to the breakdown of natural and social systems - sometimes referred to as a 'polycrisis' - but does migration belong within this crisis thinking? Clearly, crisis thinking has become normalised in European migration governance and is projected into neighbouring countries and regions through these mutations. Political actors mobilise for crisis and an intellectual agenda supports mutations that catastrophise migration. Links between migration and climate change often seen as emblematic of polycrisis but conceptual flaws amplify the systemic breakdowns against which these ideas ostensibly warn. Extracting migration from this crisis thinking can illustrate how migration can be part of a solution to the deep-seated problems in social and natural systems that various notions of crisis claim to address.
To watch the recording of the seminar, click here
Thursday, March 21st 2024
Joint CPC-CG/CRA Webinar - Klara Raiber (Seminars and lectures)
Klara Raiber
Online and In Person at the University of Southampton
Thursday, March 21st 2024
12:00 UK Time
This joint CPC-CG/CRA webinar took place on Thursday 21 March 2024 at 12:00 UK Time. Klara Raiber of Radboud University presented, "Future pathways of unpaid caregiving research: Conceptual and methodological challenges".
Title: Future pathways of unpaid caregiving research: Conceptual and methodological challenges
Speaker: Klara Raiber is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Radboud University and the SCOOP program. She holds a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Mannheim in Germany. Her Ph.D. project is on long-term employment consequences of caregiving for family and friends with health issues from a life-course perspective.
Abstract: More and more research focuses on unpaid caregiving, which is here defined as care towards friends or family members with health issues. In my talk, I will highlight the existing literature on the topic of unpaid care and the consequences thereof, including my own work. Building on this, I will sketch missing links and where I see future pathways both theoretically and methodologically.
Watch the recording here.
Tuesday, March 12th 2024
The determinants of first-time homeownership across the generations of immigrants in Sweden | Stockholm Sessions on Migration (Seminars and lectures)
Mary Abed Al Ahad
Online and In Person
Tuesday, March 12th 2024
13:00 - 14:00
CPC Member, Mary Abed Al Ahad, will be presenting as part of the Stockholm University's Department of Sociology Seminars.
Title: The determinants of first-time homeownership across the generations of Immigrants in Sweden.
Date: Thursday 12 March 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Sign up to attend here: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/68002114107
Thursday, March 7th 2024 - Saturday, March 9th 2024
IUSSP Workshop on Population and Conflict (Workshops)
University of Southampton
Thursday, March 7th 2024
Saturday, March 9th 2024
Workshop on Population and Conflict
University of Southampton, England, 7-9 March 2024
Call for Papers:
Deadline for submission: 24 November 2023
Conflict, ranging from peaceful protests and civil unrest to insurgencies, armed clashes, and full-blown wars, is haunting many regions across the world with often dramatic immediate and long-term societal consequences. Political science helps us to explain why such conflicts occur and who gets involved. It is the task of social demographers to assess their ramifications for people's lives. Building on recent scholarly efforts to illuminate the demographic impact of conflict, this workshop is motivated by several overarching research questions: What are the challenges and solutions to collecting data in a conflict situation? How does conflict lead to demographic changes? Do these relationships vary by the type of conflict event and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the location where the conflict takes place? Considering recent conflicts across the globe, we hope to enter a conversation about the various ways in which conflict events can influence population dynamics and how to use novel data sources for studying these questions.
As part of the activities of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Dynamics under Global Conflict and Climate Change, the workshop aims at establishing and strengthening interdisciplinary networks among scholars working in the field of conflict and demography. This in-person workshop will be held at the University of Southampton, 7-9 March 2024. We welcome applications for presentation from scholars at all stages of their careers in demography, economics, sociology, political science, geography and other relevant disciplines. Scholars who already work on various socio-economic consequences of conflict are particularly welcome to apply.
Research interests that fit the workshop's theme include:
Conflict and Population Dynamics
Conflict and Reproductive Behaviour
Conflict and Mortality, Health, and Wellbeing
Conflict and (im)mobility
Demographic Impact of Social Movements
Data collection during conflicts
Research in conflict situations
Forced Displacement in Ukraine
Submission:
Please submit your paper using the IUSSP Abstract Submission Form.
Please fill out the form and include:
• a short abstract (150-200 words),
• an extended abstract (2-4 pages) or the full paper.
Please make sure your abstract includes the title, full name(s), affiliation, and e-mail address of each author. Corresponding authors will be notified of papers accepted by 4 December 2023.
The conference may be held in a hybrid format. However, we encourage in-person participation. A very limited number of travel grants is available to participants from low- and middle-income countries. If you are from a low- and middle-income country and you wish to be considered for a travel grant, please let us know when you submit your paper.
Organisers:
Liliana Andriano, University of Southampton
Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
Raya Muttarak, University of Bologna
Mathis Ebbinghaus, University of Leipzig
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact L.Andriano@soton.ac.uk
Associated Downloads
/docs/Call_for_Papers_Workshop_on_Population_and_Conflict.pdf
Thursday, February 29th 2024
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Family matters: How concerns for relatives bridge intergenerational political divides (Seminars and lectures)
University of Southampton
Thursday, February 29th 2024
12:00 UK Time
Please join the event using this link: https://app.sli.do/event/4S9moQAPgp3MbypABG88ct
Where do people form their opinions about government policies? The research discussed in this Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk will show that family connections play a crucial role, influencing how individuals view the economy and government spending programs that may impact their relatives.
Surveys have typically overlooked questions about the well-being of one's family members, focusing more on the household or individual. To address this gap, Dr Zack Grant with Professor Jane Green and Professor Geoffrey Evans at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, recently conducted a new survey called Intergenpol-GB, involving over 6,000 adults in Great Britain. Detailed questions were asked about close family members in different age groups, perceptions of financial well-being of family members (as well as individuals and households), expectations of supporting family members, and targeted questions about pro-young and pro-old policy preferences, alongside political variables and vote intentions.
The findings suggest that concerns for the well-being of family members can influence political views, potentially mitigating age-based political divides in Britain. For example, older adults with financially struggling young relatives may support increased investment in education and housing, while younger adults who are worried about caring for older relatives may favour policies related to pensions and adult social care. Overall, this research indicates that 'family matters' when it comes to shaping policy preferences and political outcomes.
About the Speaker
Dr Zack Grant is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Nuffield Politics Research Centre at the University of Oxford. He conducts research into why different people think the way that they do about inequality, the welfare state, immigration, and the environment in Britain and other advanced democracies. He does this through the analysis of quantitative survey data and experiments. Zack was the recipient of a British Academy Innovation Fellowship for work on intergenerational political divides during 2022-23, and will be presenting work from that project in this talk.
About the Panellists
Professor Jane Falkingham, Dr Dianna Smith and Dr Matt Ryan will be panellists at the event.
Professor Falkingham CBE, FAcSS, FRSA is Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and PI of Connecting Generations. She is a Professor of Demography and International Social Policy and Vice President (International & Global Engagement) at the University of Southampton. Jane is carrying out research on the drivers and implications of population change with a specific focus on intergenerational exchange. She has published extensively on the economic and social consequences of population ageing, the well-being of older people and on the interplay between health and work for people in mid-life. Her work particularly concerns population ageing, social care and social security, including the design of pensions systems and their impact on resources in later life. She is interested in the redistributive effect of the welfare state, how it varies across individuals and between cohorts.
Dr Dianna Smith. Her research interests are in quantitative health geography, using Geographic Information System mapping to visualise data collected or collated to address key social and spatial inequalities. She works across the disciplines of geography and public health with links to local government and third sector / civil society.
Dr Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures, and is Policy Director at the Web Science Institute. Matt leads the Rebooting Democracy project which aims to understand which innovations in public participation restore and sustain democracy. His research aims to establish how people can have control over the decisions that affect their lives, and crosses several disciplinary boundaries with a focus on research methods.
Connecting Generations is a partnership between the ESRC Centre for Population Change, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and the Resolution Foundation. It aims to understand intergenerational connectivity, producing novel science that informs policy debate.
Audience members will be able to submit questions to the panel before and during the event via Slido.
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Thursday, February 29th 2024
Open for the childless skilled only? The social rights of third country nationals as workers and parents in the UK and the European Union (Seminars and lectures)
Hybrid; Kellogg College, Oxford & Zoom
Thursday, February 29th 2024
15:45 - 16:45
CPC Member, Dr Traute Meyer, will be giving this seminar as part of the COMPAS Seminar Series. The seminar will take place on Thursday 29 March 2024 at 3:45pm.
Abstract: Governments in the UK and EU accept skilled workers from outside their territories to boost economic growth and reverse the trend of their ageing societies. At the same time, populations are sceptical about sharing welfare state rights with newcomers. To square this circle, governments have restricted social rights for new immigrants in many European countries. However, while EU governments must observe Treaty legislation, the UK is no longer bound by such constraint. Little research exists on how much the rights of working migrants born outside the EU and their dependents diverge between countries and between immigrants and citizens and how the difference can lead to inequality between the two groups and nations.
This paper will take stock of the rights of such third-country nationals (TCNs) who come to work in the EU and the UK and their dependants during their first five years. Analysing EU- and national legislation will show that the UK is now an outlier in Europe. While most EU governments are moving towards granting TCNs the same or similar rights as EU migrants and citizens in the UK, after Brexit, many more are now excluded from essential benefits. The paper will assess what this difference means for the income of a TCN household with a skilled worker, a partner and children compared with a citizen-household in the UK, Germany and Ireland as EU countries with a similarly large intake of TCNs.
Dr Traute Meyer is a professor of social policy at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton. She has researched the social rights of immigrants in Europe, including in the UK after Brexit.
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Thursday, February 29th 2024
Crafting a Vision to Transform our Future Homes (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, February 29th 2024
14:30
CPC-CG Members, Professor Alison Bowes and Dr Cate Pemble, will be giving a talk entitled, "Crafting a Vision to Transform our Future Homes" at the Housing LIN Summit 2024 on Thursday 29 February 2024, at 14:30pm.
The agenda:
14:30 - Welcome and Session Format
Sally Taylor-Ridgway, Communications and Membership Officer, Housing LIN - @HLINComms
14:35 - Chair's welcome and introduction
George MacGinnis, Director of UKRI's Healthy Ageing Challenge
14.40 - How councils could apply essential ingredients for planning for an ageing population.
Jon Rouse CBE, co-lead of the Older People's Housing Taskforce 'places' workstream, City Director at Stoke City Council and former CEO of Greater Manchester Combined Authorities
14.55 - ESRC-funded research, the DesHCA Project and scaling for ageing.
Professor Alison Bowes, Professor, University of Stirling
15:10 - International research with the Royal College of Art on pioneering design to plan for later life
James Pickard, co-founder of urban design practice Pickard Catwright
15:25 - Insights into working within localities to assess older people's housing needs and aspirations
Ian Copeman, Business Director at Housing LIN
15:40 - Q&A
16:00 - Chair's summary and close
Friday, February 23rd 2024
Articulating and categorising ethnic identity: Reflections on politics of recognition and (mis)representation in 'big data' using the EVENS survey (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Nissa Finney
University of Glasgow, Main Building, Humanity Lecture Theatre (Room 255), University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Friday, February 23rd 2024
11:30 - 13:00
In a world awash with data how do we untangle ethnic identifications and their meanings, and how well do 'big data' capture ethnic identities? In this talk, CPC-CG Member, Nissa Finney, considers how people articulate their ethnic identity, how this is - and isn't - captured by statistical categorisations used as standard in Britain, and the implications of this for how we conduct research and the creation of knowledge on experiences of minoritized people. The presentation draws on a new, exciting national social survey that was led by Nissa - the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) - published in 2023 by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). EVENS documents the experiences of over 14,000 people and provides unrivalled data on the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain.
Using EVENS, Nissa draws out concepts that underpin articulations of ethnic identity and argues that new formulations of ethnic group categories are needed to reflect these, and to more fully represent the twenty percent of ethnic minorities whose identities are not well captured by current approaches. Focusing on two groups who are not routinely identified in official ethnicity data collection - Jewish and White Eastern European - Nissa discusses the power of recognition afforded (or not) through the creation (or not) of statistical categories, and the implications for whose experiences are silenced.
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Wednesday, February 21st 2024 - Friday, February 23rd 2024
General Online Research Conference 2024 (Conferences)
Vogelsanger Str. 295, 50825 Köln, Germany
Wednesday, February 21st 2024
Friday, February 23rd 2024
09:00 - 20:00
This conference will take place from 21 - 23 February 2024.
CPC Members, Dr Olga Maslovskaya, Dr Grace Chang, and Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris will be presenting "Data quality in a long and complex online-only survey: The UK Generation and Gender Survey (GGS), on Thursday 22 February from 5:00 - 6:00pm.
Relevance & Research Question
Long surveys present high burden for respondents. For a long time the rule of thumb for length of self-completion surveys was not to exceed 15-20 minutes. More surveys are moving towards self-completion designs due to increasing survey costs and also due to high rates of device ownership and internet access in the UK and other countries. For some social surveys 20 minutes is not enough to continue collecting high quality data required. Some studies experimented with longer questionnaires and obtained reassuring results, for example, European Social Survey (ESS). However, more evidence is needed in this under-researched area. We collected the first wave of the UK Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) where only online mode of data collection was available to respondents. The median time spent on the questionnaire is around 40 minutes which is much higher than the advice given to survey practitioners in the past. It is important to assess different aspects of data quality of the long questionnaire. The main research question is: is long questionnaire associated with poorer data quality?
Methods & Data
We analyse the GGS collected in the UK. The GGS is a part of a global data collection infrastructure focused on population and family dynamics. The GGS collects demographic, economic, and social attitude data on young and mid-life adults (18-59) as they enter into adulthood, form partnerships, and raise children. We assess different data quality indicators: break-off rate, item nonresponse, different response style behaviours, consent to participation in the second wave of the survey among other indicators. We first conduct descriptive analysis and then use different logistic regression models to investigate data quality in the UK GGS.
Results
The results are reassuring and suggest that even though the GGS questionnaire is long and complex and interviewers are not there to guide the respondents through the process, the data quality is not poor.
Added Value
This study contributes to the under-researched area of long online questionnaires. This assessment suggests that, when carefully designed, long questionnaires do not represent risk to data quality and can be successfully implemented in self-completion surveys.
Tuesday, February 20th 2024
LabFam Seminar | Family and Employment Trajectories among Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe (Seminars and lectures)
Hill Kulu
Zoom
Tuesday, February 20th 2024
13:00
CPC-CG Member, Professor Hill Kulu will be delivering this talk as part of the LabFam Seminar series. The event will take place online on 20th February 2024 at 13:00.
Abstract: Over the past decades, European countries have witnessed increasing immigration and ethnic heterogeneity of their populations. This presentation gives an overview of the results of the MigrantLife project. The focus is on family and employment trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden. Our research supports significant heterogeneity in family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in Europe.
This heterogeneity is reduced among the descendants of immigrants, although some patterns observed for immigrants persist among the descendants' groups (e.g. preference for marriage), whereas others have almost vanished (e.g. large families). The results show that migrant background is strongly associated with partnership patterns, whereas the destination country context significantly influences childbearing behaviour. This suggests that while cultural-normative factors are important in shaping partnership behaviour of immigrants and their descendants, structural-economic factors may play a more important role in fertility decisions.
The study of employment trajectories shows that most immigrant men are in education or in full-time employment after arrival, whereas many women stay inactive, especially among family migrants.
Although the differences are reduced among the descendants of immigrants, employment levels are low for women of some minority groups. Importantly, the gender differences are larger for immigrants and their descendants than for the native population (with two native-born parents).
The results suggest the lack of opportunities for migrant and minority women with children, although cultural preferences may also explain low employment levels among some groups. We discuss the results in the light of competing theories of immigrant and ethnic minority integration: the classical theory of assimilation vs the segmented assimilation theory.
About the Speaker: Hill Kulu is Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews. He was trained in Economic Geography at the University of Tartu (MSc in 1993). He received his PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1997. Over the years, Hill has worked at the University of Tartu (1997-2002), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1999), the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2003-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2008-2016).
Hill's substantive research interests lie in the field of migration, family and health studies; his methodological interests include the application of longitudinal models in demographic research. This research has advanced our understanding of how family changes and migration interact in people's lives and how residential context shapes childbearing, migration and health behaviour of individuals. He has published over eighty peer-reviewed articles in international journals and has edited six books or journal special issues.
Currently, he is leading two collaborative research projects.
The ERC funded MigrantLife project (2019-2025) investigates life trajectories of immigrants and their descendants in Europe and will project future trends. The FertilityTrends project (2019-2023) is funded by ESRC.
This project examines recent fertility trends in the UK and improves methodologies for fertility forecasting. Hill is President of the European Association for Population Studies, a Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations Centre (2022-2027) and a Co-Editor of Population Studies. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Population and Migration at the Scottish Government.
Last but not least, Hill enjoys teaching population and methods courses at the University of St Andrews and supervising an international team of research fellows and PhD students
Thursday, February 1st 2024
Launching the first UK GGS dataset - Wave 1 GGS-II | GGP-Connect Insight and Impact webinar series (Seminars and lectures)
Online
Thursday, February 1st 2024
13:00 CET
CPC Member, Dr Bernice Kuang, will be giving a GGP-Connect Insight and Impact Series Webinar on 1st February 2024, at 13:00 CET. Bernice will be talking about the launch of the first UK GGS dataset.
Abstract:Bernice will delve into the UK team's journey, sharing valuable insights on launching and promoting the UK GGS-II. Additionally, she will highlight the dataset's policy applications within the landscape of current UK policies.
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Wednesday, January 31st 2024 - Thursday, February 1st 2024
Housing Professionals Conference: Engaging Communities Across Scotland (Conferences)
Apex Hotel Dundee
Wednesday, January 31st 2024
Thursday, February 1st 2024
10:00 - 16:30
The Housing Professionals Conference takes place on 31st January and 1st February 2024 at Apex Hotel Dundee, and aims to tackle issues and opportunities facing the sector such as Diversity and Inclusion, Dealing with damp and mould, Net Zero, and Challenges in Rural Areas.
CPC-CG Members, Alasdair Rutherford and Alison Bowes, from the University of Stirling, will be giving a keynote speech, entitled "Getting serious about the role of housing for healthy ageing".
Further details can be found here.
Thursday, January 25th 2024
CPC-CG Webinar - Gemma Catney (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Gemma Catney
Zoom
Thursday, January 25th 2024
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 25 January at 13:00 UK Time. Gemma Catney, Professor of Human Geography at Queen's University Belfast, presented, "Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI): Insights from Census 2021"
Date: Thursday 25 January 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 UK Time
Speaker: Dr Gemma Catney, Queen's University Belfast
Title: Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI): Insights from Census 2021
Abstract: This seminar will explore the first findings from the Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI) project, a large ESRC funded project which is providing timely insights from the 2021 Census. The first part of the presentation will focus on the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales, using Census data from 1991 to 2021. The presentation will show how the growth of ethnic diversity at the national level is mirrored across residential neighbourhoods, and that this growing neighbourhood ethnic diversity has been spatially diffusing across all regions of England and Wales. We evidence how increasing ethnic diversity is matched by decreasing residential segregation, for all ethnic groups. The presentation will also explore changes in mixed ethnicity households in England and Wales, and the relationships between mixing within households and neighbourhoods. The final part of the presentation focuses on ethnic inequalities. We introduce a novel ethnic group-specific neighbourhood deprivation index (the EGDI). Most measures of deprivation summarise the aggregate level of deprivation across all people in a given area, and no account is taken of differences between people with differing characteristics, such as age, sex or ethnic group. The EGDI was developed using a custom cross-tabulated 2021 Census dataset on employment, housing tenure, education and health by ethnic group for Lower Layer Super Output Areas. The EGDI reveals the complex geographies of ethnic inequality and demonstrates that while one ethnic group in a neighbourhood may have high relative levels of deprivation, another ethnic group in that same neighbourhood may experience very low relative levels. The EGDI explores ethnic inequalities within and between neighbourhoods and can be used to help shape locally and culturally sensitive policy development and resource allocation. More information about the GEDI project can be found here.
Speaker: Dr Gemma Catney, Queens University Belfast, is a Population and Social Geographer with research interests in ethnic residential segregation and diversity, ethnic inequalities, and internal migration. Her main research focuses include the changing residential geographies of ethnic and racial diversity, mixing and segregation; socio-spatial inequalities between ethnic groups; and the multiple scales of neighbourhood identity and belonging. She has published widely in leading international journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Urban Studies and Population, Space and Place.
Thursday, January 25th 2024
The launch of the UK Generations and Gender Survey: fieldwork, survey methods & early substantive findings | LSE Demography Seminar (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Grace Chang
Online and In Person
Thursday, January 25th 2024
12:00 UK Time
This London School of Economic and Political Science demography seminar will take place on Thursday 25 January at 12:00 UK Time.
CPC member, Dr Grace Chang, will deliver a presentation entitled: "The launch of the Generations and Gender Survey: fieldwork, survey methods & early substantive findings".
Abstract:We will launch the first wave of the UK Generations and Gender Survey, GGS, this January 2024. The survey is part of an international research infrastructure called the Generations and Gender Project, that examines life and family dynamics, across countries in Europe and other parts of the world. The UK GGS is a push-to-web, online only survey of UK adults aged 18 to 59, living in private households. To improve representativeness of the survey, we use a stratified random probability selection of addresses, with over 7,000 complete cases. The talk will cover how the fieldwork was conducted, the representativeness of the survey, data quality, and some early substantive findings about fertility intentions and childcare. The survey collects a wealth of information about key life events, family, and inter-generational relationships, with a special focus on full partnership, marriage, and fertility histories. It is specifically designed to capture information on the complexity & diversity of modern family life. These questions can be used to study topics ranging from fertility & intimate partnerships, to housing & leaving home, to health & commuting, to intergenerational transfers of support. Potential researchers interested in using this data may be interested in attending the talk.
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Wednesday, January 24th 2024 - Thursday, January 25th 2024
The Festival of Genomics & Biodata (Conferences)
ExCEL, London
Wednesday, January 24th 2024
Thursday, January 25th 2024
The 9th annual Festival of Genomics and Biodata will take place at the ExCeL London on 24 - 25 January.
CPC-CG Member, Professor Melinda Mills, will be presenting "The Genetic Basis of Tolerance to Night Shifts" on the second day of the conference at 15:10 - 15:40pm on the Park Stage.
Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - Thursday, January 25th 2024
Berlin Demography Days 2024: Overcoming crises: Shaping policy for an uncertain future (Conferences)
Professor Jane Falkingham CBE and Professor Hill Kulu
Online
Tuesday, January 23rd 2024
Thursday, January 25th 2024
CPC-CG Director, Professor Jane Falkingham CBE and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Hill Kulu will be speaking at the Population Europe Berlin Demography Days taking place online from 23-25 January 2024.
The Berlin Demography Days is a forum for different perspectives on current challenges of societal change. It provides a place for stakeholders from science, politics, civil society, business, and the media to come together to discuss the future of our population that will radically change in the next decades.
The theme of this year's event is Overcoming Crises - Shaping Policy for an Uncertain Future. The discussions are aimed equally at an international audience, decision-makers who are confronted with the challenges of crisis prevention and crisis management, and researchers who contribute evidence.
The three-day event will be held online - with the exception of the first evening panel, which will take place as a hybrid event both online and in-person.
Participation is free of charge, however, it is necessary to pre-register. The event will be held in German and English, with simultaneous translation provided. Full information and registration details: https://population-europe.eu/events/berlin-demography-days-berliner-demografie-tage/berlin-demography-days-2024-overcoming
Programme
Each of the three days focuses on a different facet of the conference topic: Overcoming Crises. The afternoon sessions on each day will consist of one-hour panels ("Policy Dialogue"). Each day will conclude with an evening podium discussion ("Policy Horizon").
All times are Central European Time (CET).
Day 1, 23 January 2024, Understanding crisis management
Societal shocks require rapid and decisive action on one hand, and prudent risk assessment on the other. On the first day, this "paradox" of crisis management will be examined using past and present crises as examples. The experts will analyse and discuss the following questions: How can cooperation be improved between actors from politics, civil society, the private sector, academia and the media? How can demographic research support effective crisis management?
Afternoon panels
12:00-12:15: Welcome | Video Greetings from the Organizers
12:15-13:15: Our Successes, Our Failures: COVID-19 Management Put to the Test | Policy Dialogue
13:30-14:30: Will Artificial Intelligence Help Us Better Prepare for Crises? | Policy Dialogue
14:45-15:45: Who Can Cope, Who Can't? The Impact of Crises on Heterogeneous Societies | Policy Dialogue
16:00-17:00: Step Back to See the Whole Picture: Historical Perspectives on Crises | Policy Dialogue
Hybrid evening event
17:30: Registration (for participants attending in person)
18:00: Cultural Performance
18:10-18:25: Welcome
18:25-19:45: Escaping the Crisis Paradox Together | Policy Horizon
19:45-20:00: European Demographer Awards 2023 | Award Ceremony
20:00-21:00: Reception for all in-person participants
Day 2, 24 January 2024, Global crises - Local responses
Pandemics, violent conflicts, global climate change and demographic change all have far-reaching and worldwide impacts. How can such crises best be managed on a regional or local level? What can we learn from each other? When is cooperation across regions and at higher levels necessary, and how can it be made more efficient?
Given the diversity of decision-making levels and different conditions on the ground, there is no panacea or one-size-fits-all remedy for successful crisis management that can be transferred to other contexts. Rather, a variety of more or less successful and more or less coordinated strategies exists - from the local to the global level. How can we nevertheless learn from each other? To do this, we will focus on one of the following crises in each panel: COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, climate change, and aspects of demographic change. The focus will be on best practice examples of crisis responses at local and regional contexts. Are these responses tailored to individual populations? How transferable are they to other regions and contexts, and what role do political, socioeconomic and cultural factors play in shaping crisis responses?
Afternoon panels
13:00-13:15: Welcome
13:15-14:15: The Pandemic and Access to Information | Policy Dialogue
14:30-15:30: Adapting to Climate Change: Local Role Models | Policy Dialogue
15:45-16:45: We are Aging - Now and Later: Health Care in the Face of Demographic Change | Policy Dialogue
Evening event
17.30-18:30 War and Health | Policy Horizon
Day 3, 25 January 2024, How we can better prepare for crises
Getting ahead of the wave: How can we use population data and demographic research findings to strengthen crisis resilience of society, its institutions and individuals? How can specific groups of the population be made more resilient, especially those who are "vulnerable"? How can we better prepare welfare state institutions for crises? And how can we face future crises with a new narrative that motivates us to also see them as opportunities?
Afternoon panels
13:00-13:15 | Welcome
13:15-14:15: Building Back Better: After the "shock" and beyond | Policy Dialogue
14:30-15:30: Visionary Institutions for Crisis Prevention | Policy Dialogue
15:45-16:45: Fostering a Future with Intergenerational Solidarity | Policy Dialogue
Evening event
17:00 -18:00 A World Without Crises: is it Possible? | Policy Horizon
Watch Professor Jane Falkingham's presentation here.
Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - Thursday, December 7th 2023
Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2023 - Exploring population heterogeneities (Conferences)
Hybrid Conference
Wednesday, December 6th 2023
Thursday, December 7th 2023
CPC-CG members will be taking part in the following sessions at the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2023:
6 December, Poster session 1:
Brian Buh, Éva Beaujouan, Ann Berrington
Local social capital, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood in the United Kingdom
6 December, Poster session 2:
Mary Abed Al Ahad, Hill Kulu, Gunnar Andersson
Determinants and heterogeneity of first-time homeownership across the immigrants and their descendants in Sweden
7 December, Keynote talk 3:
Ridhi Kashyap, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
The digital revolution and demography: Perspectives from digital and computational demography
Full programme: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/PDF/Conferences/2023_Population_Heterogeneities/WIC2023_agenda.pdf
Monday, December 4th 2023
Dutch Demography Day 2023 (Conferences)
Utrecht University
Monday, December 4th 2023
09:15 - 18:00
CPC-CG Member, Melinda Mills will be giving the key note address, "Real World Data and Demography". The most recent findings in population studies will be presented at the conference, including family and fertility, migrants and migration, health, mortality and longevity, population ageing, population growth and decline, and urbanisation.
See the full event programme here
Thursday, November 30th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Peter Brandon (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Peter Brandon
Online
Thursday, November 30th 2023
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 30 November 2023. Peter Brandon, Chair and Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Albany presented, "Has legalized same-sex marriage improved the long-term economic security of American same-sex couples? The case of home ownership".
Title: Has legalized same-sex marriage improved the long-term economic security of American same-sex couples? The case of home ownership.
Abstract: In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage. This landmark ruling was the result of the tireless work of gay rights activists over several decades. Today in the United States, married same-sex couples share the same rights as heterogamous married couples. And, recent polls suggest that the overwhelming majority of Americans, (over 70%), support same-sex couples having those rights and securing the benefits that an American legally recognized marriage provides. While controversy swirls around whether or not the Supreme Court's decision will remain settled law, a major question yet to be answered is whether the expansion of these rights and benefits to same-sex couples has improved their long-term economic security, such as building wealth. Put differently, newly acquired and broadened rights for American same-sex couples, like the right to marry, is progress, but has that led to increased and enduring economic well-being and security? This study addresses the question by examining changes in homeownership among married, same-sex couples since homeownership is usually a long-term financial commitment and a pathway to creating greater economic security. The study finds that homeownership among American married same-sex couples rose after the Supreme Court's decision; and that more of these couples obtain mortgages in both names rather than in only one; but the study also finds that which same-sex couples benefit from homeownership depends upon the self-reported sexual orientation of the couple.
Speaker: Professor Peter Brandon is Chair and Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Albany. He obtained his PhD in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago. His research interests include welfare and social policy, family change and diversity, and evaluation methods.
Watch the recording here
Thursday, November 23rd 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Alyson van Raalte (Seminars and lectures)
Alyson van Raalte
Online
Thursday, November 23rd 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 23 November 2023 at 13:00 UK Time. Dr Alyson van Raalte of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research gave a talk entitled, "Mortality inequalities in SES-groups and their families".
Abstract: In this presentation I will give an overview of how life expectancy and lifespan inequalities are trending by SES-group across Europe. I will tie this in with broader discourses on population heterogeneity. And I will show that the larger variation in age at death is somewhat paralleled by more unexpected deaths among family members in lower SES groups.
Speaker: Dr Alyson van Raalte is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. She received her PhD in public health from the University of Rotterdam in 2011, and prior to moving to Rostock, studied at the London School of Economics, and Queen's University in Canada. Her work examines age patterns of mortality and their determinates in developed country settings.
Watch the recording here
Tuesday, November 21st 2023
Contemporary Jewish identities and experiences of racism: what can we learn from 'big data'? (Seminars and lectures)
Nissa Finney
Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7JL
Tuesday, November 21st 2023
6:30pm - 8:00pm
In a world awash with information how do we untangle what Jewish identity means today, how do data capture Jewishness, and what can 'big data' tell us about Jewish experiences of racial and religious discrimination?
In this lecture, Professor Finney considers how Jewish people articulate their Jewish identity and how well this sense of Jewishness is captured by statistical categorisations used as standard in Britain. She then compares discrimination experienced by Jewish people to other religious and ethnic groups, opening discussion about what might (or might not) be distinctive about contemporary Jewish experiences of racism.
The presentation draws on a new, exciting national social survey - the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) - published this year by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). EVENS documents the experiences of over 14,000 people and provides unrivalled data on the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain.
Nissa Finney is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews and member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and the Centre for Population Change. Her research focuses on race, place and inequalities, foregrounding concepts of home and racism. Nissa has a keen interest in research methods and since 2000 she has led the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS). Her books include 'Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a time of Crisis: findings from the Evidence for Equality National Survey' (Policy Press, 2023; available as a free ebook) and 'Sleepwalking to segregation'? Challenging myths of race and migration' (Policy Press, 2009). Nissa is a permanent member of the Office for National Statistics Census Ethnic Group Assurance Panel.
Monday, November 13th 2023
Research forum: State of ageing research (Conferences)
Professor Judith Phillips OBE
Kia Oval, London, and online
Monday, November 13th 2023
11:00-12:30 GMT
Connecting Generations member, Professor Judith Phillips OBE, will be one of the panellists in this session discussing the journey that has led to the research landscape seen today.
Talks will cover key milestones in ageing and gerontological research, an analysis of REF data and its insights into quantity and quality, the role of ageing research within REF2021 impact case studies, a journey through the advancements achieved in biomedical ageing research, and the research components of the Healthy Ageing Challenge and its pivotal role within the broader research landscape.
Panellists
Professor Judith Phillips OBE, UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge
Professor Alan Walker, University of Sheffield
Professor Carol Holland, Lancaster University
Cristina Rosemberg,Technopolis
Professor Janet Lord, University of Birmingham
This session forms part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Healthy Ageing 2023 Conference.
Full details and registration: https://www.healthyageinguk.org/2023/agenda/?VID=381&EVID=6029
Monday, November 13th 2023
Perma-crisis people. The divergent economic prospects between generations (Public engagement events)
London and online
Monday, November 13th 2023
9:30-10:45 UK TIme
Perma-crisis people
The divergent economic prospects between generations
Register to attend in person or to receive an access link for online viewers.
Advanced economies across the globe have experienced a series of unprecedented economic shocks since the start of the century. But they have not affected all generations equally. The disproportionate impact on the financial wellbeing of younger people has sparked concerns about generational fairness on both sides of the Atlantic. Fifteen years on from the global financial crisis, its impact is still being felt by the young, and the not-so-young-anymore, across Europe and America.
How have the living standards of millennials, boomers and Gen Xers fared on either side of the Atlantic? Have British generations been permanently scarred, or are they bouncing back? How have different cohorts coped with soaring housing costs, inflated asset prices, and wages that have barely budged in 15 years? And how can today's working population expect to be supported in retirement, as the state struggles to reconfigure itself around an ageing population?
The Resolution Foundation is hosting an in-person and interactive webinar to debate and answer these questions. Following a presentation of the key highlights from its annual Intergenerational Audit, covering pay, jobs, incomes, housing, welfare and wealth, we will hear from leading experts on what these findings tell us.
The event will be open for people to physically attend, alongside being broadcast via YouTube and the Resolution Foundation website. Viewers will be able to submit questions to the panel before and during the event via Slido.
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Thursday, November 9th 2023 - Friday, November 10th 2023
The Truth About Ageing plus Q&A (Public engagement events)
Professor Alison Bowes
Forth Valley College
Thursday, November 9th 2023
Friday, November 10th 2023
13:00-16:00
Go along to a theatre play which invites you to explore and reimagine how we want society to view ageing and older age.
The Truth About Ageing explores how we can reframe ageing and older age from being seen as a problem to be dealt with to an opportunity to thrive. It is a follow-up to the Reimagining the Future in Older Age Project, exploring older age and the future. The play uses Forum Theatre, a type of theatre which enables an audience to intervene and change the action, reimagining how we want society to view ageing and older age.
Following the performance, there will be a Panel and Audience Q&A to discuss the issues raised by The Truth About Ageing. The panel will feature Connecting Generations Co-Director, Professor Alison Bowes, and Dr Melanie Lovatt from the University of Stirling, Dr Donald Macaskill, Chief Executive of Scottish Care, and Suzanne Dance, Actor and Facilitator with Active Inquiry. The panel is chaired by Dr Hannah Graham, University of Stirling.
Who's leading the event?
Dr Melanie Lovatt, University of Stirling.
The play was developed in collaboration with Active Inquiry and Scottish Care.
Active Inquiry is a theatre company based in Edinburgh. They create plays with and for communities enabling them to use theatre as a catalyst for dialogue and to uncover and challenge oppression.
Scottish Care is a membership organisation and the representative body for independent sector social care services in Scotland, covering private, charitable, and not-for-profit social care organisations.
There will be two shows of The Truth About Ageing :
Thursday 9 November 2023, 13.00-15.00
Friday 10 November 2023, 13.00-15.45 (Including Panel and Audience Q&A)
Booking: https://www.stir.ac.uk/events/23-24/esrc-festival-of-social-science/the-truth-about-ageing-plus-qa/
This event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023 and was made possible thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Wednesday, November 8th 2023 - Saturday, November 11th 2023
16th European Public Health Conference (Conferences)
Dublin, Ireland
Wednesday, November 8th 2023
Saturday, November 11th 2023
The 16th European Public Health Conference will take place in Dublin from 8th November - 11th November 2023.
CPC-CG member, Mary Abed Al Ahad will present Air pollution, mortality, and hospital admissions in Scotland: A 16 years register-based study
And
Air pollution, self-reported health, and ethnicity in the UK: A spatial-temporal analysis
Monday, November 6th 2023
Local population change and policy challenges (Workshops)
The British Academy and online
Monday, November 6th 2023
14:00-17:00
Join us in London or online for this policy forum event to discuss the importance of local area demography for policy.
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Experts will discuss local population change and the challenges it presents for effective policy, particularly in relation to geographical inequality in the UK, and the resulting levelling-up agenda. Speakers will share the latest knowledge on local population variation and the value of quality data, raising the question of how far individual policies should be tailored to places' particular circumstances, and provide an opportunity for discussion between cross-sector experts. The event will include an open policy forum for questions from attendees, ending with a networking reception.
Speakers
Professor Jane Falkingham, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and PI of Connecting Generations, VP International and Engagement, University of Southampton.
Professor Nicola Shelton, President of the British Society of Population Studies, Head of Health and Social Surveys Research Group, Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL.
Professor Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography Newcastle University.
This talk will highlight the complex dynamics of local population change, raising the question of how far individual policies should be tailored to places' particular circumstances. While the population nationally continues to grow, age and diversify, the local dimension presents a much more varied picture which poses a challenge for anticipating future trends and deciding how best to cater for them or possibly try and alter them. Overall change rates range widely, while any particular level of change can result from different combinations of rates of births, deaths and migration superimposed on profiles that differ in terms of gender, age, ethnicity and wealth among other features.
Rich Pereira, Deputy Director for Population Statistics and Head of the Centre for Ageing and Demography, Public Policy Analysis, Office for National Statistics.
The Office for National Statistics produces estimates of the population at the local level. The 'traditional' approach for this relies on a decennial population Census, adjusting annually to account for natural change and migration. This presentation will cover improvements that have been made in the population statistics system since the turn of the century to meet changes in policy information needs and to better reflect changing society. It will also cover the innovative research being carried out to make use of a wider selection of administrative data in population estimation, working with local policymakers, and how ONS is creating striking outputs that really help people understand and make proper use of the evidence provided.
Professor Grant Hill-Cawthorne, Managing Director of Research and Information and Librarian, House of Commons.
This presentation will introduce the different ways in which research evidence can impact policy within the UK Parliament and consider what we can all do to increase the degree to which policy is informed by evidence. It will also cover the multiple ways research evidence is used by the UK Parliament, for example, the Libraries use it to answer policy questions and analyse legislation, while the select committees use it as a foundation from which to launch inquiries. In addition, the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology ensures that research evidence is translated into accessible summaries of a body of knowledge for use by parliamentarians.
Discussions
Trends in local population change
Inequality and vulnerable groups
Local data estimation to support policy
Policy challenges and opportunities
This event took place at The British Academy, London, and online via Slido: https://app.sli.do/event/gyseHdV79RNDhVWN6FH9Aa/live/questions
This event is organised in partnership between the British Society for Population Studies, the ESRC Centre for Population Change and ESRC Connecting Generations. It is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023 and was made possible thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The event celebrates 50 years of the British Society for Population studies whose members have been scientifically studying human populations since 1973.
Monday, October 30th 2023
ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (Conferences)
Professor Ridhi Kashyap
Boston University, Boston, USA
Monday, October 30th 2023
10:30 EDT
Connecting Generations member, Professor Ridhi Kashyap, will give a keynote speech at the third ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO'23) on Monday 30 October 2023.
The conference aims to highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from the social sciences and humanistic studies, can help improve equity and access to opportunity for historically disadvantaged and underserved communities. The conference will provide an international forum for presenting research papers, problem pitches, survey and position papers, new datasets, and software demonstrations towards the goal of bridging research and practice.
EAAMO '23 is organized by the Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) initiative, and builds on the MD4SG technical workshop series and tutorials at conferences including ACM EC, ACM COMPASS, ACM FAccT and WINE. The conference will feature keynote talks, panels, and contributed presentations across numerous fields. In line with the MD4SG core values of bridging research and practice, the conference will bring together researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners in various government and non-government organizations, community organizations, and industry to build multi-disciplinary pipelines.
Full details are available on the EAAMO'23 website.
Thursday, October 26th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Bruno Masquelier (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Bruno Masquelier
Zoom
Thursday, October 26th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar was held on Thursday 26 October at 13:00 UK Time. Professor Bruno Masquelier, from UCLouvain, presented, "Shifting age and sex patterns of premature mortality from ages 5 to 25: a systematic analysis of vital registration, surveys and censuses from 1990 to 2021".
Title: Shifting age and sex patterns of premature mortality from ages 5 to 25: a systematic analysis of vital registration, surveys, and censuses from 1990 to 2021
Abstract: The global health community is increasingly focusing on older children, adolescents, and youth, but measuring mortality risk in these age groups remains challenging. This presentation will analyse recent trends in mortality from ages 5 to 25 at the global, regional, and national levels. We will build on estimates from the UN IGME (United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation), derived from a comprehensive analysis of publicly available mortality data, including vital registration data, nationally representative surveys, and censuses. Age-specific patterns of mortality are undergoing significant shifts due to varying rates of improvement. Mortality declines have been much slower above age 5 than in younger children and neonates. In all regions except sub-Saharan Africa, the risk of dying between ages 15 and 25 now surpasses the risk of death in early childhood (ages 1 to 5). Additionally, the global sex ratio of mortality increased between 1990 and 2021, driven by faster declines in female mortality. Disparities in mortality risk, well-documented in young children, are extending to older children, adolescents and youth aged 5-24 within countries. Greater attention is needed to address these disparities and reduce equity gaps.
Speaker: Bruno Masquelier is a Professor of Demography at UCLouvain. He holds a PhD in Demography from Louvain University, and an MSc in Sociology. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Group on the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) and leads the work of this group on mortality in children aged 5-19.
Watch the recording here.
Monday, October 23rd 2023
Family inequalities, life-course events and children's outcomes (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Francesca Fiori
University of Strathclyde
Monday, October 23rd 2023
16:00-17:00
During this seminar, CPC-CG member Dr Francesca Fiori will introduce some of her recent research, whose focus is on the early life-course experiences of children from different social backgrounds, and their development and wellbeing.
Register to attend in-person: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-inequalities-life-course-events-and-childrens-outcomes-tickets-727495848667
The first study focuses on the experience of living with a lone-mother, and asks whether maternal employment is associated with higher levels of socio-emotional wellbeing. And if so, for whom, and which are the mechanisms that may explain such effect.
The second study focuses on residential mobility during childhood, and asks whether the experience of moving home has detrimental effects on children's outcomes, and whether this depends on the frequency, timing and quality of a move.
Both studies rely on longitudinal quantitative data from the Growing Up in Scotland birth cohort study, which follows the lives of (two cohorts) of children born in Scotland in the 2000s. Francesca critically applies advanced quantitative methods to unpack causality and selection effects, and to investigate the existence of heterogenous effects of life-course events on different sub-populations of children.
Francesca Fiori is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. She is a social demographer with an interest in gender and social inequalities, and the way these interact with demographic processes.
Thursday, October 12th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Brian Buh (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Brian Buh
Online and In Person
Thursday, October 12th 2023
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 12 October at 12:00 UK Time. Dr Brian Buh, Research Assistant at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, gave a talk entitled, "Belonging to the neighbourhood, and the transition to parenthood".
Title: Belonging to the neighbourhood, and the transition to parenthood
Abstract: A sense of belonging is commonly described as experiencing comfort, security, connection, and 'at-homeness' that come from social interactions within a defined social or geographical space. Feeling like one belongs in their physical surroundings encourages emotional stability and investment, allowing for a person to 'settle down'. Additionally, belonging is a discursive resource that enables socio-spatial inclusion. This makes belonging an important prerequisite to social capital formation. Higher levels of social capital are associated with the transition to parenthood. This project explores the relationship between self-reported sense of belonging to the neighbourhood and the transition to parenthood. We employ the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Survey (2009-2022) and utilise pooled-logit regression. In our preliminary results, we observe, that a stronger sense of belonging to the neighbourhood is associated with a higher likelihood of becoming a parent. This positive association is larger for individuals who had recently moved within five kilometres. Couples, where only the women or both have a low sense of belonging, have a negative association with first birth. However, we do not find evidence that couples where only the men have a low sense of belonging have a negative relationship with the transition to parenthood. These findings suggest that beyond direct financial or in-kind resources provided by social networks, emotional stability and 'at-homeness' are prerequisites to the transition to parenthood.
Speaker: Dr Brian Buh joined the Vienna Institute of Demography in September 2020. His research interests include fertility and competing/complementary life course domains, micro-level behavioural decision making, uncertainty and the labour market.
Watch the seminar recording here.
Thursday, September 28th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Joy Cruz ,Tom Emery and Stuart Gietel-Basten (Seminars and lectures)
Stuart Gietel-Basten
Online
Thursday, September 28th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 28 September at 13:00 UK Time. Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dr Joy Cruz of University of Philippines, and Dr Tom Emery of Erasmus University Rotterdam presented, "The Generations and Gender Survey in Hong Kong: methodological innovations and some extremely preliminary findings".
Title: The Generations and Gender Survey in Hong Kong: methodological innovations and some extremely preliminary findings.
Abstract: The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is the pre-eminent international comparative, longitudinal survey of family aspirations and inter-generational and gender relations between people, expressed in care arrangements and the organization of paid and unpaid work. The survey, however, is predominantly performed in Europe. In order to explore commonalities (and differences) in such roles and experiences, the Hong Kong GGS was instigated in 2019. A pilot version of the survey was developed and executed in 2021 and the first full wave has just been completed. In this seminar, we will outline some of the methodological challenges and innovations of this survey, including details of an experiment designed to ensure the highest possible response rate. We will then present some extremely preliminary findings emanating from the first wave.
Speaker:Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten is a Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the links between population and policy, with a regional focus on Asia. In particular, he is interested in the emergence of low fertility across the region, and the consequences of this in terms of population ageing and growth.
Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - Friday, September 22nd 2023
General Online Research Conference 2023 (Conferences)
University of Kassel, Germany
Wednesday, September 20th 2023
Friday, September 22nd 2023
The General Online Research Conference is annually organized by the German Society for Online Research in cooperation with a partner. The GOR 23 conference will take place in Kassel in cooperation with the University of Kassel from Wednesday, 20 September, to Friday, 22 September 2023.
CPC-CG Member, Dr Grace Chang, will be a giving a presentation, entitled "Fielding a long online survey: Evidence from the first Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) in the UK", based on research undertaken as part of the Generations and Gender Survey by Brienna Perelli-Harris, Olga Maslovskaya and Grace Chang.
Thursday, September 14th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - James Raymer (Seminars and lectures)
Professor James Raymer
In Person
Thursday, September 14th 2023
15:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 14 September 2023. James Raymer, Professor of Demography at the Australian National University presented, "Indirect estimation of migration in the Asia-Pacific region".
Title:Indirect estimation of migration in the Asia-Pacific region
Speaker: Professor James Raymer is Professor of Demography at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the study of demographic processes, and he is especially interested in how migration influences population change. He has engaged in many interdisciplinary and international research collaborations on topics ranging from statistical estimation of migration to population forecasting.
Abstract:Flows of international migration are needed in the Asia-Pacific region to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that nearly all of the countries in this region do not gather or produce statistics on flows of international migration. The only information that are widely available represent immigrant population stocks measured at specific points in time - but these represent poor proxies for annual movements. In the presentation, I will present the methodology we developed for indirectly estimating annual flows of international migration by age and sex amongst 53 populations in the Asia-Pacific region and four macro world regions from 2000 to 2019. The estimates suggest 27 to 31 million persons from the Asia-Pacific region have changed their countries of usual residence during each year in the study. Southern Asia is estimated to have had the largest inflows and outflows, whilst intra-regional migration and return migration were highest in Eastern, Southern, and South-Eastern Asia. India, China, and Indonesia were estimated to have had the largest emigration flows and net migration losses. As a first attempt to estimate international migration flows in the Asia-Pacific region, this paper provides a basis for understanding the dynamics and complexity of the large-scale migration occurring in the region.
Wednesday, September 13th 2023 - Friday, September 15th 2023
7th Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) User Conference (Conferences)
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Wednesday, September 13th 2023
Friday, September 15th 2023
The 7th Generations and Gender Programme Conference will be held at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, between 13 September - 15 September.
CPC-CG Members, Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris and Dr Bernice Kuang, will be presenting at the conference.
Brienna will present: Representativeness of the push-to-web Generations and Gender Survey in the United Kingdom.
Bernice will present: Are worries about the future and Brexit voting behaviours related to fertility intentions?
See the full programme - https://www.ggp-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GGP7UserConf_FullProgram-v1.pdf
Monday, September 11th 2023 - Wednesday, September 13th 2023
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) annual conference 2023 (Conferences)
Keele University
Monday, September 11th 2023
Wednesday, September 13th 2023
The Annual British Society for Population Studies conference will be taking place from 11th September - 13th September at Keele University.
CPC researchers have been contributing to BSPS by volunteering as strand organisers, submitting papers to present, and chairing sessions.
Attendees of BSPS 2023 can hear more about our members' research in the sessions below, and you can follow our live tweets on twitter, @CPCpopulation @ConnectingGens or by following the event #BSPS2023. Full programme and registration details are available from the BSPS website.
Monday 11 September
13:30 - 15:00
Session: Socioeconomic inequalities in later life
Title: Did the socio-economic gradient in depression in later-life improve or worsen during the COVID 19 pandemic? New evidence from England using path analysis
Authors: Qin, Evandrou, Falkingham, Vlachantoni
Session: Ethnicity, internal migration & fertility
Title: Residential mobility and housing changes among immigrants and their descendants in the UK
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu
Session: Ethnicity, internal migration & fertility
Title: Modelling determinants of fertility among UK-born ethnic minorities using event history analysis
Authors: Baek, Kulu, Fiori
Session: Covid-19
Title: Excess mortality by cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales
Authors: Kashyap, Tilstra, Jonas Schoeley, Aburto, Angus, Beam Dowd
16:45 - 18:15
Session: Fertility & uncertainty 1
Title: Are worries about the future and Brexit voting behaviours related to Historical demography: Transitions & kinship 1. The First Demographic Transition in Britain - one Informal care, social participation & volunteering Digital footprint data for population science 2 1. High-resolution forecasting of European Family background, (dis)advantage, income & wealth Recent life expectancy trends 1. Exploring the sex difference in life Childhood migration Chair: Dr. Aude Bernard fertility intentions? New Evidence from the UK Gender and Generations Survey
Authors: Berrington, Kuang, Perelli-Harris
Session: Fertility & uncertainty 1
Title: Fertility trends and changing housing contexts in Scotland: A longitudinal analysis
Authors: Christison, Kulu, Berrington
Session: Informal care, social participation & volunteering
Title: COVID-19 & informal care: A quantitative analysis of the provision of informal care by adult children in the UK before and during the pandemic
Authors: Pomeroy, Fiori
Session: Family background, (dis)advantage, income & wealth
Title: Family complexity trajectories in the UK from birth to age 10
Authors: Stastna, Mikolai, Finney, Keenan
Tuesday 12th September
09:00 - 10:30
Session: Data science: Innovations in demographic data
Title: Data2ThePeople: A crowdsourcing project to ethically repurpose multiple types of personal data
Authors: Mills, Akimova, Zhoa
Session: Internal migration as a driver of change
Title: Is the internal migrant premium for social mobility consistent over time and place? Analysis for England, 1971-2011 using the Census Longitudinal Study
Authors: Ribe, Finney, McCollum, Kulu
Session: Climate change & population dynamics
Title: Climate change and sex ratios at birth
Authors: Abdel Ghany, Wilde, Dimitrova, Muttarak, Kashyap.
11:00 - 12:00
Session: Plenary 2 - Dr Louisa Blackwell (ONS), Professor Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford) and Dr Bernice Kuang (University of Southampton) - who will have a conversation about new and future developments in British population studies
Authors: Dr Louisa Blackwell (ONS), Professor Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford) and Dr Bernice Kuang
13:00 - 14:30
Session: Fertility & uncertainty 2
Title: Local social networks and fertility in the United Kingdom
Authors: Buh, Beaujouan, Berrington
Session: Relationships & loneliness in later life
Title: The relationship between parental health and adult children's residential proximity: findings from SHARE
Authors: Afable, Vierboom, Mikolai, Myrskyla, Kulu
Session: Understanding local geographies of ethnicity in the UK
Title: Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI): Insights from Census 2021
Authors: Catney, Lloyd, Ellis, Wright, Finney, Jivraj, Manley, Wood
Session: Understanding local geographies of ethnicity in the UK
Title: Local belonging of ethnic minorities in England and Wales: exploring local contexts, experiences of racism and ethnic attachment
Authors: Harrison, Finney
Session: Understanding local geographies of ethnicity in the UK
Title: Understanding family, employment and housing patterns of immigrants and their descendants in England and Wales through a spatial context
Authors: Pandya, Kulu, Mikolai, Liu, Delaporte
14:45 - 16:16
Session: Health in later life
Title: Birth cohort differences in multimorbidity progression in South Korea
Authors: Lam, Keenan, Myrskylä, Kulu
Session: Session B: Spatial modelling in international, micro context
Title: Geographical variation in females' first and second birth in China
Authors: Hu, Kulu, Mikolai
Session: Health & mortality inequalities
Title: The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess deaths: an analysis by deprivation quintile and cause of death in England -
Authors: Angus, Tilstra, Schöley, Kashyap, Dowd
17:30 - 19:00
Session: Data science: Estimation and forecasting (to 7.15pm)
Title: Developing Bayesian projections of subnational fertility for the UK
Authors: Ellison, Hilton, Bijak, Dodd, Forster, Smith
Session: Residential mobility, housing of immigrants & their descendants in Europe
Title: The determinants of first-time homeownership across the generations of Immigrants in Sweden
Authors: Al Ahad, Andersson, Kulu
Session: Residential mobility, housing of immigrants & their descendants in Europe
Title: Residential mobility and housing tenure of immigrants in Germany by legal status
Authors: Liu, Kulu
Wednesday 13th September
11:30 - 13:00
Session: Ethnicity measurement, estimation & forecasting
Title: Projection of migrant family life-courses in Britain
Authors: Kulu, Ibbetson, Mikolai
Session: Ethnicity measurement, estimation & forecasting
Title: Articulating and categorising ethnic identity: reflections on invisible identities in standard ethnic group categories using the EVENS Survey
Authors: Borkowska, Finney, Nazroo
Session: Environmental context & health
Title: Long-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admissions in Scotland: A 16-years register-based study (2002-2017)
Authors: Ahad, Demšar, Sullivan, Kulu
Thursday, September 7th 2023 - Saturday, September 9th 2023
21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023 (Conferences)
Warsaw, Poland
Thursday, September 7th 2023
Saturday, September 9th 2023
The 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023 will take place at the University of Warsaw, hosted by the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw and co-organised by LabFam - the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labour Market and Family Dynamics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw.
CPC member Paul Bridgen will present:
Welfare institutions, cross-cutting coalitions and the opportunities for socio-ecological transition in liberal welfare state regimes
For more information, see the conference website.
Monday, September 4th 2023 - Thursday, September 7th 2023
Royal Statistical Society Conference (Conferences)
Harrogate, Yorkshire
Monday, September 4th 2023
Thursday, September 7th 2023
The Royal Statistical Society International Conference will be taking place on the 4-7 September 2023, in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
CPC-CG Member, Dr Joanne Ellison, will be giving a talk entitled, "Projecting UK Subnational Fertility using Bayesian Generalised Additive Models".
Abstract:Subnational fertility projections (SNFPs) are an important driver of subnational population projections (SNPPs), which are vital for national and local governments and businesses to distribute funding and anticipate future demand for resources, products or services. In the UK, SNPPs are published separately by the constituent countries, each with differing assumptions and variants. In this paper we develop a Bayesian SNFP model for the UK that borrows strength across the local authorities (LAs) within the four countries and appropriately quantifies uncertainty.
At the UK level, preliminary work has focused on clustering local schedules of age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) to identify groups of LAs with similar fertility patterns across age and year. It appears that around four clusters are required, corresponding to early and later ages of childbearing at varying intensities. The subsequent work on projections has concentrated on Scotland due to the long time series of ASFRs that is available. We apply Generalized Additive Models to estimate smooth effects of age and year which vary with cluster, and also investigate the addition of LA-specific random intercepts and age slopes. We find that in terms of predictive accuracy, our proposed model outperforms a simple extrapolation method as well as naive freezing of the local ASFRs, which are important baselines in the fertility projections literature.
We will implement this approach within a Bayesian context to obtain well-calibrated measures of uncertainty and to build in expert opinion regarding future national ASFRs. We will compare our SNFPs with existing methods from the literature and official projections for the constituent countries to further assess predictive performance. By unifying the projections for the four UK countries within a probabilistic framework, our proposed SNFP methodology has the potential to improve projection reliability and therefore aid local and national government planners in their decision-making.
CPC-CG Member, Professor Peter Smith, will also be delivering a talk at this conference, entitled "A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Estimating European Migration Flows".
Abstract:In many countries, migration patterns are the key determinant of population change. Accurate estimates of place-to-place population migration flows are essential for making population policy estimates or projections. However, there are many difficulties inherent to estimating migration flows: for example, countries may under-report migration, use different migration definitions, or have different data-collection systems.
We report on work undertaken as part of the Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig) project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme. This work has extended the methodology developed in the Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM) project to provide harmonised migration estimates for the flows within the 32-country EU+ system, and flows into and out of Europe, by origin, destination, age and sex, from 2009 to 2019 with a statistical assessment of their uncertainty. Furthermore, the flows have been disaggregated into migrants born in a country in or outside the EU, to enhance their utility to research and policy-making, given the different demographic and migration behaviour of these two groups and the associated channels of migration.
The estimation utilises a hierarchical Bayesian approach based on the IMEM model. We use migration flow data collated by Eurostat, and incorporate covariate information and information on the effects of undercount, measurement and accuracy of data collection systems. We specify a migration model to relate the true unknown flows to the covariates and a measurement model to relate the observed flows to the true unknown flows, correcting for the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the observed migration flows.
Wednesday, July 19th 2023
BiB Population Research Series - "Family and Employment Trajectories among Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe" (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Hill Kulu
Online and In Person
Wednesday, July 19th 2023
11:00 - 12:15
This BIB lecture will take place on Wednesday 19 July at 11:00. CPC-CG member, Professor Hill Kulu, will present his paper "Family and Employment Trajectories among Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe".
Abstract: European countries have witnessed increasing immigration streams and ethnic heterogeneity of their populations. Facilitating immigrant integration and social cohesion has become a major societal issue. This presentation gives an overview of the 'MigrantLife' project, which focuses on family and employment trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden. The results suggest that while cultural-normative factors are important in shaping partnership behaviour of immigrants and their descendants, structural-economic factors may play a more important role in fertility decisions. The analysis of employment trajectories reveals that most immigrant men are in education or full-time employment after arrival, whereas many women stay inactive. We discuss the findings in the light of competing theories of immigrant and ethnic minority integration: the classical theory of assimilation vs the segmented assimilation theory.
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Monday, July 17th 2023 - Friday, July 21st 2023
ESRA Conference 2023 (Conferences)
University of Milan-Bicocca
Monday, July 17th 2023
Friday, July 21st 2023
ESRA hosts its main conference every two years to bring together applied survey researchers, methodologists and statisticians from Europe and beyond. The conference showcases the latest survey research and offers a number of professional development opportunities, including short courses and awards. It is traditionally hosted in university buildings to keep registration fees to a minimum. ESRA aims to be as inclusive as possible, promoting in particular the participation of doctoral students and early career researchers.
The ESRA 2023 Conference will take place from 17 July to 21 July at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Milan, Italy. The conference theme is 'Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions'.
CPC Members Grace Chang, Olga Maslovskaya and Brienna Perelli-Harris will present the paper 'Representativeness of push-to-web Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) in the UK' on 19 July.
Abstract: Using the first ever Generations and Gender (GGS) survey conducted in the UK, this study examines the representativeness of the survey in relation to the UK population, based on the UK Census 2022. The UK GGS is a push-to-web survey that uses a stratified random probability selection of addresses in the UK through postcodes. One of the challenges in the UK for online data collection is the absence of an individual-level sampling frame. We examine whether the UK GGS is representative of the 18 - 59 young adult population in the UK by gender, ethnicity, deprivation and fertility, among other demographic characteristics. Preliminary results for stage 1 of data collection has been conducted recently, but final results will be available by May 2023 when all data are collected for GGS in the UK. UK specific weights will be calculated and will also be used for this analysis. This study seeks to discuss the strengths and challenges with using a push-to-web survey design in the UK, which will provide useful insights for other countries which do not have population registers and desire to move to push-to-web data collection.
Visit the conference website.
Tuesday, July 11th 2023 - Thursday, July 13th 2023
Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2023 (Conferences)
University of Essex
Tuesday, July 11th 2023
Thursday, July 13th 2023
08:00 - 15:30
The Understanding Society Conference takes place every two years and is an opportunity for researchers to share the latest work on household panel studies. The Understanding Society Scientific Conference features research from a wide range of disciplines, but centred around the exploration of longitudinal panel data.
CPC-CG Member, Dr Valentina Di Iasio, will be giving a presentation on day three of the conference, in parallel session 1, entitled "Intergenerational transmission of norms and socio-economic outcomes later in life'.
Monday, July 3rd 2023 - Thursday, July 6th 2023
SCE 29th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (Conferences)
Université Côte d'Azur - Nice, France
Monday, July 3rd 2023
Thursday, July 6th 2023
08:00 - 18:00
The Society for Computational Economics will be holding it's 29th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
CPC Member, Dr Emily Barker, who works on the Quantmig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy project, will be presenting, "The future of East-to-West Migration Through Automation".
Monday, July 3rd 2023 - Thursday, July 6th 2023
20th IMISCOE Annual Conference (Conferences)
Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw
Monday, July 3rd 2023
Thursday, July 6th 2023
08:00 - 20:30
The 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, "Migration and Inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" will be taking place at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw from 3rd - 6th July 2023.
CPC-CG Member, Professor Jackline Wahba, will be taking part in a panel discussion, "Semi-plenary: Inequalities and migration - in search of the answers" on 4th July.
Thursday, June 29th 2023 - Friday, June 30th 2023
Second MigrantLife Symposium (Conferences)
University of St Andrews
Thursday, June 29th 2023
Friday, June 30th 2023
European countries have witnessed increasing immigration streams and ethnic diversity over the past decades. Recent social science research reports considerable heterogeneity in family forms, employment, and housing patterns among individuals with a migrant family background as well as across migrant generations. Some researchers underline the importance of preferences and human capital, whereas others emphasise the role of structural inequalities. It is equally unclear whether the observed differences are short-term outcomes in a long-term process of cultural and economic integration or rather reflections of different pathways and outcomes for immigrants and their descendants.
This international symposium brings together migration researchers to discuss innovative research on migrants and their descendants. We invite contributions in the following research areas of migration studies: fertility and family; employment and education; housing and residential mobility; and health and mortality. Research using longitudinal data and life course analysis will be given priority. Future projections and methodological contributions are very welcome. The symposium is part of the ERC funded MigrantLife project (please see https://migrantlife.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/).
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Tuesday, June 27th 2023
Towards a resilient future of Europe (Workshops)
Professor Jakub Bijak
Online
Tuesday, June 27th 2023
11:00-12:30 CEST
Within its key funding programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, the European Commission is supporting the project “Towards a Resilient Future of Europe” (FutuRes). The project is taking a close look at the meaning and implications of “resilience” for ageing populations, with a particular emphasis on life course, social networks and intergenerational links, with implications for policy. This high-level policy expert workshop will be organised around the following key questions:
► What role does resilience play in individuals' life-course, considering the two-way interactions between uncontrollable events and the choices made by individuals?
► What are the impacts of ageing populations on productivity and employment (by gender, sector, occupational group and skills), as well as on investment, economic security, social welfare systems, access to (digital) public services and public finance sustainability over the medium and long terms?
► What is the role of fertility and childbearing decisions in a “resilient life-course”? How does this connect with family and friendship networks, welfare provision and wellbeing later in life?
► How can migration act as a mitigating factor to ameliorate demographic changes? How can we predict the age structure of the migrant populations, thereby better forecasting the current and future impacts on dependency ratios across European states?
Eminent experts and decision-makers from research, politics, business and civil society will discuss these questions. Amongst others, these experts will include:
► Arnstein Aassve | Professor in Demography at Bocconi University, Milan | Coordinator of the FutuRes Project
► Jakub Bijak | Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton. QuantMig and CPC-CG
► Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak | Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at WSE, Warsaw
► Marlène de Saussure | Scientific Consultant at the Institute for Innovation and Technology, Berlin
► Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz | Executive Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography
► Elizabeth Gosme | Director of COFACE Families Europe, Brussels
► Philip Haywood | Policy Analyst and Senior Health Economist at the OECD, Paris
► Anna Kwiatkiewicz | Senior Advisor at Business Europe, Brussels
► Marina Manke | Chief of the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre at the IOM, Berlin
►Christian Wehrmann | Senior Consultant at VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, Berlin
The workshop will be followed by a public panel debate “Work Better to Work Longer? Quality of Working Life as Key to a More Resilient Labour Market” (13:00-14:00 CEST) with Beatrice Covassi (Member of the European Parliament), Massimiliano Mascherini (Head of the Social Policies unit at EuroFound), Arnstein Aassve (Bocconi University), Jutta Allmendinger (President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center) and Ulrich Becker (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich).
You can register for both events at: https://survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php/964646?lang=en
Thursday, June 22nd 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Alice Goisis (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Alice Goisis
Online
Thursday, June 22nd 2023
14:00-15:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 22 June 2023 at 14:00 UK Time. Alice Goisis, Associate Professor of Demography, and the Deputy Research Director in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the UCL Department for Social Science, presented "Medically Assisted Reproduction and adult outcomes across the life course".
Title:Medically Assisted Reproduction and adult outcomes across the life course
Abstract:Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) is one of the most important achievements of medical science in the last generation. In advanced societies, the number of MAR treatments increases every year, and, over the last four decades, more than 10 million MAR conceived children were born, and many more families received fertility treatment. Due to concerns around the well-being of children born after MAR, a lot of attention has been given to analyse their health and development, whilst the evidence on adults' well-being and outcomes during and after the MAR process remains limited. This talk will showcase multiple studies aimed at investigating and understanding the life course consequences of MAR for adults by focusing on two broad themes: mental health and partnership stability. The results, on average, show that failure to conceive via MAR is associated with an increased risk of depression, loneliness and of partnership instability in the short and longer term. In contrast, the mental health and partnership trajectories of adults who conceive via MAR are remarkably similar to those of adults who conceive naturally. The results underscore the importance of including men in studies on reproduction and of integrating multiple perspectives and data sources.
Speaker: Dr Alice Goisis is an Associate Professor of Demography, and the Deputy Research Director in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the UCL Department for Social Science. Her research interests include social demography and epidemiology, and her research has examined the association between advanced maternal age and child-wellbeing, with a particular focus on whether, and how, it varies across different groups of the population and time periods.
Watch the recording here.
Thursday, June 15th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Nitzan Peri-Rotem (Seminars and lectures)
Nitzan Peri-Rotem
In Person and on Zoom
Thursday, June 15th 2023
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 15th June 2023. Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter, gave a talk entitled "Revising the Proximate Determinants of Fertility: The Role of Assisted Reproductive Technologies".
Title:Revisiting the Proximate Determinants of Fertility: The Role of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Abstract:In 1956, Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake published their pioneering study, which presented “an analytical framework for the comparative sociology of fertility”. This framework introduced a set of intermediate fertility variables, which later became known as the proximate determinants of fertility. These include behavioural and biological factors (sexual exposure, contraceptive use, induced abortion, sterility, etc.), through which socioeconomic, cultural and environmental variables can affect fertility. Since it was first published, the framework has been revised several times along with developments in demographic research, and to adjust for changes in sexual and reproductive practices, with the most recent update published by John Bongaarts in 2015. However, the proximate determinants model has yet to incorporate the usage of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), which account for nearly 8% of all children born in some countries. This study offers both theoretical and empirical applications for the inclusion of ART within the proximate determinants of fertility. Given the global trends in the supply and demand for fertility treatment, accounting for assisted reproductive technologies in the proximate determinants framework will contribute to a better understanding of fertility change and its causes across different populations.
Speaker: Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter. She specialises in family and fertility trends in post-industrial societies, and is interested in social and cultural influences on reproductive behaviour and the link between social inequalities and family formation patterns.
Watch the recording of the seminar here.
Monday, June 5th 2023
Centre of Migration Research UW Seminars: New Advances in Theory and Research on Migration: "Scanning Migration Horizons" (Seminars and lectures)
Online
Monday, June 5th 2023
15:00
CPC-CG Member, Professor Jakub Bijak, will be delivering a seminar as part of the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw's seminar series.
In the talk "Scanning migration horizons” we will explore some of the main sources of migration uncertainty across a range of time horizons. We will look at the implications of uncertainty not only for understanding migratory processes, but also for preparing adequate and realistic policy responses and for robust migration governance. From nowcasts and early warnings, through forecasts, to long-range migration scenarios, we will discuss some of the recent methodological developments for studying current and future migration. The discussion will focus on the limits of knowledge, and on what new tools and data sources can illuminate. We will conclude by offering health warnings for the use of forward-looking tools for analysing migration, especially important given the high degree of politicisation of the topic.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scanning-migration-horizons-tickets-640421928227
Friday, May 26th 2023 - Saturday, May 27th 2023
4th International Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics Medicine (SilverAge 2023) (Conferences)
Professor Athina Vlachantoni
Galleface Hotel - Colombo, Online
Friday, May 26th 2023
Saturday, May 27th 2023
The SilverAge 2023 4th International Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics Medicine took place on the 26th & 27th May 2023, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The conference was held in collaboration with the International Institute of Ageing, and United Nations - Malta.
Areas of discussion included the impact of Covid-19 on older persons, geriatric medicine, dementia and ageing, ageing and mental wellbeing, nursing for wellness in older adults, ageing & disability, ageing & gerontology, elder abuse, law and rights, nutrition aspects of ageing and elderly friendly environment.
CPC-CG Member, Professor Athina Vlachantoni, was a keynote speaker at the event, delivering a talk entitled, "Intergenerational Support and Ageing: A New Kind of Sandwich Generation".
Thursday, May 25th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Jennifer Dowd (Seminars and lectures)
Jennifer Dowd
Zoom
Thursday, May 25th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 25 May, 13:00-14:00 (UK time). Jennifer Dowd, Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford, presented: "Demographic Insights into COVID-19: A Tale of Two Countries".
Title:Demographic Insights into COVID-19: A Tale of Two Countries
Abstract:Demography has been key to understanding COVID-19 data since the early days of the pandemic. This talk will take stock of demographic insights across the pandemic, with a focus on the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in the US and UK and on the future of population health.
Speaker: Jennifer Dowd is Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Her research seeks to understand how social and biological processes interact over the life course and how social factors "get under the skin" to impact health; she is currently researching social and demographic factors related to Covid-19. Professor Dowd received her PhD from Princeton University in 2004 in Demography and Economics from the Office of Population Research.
Watch the recording here.
Thursday, May 25th 2023
Tipping points webinar series: Education and Digitalisation (Seminars and lectures)
Ridhi Kashyap
Online
Thursday, May 25th 2023
15:30 - 17:00 CEST
The Tipping Points webinar series aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. This webinar will focus on education and digitalisation.
The series is a joint activity of the Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) global research project of Future Earth, the Earth Commission Working Group 1 Earth and Human Systems Intercomparison Modelling Project (EHSMIP) under the Global Commons Alliance, and the Safe Landing Climates Light House Activity of World Climate Research Program (WCRP). IIASA co-hosts the scientific secretariat of Working Group 1 of the Earth Commission and is one of the organizers of these events.
CPC-CG Member, Ridhi Kashyap, will be delivering a presentation entitled "Digital technologies as accelerators of information diffusion".
Click here to register: https://futureearth.confetti.events/education-and-digitalisation/signup
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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023
Families' resilience and well-being of children and youth (Workshops)
Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, Paris
Tuesday, May 23rd 2023
CPC-CG Member, Dr Julia Mikolai, is part of the EAPS Working Group on Child and Adolescent Development, and will be taking part in a workshop entitled "Families' resilience and well-being of children and youth".
This workshop provides an opportunity for research discussions and exchange between scholars across sociology, population studies and cognate fields to present their work on families' resilience to societal challenges such as growing labour market instability, economic inequality and digital transformations, with a specific focus on ensuring well-being among children and youth. The workshop intends to be a first exchange for future scientific collaborations such as special issues and international research projects.
Thursday, May 18th 2023
Women's Superiority and Relationship Dissolution: A 29-Country Study (Seminars and lectures)
Allison Dunatchik
Zoom
Thursday, May 18th 2023
16:00 - 17:00 BST/ 17:00 - 18:00 CEST/ 11:00 - 12:00 EDT
Thursday 18 May 2023, 16:00 – 17:00 BST/ 17:00 – 18:00 CEST/ 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
Women’s Superiority and Relationship Dissolution: A 29-Country Study
Speaker: Allison Dunatchik
Registration: Register on Eventbrite by 12pm (BST) on the day of the event and we will send you the Zoom link shortly before the event starts.
Abstract:The rising share of different-sex couples in which women have higher socioeconomic status than their partners signals progress toward gender equality, but it has also been linked to union instability. There is extensive research documenting a positive association between women’s superiority and union dissolution, but several recent studies find that this association has been weakening. Existing studies have focused more on describing this association, but have paid relatively less attention to testing specific explanations. In this study, we use harmonized panel survey data for 29 high-income countries to examine three distinct mechanisms that can drive the association between women’s economic superiority and separation risk: gender culture, the anticipation of divorce, and work-family conflict. Our analyses show that the association between women’s economic superiority and union dissolution is positive and statistically significant. Contrary to expectations, we do not find evidence that this association is driven by gender culture, and we only find partial evidence about the anticipation of divorce and work-family conflict mechanisms.
Speaker bio: Allison Dunatchik is a dual PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests center on gender, work and family, with a particular focus on how social policies affect gender inequalities inside and outside of the household. Allison’s current research explores how gender inequality is produced and reproduced within different-sex couples in the context of changing gender norms and changing family demography across high-income countries. She is also currently working on a project analyzing how the gender division of household labor changes over time following major life course events, such as the transition to parenthood. Prior to attending the University of Pennsylvania, Allison was a policy evaluation analyst at the National Centre for Social Research in London. Allison holds an MPA in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from American University.
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Wednesday, May 17th 2023
Department for Work and Pensions' Demographic Workshop (Workshops)
Professor Athina Vlachantoni
London
Wednesday, May 17th 2023
Professor Athina Vlachantoni delivered a talk at the Department for Work and Pensions' Demographics Workshop, entitled "Key trends in the UK population and the wider global context".
Thursday, May 11th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Dianna Smith (Seminars and lectures)
Dianna Smith
Zoom
Thursday, May 11th 2023
12:00 - 13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 11th May at 12:00 UK Time. Dr Dianna Smith, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton gave a talk entitled, "Modelling health to support interventions: Outputs from Wessex DIET".
Title:Modelling health to support interventions: Outputs from Wessex DIET
Abstract:Interventions to support the reduction of health inequalities in populations are a central focus of public health research. Though there are often data about health outcomes - diet, obesity, poor mental health - at an aggregate population level, there is less available in local areas. This lack of local-level data can create challenges in identifying areas where there are wider health inequalities, enabling resources to be appropriately targeted spatially. Further, the lack of baseline data on health can be problematic when monitoring the impact of interventions. In the Wessex DIET project, we are developing a toolkit to support local authorities and third sector organisations in collecting data on the impact of food aid interventions. As part of the work, we developed small-area estimates of adult weight, diet quality, food insecurity and wellbeing for neighbourhoods (Lower Super Output Areas) in England. In the seminar the methods used and challenges with data and modelling will be discussed as part of the ongoing project.
Speaker:Dr Dianna Smith is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in quantitative health geography, using GIS to visualise data collected or collated to address key social and spatial inequalities. She works across the disciplines of geography and public health with links to local government.
You can watch the recording here
Thursday, May 11th 2023
ELSA 20th Anniversary Conference (Conferences)
The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton Terrace, St James's, London, SW1Y 5AG
Thursday, May 11th 2023
09:00 UK Time
This conference celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with 10 waves of data collection, and two special waves collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The conference programme focuses on central issues studied in ELSA, with presentations followed by panel discussions addressing scientific and policy implications. Among the topics will be:
Inequalities in later life.
Cross-national comparisons of ageing trajectories.
Cognitive decline and dementia.
ELSA and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Work and Retirement.
A poster presentation will also be taking place.
CPC-CG Members, Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Dr Min Qin, Professor Jane Falkingham and Professor Maria Evandrou will be presenting two posters at the conference on 'The changing use of intergenerational digital communications amongst older people in England during the pandemic' and 'Did the socio-economic gradient in depression in later-life deteriorate or weaken during the Covid-19 pandemic?'
Thursday, April 27th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Kieron Barclay (Seminars and lectures)
Kieron Barclay
Zoom
Thursday, April 27th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG webinar took place on 27 April 2023. Kieron Barclay of the University of Stockholm gave a talk entitled "Birth spacing and the health of mothers and fathers: an analysis of physical and mental health using individual- and sibling-fixed effects".
Abstract: There is a large literature examining the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, and particularly for mothers. However, research on this topic draws almost exclusively on observational research designs, and almost all studies have been limited to adjusting for observable factors that may confound the relationship between birth spacing and health outcomes. In this study we use Norwegian register data to examine the relationship between birth spacing and the number of general practitioner consultations for physical and mental health concerns for both mothers and fathers in both the period immediately after childbirth (1-5 and 6-11 months after the birth), as well as the long-term (10-11 years after the birth). To examine short-term health outcomes, we use individual-level fixed effects - examining only different births to the same parent - to hold constant factors that may influence the birth spacing behavior of mothers and fathers as well as their health. We apply sibling fixed effects in our analysis of long-term outcomes, holding constant the family background of the mothers and fathers that we study. The results from our analyses that do not apply individual or sibling fixed effects yield results consistent with much of the previous literature, where both shorter and longer birth intervals are associated with worse health outcomes than birth intervals approximately 2-3 years long. Estimates from individual fixed effects models suggest that particularly short intervals negatively affect maternal mental health in the short-term, with more ambiguous evidence that particularly short- or long-intervals may influence parental health outcomes in the short- and long-term, though some of these patterns may be consistent with selection processes.
Speaker: Kieron Barclay is a Pro Futura Scientia XIV Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study; as well as an Associate Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His research is in the field of social demography, and he primarily focuses on how family conditions are related to health and mortality, with a particular focus on the interrelationship between health and fertility.
Watch the recording here.
Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - Thursday, April 27th 2023
Future Migration to Europe: Migration projections from international to local levels (Conferences)
Online and In Person (Green Room, U Residence, Bld General Jacques 271, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium)
Wednesday, April 26th 2023
Thursday, April 27th 2023
09:00 - 17:30
CPC-CG Members, Professor Jakub Bijak and Dr Valentina Di Iasio, will be speaking at the Future Migration to Europe Conference in Brussels on 26 & 27 April 2023.
The academic day gathers migration scholars and experts for in-depth discussions on academic challenges and opportunities for forecasting migration. During this day, participants will hear the main takeaways from three Horizon 2020-funded projects - HumMingBird, FUME & QuantMig. Participants will also exchange knowledge on a variety of aspects related to the migration studies - from analysing the migration drivers, and emerging destinations, collecting traditional and new data, quantifying and modelling future migrations, to foreseeing future migration flows.
9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome by Horizon 2020 projects: HumMingBird, FUME & QuantMig
Speakers:
Tuba Bircan, Vrije University Brussels, HumMingBird
Carsten Kessler, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, FUME
Jakub Bijak, Southampton University, QuantMig (online)
10:45 - 11:45 | Why do people decide to migrate? Aspirations, drivers and intersectionality
This session will explore the push factors that influence an individual's decision to move from their country of origin. We will discuss the role of aspirations and drivers such as economic opportunities, social networks, family ties, political unrest and climate change, as well as the intersectionality of factors such as gender, age, and level of education that can shape migration decisions. Drawing on the latest research and insights from Horizon 2020 projects and external experts in the field, this session will provide a nuanced and in-depth understanding of the complexities of migration decision-making.
Moderator/discussant: Prof. Jasper Dag Tjaden, University of Postdam
Speakers from the projects:
Damini Purkayastha (online), VUB, Dr. Stefan Mertens, KU Leuven, Dr. Tom Devriendt, Caritas International, HumMingBird
Stefano degli Uberti, CNR, FUME
Valentina Di Iasio, The University of Southampton, QuantMig (online)
Q&A discussion
13:45 – 14:45 | Traditional and New Data: Questioning and improving the concept of evidence
This session will critically examine the concept of evidence in migration studies, exploring the strengths and limitations of traditional and new data sources. We will discuss the challenges of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on migration, as well as the potential biases and limitations of different data sources. Drawing on experiences from the Horizon 2020 projects, we will explore innovative approaches to data collection and analysis, including big data, social media, mobile data, and other emerging alternative data sources. Ultimately, this session will challenge participants to question their assumptions about what constitutes evidence in migration studies and to consider new and innovative ways of generating insights into this complex and important phenomenon.
Moderator/discussant: Dr. Damien Jusselme, Global Migration Data Analysis Centre, IOM
Moderated discussion among projects:
Prof. Albert Ali Salah, The University of Utrecht, HumMingBird
Dr. Dilek Yildiz, IIASA & Arkadiusz Wisniowski, The University of Manchester, FUME
Prof. Jakub Bijak, The University of Southampton, QuantMig (online)
14:45 – 15:45 | Quantifying and modelling future migration
This session will explore the challenges and opportunities of quantifying and modelling future migration patterns. We will discuss the various methods and models used to forecast migration among Horizon 2020 projects. We will also examine the strengths and limitations of these methods, including issues related to data quality, model complexity, and uncertainty. The following discussion will provide a deeper understanding of the complex and dynamic nature of migration and the challenges of predicting future trends.
Moderator/discussant: Dr. Stefano Iacus, IQQS Harvard University
Speakers from the projects:
Haodong Qi, Malmö University, HumMingBird
Jacob Schewe, PIK, FUME (online)
Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton, QuantMig (online)
Q&A discussion
Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - Saturday, April 15th 2023
Population Association of America 2023 Annual Meeting (Conferences)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wednesday, April 12th 2023
Saturday, April 15th 2023
The Population Association of America annual meeting will take place 12-15 April in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
CPC will be presenting:
Population Health Consequences of Violence I Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Impact of Blast Explosions on the Mental Health of Ukrainian Internally Displaced People and Refugees
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Program Number: 14-4
K. Brackstone, University of Southampton; B. Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; M. Head, University of Southampton.
Forced Migration Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Nowcasting Daily Population Displacement in Ukraine Through Social Media Advertising Data
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Program Number: 15-3
D. Leasure, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; F. Rampazzo, University of Oxford; C. Dooley; B. Elbers, University of Oxford; M. Bondarenko, University of Southampton; M. Verhagen; A. Frey; J. Yan, University of Oxford; E. Akimova; M. Fatehkia, Qatar Computing Research Institute; R. Trigwell, United Nations Migration Agency (IOM); A. Tatem, University of Southampton; I. Weber, Saarland University; M. Mills, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford.
Health, Health Behaviors, and Health Care Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Gene ´ Environment Analysis Supports Protective Effects of Eveningness Chronotype on Night Shift Workers
M. Mills, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford; R. Taiji, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford; E. Akimova; X. Ding, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford.
Mortality Trends in the United States and Other High-Income Countries Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Deviating Temporal Trends of Substance Abuse Mortality in High-Income Countries
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Program Number: 67-3
A. Adarsh, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; E. Acosta, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
Methodological Innovations to Study Fertility Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Can Incorporating Parity Information Improve the Reliability of Fertility Projections?
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Program Number: 61-1
J. Ellison, University of Southampton; J. Bijak, University of Southampton; E. Dodd, University of Southampton.
Mortality and Morbidity Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Excess Mortality by Cause of Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Population-Level Analysis for England and Wales
R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; A. Tilstra, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science; J. Schöley, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; J. M. Aburto, University of Southern Denmark; C. Angus, University of Sheffield; J. Dowd, University of Oxford.
Mortality and Morbidity Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
The Sex Gap in Lifespan Uncertainty
H. Gaddy; J. M. Aburto, University of Southern Denmark; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford
Mortality and Morbidity Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
The Relationship of Major Diseases With Childlessness: A Sibling-Matched, Case-Control, and Population-Register Study in Finland and Sweden
A. Liu, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; E. Akimova; X. Ding, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford; S. Jukarainen, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; P. Vartiainen, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; T. Kiiskinen, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; S. Kuitunen, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; A. S. Havulinna, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki; M. Gissler, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, THL; S. Lombardi, Institute for Economic Research, VATT; T. Fall, Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University; M. Mills, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford; A. Ganna, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki.
Migration, Immigration, Geographic Mobility Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Gendered Patterns of Global Scholarly Migration: Evidence on Mobile Researchers From Bibliometric Data
X. Zhao, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; A. Akbaritabar, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; E. Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Migration, Immigration, Geographic Mobility Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Forced Displacement in Ukraine: A Comparison of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
B. Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; O. Torrisi, The London School of Economics; M. Head, University of Southampton; K. Brackstone, University of Southampton.
Migration, Immigration, Geographic Mobility Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Work–Life Expectancies Among the Descendants of Immigrants in the United Kingdom: A Multistate Life Table Approach
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; A. Hoehn, Glasgow University; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews.
Migration, Immigration, Geographic Mobility Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Childbearing and Employment Changes of the Female Descendants of Immigrants in the United Kingdom and France
J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; I. Delaporte; C. Liu, University of St. Andrews.
Mental Health in Old Age Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Loneliness and Cognitive Health: A Counterfactual Analysis Using the Parametric G-Formula
3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Program Number: 93-4
S. Sharma, University of St Andrews; J. M. Hale, University of St Andrews; A. Lorenti, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
Neighborhoods, Environment, and Spatial Demography Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Mortality Hazard in Scotland: A 16-Year Cohort Study, 2002–2017
M. Abed Al Ahad; U. Demšar, University of St Andrews; F. Sullivan, University of St Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
Friday, April 14, 2023
Risk Factors and Inequalities in COVID-19 Mortality Friday, April 14, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Excess Mortality in India in 2020
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Program Number: 115-3
A. Gupta, University of Oxford; V. Paikra; M. Banaji, Middlesex University; P. Gupta; P. Hathi, UC Berkeley; R. Kashyap, Oxford University; K. Sharma; N. Sudharsanan, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health; S. Vyas, University of Texas at Austin.
Flash: Families, Health, and Well-being Friday, April 14, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Puzzle of Parenthood and Well-being: Exploring the Role of the Brain
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Program Number: 119-5
V. Rotondi, University of Oxford; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; M. Sironi, University College London; N. Barban, University of Essex; C. Reverberi, University of Milano Bicocca; M. Allegra, University of Parma.
Union Dissolution and Instability Friday, April 14, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type
Oral
Room
Strand 12 A
Discussant 1
Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
Chair 1
Gunnar Andersson, Stockholm University
Final Session Number
120
Union Dissolution and Instability 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Post-Separation Residential Mobility Among Immigrant–Native Mixed Couples: A Matter of Relative Bargaining Positions Within Households?
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Program Number: 120-3
J. Lacroix; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
COVID-19; Data and Methods Friday, April 14, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The Demographic Profile of Weibo Users
O. Hexel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; W. Qian, University of Michigan; E. Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; R. Kashyap, University of Oxford; I. Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute.
Education, Employment, and Inequality Friday, April 14, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
The Divergence of Labor Force Participation on Motherhood Among Migrant Descendants and Natives in Germany
C. Liu, University of St. Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St. Andrews.
Intergenerational Patterns of Immigrant Integration Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Heterogeneity or Disadvantage in Partnership, Childbearing, and Employment Trajectories of the Descendants of Immigrants in the United Kingdom? A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Longitudinal Data
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Program Number: 204-2
J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
The Complex Links Between Migratio-n Background and Fertility Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Union Formation and Fertility Among Immigrants From Pakistan and Their Descendants in the United Kingdom: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Program Number: 203-5
J. Harrison; K. Keenan, University of St Andrews; F. Sullivan, University of St Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Understanding the Realization of Jointly Held Residential Mobility and Fertility Intentions: How Has the Sequencing of Intention Fulfillment Changed Over Time?
S. Christison; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; F. Fiori, University of St Andrews; K. Keenan.
Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Changing Educational Gradient of Fertility in the United Kingdom: A Comparison of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
B. Kuang; S. Christison; J. Ellison, University of Southampton; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; A. Berrington, University of Southampton.
Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Fertility Trends by Birth Order in Britain: The Comparison Between England and Wales, and Scotland
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; B. Kuang; S. Christison; J. Ellison, University of Southampton; A. Berrington, University of Southampton.
Saturday 15 April 2023
Family Complexity and Diversity Saturday, April 15, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Through Children’s Eyes: Family Complexity Trajectories in the United Kingdom
9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Program Number: 217-2
M. Stastna; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews; N. Finney, University of St Andrews; K. Keenan, University of St Andrews.
Wednesday, April 5th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Raya Muttarak (Seminars and lectures)
Raya Muttarak
Zoom
Wednesday, April 5th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG webinar was held on Wednesday 5 April 2023 at 13:00 UK Time. The webinar was hosted by Raya Muttarak, Professor of Demography at the University of Bologna who gave a talk entitled, "Population Dynamics Under Global Climate Change".
Title: Population Dynamics Under Global Climate Change
Abstract: Australian bushfire in 2020 and severe floods in Western Europe and exceptional heatwaves in North America in summer 2021, to name a few, are examples of extreme events that are documented to be attributable to anthropogenic climate change. Indeed, it is evident that the impacts of human-induced climate change on our lives, livelihoods and wellbeing are already being felt. This raises a question whether, in which direction and to what extent climate change also influences demographic processes, through affecting fertility, mortality and migration, the three key demographic outcomes driving population change. Although it is highly plausible that climate change also affects population trends, to date existing global population projections have not taken into account the climate feedback on demographic processes.
This talk aims to present current evidence on the impact of climatic factors on fertility, mortality and migration and explore whether population projections need to account for the climate feedback on demographic processes. In particular, I would like to exploit this talk as a platform to start dialogues between colleagues of different disciplinary background and hope this can lead to future collaborations across institutes.
For background reading: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2021.1988684
Speaker: Raya has been affiliated with the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital since 2011. Raya holds an MSc and DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford; her areas of expertise include Climate Change Perception & Sustainable Lifestyle and Consumption, and Education and Sustainable Development.
The recording of the seminar can be found here
Thursday, March 30th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Ugofilippo Basellini (Seminars and lectures)
Ugofilippo Basellini
Zoom
Thursday, March 30th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG webinar took place on Thursday 30 March 2023, at 13:00 UK Time. Dr Ugofilippo Basellini, Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, gave a talk entitled "New perspectives in mortality forecasting".
Title: New perspectives in mortality forecasting
Abstract: Accurate forecasts of mortality are crucial for the provision of pensions and elderly care services. In this talk, I will present two novel developments in the field of mortality forecasting. The first part of the talk will focus on a recently proposed relational model to forecast adult age-at-death distributions. Leveraging functional data analysis methods, the “Segmented Transformation Age-at-death Distributions” is a parsimonious and efficient approach to model and forecast adult mortality. Mortality forecasts obtained with this approach are more accurate and optimistic than those derived from the benchmark Lee-Carter approach and its variants. The second part of the talk will concentrate on the challenge of forecasting cohort mortality data. Few methods exist to forecast cohort mortality, and the state-of-the-art approach - forecasting period mortality and extracting cohort patterns from the Lexis diagonals - has several limitations. I will show how to adapt the estimation of the Lee-Carter parameters to the structure of cohort mortality data, and then propose the “Linear Lee-Carter” model to derive more reasonable and accurate forecasts of cohort mortality.
Speaker: Ugofilippo Basellini is a Research Scientist and the Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). His main research interests are related to statistical demography, with a particular focus on mortality modelling and forecasting, lifespan inequality and formal demographic methods for the study of mortality.
Watch the recording here.
Thursday, March 30th 2023
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Making your voice heard? How different generations participate in politics (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Maria Grasso
Free online and in person
Thursday, March 30th 2023
16:00-17:00
The political context in which people grow up can play a hugely influential role in how that age cohort participate in democracy. From the dominance of different political parties and prevalence of strikes and protests, to the distribution of information and ideas through social media, the society people are raised in affects the ways in which they interact with politicians and political ideas. Maintaining an informed and engaged electorate in the decades to come requires grappling with these historical shifts and their implications for democratic governance.
Does the historical context of when a generation comes of age affect their political engagement? Are older generations, for example, who came of age in a period when elections were fundamental to the existence of democratic government, more likely to engage with political parties? What about younger generations coming of age in the historical moments that followed? And what can this tell us about how democratic governance and political participation could change in the future?
As part of the Connecting Generations series of Thought Leader Talks, the Resolution Foundation is hosting an event with Professor Maria Grasso to discuss how age, period and cohort analysis can help us examine generational differences in political activities. Following a presentation by Maria, we will hear from leading experts on what this means for the future of politics and democracy.
Maria Grasso joined SPIR and Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology in 2020. Previously, she was Professor of Politics and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Politics of the University of Sheffield.
Maria’s research focuses on political sociology, social change, social and political inequalities, political generations, social movements, youth politics, gender gaps, and the shift from traditional means of political participation relating to parties, electoral politics and left-right conflict, to more diffuse and irregular forms of involvement such as demonstrations, consumer boycotts and issue campaigns.
Her key research interests revolve around understanding the link between economic, social and political inequalities by looking at the political participation and political attitudes of different groups in terms of generation/age, gender, class, relative deprivation, etc. and their intersections as well as the ways in which crises impact on different groups of citizens with respect to their economic conditions and perceptions, social capital, and their political (re)actions.
Her academic work deals primarily with quantitative research and statistical analysis of cross-national surveys on political attitudes and behaviour.
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Thursday, March 23rd 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Francesco Lissoni (Seminars and lectures)
Francesco Lissoni
Zoom
Thursday, March 23rd 2023
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG seminar took place on Thursday 23 March 2023 at 12pm UK Time. Professor Francesco Lissoni, Professor of Economics at the Bordeaux School of Economics, gave a talk entitled "Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland" (with Gabrielle Cristelli, Stanford University).
Title: Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland
Abstract: We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons, signed by Switzerland and the EU in 1999. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting created by Switzerland's implementation policy, which initially eased off entry restrictions only for commuters from neighbouring countries. We find that this induced a large inflow of “cross-border inventors” (CBIs) in regions next to the border and increased the latter's patenting, relative to other Swiss regions. In the same regions, incumbent inventors directly collaborating with CBIs increased their productivity. Native inventors were not displaced nor did patenting in areas neighbouring Switzerland decrease.
Speaker: Professor Francesco Lissoni is a Professor of Economics at the Bordeaux School of Economics (University of Bordeaux). His main research interests relate to knowledge creation and diffusions. His past research addressed innovation adoption, the geography of knowledge flows, and the role of intellectual property in academic science.
Watch the recording here.
Tuesday, March 14th 2023
STACEES seminar: Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of International Student Mobility (Seminars and lectures)
Dr David McCollum
St Andrews University Arts Lecture & Teams
Tuesday, March 14th 2023
11:00 - 12:00 UK Time
The St Andrews Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (STACEES) event series 'Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE' will take place throughout the spring.
The first talk in the series, a hybrid delivery seminar, will be delivered by CPC member, Dr David McCollum, and take place on Tuesday 14 March 2023 between 11 - 12pm. Dr McCollum's talk is entitled "Internationalisation, Sustainability and the Contested Environmental Impacts of International Student Mobility".
Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE
How can Scotland’s higher education institutions lead the way in supporting the UK government’s Net Zero ambitions? Where are we right now and where do the future challenges lie? How can the transition towards more sustainable travel be inclusive, fair and support Scotland’s research and teaching ambitions?
STACEES, University of St Andrews warmly invites all staff, students and community members to a series of events focussing on these questions.
This four-part event series explores three key strands of travel through hybrid delivery talks delivered by a range of invited speakers, plus a chaired open discussion.
Title:Internationalization, Sustainability and the Contested Environmental Impacts of International Student Mobility
Date: Tuesday 14 March
Time11:00 - 12:00 UK Time
Abstract:This seminar focuses on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing growth in international student mobility (ISM). The Higher Education (HE) system in the UK and elsewhere is increasingly predicated upon the hosting of international students. Whilst this drive towards internationalisation undoubtably has multiple significant benefits, little attention thus far has been paid to its environmental impact. This is of significance because the carbon generated by ISM could conceivably be very considerable. The drive for internationalisation within HE thus potentially sits at odds with strategies to promote sustainability within the sector and beyond. This seminar seeks to stimulate conversation around the compatibility of these agendas within HE. A survey of students is used to generate a carbon audit of ISM in the UK. In-depth interviews with students and representatives of International Offices offer insights into how the environment features in the decisions that young people and HE institutions make with regards to education related mobility. The results point to the carbon emissions attributable to ISM being quite considerable, and largely due to the air travel involved in moving between home and university. Students take environmental considerations into account when undertaking education related mobility, but these aspirations are often secondary to logistical issues concerning the financial cost and time associated with greener travel options. At the institutional scale, university sustainability agendas have yet to be reconciled with the financial imperative to recruit evermore international students. This research thus flags up a thus far neglected contradiction within HE whereby the sustainability agenda that it so rightly espouses is potentially undermined by aspects of the drive towards internationalisation.
Speaker:Dr David McCollum is a Senior Lecturer in migration studies in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, with research expertise in international student mobility.
Registration: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/stacees-event-series-net-zero-and-the-direction-of-travel-in-he/
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Thursday, February 16th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Ernest Miguelez (Seminars and lectures)
Ernest Miguelez
Zoom
Thursday, February 16th 2023
12:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Webinar was held on Thursday 16 February 2023 at 12pm UK Time. Dr Ernest Miguelez, Research Fellow at the University of Bordeaux, gave a talk entitled "Global Mobile Inventors".
Title: Global Mobile Inventors
Abstract: This paper documents the crucial role played by global mobile inventors (GMIs) in the diffusion of knowledge across borders. We rely on data produced by the USPTO, which links all the patents recorded since the 1970s to unique firm and inventor identifiers, and provides information on the geographic location of inventors at the time of each patent filing. Over the past 50 years, we show that GMIs have gone from being a negligible phenomenon to concerning 30% of global patents. We find that GMIs with experience in a given technology abroad are instrumental in the early stages of development of that technology in their country of destination. Finally, we provide evidence that the higher their level of centrality in the destination country's network, the fastest the diffusion of technology-specific knowledge in the local population of inventors. These results testify of the importance of encouraging talent flows across borders to facilitate knowledge transfers.
Speaker: Dr Ernest Miguelez is a Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to the Bordeaux School of Economics. His research interests cover economic geography, innovation economics, migration, intellectual property, and more recently, the diffusion/adoption of green technologies and products.
Watch the recording here.
Wednesday, February 8th 2023 - Friday, February 10th 2023
14th Conference of Young Demographers (Conferences) (Conferences)
Charles University, Prague
Wednesday, February 8th 2023
Friday, February 10th 2023
The annual international Conference of Young Demographers is held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University traditionally in the first half of February. They welcome submissions from all fields of demography, as well as all related areas of population studies. They aim to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where especially early career researchers can share their work in progress and thoughts with their peers.
CPC PhD student, Peter Dorey, will be presenting: Unemployment and Fertility in Great Britain: A Fixed Effects Spatial Durbin Error Panel Approach.
Thursday, February 2nd 2023
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Kinship, family and generations: Insights from formal demography (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Hal Caswell
Online
Thursday, February 2nd 2023
12:00 UK Time
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/baLl43gjDfI
In this talk, Professor Caswell described a new theory for understanding, and making predictions about kinship networks derived from matrix equations. Given the importance of relatives and family, a formal theory of kinship has been slow to arise. Professor Caswell discussed how his theory is flexible enough to accommodate the age and size structure of populations, time-varying demographic rates, one or two sexes, the experience of bereavement due to the death of kin, and the burden of diseases or other conditions.
If we think (and we do) of the kinship network as a collection of populations, then the formal theory also leads directly to the analysis of lineages – sequences of generations, linked in lineages. It naturally provides a framework for calculating the growth or decline of lineages, the overlap of generations within lineages, and a new solution to the most venerable problem in stochastic demography: the probability of extinction or persistence of a lineage.
The panel discussion discussed the multidimensions of kinship, uncompleted pieces of the theoretical puzzle, their possible value, and how they might be completed.
Professor Hal Caswell is a Professor of Mathematical Demography and Ecology at the University of Amsterdam.
Professor Caswell is known for his contributions to both population biology and human demography. He develops new theory for understanding, with application to real world problems, especially to evolutionary questions and environmental questions related to climate change.
Professor Caswell’s research focuses on describing populations, using mathematical modelling based on matrices for plants, animals, and humans. His work concerns the effect of individual variability on the population a whole, for example how random outcomes of individual lives affect population indices such as longevity, and vice versa. His work also incorporates environmental unpredictability, such as floods, droughts, and climate change on population dynamics.
Professor Caswell applies matrix population models to the understanding of kinship, noting that family dynamics are important for the life histories of humans and of some kinds of animals: primates, whales, some birds, and social insects in particular. His matrix population models provide an important analytical tool to explore the patterns of kinship and family structures implied by particular sets of demographic processes.
Professor Caswell has received international awards in ecology and human demography, including the Mindel Sheps Award for mathematical demography from the PAA. He has received two advanced grants from the European Research Council, most recently in 2018, for a project entitled ‘The formal demography of kinship and families’, which is developing a complete formal demographic structure for studying kinship at the individual, cohort, and population levels. Professor Caswell is member of the ESRC Connecting Generations Advisory Board.
Professor Jakub Bijak and Dr Joanne Ellison were panellists at the event, chaired by Dr Jason Hilton.
Professor Bijak is Professor of Statistical Demography within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. He has background in economics and 20 years work experience in academia and international civil service. His research focuses on demographic uncertainty, population and migration models and forecasts, as well as the demography of armed conflict. Professor Bijak received the Allianz European Demographer Award in 2015 for outstanding research on the causes and consequences of demographic change in Europe. He is Director of the EU funded Quantmig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for better Policy project, and co-Investigator of CPC and Connecting Generations.
Dr Joanne Ellison is a statistician at the University of Southampton, where she works as a Research Fellow on the ESRC Connecting Generations Project. Joanne's research interests include stochastic modelling, fertility projections, demographic forecasting, and Bayesian demography. She previously developed improved fertility forecasting methodologies within the project, 'Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting'; and is currently working on 'Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations'.
Dr Hilton is a lecturer in Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, where he leads the Connecting Generations strand of research on Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations. Dr Hilton works in the areas of population forecasting, applied Bayesian statistics and simulation. He has been involved in consultancy work for the Greater London Authority, the European Asylum Support Office, and the Office of National Statistics, amongst others.
Connecting Generations is a partnership between ESRC Centre for Population Change, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Resolution Foundation. It aims to understand intergenerational connectivity, producing novel science that informs policy debate.
Watch the recording here
Thursday, January 26th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Zachary Van Winkle (Seminars and lectures)
Zachary Van Winkle
Zoom
Thursday, January 26th 2023
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Seminar was held on Thursday 26 January at 1pm UK time. Zachary Van Winkle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, gave a talk entitled "The cost of widowhood: A matching study of process and event".
Title: The cost of widowhood: A matching study of process and event
Abstract: Widowhood is a common life transition entailing far-reaching consequences. The consequences of widowhood will be examined in a novel way by assessing the consequences of bereavement for meaningful comparison groups allowing the evaluation of the impact of bereavement before and after the event. The analysis of the cost of widowhood for mental health and economic wellbeing focuses on two scenarios: unexpected and expected widowhood. The first scenario models a two-period process in which effects of widowhood occur only after the event. The second models a three-period process in which effects of widowhood also occur before spousal loss. US Health and Retirement Study data and a combination of random-coefficient modelling, propensity score matching, and regressions are used to estimate the consequences of widowhood from ten years before to six years after spousal loss. Results on mental health show a slow but full recovery for unexpected widowhood, but larger and lasting declines for expected widowhood. Findings on economic wellbeing show sizable losses for expected widowhood due to the economic cost of the pre-widowhood period. In sum, the impact of widowhood is smaller for unexpected compared to expected events. This approach advances knowledge about spousal loss, but also research on life events more generally.
Speaker: Zachary Van Winkle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po's Centre for Research on Social Inequalities. He is also an Associate member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interplay between family demography and social inequality from a comparative life course perspective.
Watch the recording here.
Thursday, January 19th 2023
CPC-CG Webinar - Zachary Parolin (Seminars and lectures)
Zach Parolin
Zoom
Thursday, January 19th 2023
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
This CPC-CG Seminar was held on Thursday 19th January at 12pm UK time. Zach Parolin, Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, gave a talk entitled, "The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High Income Countries."
Title:The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High Income Countries
Abstract:This study investigates differences in the intergenerational persistence of poverty in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland. Using comparative sources of panel data, we seek to explain cross-national variation in the relationship between exposure to childhood poverty and poverty in young adulthood. To do so, we introduce an accounting framework that decomposes rates of young adult poverty into two components: (1) differential exposure levels to childhood poverty and (2) the relationship of those exposure levels to young adult poverty. We then interrogate these components in four steps. First, we document cross-national differences in the extent, persistence, depth, and age of exposure to childhood poverty. Second, we assess whether cross-national differences in these features of childhood poverty can be attributed to demographic differences or institutional differences. Third, we measure cross-national differences in how exposure to childhood poverty influences poverty in adulthood. Fourth, we clarify differences in the mechanisms through which childhood poverty affects young adult poverty.
Speaker: Zachary Parolin is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Bocconi University, Milan. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University's Centre on Poverty and Social Policy. His research focuses on the measurement, causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality across the United States and European Union.
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Wednesday, January 11th 2023
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Wealth booms and debt burdens: how Britain's recent economic history and outlook affects different generations (Seminars and lectures)
Professor James Sefton
Free online and in person
Wednesday, January 11th 2023
09:30-10:45
Event Date: Wednesday 11 January 2023
Event Time: 09:30 - 10:45 UK time
Event Location: Free online and in person
Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aM7qDVz_8g&t=2368s
The financial crisis is largely considered to have increased inequalities between generations, with rising public debt leading to higher taxes for future generations, while the gains from rising asset prices have been accrued by older generations. Private intergenerational wealth transfers have grown - notably through the 'Bank of Mum and Dad' - but the scale and direction of public sector transfers are less clear cut. How policymakers confront the UK's economic challenges - from tax rises and spending cuts, to priorities for public services and a new strategy for growth - will have varying implications for different generations.
How has the fallout from the financial crisis affected the financial resilience of different generations in the UK? To what extent are younger generations today worse off than previous generations were at the same age, and how might this change in coming decades? And what can policymakers do to minimise the gaps both between and within generations which have already arisen, and ensure that future policies share the financial burden fairly?
Join Professor Sefton in the third Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk as he discusses new research on private and public intergenerational transfers since the financial crisis. He will be joined by Professor Jackline Wahba OBE (ESRC Connecting Generations, University of Southampton) and the session will be chaired by the Rt. Hon. Lord David Willetts (President of the Resolution Foundation).
James Sefton is currently a Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School.
James is the Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded project ‘Changes in the Distribution of Resources across Generations in both the UK and the US’, Academic Director of both Investment and Wealth Management (IWM) and Finance and Accounting (F&A) MScs and Co-director of the Financial Technology MSc.
His economic research agenda focuses on questions about intergenerational equity, pension policy design and long run trends in the housing market. As a quantitative finance researcher, he is interested in the design of both quantitative investment strategies and retirement investment products.
Professor Jackline Wahba OBE will be a panellist at this event. She is a Professor of Economics within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. She has an interest in Labour Economics, Development Economics and Applied Micro-econometrics. Jackie is a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany, CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration) in London, and the Economic Research Forum in Cairo. She has also acted as an academic consultant in international migration and labour markets for several international organisations including the World Bank, OECD and IOM, and is a previous member of the UK Government's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). She jointly leads the migration strand for the CPC, and is a researcher of Connecting Generations working on the project 'Migration connecting generations'.
Watch the recording here
Thursday, December 15th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Maria Rita Testa (Seminars and lectures)
Maria Rita Testa
Zoom
Thursday, December 15th 2022
13:00 UK Time
This CPC-CG Seminar was held on Thursday 15th December at 13:00 pm UK time. Maria Rita Testa, Professor of Demography at Luiss University, Rome, will be giving a talk entitled, "The low fertility trap: a search for empirical evidence in the case of Italy"
Title: The low fertility trap: a search for empirical evidence in the case of Italy
Abstract: In Italy very low fertility coupled with very high life expectancy will have a tremendous impact on the labour market, pension system, and health care provision in the coming decades. Knowing future population trend is key for the Italian society to prepare for the changes. The uncertainty on the future trends of births and deaths has increased after COVID-19 and has made demographic projections more challenging. The aim of this research is to single out the future prospects of Italy's population by comparing projections stemming from different organizations and their sensitiveness to the underlying assumptions on fertility, mortality and migration. A particular emphasis will be given to the assessment of a feasibility of the low fertility trap hypothesis. While all organizations agree that the Italian population will continue to decline in the future, the speed and extent of this decline vary significantly across projections. The trap assumption seems not very realistic in the short and medium term.
Speaker: Maria is a Professor of Demography, and Director of the Bachelor Programme in Political Science at Luiss University, Rome. Her research interests include reproductive decision making, family, fertility, environmental change, social sustainability, and life course analysis.
Watch the recording here.
Thursday, November 17th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Susan Harkness (Seminars and lectures)
Susan Harkness
Zoom
Thursday, November 17th 2022
12:00 - 13:00 UK time
Speaker: This CPC-CG webinar was hosted by Susan Harkness, Professor at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Susan holds a PhD in Economics from University College London, and is currently the lead Principal Investigator on a cross-country comparative research project, which examines differences in how inequalities evolve over the life course with colleagues in Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Germany. Susan's webinar will be entitled "Earnings penalties to motherhood, and poverty and income equality among couples with children: how do the US and the UK differ?
Title: Earnings penalties to motherhood and poverty and income inequality among couples with children: how do the US and the UK differ?
Abstract:Becoming a first-time parent triggers large changes in patterns of household employment, earnings, and income. These effects may vary widely across the income distribution with the institutional context of different countries having an important influence on how the ‘cost’ of children differs by income. In this comparative study, we use harmonised panel data for the United States and the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019, and unconditional quantile treatment effect (QTE) with fixed effects to show how the transition to parenthood influences family income across the income distribution in two countries. Our expectation is that. because children have a larger effect on female labour supply and earnings in the UK, childbirth will have a larger and more dis-equalizing effect on income. The relative generosity of the British welfare system in supporting low-earning families with children moderates, but does not eliminate, this effect. Our findings highlight the importance of employment penalties to motherhood for driving inequalities in the incomes of families with children, and the importance of the institutional context in affecting change.
Watch the recording here.
Tuesday, November 15th 2022
📆 Reaching 8 billion humans on the planet | How far have we come, and where are we headed? (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Tuesday, November 15th 2022
12:00 UK Time
As the global population reaches eight billion, we bring together population experts to explore the following questions: what major demographic changes have occurred in the last decades and what can we predict for the near future? From historical decreases in mortality rates to low fertility and more diverse societies, are countries moving in the same direction? To what extent have government interventions affected demographic behaviours? How low can fertility decline? Because of the age structure of the world population, growth is in part inevitable, raising crucial questions about future global trends, among them: How can population growth be decoupled from potential negative impacts to sustainable development? How might intergenerational support systems look in the future so that generations can work together? Can societies become truly child- and family-friendly?
Speakers
• Jane Falkingham, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change, PI of the ESRC Connecting Generations and Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, University of Southampton
• Bruno Masquelier, Professor at the Centre for Demographic Research, Louvain University
• Tomáš Sobotka, Head of the VID research group on Fertility and Family, Vienna Institute of Demography (OeAW), Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Vienna
• Frank Swiaczny, Senior Researcher at the German Federal Institute for Population Research and Executive Director of the German Society for Demography
• Helga de Valk, Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Professor of Migration and the Life Course at the University of Groningen
Registration:https://population-europe.eu/events/how-far-have-we-come-and-where-are-we-headed-reaching-8-billion-humans-planet
Thursday, October 27th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Clara H. Mulder (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, October 27th 2022
13:00-14:00 UK time
Speaker: This CPC-CG webinar was be hosted by Clara H. Mulder, Professor of Demography and Space at the University of Groningen. Clara's areas of expertise include internal migration, residential mobility, households and family relations. Following the completion of her PhD at the University of Amsterdam, Clara joined the University of Groningen in 2011 undertaking various roles alongside her professorship. Clara's talk is entitled "Internal migration and ties to non-resident family".
Title: Internal migration and ties to non-resident family
Abstract:Scholars employing the life-course perspective have emphasized the importance of the linked lives of family members for individuals’ life courses, including their internal and international migration trajectories. The FamilyTies project (www.rug.nl/FamilyTies) investigates the roles of non-resident family members in migration, both as anchors (keeping individuals and households from migrating and thus inducing staying) and as beacons (attracting migration). It also addresses motivations for migration and staying as well as individual labour-market outcomes associated with migration and staying related to family ties. In this talk, I summarize some insights from the research carried out in the FamilyTies project. I also discuss some of the data challenges associated with research on the role of non-resident family and peers in migration, with a specific focus on data for the UK.
Watch the recording here
Thursday, October 27th 2022
Spending with dementia - Making the high street dementia-friendly (Public engagement events)
Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling
Thursday, October 27th 2022
11:00 - 16:00 UK time
Spending with dementia – Making the high street dementia-friendly
Join the International Longevity Centre and Stirling University to learn how to make the high street work better for people with dementia.
An Alzheimer’s Society survey found that almost 80% of people with dementia list shopping as one of their favourite activities. In 2019, households with someone living with dementia were expected to spend £16.7 billion.
But from inaccessible public transport to a lack of public toilets and confusing payment systems, too many people with dementia are locked out of spending on the products and services they want.
Join us at Stirling University for the launch of our findings of a major research project, supported by the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, which unpicks how we can support people with dementia on the high street.
Draft Agenda
11.00am – 12.00pm How can retailers keep us healthy across our lives? Professor Leigh Sparks, Stirling University and Ailsa Forbes, ILC
12.00pm – 1.30pm Tour of the Iris Murdoch Centre and networking
1.30pm – 3.30pm Dementia and spending research launch and panel debate Professor David Bell, Professor Judith Philips, Lesley Palmer, Stirling University
3.30pm – 4.00pm Networking
To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spending-with-dementia-making-the-high-street-dementia-friendly-tickets-411218494587
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Thursday, October 20th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Ewa Batyra (Seminars and lectures)
Ewa Batyra
Zoom
Thursday, October 20th 2022
12:00 -13:00 UK time
Speaker: This CPC-CG webinar was hosted by Ewa Batyra of the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. Ewa's research lies in the areas of demography, health, social policy and international development. Ewa obtained a PhD in Demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Ewa's talk is entitled "Unequal Transitions to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries."
Title: Unequal Transitions to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Abstract:Research on the timing of events during transition to adulthood, such as first union formation, sexual initiation, and first birth, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focused predominately on measures of central tendency, notably median or mean ages. In this work, we adopt a different perspective on this topic by examining variation and disparities in the timing of these events within African, Asian and Latin American countries. Our results show that within-country disparities in the timing of first union and birth grew in West Africa and Latin America, and women who experience these events relatively early increasingly lag behind women who experience them relatively late. This research highlights that documenting trends in measures of central tendency is insufficient to capture the complexity of ongoing changes because they mask growing disparities in the timing of family formation across many LMICs.
Friday, October 7th 2022
Free Virtual Training Workshop - Parity-specific Fertility Projections (Workshops)
Zoom
Friday, October 7th 2022
14:00 - 17:00 UK time
The ESRC-funded FertilityTrends project is organising two free, half-day, virtual training workshops this Autumn on methods for Fertility Analysis and Projection. Participants can attend either or both of the workshops, which will be held on Zoom.
The workshops contain theoretical and practical components, with computer demos performed in R (code will be made available). The workshops are aimed at national and local government statisticians, social and demographic researchers, and others who are interested in understanding how to analyse fertility trends and make projections for the future. Situations where this is important include planning maternity services and anticipating demand for school places.
This second workshop introduces a method to produce fertility projections by birth order with associated uncertainty, including practical R computer demos using population-level data. Parity-specific projections account for a crucial mechanism of fertility dynamics and thus could increase reliability.
Instructors: Dr Joanne Ellison, Prof Jakub Bijak, Prof Erengul Dodd (University of Southampton, UK)
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Friday, September 30th 2022
Free Virtual Training Workshop - Fertility Analysis by Birth Order (Workshops)
Zoom
Friday, September 30th 2022
14:00 - 17:00 UK time
The ESRC-funded FertilityTrends project is organising two free, half-day, virtual training workshops this Autumn on methods for Fertility Analysis and Projection. Participants can attend either or both of the workshops, which will be held on Zoom.
The workshops contain theoretical and practical components, with computer demos performed in R (code will be made available). The workshops are aimed at national and local government statisticians, social and demographic researchers, and others who are interested in understanding how to analyse fertility trends and make projections for the future. Situations where this is important include planning maternity services and anticipating demand for school places.
This first workshop introduces parity-specific fertility measures and methods to calculate fertility rates by birth order, including practical R computer demos using individual-level data. Such methods are useful because they enable the detection of underlying changes in fertility patterns with greater precision.
Instructors: Dr Bernice Kuang (University of Southampton, UK), Prof Ann Berrington (University of Southampton, UK), Dr Sarah Christison (University of St Andrews, UK), Prof Hill Kulu (University of St Andrews, UK).
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Thursday, September 29th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Martin Kreidl (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, September 29th 2022
13:00-14:00 UK time
This CPC-CG webinar was held on Thursday 29 September at 13:00 UK time. Martin Kreidl, Professor of Sociology at Masaryk University gave a talk entitled, "Adult children’s union type and contact with mothers: Does the observed association reflect a causal effect?".
Title: Adult children’s union type and contact with mothers: Does the observed association reflect a causal effect?
Abstract:Increasingly fragile intragenerational bonds increase the demand for intergenerational contact and support (Bengtson 2001). Moreover, increasing longevity has also resulted in more years of shared lives across generations and thus has heightened the potential for such intergenerational transfers. Yet, this potential may not be fully realized as some family transitions (both among parents and among children) and non-traditional family forms (such as unmarried cohabitation) seem to reduce the frequency and quality of intergenerational exchange (Hogerbrugge, Dykstra, 2009; Schenk, Dykstra 2012). Recent research based on child-parent dyads drawn from the population in a particular year (Yahirun, Hamplová 2014) indicates that adult children living in cohabitations interact with their mothers less often than children living in marriage. This finding is based both on within- and between-family comparisons. Some scholars use a causal argument to explain this association: it should be the lower institutionalization and social recognition of unmarried cohabitations that produce this effect.
We find this interpretation to be dubious as both union type and frequency of contact may depend on unmeasured variables (such as familialistic norms and perceived obligation to keep contact with kin). Thus, the cross-sectional association may be spurious.
Research question: We explore if adult children’s union status indeed correlates with the frequency of contact with their mothers.
Watch the recording here
Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - Thursday, September 22nd 2022
Summer School: The Economics of Crime over Time and Space Theory, Practice and Applications (Workshops)
Zoom
Wednesday, September 21st 2022
Thursday, September 22nd 2022
Summer School: The Economics of Crime over Time and Space
Theory, Practice and Applications
21/22 September 2022
The Summer School on the Economics of Crime over Time and Space will cover the theory, practice and application of spatial econometric models applied to crime outcomes. There will be a focus on spatial networks models, and how theory can be applied to the analysis of large scale crime data.
Applications from PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working in the economics of crime and related areas are encouraged. Part of the Summer School Programme will be dedicated to participants’ presentations of their work – these will take the form of lightning presentations, and presenters will receive feedback from peers and Faculty.
The summer school will feature two keynote presentations, from Dr Pedro Souza (Queen Mary University of London) and Prof. Yves Zenou (Monash University and University of Southampton).
Lectures will be delivered by Prof. Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton), Dr Brendon McConnell (University of Southampton) and Dr Arpita Ghosh (University of Exeter).
The summer school will take place on Zoom on 21 and 22 September 2022.
In order to apply, interested applicants should send an email to ects--summerschool@googlegroups.com , indicating in the subject “Application for Summer School: The Economics of Crime over Time and Space”. Please include a short description of your current research and indicate whether you would like to give a lightning presentation of your work.
The deadline for application is Friday 9 September 2022. For logistical reasons, the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 30 (spaces are available on a first-come-first served basis).
Applicants will be informed about the outcome of their application by Tuesday 13 September. The Summer School is an event organized as part of the grant “A Unified Approach to Measuring the Costs of Violent Crime Risk” funded by the ESRC. The event is virtual and there are no fees.
Organisers: Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton), Brendon McConnell (University of Southampton)
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Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - Friday, September 16th 2022
20th Annual ESPAnet conference (Conferences)
Vienna
Wednesday, September 14th 2022
Friday, September 16th 2022
20th Annual ESPAnet conference
Social Policy Change between Path Dependency and Innovation
The pandemic, the crisis in many geopolitically diverse areas and the resulting migration flows, environmental and economic changes extend the range of social challenges to be faced by welfare states. We can observe several paths of change and adaptations that differ across countries, territories and policy fields.
How do welfare states navigate these troubled times? How do they embrace change and pursue a balance between path dependency and innovation?
The 20th ESPAnet Anniversary Conference will offer you a place to engage, discuss and present your research findings with international social policy academics in the wonderful Viennese frame. Vienna is a highly international city and provides an excellent venue for the ESPAnet Conference, with its multiple historical and cultural attractions, as well as a consolidated tradition of engagement in the provision of social policies.
In addition to paper presentations sessions, the Programme will include a poster session, book and project presentations. Finally, considering the times we are living in, we are also exploring the possibility of organising some additional sessions online, 2 days before the on-site Conference, to offer opportunities of participation and exchange also to those who may encounter difficulties in travelling.
Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer will be presenting:
The retrenchment that didn't happen? Pension replacement rates for retired citizens in Europe in the years since major institutional reforms
Monday, September 12th 2022 - Thursday, September 15th 2022
RSS Conference 2022 (Conferences)
Aberdeen
Monday, September 12th 2022
Thursday, September 15th 2022
RSS International Conference 2022
12-15 September 2022, Aberdeen
The RSS International Conference regularly attracts more than 600 attendees from over 40 countries providing one of the best opportunities for anyone interested in statistics and data science to come together to share knowledge and network.
We are delighted to be moving to Aberdeen for the first time in 2022 in a state-of-the-art brand new venue, P&J Live.
As usual, the conference programme will feature top keynote speakers, invited topic sessions, professional development workshops, contributed and rapid-fire talks, and poster presentations, as well as many opportunities for networking.
Dr Joanne Ellison will present:
Projecting UK Fertility by Parity using Bayesian Generalized Additive Models
Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - Friday, September 9th 2022
Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSM) 66th Annual Scientific Meeting (Conferences)
University of Exeter
Tuesday, September 6th 2022
Friday, September 9th 2022
Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSM)
66th Annual Scientific Meeting
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Tuesday 6 September - Friday 9 September 2022
Mary Abed Al Ahad et al will present:
The effect of air pollution on individuals’ mental well-being in the United Kingdom: a spatial-temporal longitudinal study.
Monday, September 5th 2022 - Wednesday, September 7th 2022
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) annual conference 2022 (Conferences)
University of Winchester
Monday, September 5th 2022
Wednesday, September 7th 2022
The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) holds an annual conference each September and this year it will return to an in-person event hosted at the University of Winchester from 5-7 September 2022.
CPC researchers have been contributing to BSPS by volunteering as strand organisers, submitting papers to present, and chairing sessions.
Attendees of BSPS 2022 can hear more about our members' research in the sessions below, and you can follow our live tweets on twitter, @CPCpopulation @ConnectingGens or by following the event #BSPS2022. Full programme and registration details are available from the BSPS website.
Monday 5 September 2022
13:30-15:00
Session: Health: Environmental exposures, behaviours & health
Title: The long‐term effect of air pollution on mortality by ethnicity in Scotland: A 16‐years follow‐up cohort study (2002‐2017)
Authors: Abed Al Ahad, Demšar, Sullivan, Kulu
Session: Migration: Economic outcomes
Title: Patterns of immigrant labour market engagement by parity
Authors: Liu, Kulu
Session: Families & households:Gender & parenthood
Title: Understanding trends and patterns in life satisfaction during the Pandemic: Gender, work, and family care
Authors: Berrington, Chao
Session: The impact of informal care & support across the life course
Title: The impact of changing social support on older persons' onset of loneliness during the Covid‐19 pandemic in the UK
Authors: Vlachantoni, Evandrou, Falkingham, Qin
Session: The impact of informal care & support across the life course
Title: The impact of grandchild care provision on grandparents' depressive symptoms across Europe using multi‐level analysis: Do the grandchild caring patterns and the country's economy matter?
Authors: Yang, Evandrou, Vlachantoni
16:45-18:15
Session: Ethnic inequalities during the pandemic: early results from the EVENS survey
Title: Introducing the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) for understanding experiences of ethnic minorities during the coronavirus pandemic
Authors: Finney et al.
Session: Ethnic inequalities during the pandemic: early results from the EVENS survey
Title: Complex articulations of ethnic identity
Authors: Borkowska, Finney, Nazroo
Session: Ethnic inequalities during the pandemic: early results from the EVENS survey
Title: Local belonging, housing and ethnicity: descriptive results from EVENS
Authors: Harrison, Finney, Haycox, Hill
Tuesday 6 September 2022
13:15-14:45
Session: Migration: Family formation & dissolution
Title: Childbearing and employment of immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu, Delaporte, Liu
Session: Migration: Family formation & dissolution
Title: Post‐separation mobility outcomes among immigrant‐native mixed couples. A matter of relative bargaining positions within households?
Authors: Lacroix, Mikolai,Kulu
14:45-16:15
Session: Families & households: Partnerships
Title: Partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the UK: An application of multichannel sequence analysis
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu
Session: Fertility & reproductive health: Health, wellbeing & fertility
Title: Multi‐partner fertility and obesity risk at midlife: Explorative findings from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
Authors: Stannard, Berrington, Alwan
Session: Ethnicity, ageing & health
Title: Work life expectancies among immigrants in three European countries: A multistate life‐table approach
Authors: Kulu, Hoehn, Mikolai, Delaporte, Liu, Andersson
Session: Ethnicity, ageing & health
Title: Loneliness and social isolation of ethnic‐minority‐immigrant older adults: A scoping review
Authors: Ma, Finney, Hale
17:30-19:00
Session: Low fertility: Subgroup analyses
Title: Educational differences in childbearing by parity: A cross‐national comparison of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Authors: Kuang, Christison, Kulu, Berrington
Wednesday 7 September 2022
09:00-11:00
Session: Ethnic segregation, diversity &neighbourhoods
Title: The re‐making of diverse places: narratives of housing and inclusion
Authors: Haycox, Finney et al.
Session: Families & work
Title: The impact of family formation on the labour market trajectories of immigrant populations in France: A multiprocess analysis
Authors: Delaporte, Kulu
Session: Low fertility: Age & parity perspectives
Title: Fertility trends by birth order in Britain: The comparison between England and Wales, and Scotland
Authors: Kulu, Kuang, Christison, Ellison, Berrington
Session: Migration: Mobility
Title: Understanding the realization of jointly held residential mobility and fertility intentions: How has the sequencing of intention fulfilment changed over time?
Authors: Christison, Kulu, Fiori, Keenan
11:30-13:00
Session: Families & households: Children & young people
Title: Family complexity and young children's mental health in the UK: The role of socioeconomic status
Authors: Kyclova, Mikolai, Finney, Keenan
Session: Data Science: Innovations in modelling and forecasting
Title: Improving methods for fertility forecasting through the Incorporation of parity Information
Authors: Ellison, Berrington, Bijak, Dodd
Tuesday, July 19th 2022
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk - The problem of the 'Covid Generation' (Seminars and lectures)
Jennie Bristow
University of Southampton
Tuesday, July 19th 2022
12:00-13:00
Event Date: Tuesday 19 July 2022
Event Time: 12:00-13:00 UK time
Event Location: University of Southampton
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/pAUFwzIuJUI
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore many features of the problem of generations that have exercised the sociological imagination for a century.
These include the potential for tensions and collaboration, the difficulties expressed by modern societies in educating and socialising young people, and the potential emergence of a distinct form of generational consciousness.
Yet predictions of dire outcomes for a global 'Covid generation', or the presentation of the pandemic response as something that was done to protect the old at the expense of the young, are simplistic and divisive.
Dr Jennie Bristow, author of Stop Mugging Grandma: The 'generation wars' and why Boomer blaming won't solve anything (2019) and co-author of The Corona Generation: Coming of age in a crisis (2020) discusses the unsettling questions raised by the transformation of the pandemic into a generational problem. Dr Bristow is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, an Associate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, and a writer and commentator on generational tensions and interaction. She is co-convenor of the interdisciplinary Generations Network, which seeks to engage academics and others working with the concept of generation in discussion about the meaning of this concept and how it can better be used in policy-making and media debates.
The session will be chaired by Professor Jane Falkingham OBE, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and PI ESRC Connecting Generations.
There will a panel discussion and the opportunity to ask questions in our live audience Q&A.
Panellists are:
Professor Ann Berrington, Joint Head of Demography and Social Statistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. She jointly co-ordinates the fertility strand of CPC and has also worked on some projects within the life course strand. She is a researcher on Connecting Generations and is working on the projects: Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange and Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support.
Dr Júlia Mikola, Senior Research Fellow in the Population and Health Research Group at the University of St Andrews. She is currently working on the MigrantLifeProject (PI: Prof Hill Kulu), which studies how employment, housing, and family trajectories evolve and interact in the lives of immigrants and their descendants across Europe. Julia completed her PhD in social statistics and demography at the University of Southampton in 2015. Her research investigated the intersection between partnership experiences and the transition to motherhood in several European countries and the United States using multi-state event history models. She is linked to the fertility and family strand of CPC. She is a researcher of Connecting Generations and is working on the projects, Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange and Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support.
Watch the recording here
Find out more about the Connecting Generations project: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/research_programme/connecting_generations
Tuesday, July 12th 2022
Only children: insights from across generations and countries (Seminars and lectures)
Online Microsoft Teams
Tuesday, July 12th 2022
14:00-16:30 BST
Only children: insights from across generations and countries
12 July 2022
14:00 - 16:30
With many couples starting families later and a gradual shift in family size ideals, only child families are becoming or are expected to become more common, but many stereotypes remain around only children. Join us to learn more about whether only children are different or similar from children who grow up with siblings in terms of development, health, and family dynamics and about the underlying explanations behind any differences we found.
CPC member Katherine Keenan will be giving a keynote speech.
Register here
Wednesday, July 6th 2022 - Friday, July 8th 2022
3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities (Seminars and lectures)
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Wednesday, July 6th 2022
Friday, July 8th 2022
3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities
This three-day conference brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives to discuss the latest research in migration and mobilities. Submissions on any aspect of migration and mobilities research are welcome.
The conference is orientated around four themes that reflect contemporary conceptual and policy concerns:
Internal migration and urban change. Keynote speaker: Professor Darren Smith (University of Loughborough)
Forced migration and bordering. Keynote speaker: Professor Nick Gill (University of Exeter)
Visualising mobilities. Keynote speaker: Professor Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool)
European migration in turbulent politic. Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Botterill (University of Glasgow)
iMigMob 2022 is organised by the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews in association with the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group and the Centre for Population Change Connecting Generations.
For further details visit the event website
Wednesday, July 6th 2022
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Boomers, snowflakes and avocado on toast: Are generational stereotypes harming our futures? (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Bobby Duffy
Free online and in person
Wednesday, July 6th 2022
09:30 - 10:45 BST
Boomers, snowflakes and avocado on toast: Are generational stereotypes harming our futures?
Event Date: Wednesday 6 July 2022
Event Time: 09:30 - 10:45 UK time
Event Location: Free online
Watch the recording:
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/boomers-snowflakes-and-avocado-on-toast/
Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis? Are any of these labels and assigned characteristics helpful? Or are they damaging our ability to bring generations together to solve the most divisive issues raging today: from culture wars to climate change, and mental health to housing?
In his latest book 'Generations - Does when you're born shape who you are?' published in September 2021, Professor Bobby Duffy challenges myths and stereotypes around generational trends, seeking a greater understanding around generational challenges.
Join Professor Duffy in the second Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk as he takes us through whether when we're born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics and much else, and how many of our preconceptions are just that: tired stereotypes.
The session was chaired by the Rt. Hon. Lord David Willetts, President of the Advisory Council and Intergenerational Centre Resolution Foundation.
Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London. Formerly Global Director of Ipsos Social Research Institute, he has also been seconded to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and to the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics.
He sits on several advisory boards including Chairing both the Campaign for Social Science and the CLOSER Advisory Board, is a member of the Executive of the Academy of Social Sciences, a trustee of British Future and the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) and a Senior Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
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Wednesday, July 6th 2022 - Friday, July 8th 2022
BSG Annual Conference 2022 (Conferences)
UWE, Bristol
Wednesday, July 6th 2022
Friday, July 8th 2022
British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 2022 hosted online by UWE, Bristol.
Find out more on the conference website here
Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - Friday, July 1st 2022
19th IMISCOE Annual Conference Opening Plenary: The Temporal Turn in Migration Studies (Conferences)
Oslo, Norway and online
Wednesday, June 29th 2022
Friday, July 1st 2022
19th IMISCOE Annual Conference
Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance
June 29 - July 1, 2022, Oslo, Norway
Migration is intertwined with time in myriad ways and at multiple scales. In individual lives, migration propels change over time and entails engagement with personal pasts and futures. Time and temporalities are structuring migration experiences, when refugees are granted temporary protection, labour migrants are offered temporary employment and rights of residency, and undocumented migrants are living with uncertainties for the future. The governance of migration is also the governance of migrants’ relations to and experiences of time. Governance of migration happens in time – sometimes in the form of rapid changes in times of “crisis”, but perhaps also through postponement when the urgency has passed.
Attention to time and temporalities illuminates processes of othering and patterns of inequalities, as well as forms of resistance and adaptations to policies and institutions. The rapid changes in laws, regulations, policies and practices of migration also have repercussions on the topics, theoretical approaches, and methodologies of migration scholars. These and other perspectives on time and migration have flourished as part of the emerging ‘temporal turn’ in migration studies. The theme ‘migration and time’ brings out disciplinary, methodological and theoretical diversity of migration research with a shared focus.
Professor Jakub Bijak will be a distinguished speaker at this event. See the event website for further details.
Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - Saturday, July 2nd 2022
European Population Conference 2022 (Conferences)
Groningen, The Netherlands
Wednesday, June 29th 2022
Saturday, July 2nd 2022
The next European Population Conference will take place in Groningen, The Netherlands, from 29 June - 2 July 2022.
EPC 2022 will be a hybrid EPC conference with both online and onsite sessions.
Find out more on the conference page
Thursday 30 June 2022
11:00-12:30
Session: Fertility in uncertain times
Title: Uncertainty across the “contact line”: Armed conflict, Covid-19, and perceptions of fertility decline in Eastern Ukraine
Authors: Perelli-Harris, Hilevych, Gerber
16:00-17:30
Session: Advancements in mortality analysis
Title: Mortality under-registration by ethnic groups in Colombia
Authors: Loja, Padmadas, Hilton
17:45-19:15
Session: P1. Postercafe
Title: Employment changes among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries
Authors: Kulu, Mikolai, Delaporte, Liu, Höhn, Andersson
Session: P1. Postercafe
Title: Women's economic empowerment and children's school outcomes: The case of Malawi
Authors: Williams, Vaisanen, Padmadas
Session: P1. Postercafe
Title: Pandemic babies? The fertility response to the first Covid-19 wave across European regions
Authors: Nitsche et al. (including Berrington)
Session: P1. Postercafe
Title: Cumulative reproductive life histories and grip strength in Indonesia: 1993-2014
Authors: Leone, Vaisanen, Witoelar
Friday 1 July 2022
09:00-10:30
Session: Climate change, air Pollution and health
Title: The effect of air pollution on general health and mental well-being in the UK by ethnicity: A spatial-temporal multilevel analysis
Authors: Abed al Ahad, Demšar, Sullivan, Kulu
Session: Modelling migration, mobility and positioning
Title: Estimating bilateral migration flows to match known net migration totals
Authors: Abel, Smith
Session: Migrant populations
Title: Family formation and the employment outcomes of immigrants in France: A multilevel multistate approach
Authors: Delaporte, Kulu
Session: Migrant populations
Title: Work-migration-life balance: Patterns of immigrant labor market engagement by parity
Authors: Liu, Kulu
14:00-15:30
Session: Health and quality of life of older people
Title: Assessing the burden of joint cognitive and physical health impairment in the US, 1998-2016
Authors: Sharma, Hale, Myrskylä, Kulu
Session: Union formation
Title: Parental socioeconomic class and young Britons' family expectations: Do family structure and educational aspirations, during adolescence, mediate this relationship?
Authors: Palumbo, Berrington, Eibich
Saturday 2 July 2022
09:00-10:30
Session: Divorce and children
Title: Family complexity and young children's health outcomes in the UK: A longitudinal study
Authors: Kyclova, Mikolai, Finney, Keenan
Session: Flash Session: Inequalities in life expectancy, disability and health
Title: Intersecting gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbid life expectancy in South Africa: A multistate modelling approach
Authors: Lam, Keenan, Myrskla, Kulu
Session: Flash Session: Inequalities in life expectancy, disability and health
Title: Inequalities in time spent in multimorbidity in Costa Rica and Mexico: A multistate modelling approach
Authors: Lam, Cezard, Keenan
11:00-12:30
Session: Improvements in forecasting methods
Title: Improving methods for fertility forecasting through the incorporation of parity information
Authors: Ellison, Berrington, Bijak, Dodd
Session: Fertility among immigrant populations
Title: Partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the UK: A three-channel sequence analysis
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu
Tuesday, June 21st 2022
Growing Up in Scotland conference 2022 (Conferences)
Zoom
Tuesday, June 21st 2022
09:30-13:00 BST
Growing Up in Scotland conference 2022
Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) is a longitudinal study entering its 17th year. Commissioned by the Scottish Government, the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) conduct this study, tracking the lives of thousands of children in Scotland, from early years through to young adulthood.
Time: 09:30-13:00
Date: 21 June 2022
Location: Zoom
This year’s conference will include an update on the study, presentation of findings from the latest Scottish Government report on Life at Age 14, and presentations from research projects which have recently used the study data, sharing important perspectives on the issues that young people and their families in Scotland face today. Life at Age 14 explores the experience of school, educational aspirations, mental health and life satisfaction amongst other topics.
ScotCen is pleased to announce that the keynote address will be given by Clare Haughey MSP, Minister for Children and Young People, and the proceedings will be chaired by Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland.
Additional speakers will include:
Sarah Newton, Principal Social Researcher, Scottish Government
Paul Bradshaw, Director, Scottish Centre for Social Research
Dr Paul McCrorie, Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Professor Susan McVie, Chair of Quantitative Criminology, University of Edinburgh
Dr Valeria Skafida, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
Dr Francesca Fiori, Associate Lecturer in Geography, University of St Andrews
This event is free and will be held online via Zoom. All are welcome to attend, particularly those working in research and policy, in education, with young people and their families.
Register for the event here
Thursday, June 16th 2022 - Friday, June 17th 2022
3rd EBRD and King's College London Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration (Workshops)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
Thursday, June 16th 2022
Friday, June 17th 2022
3rd EBRD and King’s College London Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
Venue: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
Date: 16-17 June 2022
Organisers: Cevat Giray Aksoy, Tugba Bozcaga, Konstantinos Matakos,
Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, and Pierre-Louis Vézina
CPC member Professor Jackline Wahba is a discussant in session 4,
Immigrants' Legalization and Firms: Evidence from the 2007 EU enlargement
Vittoria Dicandia* (Boston University), Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern)
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Outcomes of Refugee Children
Semih Tumen* (TED University), Michael Vlassopoulos (Southampton) Jackline Wahba (Southampton)
For more information, please see the event website
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
QSS Seminar Series: Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom - Heini Vaisanen (Seminars and lectures)
Heini Väisänen
Zoom and hybrid
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
13:00-14:00 BST
CPC member Heini Vaisanen will present "Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom", as part of the QSS Seminar Series.
One in four women experience a miscarriage. Loss of pregnancy may affect fertility intentions and lead to adverse mental and physical health. Yet, we know little about how social inequalities affect the risk of miscarriage and the few existing studies show mixed results.
A social gradient in the risk of miscarriage may have multiple explanations including increased stress, and poorer health behaviours. Heini will refer to the 1970 British Cohort Study to investigate whether individual-level social inequalities are longitudinally associated with the likelihood of miscarriage. We apply random-intercept logistic regression to examine the likelihood of reported miscarriages according to markers of socioeconomic status, such as occupational social class, income or education.
Preliminary results suggest a U-shaped relationship between occupation and the risk of miscarriage. Women in a less advantaged social classes might have a higher risk of miscarriage e.g. due to stress from precarious economic conditions or risky health behaviours. More advantaged social class might also be associated with stress in high-pressure occupations. A better understanding of this common reproductive event can help policy makers improve reproductive and population health.
The event is hybrid and will take place 1–2pm in Room G03, 55-59 Gordon Square, and online using Zoom.
Register here
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
Attracting Skills and Talent to the EU: What should we focus on? (Seminars and lectures)
Online Zoom
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
12:00-13:00 BST (13:00-14:00 CET)
Attracting Skills and Talent to the EU: What should we focus on?
Insights on the European Commission’s Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on ‘Attracting Skills and Talent to the EU’.
When: Wednesday, 15 June 2022 12:00-13:00 BST/ 13:00-14:00 CET
Where: Online, Zoom
Modern societies are facing a shrinking in their working population, already visible in skill shortages in major occupations of specific sectors. In Europe, relying on intra-EU mobility is no longer sufficient to address current and future labour market needs. Hence, there is a need to attract a working force from non-European countries.
On 27 April 2022, the European Commission published a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on ‘Attracting Skills and Talent to the EU’. The Communication discusses potential operational and legislative initiatives to attract skills and talent to the EU.
In this meeting, experts will share insights on these proposed initiatives and discuss policy options based on research evidence. The audience is expected to actively participate in the discussions and provide feedback on concrete elements of the Communication.
Speakers
• Silke Anger, Chair of Economics, in particular Economics of Education at the University of Bamberg and Head of the Department Education, Training, and Employment Over the Life Course at the German Institute for Employment Research
• Lucie Cerna, Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
• Mathias Czaika, Head of Department and Professor in Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems, Austria
• David De Groot, Policy Analyst at the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS)
• María Miyar Busto, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology II (Social Structure) UNED, Madrid
• Jackline Wahba, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton (UK), and Director of Research in Economics
Find out more on the event website
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
Migrants and the Scottish Economy: Impacts of the new UK immigration system and options for the future (Seminars and lectures)
COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh
Wednesday, June 15th 2022
10:00 - 13:30 BST
Migration and the Scottish Economy: Impacts and Options
Wednesday 15 June
10:00 - 13:30 BST
This Migration Policy Scotland event brings together expertise on migration and on the Scottish economy and business to assess the impacts of UK’s new immigration system in Scotland. How have businesses and the economy been impacted by the UK's new immigration system? How have they responded? What are the benefits and challenges of the new system and how could any negative impacts be mitigated? Bringing together representatives from business and with experts on labour markets and migration policy the event:
• highlights sectors likely to have been most impacted by the end of free movement
• identifies how some businesses and sectors are adapting to the new system
• explores potential solutions and options for the future
Confirmed speakers:
Prof David Bell, University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh
Scott Walker, CEO, National Farmers Union Scotland
Marc Crothall, CE, Scottish Tourism Alliance
Sarah Kyambi, Director, Migration Policy Scotland
Prof Sergi Pardos-Prado, University of Glasgow, member of the Migration Advisory Committee
Donald Macaskill, CEO, Scottish Care
Shan Saba, Brightwork Recruitment Agency
Elaine Cameron, CE, Refugee Survival Trust
Find out more here
Tuesday, June 14th 2022
Catching a Break: Regression Discontinuity Designs in the Social Sciences (Workshops)
Queen Margaret University
Tuesday, June 14th 2022
11:00-13:00 BST
Catching a Break: Regression Discontinuity Designs in the Social Sciences
14 June 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Led by Professor Alasdair Rutherford (University of Stirling)
In this session we will introduce the methods of Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), and provide the opportunity to apply them in a practical lab using Stata.
Regression discontinuity design is a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test method, that seeks to elicit causal effects. By examining observations that are lying closely on either side of the threshold it is possible to estimate ‘treatment effects’ in environments where experimentation using randomisation would not be feasible. RDD techniques are widely understood in areas such as econometrics, but have been used less frequently in other areas of social science.
The course will:
o Introduce the concept of discontinuity designs
o Outline the statistical theories that underpin regression discontinuity designs
o Highlight how RDD can be used to test ideas and theories
o Showcase some examples of research questions and data that are suited to RDD
o Demonstrate how Stata can be used for RDD analyses
Participants will:
o Understand the fundamental concepts associated with RDD
o Be able to interpret the result of RDD analysis
o Better understand which research questions and data that are suited to RDD
o Be able to apply RDD analyses in Stata
Who’s it for?
Participants should ideally be familiar with Stata, although students familiar with using syntax in statistical software such as SPSS, R, Python or similar should be fine. Students should have a good knowledge of applied statistical analysis, especially regression models.
Find out more on the course website
Thursday, June 9th 2022 - Saturday, June 11th 2022
22nd Nordic Demographic Symposium (Conferences)
Oslo, Norway
Thursday, June 9th 2022
Saturday, June 11th 2022
22nd Nordic Demographic Symposium Oslo - 9-11 June 2022
The 22nd Nordic Demographic Symposium will be held in Oslo 9-11 June 2022.
For more information see the conference page
Presentations by CPC speakers:
Session P1:1 Pandemic fertility Chair: Arnstein Aassve. Thursday June 9, 10:30-11:45, Store salen
Pandemic Babies? The Fertility Response to the First Covid-19 Wave Across European Regions. Nitsche, Natalie (MPIDR), A. Jasilioniene, J. Nisen, P. Li, M. Kniffka, G. Andersson, C. Bagavos, A. Berrington, I. Čipin, S. Clemente, L. Dommermuth, P. Fallesen, D. Gauldauskaite, M. Lerch, C. McDonnell, A. Muller, K. Neels, O. Pötzsch, D. Ramiro, B. Riederer, S. te Riele, L. Toulemon, D. Vignoli, K. Zeman, T. Žnidaršič, M. Myrskylä
Session P1 :3 Population projections 1 Chair: Astri Syse. Thursday June 9, 10:30-11:45, Møterom 1
Improving Methods for Fertility Forecasting through the Incorporation of Parity Information. Ellison, Joanne (University of Southampton), A. Berrington, J. Bijak, E. Dodd
Session P2:1 Education and fertility Chair: Trude Lappegård. Thursday June 9, 13:15-14:45, Store salen
Changing Educational Patterns of Childlessness in the United Kingdom: A Comparison of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Kuang, Bernice (University of Southampton), S. Christison, J. Ellison, H. Kulu, A. Berrington
Session P3:3 Immigrant fertility Chair: TBA. Thursday June 9, 15:30-17:00, Møterom 1
Timing and Levels of Fertility Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden: A Register-Based Longitudinal Study. Höhn, Andreas (University of St. Andrews), G. Andersson, H. Kulu
Session P4:3 Paid and unpaid work, and the family Chair: TBA. Friday June 10, 10:45-12:15, Møterom 1
Family formation and the employment outcomes of immigrants in France: A multilevel multistate approach. Delaporte, Isaure (University of St Andrews, UK), H. Kulu
Session P5:1 Understanding fertility trends Chair: Lars Dommermuth. Friday June 10, 14:30-15:45, Store salen
Socioeconomic attainment among only children in Sweden and Norway. Keenan, Katherine (University of St Andrews), K. Barclay, Ø. Kravdal, A. Goisis:
Session P5:3 Family structure, fertility, and health Chair: Marti n Kolk. Friday June 10, 14:30-15:45, Møterom 1
Family complexity and young children's mental health in the UK. Kyclova, Michaela (University of St Andrews), J. Mikolai, N. Finney, K. Keenan
Session P6:1 Housing, economic uncertainty and fertility Chair: TBD.
Saturday June 11, 09:15-10:45, Store salen
Fertility Behaviour and the Residential Context: a longitudinal analysis of fertility trends in Scotland. Christison, Sarah (University of St. Andrews), B. Kuang, J. Ellison, H. Kulu, A. Berrington
Thursday, June 9th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Peter Davis (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Davis, University of Auckland
Zoom
Thursday, June 9th 2022
12:00-13:00 BST
This CPC-CG webinar was held on Thursday 9 June at 12:00 BST. Peter Davis, Emeritus Professor in Population Health and Social Science at the University of Auckland, gave a talk entitled, "Covid in Aotearoa New Zealand: Winning the war - but losing the peace?".
Title: Covid in Aotearoa New Zealand: Winning the war - but losing the peace?
Abstract:In the first 18 months of the pandemic Aotearoa New Zealand, a country of 5 million, registered just 50 deaths from Covid and recorded an improvement in life expectancy. This was the result of adopting an elimination strategy, a communitarian approach that maximised health and welfare, but that also served the economy well. Yet, following the entry of Omicron and the opening up of the country in 2022 the death toll has increased to 1,000, the public mood has changed, and the government lags in the polls. This presentation documents the early ingredients of success, the mid-term exposure of societal vulnerabilities, and the current state of uncertainty. While the Labour government may have largely “won the war” on Covid, it is in danger of losing the chance of “reaping the peace dividend” of addressing a full policy agenda of social, environmental and economic change.
Biography:
Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor in Population Health and Social Science at the University of Auckland, where he is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics. Following an undergraduate degree at the University of Southampton and Masters in Sociology and in Statistics at the London School of Economics, Peter spent over 20 years as a health sociologist in the Auckland Medical School, before being appointed Professor of Public Health at the Christchurch School of Medicine, and then Professor of the Sociology of Health and Wellbeing in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland where he established the COMPASS Research Centre (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/arts/our-research/research-institutes-centres-groups/compass.html). He has also been an elected member on the Auckland District Health Board, has a blog at https://peterdavisnz.com/, and chairs The Helen Clark Foundation, a non-partisan public policy think tank (https://helenclark.foundation/).
Watch the recording here
Thursday, May 19th 2022
Joint CPC-CG/S3RI Webinar - Cath Mercer (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, May 19th 2022
14:00-15:00 BST
This CPC-CG/S3RI webinar was held on Thursday 19 May at 14:00 BST. Cath Mercer from University College London gave a talk entitled: The COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities & challenges for Britain's National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles ('Natsal').
Title: The COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities & challenges for Britain's National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles ('Natsal').
Abstract:The National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) are large probability-sample bio-behavioural surveys, representative of the British population. The three decennial Natsals to date have interviewed >45,000 men and women, spanning those born through much of the 20th Century. Natsal's repeat cross-sectional design enables a contemporary picture to be presented while also capturing generational changes and broad societal shifts through the measurement of both period and birth cohort effects. Natsal provides evidence of the context, influences and consequences of sexual lifestyles, and is vital for informing national and international sexual health interventions, strategies, and guidelines.
Preparations for a fourth Natsal were being finalised in March 2020 just as the UK entered its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19. This talk will reflect on the opportunities and challenges for Natsal brought about by the global pandemic, including the design and rapid delivery of 'Natsal-COVID', a web-panel survey, and the methodological adaptations required to re-start Natsal-4 at a time of continued uncertainty regarding COVID-19, and will conclude with a discussion of the possible implications for the future of Natsal as well as other social surveys post-pandemic.
Watch the seminar here
Monday, May 16th 2022 - Wednesday, May 18th 2022
Berlin Demography Days (Workshops)
Online
Monday, May 16th 2022
Wednesday, May 18th 2022
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. Our goal is to create a productive working atmosphere, enabling participants to discuss potential solutions of future challenges driven by population change and based on scientific evidence, the expertise of decision-makers, and practitioner experience.
List of distinguished guests, speakers and panellists
José Manuel Aburto, PhD, European Demographer Award Winner 2021 / Newton International Fellow, Department of Sociology and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science & Nuffield College, Fellow, University of Oxford / Assistant Professor (on leave), Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Alanna Armitage, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Director, United Nations Population Fund, Istanbul
Anna Braam, Chair and Speaker, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, University of Oldenburg
Carlo Giovanni Camarda, PhD, European Demographer Award Winner 2021 / Research Scientist and Head of the research unit UR 05: Mortalité, Santé, Épidémiologie, Institut National d’Études Démographiques, Aubervilliers
Samuel Clark, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Helga A. G. de Valk, Director, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague & Professor of Migration and the Lifecourse, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Population Research Center, University of Groningen / President of the European Association of Population Studies
Volker Deville, PhD, University of Bayreuth, International Management / President, F/L Think Tank eG
Andreas Eckert, Chair of the Board, Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin
Andreas Edel, Executive Secretary, Population Europe / Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Berlin
Jani Erola, Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland / Director, INVEST Research Flagship Center
Albert Esteve Palós, Director, Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), and Adjunct Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alex Chika Ezeh, Dornsife Professor of Global Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia / Former (Founding) Director of African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), Nairobi
Jane C. Falkingham OBE, Director, ESRC Centre for Population Change and Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, University of Southampton / Honorary President of the European Association for Population Studies
Alice Goisis, PhD, European Demographer Award Winner 2020 / Associate Professor in Demography, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London
Klaus Hurrelmann, Senior Professor of Public Health and Education, Hertie School, Berlin
Ridhi Kashyap, Professorial Fellow and Associate Professor of Social Demography, Co-Leader of the Programme Digital & Computational Science, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University
Sunita Kishor, Director, Demographic and Health Surveys Program, Rockville, Maryland
Heike Klüver, Professor of Comparative Political Behaviour, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Spokesperson of the Research Training Group "The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy"
James Sebastian Kuriath, PhD, Director and Senior Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai
Stefan Liebig, Director of the Socio-Economic Panel and member of the Executive Board, DIW Berlin (the German Institute for Economic Research) / Professor of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
Ulrich Lilie, President, Diakonie Deutschland, Berlin
Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria / Scientific Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences / Professor of Demography, University of Vienna
Ian Ross Macmillan, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of Limerick
Franz Müntefering, Former Federal Minister / Chair, German National Association of Senior Citizens' Organisations, Bonn
Rainer Münz, Visiting Professor, Central European University, School of Public Policy, Budapest and Vienna
Elisabeth Niejahr, Member of the Executive Team of the non-profit Hertie Foundation, Berlin
Iñaki Permanyer, European Demographer Award Winner 2020 / ICREA Research Professor, Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) Barcelona
Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King’s College London
Georges Reniers, PhD, Professor of Demography, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Population Studies Group
Dubravka Šuica, European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Brussels
Clemens Tesch-Römer, Director, German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin / Professor, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
Nico van Nimwegen, Honorary Fellow, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute / Executive Director, European Association for Population Studies, The Hague
Pieter Vanhuysse, PhD, Professor of the Department of Political Science and Public Management and the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies / Board Member, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics at SDU Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Daniela Vintila, Postdoctoral Researcher, ERC-funded project Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe (MiTSoPro), Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium
Emilio Zagheni, PhD, Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock / Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle
Stefan Zierke, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth / Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Eliya Zulu, Executive Director and founder of the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Nairobi
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Wednesday, May 11th 2022
Ukraine's depopulation crisis: fertility uncertainty, displacement and war (Seminars and lectures)
Brienna Perelli-Harris
Clay Room, Nuffield College
Wednesday, May 11th 2022
16:00-17:30 BST
Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris will be giving a seminar talk entitled: Ukraine's depopulation crisis: fertility uncertainty, displacement and war.
Ukraine has been experiencing one of the most severe population declines of any country in the world for decades. Although relatively high death rates and emigration have fuelled the population decline, the main driver has been persistent low fertility. Ukraine achieved the world’s lowest fertility rate of 1.1 in 2001 and while fertility recuperated to 1.5 by 2011, it plunged again to 1.23 in 2019. Throughout this period, economic, and political unrest has wracked the country, with civil war breaking out in 2014, resulting in around 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). The situation has led to uncertainty in individuals’ lives, inevitably influencing childbearing decisions and plans.
The Sociology Seminar Series for Hilary Term is convened by Ginevra Floridi, Ramina Sotoudeh and Benjamin Elbers. For more information about this or any of the seminars in the series, please contact sociology.secretary@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
See the event page here
Thursday, April 28th 2022
CPC-CG Webinar - Sophie Cranston (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, April 28th 2022
13:00 - 14:00 BST
This CPC-CG webinar will be held on Thursday 28 April at 13:00 BST. Sophie Cranston, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University will be giving a talk entitled, Producing ‘Invisible’ Migrants: British International Students.
Title: Producing ‘Invisible’ Migrants: British International Students
Abstract:Reflexive migration studies question: how are mobile people discursively and institutionally turned into migrants? In this paper, I explore different logics through which some mobile people are rendered invisible within discussions of migration. In the United Kingdom, British return migrants are construed as statistically invisible due to the lack of reliable data collected about them. Using a case study of international student mobility, this paper explores how British mobile young people are produced as invisible within this population through three logics. The first logic is statistical, produced through HESA data on international students. Second, through an analysis of policy documents, the paper will explore institutional logics of the category of international student through fee status. Third, drawing upon a semi-structured interviews with British mobile young people, the paper will explore the experiential in how this group position themselves as ‘international’ or ‘home’ students. By exploring these logics, the paper will look at how British mobile young people are various positioned outside and inside of the internationalisation and diversity strategies of higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudOyhrDIvG9Vhj6j8Y1kObzCJ0booXGdF
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Monday, April 25th 2022
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Bridging the gap in a post-Brexit/post-Covid society (Seminars and lectures)
Free online
Monday, April 25th 2022
14:00 - 15:00 UK time
Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk: Bridging the gap in a post-Brexit/post-Covid society
Event Date: Monday 25 April 2022
Event Time: 14:00 - 15:00 UK time
Event Location: Free online
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thought-leader-talk-bridging-the-gap-in-a-post-brexit-post-covid-society-tickets-311021542807
Join Jane Falkingham OBE, Professor of International Social Policy and Demography, at the launch of the new ESRC-funded Connecting Generations project. Hear about the novel science she and her colleagues will be undertaking to understand intergenerational connectivity.
Issues of generational connection have been thrown into sharper focus by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Changes in economic, social and family life are also taking place within the wider context of environmental degradation and climate change. The benefits for present generations may stand in conflict with the inheritances of future generations. This has complex and wide-reaching implications for generational fairness and intergenerational justice and solidarity.
Different generations provide financial, emotional and practical support to each other during different stages of their lives. These support exchanges interact with and impact upon major life course events. Such events include: completing education; leaving home; living with (or separating from) a partner; having children; becoming a homeowner; entering and leaving work; continuing to live independently in the community; or moving into residential care. Health, personal finances, social networks and personal resilience are all affected by these life events, and experiences will vary by gender, migrant status, ethnicity, education, social-economic status and geographical context.
Professor Falkingham will give a talk on how Connecting Generations plans to tackle these issues, delving into how new collaborations and interdisciplinary working will give us a unique understanding of how different generations live together, or apart, now and in the future. She will be joined in a panel discussion by Connecting Generations Co-Directors. Live audience Q&A will be available.
This lecture is part of a series being convened by the new Connecting Generations project, speakers include;
Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at Kings College London. Bobby has worked across most public policy areas in his career of 30 years in policy research and evaluation, including being seconded to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. His talk will draw on his book 'Generations - Does when you're born shape who you are?'
Jennie Bristow, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University. Jennie is a writer and commentator on generational tensions and interaction . Her talk will discuss ideas from her recent books 'The Corona Generation: Coming of age in a crisis' and 'Stop Mugging Grandma: The 'generation wars' and why Boomer blaming won't solve anything'
Maria Grasso, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at Queen Mary University of London. Maria's research interests revolve around understanding the link between economic, social and political inequalities and the ways in which crises impact on different groups. Her talk will build on her book 'Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe'.
James Sefton, Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. James' research agenda focuses on questions about intergenerational equity, pension policy design and long run trends in the housing market. His talk will discuss concepts from his recent works 'Full generational accounts: what do we give to the next generation?' and 'Generational Wealth Accounts: did public and private inter-generational transfers offset each other over the financial crisis?'
Full registration details to follow.
Wednesday, April 6th 2022 - Saturday, April 9th 2022
Population Association of America 2022 Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Atlanta, Georgia
Wednesday, April 6th 2022
Saturday, April 9th 2022
The Population Association of America annual meeting will take place 6 - 9 April 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
CPC will be presenting:
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Cross-National Comparisons of Aging and the Life Course
Inequalities in Time Spent in Multimorbidity in Costa Rica and Mexico: A Multistate Modeling Approach
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
A. Lam, University of St Andrews & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; G. Cezard, University of Cambridge ; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; K. Keenan, University of St Andrews; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Nonstandard Work Arrangements and Their Consequences
Nonstandard Work Schedules in the United Kingdom: What Are the Implications for Parental Mental Health and Relationship Happiness?
A. Zilanawala, University of Southampton
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Family Demography, Population Development and Environment
Cognitive Impairment and Partnership Status by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Education in the United States, 1998–2016
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; J. M. Hale, University of St Andrews; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; S. Sharma, University of St Andrews.
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health
The Impact of Family Formation on the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants in France: A Multistate Approach
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; I. Delaporte, University of St Andrews.
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Contexts of Parental Time Investments in Children
Estimating the Causal Effect of SNAP on Parental Time Investments
A. Zilanawala, University of Southampton; A. Sevilla-Sanz, Queen Mary University of London; A. Schenck-Fontaine, Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Friday, April 8, 2022
Migration, Migrants, and Fertility
Uncertainty Across the “Contact Line”: Armed Conflict, COVID-19, and Perceptions of Fertility Decline in Eastern Ukraine
11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
B. Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton; T. Gerber, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Y. Hylevich, University of Groningen.
Family Trajectories Among Immigrants and Their Descendants in Three European Countries
11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C. Liu, University of St. Andrews; G. Andersson, Stockholm University; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; I. Delaporte, University of St Andrews; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews.
Friday, April 8, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Mortality and Morbidity, COVID-19, Data and Methods
Intersecting Racial and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Multimorbid Life Expectancy in South Africa: A Multistate Modeling Approach
A. Lam, University of St Andrews & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; K. Keenan; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Friday, April 8, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Children and Youth, Intergenerational Ties, Education, Work and Economic Inequality
Partnership, Fertility, and Employment Trajectories of Immigrants in the United Kingdom: A Three-Channel Sequence Analysis
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; J. Mikolai, University of St Andrews.
Friday, April 8, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Children and Youth, Intergenerational Ties, Education, Work and Economic Inequality
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Children’s School Outcomes: The Case of Malawi
E. Williams, University of Southampton; H. Vaisanen, University of Southampton; S. Padmadas, University of Southampton.
Work-Migration-Life Balance: Patterns of Immigrant Labor Market Engagement by Parity
C. Liu, University of St. Andrews; H. Kulu, University of St Andrews.
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Health and Mortality
Assessing the Burden of Joint Cognitive and Physical Health Impairment in the U.S., 1998–2016
H. Kulu, University of St Andrews; J. M. Hale, University of St Andrews;
M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; S. Sharma, University of St Andrews.
Saturday, April 9, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Fertility and COVID-19 in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Pandemic Babies? The Fertility Response to the First COVID-19 Wave Across European Regions
A. Jasilioniene, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; A. Berrington, University of Southampton; A. Muller, Institut national d'études démographiques; B. Riederer, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/ Austrian Academy of Sciences; C. Bagavos, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences; D. Vignoli, University of Florence; D. Ramiro-Fariñas, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC); D. Galdauskaite, Vilnius University; G. Andersson, Stockholm University; I. Cipin, University of Zagreb; J. Nisen, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; K. Neels, Antwerp University; K. Zeman, Austrian Academy of Sciences; L. Dommermuth, Statistics Norway; L. Szabó, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute; L. Toulemon, Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED); M. Lerch; M. Kniffka; M. Cadhla, Trinity College Dublin; M. Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; N. Nitsche, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; P. Li, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; P. Fallesen, Rockwool Foundation; P. Olga, Destatis--Statistisches Bundesamt; S. te Riele, Statistics Netherlands; S. Clemente, University of Lisbon; T. Znidaršič, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2022
Understanding Society Conference - People & Places (Conferences)
Online conference
Wednesday, April 6th 2022
The People & Places mini-conference is a four day, online conference curated by the Understanding Society team. Each day of the conference focuses on a particular theme. The mini-conference is free to attend, but advance registration is required. You can attend on just one day, or come for the whole conference.
Professor Nissa Finney and Dr David McCollum will be keynote speakers.
Find out more on the conference webpage here
Tuesday, April 5th 2022
Tuesday Dialogue with Prof. Jakub Bijak, Limit to Infinite Error: Dealing with Migration Uncertainty (Seminars and lectures)
Jakub Bijak
Online
Tuesday, April 5th 2022
12:00-13:00 BST, (13:00-14:00 CET)
Tuesday Dialogue with Prof. Jakub Bijak
Topic: Limit to Infinite Error: Dealing with Migration Uncertainty
Migration is very complex, uncertain, volatile and can have a very high impact, as we are sadly, yet again, reminded during the war in Ukraine. At the same time, there are things we know about migration that can help us plan and prepare to deal with the inevitable uncertainty of migration processes. In this talk, we will explore the limits of what can be said about current and future migration, and how we can deal with this imperfect knowledge.
Register here
Tuesday, April 5th 2022
Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Seminar (Seminars and lectures)
Francesca Fiori
Online
Tuesday, April 5th 2022
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BST
This seminar is organised by the Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Hub - Moray House School of Education and Sport.
In this seminar, Dr Francesca Fiori presents her work on the effect of residential mobility on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in early and middle childhood. Using data from the Growing Up in Scotland, she applies linear regression models and inverse probability weighting to control for selection into residential mobility by family background.
You can register here
Thursday, March 31st 2022
CPC Webinar - Valeria Bordone (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, March 31st 2022
12:00 BST
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 31 March 2022 at 12:00 BST. Valeria Bordone from the University of Vienna gave a talk entitled, “Close kin relationships in times of COVID-19: grandparental childcare, precautionary behaviours and vaccination acceptance of older individuals”.
Title: Close kin relationships in times of COVID-19: grandparental childcare, precautionary behaviours and vaccination acceptance of older individuals
Abstract: The family plays a central role in shaping healthy behaviours of its members through social control and support mechanisms. This presentation will show results from two studies. First, we investigate whether changes in grandchild care provision during the pandemic impacted grandparents' mental health. We do so using pre-pandemic data from wave 9 and the second Covid-19 sub-study of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Second, we investigate if and to what extent family intergenerational relationships matter for older people in taking on precautionary behaviours and vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Drawing on data from the two waves of SHARE Corona Survey and SHARE wave 8, we carry out a set of logistic models to understand the determinants of wearing a mask, keeping physical distance, reducing family visits, and vaccine acceptance. These studies show that interruptions of face-to-face interactions increase the likelihood of poorer mental health among older people, but the existence of a kin network benefits precautionary behaviours and vaccine acceptance. Thus, policymakers should acknowledge potential adverse consequences of restrictions taken on to contain the pandemic and possibly differently address kinless individuals when promoting public policy measures to fight the spread of the virus or to encourage vaccination.
Watch the recording here
Monday, March 28th 2022 - Tuesday, March 29th 2022
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Austin, Texas
Monday, March 28th 2022
Tuesday, March 29th 2022
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas, USA, 27-29 March 2022
Dr Afshin Zilanawala will present:
Making It Work: Fathers' Nonstandard Work Schedules and Parenting Activities
Abstract
Over the last decade, family scholarship has developed a rich body of research on the contemporary role of fathers as caregivers providing emotional support, time, and day-to-day caring and upbringing of their children as well as income providers (Cano et al., 2019; Schoppe‐Sullivan & Fagan, 2020). Of the many factors that may impinge on or support fathers' parenting is employment in jobs that require working nonstandard schedules (i.e. regularly working in the evenings, weekends, or nights). An emerging body of literature has interrogated the implications of fathers' nonstandard schedules for their parenting. The evidence is mixed owing to the range of child ages investigated and country context. Additionally, it remains unclear whether nonstandard working hours are related to different types of parenting activities.
We examined associations between types of nonstandard work schedules among fathers, couple-level work schedules, and fathers' parenting activities in infancy and middle childhood in the United Kingdom. We used the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative birth cohort from the UK, and two measures of fathers' parenting: basic care (9-month and 7-year interviews) and play and recreation (7-years). Regression models predicted parenting from fathers' nonstandard work schedules at 9-months (n=10,866) and 7-years (n=6,400).
Fathers who regularly worked night schedules engaged in more basic care in both infancy and middle childhood, compared to fathers who regularly worked standard schedules. Evening schedules were related to lower levels of basic care among infants but higher levels of play and recreation among 7-year-olds. Fathers' work schedules in combination with mothers' work schedules had larger effect sizes (11-35% of standard deviation) across both ages, suggesting the importance of considering both parents' work schedules in the context of parenting time.
The findings of this study have potential implications for policy and practice. Although families with children in the UK have access to a more supportive environment from the perspective of services for children, family-friendly policies, and work culture relative to the US, policies and programs can be further enhanced to address the challenges and opportunities of working nonstandard schedules. For example, reserving an individual portion ('quota') of leave for the father, providing a high replacement rate for earnings while the father is on leave, and permitting flexibility in when and how the leave may be taken (Fagan & Norman, 2013). Such improvements can alleviate the challenges of nonstandard work schedules while also supporting fathers as they make important contributions in their children's lives.
See more on the conference website
Thursday, March 24th 2022
Joint CPC and SSD Webinar - Allan Hill (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, March 24th 2022
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 24 March at 12:00 GMT. Allan Hill, Professor of Population and International Health at the University of Southampton gave a talk entitled, "Immigrants, citizens and nationals: how shifting definitions affect the demography of the Gulf States".
Title:'Immigrants, citizens and nationals: how shifting definitions affect the demography of the Gulf States'.
Abstract:The demography of the Gulf States is dominated by their history of immigration. In most states, immigrants vastly outnumber nationals. The national and the non-national populations are shaped by very different demographic processes (fertility, mortality and migration) which are often confused when combined into the aggregate figures for each country.
All the Gulf States manage the influx of migrants through strict visa systems whose rules change over time. Naturalisation is uncommon and strictly controlled since there are major advantages of being a citizen including rights to own property and businesses as well as access to generous housing, health and welfare benefits.
The case of Kuwait is presented in detail since there is a series of censuses dating back to 1957 as well as good vital registration data and a population civil status register in which Kuwaitis are distinguished from non-Kuwaitis. An additional challenge for Kuwait is the presence of undocumented potential citizens, bidūn jinsiya, as well as illegal immigrants, ghair qanuni. There have been different approaches to the treatment of the bidūn jinsiya population, including major re-classification of their status. These changes greatly affect the demography of the Kuwaiti citizen population. Major population movements have also affected the composition of the non-Kuwaiti population. After the 1967 war, there was a large new influx of Palestinians to Kuwait, leading to later restrictions after 1970. Following the end of the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, many non-Kuwaitis left Kuwait but most numerous were the Palestinian immigrants wary of their future since the Palestinian Liberation Organisation had sided with Iraq. Each of these and other political events resulted in major changes to the composition and demography of the immigrant population in Kuwait.
Despite the attempts to distinguish citizen and immigrants, forward projections of older census data for Kuwait reveal that the distinction between Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis has been subject to change with evidence of informal naturalisation through time. This complicates the calculation of birth and deaths rates for each population and raises larger questions about the meaning of 'citizenship' and 'nationality' as well as the prospects for pluralistic states in which citizens are in a majority as in many Gulf states.
See the recording here
Thursday, March 24th 2022 - Friday, March 25th 2022
YouthLife workshop: Quantitative data analysis and networking (Workshops)
ZOOM
Thursday, March 24th 2022
Friday, March 25th 2022
08:00 GMT start time both days
From 24 to 25 March 2022 an interdisciplinary workshop on 'Quantitative data analysis and networking' is organised by the University of Bamberg in cooperation with the Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn University via ZOOM.
At this two-day international workshop, the YouthLife project will bring together quantitative researchers (both early stage and senior researchers) from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, demography) from YouthLife Partner institutions (Tallinn University, University of Bamberg, University of Southampton and Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) and from other institutions prominent in life course research of youth transitions.
The workshop is planned for paper presentations and discussion, but it also aims to broaden the research networks and facilitate further research collaborations among scholars from the four partners and beyond.
Each presenter will give a talk on his/her work (in progress) in the field of quantitative data analysis, which will be followed by a discussion. The contributions cover a broad range of topics such as youth transitions, education, work, family, life satisfaction at different stages of life cycle and the impact of Covid-19 to it, gender, and life course research in general.
Please register your participation by 22 March 2022 and you will be sent the ZOOM link a day before the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcyQl8_rCQbQhBPJN4Zp2y-6DxOeJ1iMzpyhr2fHCnsGD3ew/viewform
Programme
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Economic precarity and the outcome of cohabiting partnerships in the UK using the BHPS and Understanding Society - Lydia Palumbo (University of Southampton)
Older people´s well-being shaped by socioeconomic circumstances - Uku Rudissaar (Tallinn University)
Employers' hiring preferences across different recruitment contexts in the German apprenticeship system - Paula Protsch (University of Cologne & Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training)
The Relation between Internal Mobility in Childhood and Adolescence and Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood - Juul Henkens (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute)
Geographical mobility and children’s non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? - Patricia McMullin (University of Turku)
Social origins, tracking and occupational attainment in Italy - Moris Triventi (University of Trento)
Friday, 25 March 2022
In work poverty of youth in Europe - Kadri Täht (Tallinn University) & Marge Unt (Tallinn University)
Motherhood penalty in Estonia - Marge Unt (Tallinn University)
Understanding Trends of Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands. The Moderating Role of Gender, Age, and Living Arrangement - Lluís Mangot-Sala (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute)
Understanding Changes in Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic: Gender, Work, and Family Care - Shih-Yi Chao (University of Taiwan) & Ann Berrington (University of Southampton)
The two-day workshop is organised in the framework of the YouthLife project which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952083.
Associated Downloads
Monday, March 14th 2022 - Tuesday, March 15th 2022
Migrant family, employment, and housing in the life course (Seminars and lectures)
University of St Andrews (Online)
Monday, March 14th 2022
Tuesday, March 15th 2022
MIGRANT FAMILY, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOUSING IN THE LIFE COURSE
CALL FOR PAPERS
University of St Andrews, 14th and 15th March 2022
Online
European countries have witnessed increasing immigration streams and ethnic diversity over the past decades. Recent social science research reports considerable heterogeneity in family forms, employment and housing patterns among individuals with migration family background as well as
across migrant generations. Some researchers underline the importance of preferences and human capital, whereas others emphasise the role of structural inequalities. It is equally unclear whether the observed differences are short-term outcomes in a long-term process of cultural and economic
integration or rather reflections of different pathways and outcomes for immigrants and their descendants.
This international symposium brings together migration researchers to discuss innovative research on migrants and their descendants. We invite contributions in the following research areas of migration studies: fertility and family; employment and education; housing and place of residence. Research using longitudinal data and life course analysis will be given priority. Future projections and methodological contributions are welcome. The symposium is part of the ERC funded MigrantLife project (please see https://migrantlife.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/).
To submit a paper for the symposium, please send an abstract (max 250 words) to Susan Watson at scw23@st-andrews.ac.uk by 14th February 2022. Slots for presentations are limited and authors will be informed by the 21st February as to whether their paper has been accepted.
The organising committee:
Dr Chia Liu
Dr Isaure Delaporte
Dr Andreas Höhn
Dr Júlia Mikolai
Ms Susan Watson
Prof Hill Kulu
Thursday, February 24th 2022
CPC Webinar - Anna Matysiak (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Thursday, February 24th 2022
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 24 February at 13:00 GMT Anna Matysiak Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw, gave a talk entitled, Home-based work and fertility based on UK Understanding Society data.
Title: Home-based work and fertility based on UK Understanding Society data.
Abstract:
We examine timely yet severely under-researched interplay between home-based work (HBW) and childbearing. Namely, we study whether and under which conditions women are more likely to have a child when they work from home. Our study is situated in a liberal labour market setting – the UK. With the use of UKHLS 2009-2019 longitudinal data, we test circumstances in which HBW positively or negatively relates to fertility. We use random-effect logistic regression and consider a set of potential moderators of the studied relationship, including socioeconomic status, commuting time, work hours, and other job-related factors. Our preliminary results prove the complex association between HBW and childbearing: regular use of HBW is positively related to fertility, but only among women who do not work long, feel confident about their jobs or who otherwise would have to commute long. If these conditions are not satisfied, the relationship turns negative.
Watch the recording here
Thursday, February 17th 2022
CPC Webinar - Peter Boden (Seminars and lectures)
Peter Boden, Edge Analytics
Zoom
Thursday, February 17th 2022
12:00-13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 17 February at 12:00 GMT. Dr Peter Boden, Principal Consultant at Edge Analytics, gave a talk entitled "Demographic Change - the practical application of population forecasts to the planning process".
Title: Demographic Change - the practical application of population forecasts to the planning process
Abstract: Population and household statistics play a critical role in planning the future delivery of a wide range of products and services. This is especially the case in regulated industries, where guidelines mandate the use of robust demographic data and methods in the generation of medium- and long-term business plans. However, the demographic outlook has never been more uncertain, with the UK’s exit from the EU, the COVID-19 pandemic, falling fertility and dampened life expectancy predictions. This webinar uses Case Study evidence to illustrate how population and household forecasts, in combination with regulatory guidelines, inform the planning processes of the housing, education and water industry sectors.
Watch the recording here
Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - Friday, February 4th 2022
13th Conference of Young Demographers (Conferences)
Charles University, Prague
Tuesday, February 1st 2022
Friday, February 4th 2022
13th Conference of Young Demographers
The annual international Conference of Young Demographers is held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University traditionally in the first half of February. They welcome submissions from all fields of demography, as well as all related areas of population studies. They aim to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where especially early career researchers can share their work in progress and thoughts with their peers.
CPC's Mary Abed Al Ahad will present: The Impact of Air Pollution on General Health and Mental Well-Being by Ethnicity and Nativity in the UK.
Monday, January 31st 2022
Professor Sir Ian Diamond: How a national statistics institute responds to a pandemic (Public engagement events)
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Online (University of Southampton)
Monday, January 31st 2022
18:00 GMT
In collaboration with the University of Southampton and Southampton Statistical Research Institute (S3Ri), CPC is delighted to announce that Professor Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician, will give a free public lecture on ‘How a National Statistics Institute responds to a pandemic’.
When the pandemic began there was a sudden and urgent need for data on which to base policy decisions affecting the whole population, and at the same time a need to move away from face to face data collection. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) responded by changing its business processes extremely quickly and by setting up the COVID infection survey. ONS and the Government Statistical Service have become central to understanding the progress of the infection and its impacts on the economy and society. In this lecture Professor Sir Ian Diamond tells the story of how statistics have been developed and used to help manage the pandemic in the UK; and will discuss what this means for the future of UK Official Statistics.
The lecture will be hosted by Professor Mark E. Smith CBE, Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton. The Q&A will be chaired by Professor Jane Falkingham OBE, Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Population Change.
Register here
This lecture is part of a series being convened by the University of Southampton, including the Annual Wade Lecture: In conversation with Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the UK Government. This event will be held on Monday 24 January 2022, at 18:00 GMT. Find out more and register here
Monday, January 31st 2022
YouthLife/CILCS Open Seminar: Using Data of the Generations and Gender Programme to Examine Cross-National Differences in the Transition to Parenthood (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Monday, January 31st 2022
15:00 - 16:30 CET time (14:00 -15:30 GMT)
YouthLife/CILCS Open Seminar: Using Data of the Generations and Gender Programme to Examine Cross-National Differences in the Transition to Parenthood
January 31st, 2022, at 15:00 – 16:30 CET time, (14:00 -15:30 GMT)
In the next open seminar of the TLU Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life-course Studies, Anne Gauthier and Judith Koops from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute will introduce the Generations and Gender Programme and describe how the data released by this social sciences infrastructure can be used to study the transition to adulthood.
Anne Gauthier will start with providing an introduction to the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) and an overview of the dataset and contextual data it releases. GGP provides users with open-access data sources of cross-nationally comparative surveys and contextual data. GGP provides scientists and policy makers with high quality data about families and life course trajectories of individuals to enable researchers to contribute insights and answers to current societal and public policy challenges.
Judith Koops will show practical examples of how cross-sectional data of the Generations and Gender Survey and the Harmonized Histories can be used to explore cross-national differences in the transition to parenthood. Attention will be paid to cross-national differences in the influence of the socio-economic status of the childhood family on transition to parenthood, with a particular focus on partner status at first birth.
LINK to the registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSLtuHuMRET8_pXnczgtoN4A5OcCh7Aq1kE9zxowzkP2B2hg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Prof. dr. Anne H. Gauthier is Director of the Generations and Gender Programme, located at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Her academic passion lies in cross-national comparative research with a particular focus on family policies and fertility, transition to adulthood, and parenting and child well-being. She has been working on promoting comparative longitudinal study while also seeking ways to provide the research community with the best data to study the complexity of today’s family dynamics and life-course trajectories.
Dr. Judith C. Koops works as a researcher for the Generations and Gender Programme. Her research focuses on understanding inequality in partnership status at first birth in Europe and North-America. Within the GGP team she Coordinates the data preparation and is the task leader of the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud SSHOC project.
The series of open seminars is organized by the TLU Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life Studies (CILCS), funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ASTRA project "TLU TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle"). In 2022, the seminars are co-organised by the consortium of YouthLife Project which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952083.
Thursday, January 27th 2022
CPC webinar - Giammarco Alderotti (Seminars and lectures)
Giammarco Alderotti
Zoom
Thursday, January 27th 2022
13:00-14:00 GMT
Dear all
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 27 January at 13:00-14:00 (UK time). Giammarco Alderotti from The University of Florence gave a talk entitled, "Employment (uncertainty) and fertility trends in Italy: a tale of the last decades".
Date: Thursday 27 January
Time: 13:00-14:00 GMT
Speaker: Giammarco Alderotti
Title: "Employment (uncertainty) and fertility trends in Italy: a tale of the last decades"
Abstract: Labour market instability has been shown to come with consequences for fertility decisions. Especially in the southern European context insecure employment situations hamper the transition to parenthood. Most research so far has focused on first childbirth, ignoring potential recuperation effects and thus the more encompassing view on cohort fertility. We exploited recent data to extend on this point and analyse the consequences of employment instability on (quasi-)completed fertility for men and women in Italy. An additional focus is made on the changing relationship between female employment and fertility over the last decades, also taking into consideration the strong regional heterogeneity that characterises the country.
Watch the recording here
Tuesday, January 25th 2022
RSA Scotland: MOVE - A perspective on an issue of our time (Public engagement events)
Zoom
Tuesday, January 25th 2022
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (GMT)
RSA Scotland: “MOVE” - A perspective on an issue of our time
25 January 2022
Dr Parag Khanna, author of "Move", provides a fascinating insight into the impact of migration on the future of human civilization.
As climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize and technology disrupts, we’re entering a new age of mass migrations- one that will scatter both the dispossessed and the well-off. Which areas will people abandon and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? As today’s world population, which includes four billion restless youth, votes with their feet, what map of human geography will emerge?
Here global strategy advisor Parag Khanna provides an illuminating and authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilization- one that is both mobile and sustainable. As the book explores, in the years ahead people will move to where the resources are and technologies will flow to the people who need them, returning us to our nomadic roots while building more secure habitats. Move is a fascinating look at the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Most importantly, it guides each of us as we determine our optimal location on humanity’s ever-changing map.
“Move” was published in October 2021. Dr Khanna’s previous book “Connectography” was published in 2017. Both are available via a variety of sources.
The panel respondents for this event will be;
Professor David Bell CBE FRSE FAcSS, University of Stirling
Dr Sarah Kyambi, Migration Policy Scotland
Professor Oscar Guardiola-Rivera FRSA, Professor of International Law and Globalization, Birkbeck, University of London
Register here
See the RSA event website for further information
Monday, January 17th 2022
Relationship quality: Partnership transitions, economic uncertainty, and changes during Covid-19 (Seminars and lectures)
Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris
Hertie School in Berlin (Online)
Monday, January 17th 2022
12:30pm-1:30pm (CET)
Relationship quality: Partnership transitions, economic uncertainty, and changes during Covid-19
Monday, 17.01.2022 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (CET)
A presentation by Brienna Perelli-Harris (University of Southampton). This event is part of the Social Policy Research Colloquium and hosted in cooperation with DYNAMICS.
For registration email: Dudziak@hertie-school.org
Monday, January 10th 2022
YouthLife Open Seminar: Life Course Research Using the British Cohort Studies: Intergenerational Transmission of Partnership Dissolution (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Monday, January 10th 2022
15:00-16:30 CET time (16:00-17:30 in Estonia, 14:00-15:30 GMT)
YouthLife Open Seminar: Life Course Research Using the British Cohort Studies: Intergenerational Transmission of Partnership Dissolution
Webinar via ZOOM
January 10th, 2022, 15:00-16:30 CET time (16:00-17:30 in Estonia, 14:00-15:30 in UK)
In the next open seminar of the TLU Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life-course Studies, Ann Berrington and Seb Stannard from University of Southampton will introduce the British Cohort Studies (the 1958 NCDS cohort; 1970 BCS70; and Millennium Cohort Study) and describe how they provide a rich opportunity for life course research. Ann Berrington will start by reviewing some of the unique insights that birth cohort studies can provide. In the early sweeps parents provide information on the cohort member. From around age 10 onwards the cohort member also completes questionnaires. The rich prospective nature of the data means that: researchers can identify intergenerational transmission of behaviour; can examine the link between attitudes and intentions early in the life course and later behaviour; and examine the mediators through which parental background factors are associated with outcomes in adulthood.
Seb Stannard will then provide an exemplar where he has used the BCS70 to explore the intergenerational transmission of partnership dissolution paying particular attention to the early life mediators underpinning the intergenerational process. Early life mediators include family socioeconomic status, maternal mental wellbeing, child behaviour, child locus of control, child cognition, highest educational qualification and age at first partnership. Utilising longitudinal data provides the opportunity to explore the temporal sequencing of characteristics and experiences valuable for interpretation associations. The fact that the BCS70 started at birth provides the opportunity for Seb’s work to adjust for parental controls, to analyse both parental and offspring reports of their partnership instability and to test a variety of early life mediating variables, unexplored within previous UK studies and unavailable in most alternative datasets.
Registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4vZrpJOyqOAeLO6jrfn3FTCrR_aSGTd3XtE-TIzUixZ4EVA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Ann Berrington is Professor and Joint Head of Department of Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Southampton and leads the Fertility and Family strand of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Population Change. Her research interests concern transitions to adulthood, partnership and family formation and dissolution, and how these are associated with socio-economic inequalities across the life course. She is currently a Co-I on an ESRC-funded project on Understanding and Projecting Fertility Trends in the UK, and Co-I on the ESRC funded UK Generations and Gender Survey.
Seb Stannard is a third year PhD Student in Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Southampton. He is an expert on the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and his research interests concern utilising the BCS70 to explore the pathways through which events in childhood may impact both health and demographic outcomes at midlife, paying particularly attention to early life mediating pathways. For example, one of his papers focused on the association between birth order on mental wellbeing at midlife.
The series of open seminars is organized by the TLU Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life Studies (IET), funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ASTRA project "TLU TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle"). In 2021, the seminars are co-organised by the consortium of YouthLife Project which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952083.
Thursday, December 16th 2021
CPC Webinar - Reflections on the Language of Explanation in Demography: clarity or confusion? (Seminars and lectures)
Emeritus Professor Elspeth Graham, from The University of St Andrews
Zoom
Thursday, December 16th 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
Emeritus Professor Elspeth Graham, from The University of St Andrews, presented "Reflections on the Language of Explanation in Demography: clarity or confusion?".
Title:Reflections on the Language of Explanation in Demography: clarity or confusion?
Abstract:Measurement and modelling are staples of demographic analysis where precision is valued. Demographers frequently query the accuracy of their data and note the limitations of their analyses. In contrast, relatively little time has been devoted to considering the conceptual underpinnings of the language in which research is framed and findings are interpreted. Demography, then, tends to be long on description and short on explanation.
In this paper, I select examples from fertility research to reflect on the language of explanation in quantitative demography. I consider how familiar terms such as ‘drivers’, ‘determinants’, ‘mechanisms’ and ‘causes’ have been used in the published literature and argue that demography would benefit from more attention to conceptual precision. I conclude that greater clarity in the use of such terms is needed if demography is to advance an explanatory agenda.
Watch the seminar recording here
Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - Friday, December 17th 2021
Winter Simulation Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Phoenix, Arizona and Virtual
Wednesday, December 15th 2021
Friday, December 17th 2021
Winter Simulation Conference 2021
Simulation for a Smart World: From Smart Devices to Smart Cities
Join practitioners and researchers to discuss advances in all aspects of modeling and simulation, under this year’s theme, “Simulation for a Smart World: From Smart Devices to Smart Cities”. Recognizing some travel restrictions will be in place for the remainder of the year, we are creating a dynamic agenda that engages conference participants in both formats. In-person events such as keynotes and paper tracks will be recorded and available on the conference’s online platform. Similarly, online events such as the PhD colloquium, poster sessions, and paper tracks will take place on the conference platform, creating a shared environment for the community to interact. Exhibits will be live, networking events will be hybrid – so much to do in either format!
The focus of WSC 2021 is on the design and innovation of smart cities through the use of simulation. Smart devices and sensors offer us an amazing opportunity to create our urban future where cities are safe, environmentally secure, green, and efficient and power, water, transportation work seamlessly towards this goal. This vision relies on significant advancement from simulation both in theory and practice as modelling, experimentation and data analysis needs to come together to tackle various challenges. We invite papers that highlight innovations in both simulation theory and applications, with a specific interest in the use of simulation in smart cities design, implementation, development and vision.
Professor Jakub Bijak will be presenting at this conference. Please see the event website for more details.
Monday, December 13th 2021 - Tuesday, December 14th 2021
Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics (Conferences)
Harnack House in Berlin, Germany.
Monday, December 13th 2021
Tuesday, December 14th 2021
Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics
Date of Event: December 13, and 14, 2021
Submissions Deadline: August 8, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting childbearing and family processes around the globe. First studies have documented changes in couples’ fertility plans and work division within the household, or predict fertility declines in high-income countries based on now-casting methods. Yet, the pandemic’s impact on fertility, partnering, and family dynamics is rapidly evolving and remains the subject of much speculation.
This conference aims at bringing together scholars who examine fertility and family change in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. We invite submissions that document fertility and family trends, investigate their causes and correlates, place them into established or novel theoretical contexts, or use new data sources or methods to illuminate or predict such trends. We are particularly interested in research which connects potential fertility and family change to the multitude of other societal and epidemiological developments occurring at this time.
For further info and updates please see demogr.mpg.de/go/pandemic-babies
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Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - Friday, December 10th 2021
43rd Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (Conferences)
Online
Tuesday, December 7th 2021
Friday, December 10th 2021
43rd Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society
7-10 December 2021
Online meeting
CPC's Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo is a member of the organising Finance Committee.
Monday, December 6th 2021
YouthLife Open Seminar: Studying the links between life transitions, SES and health behaviours using LIFELINES data (Seminars and lectures)
Zoom
Monday, December 6th 2021
15:00 - 16:30 CET time
YouthLife Open Seminar: Studying the links between life transitions, SES and health behaviours using LIFELINES data
Webinar via ZOOM
December 6th, 2021, at 15:00 – 16:30 CET time
This event is part of the ‘YouthLife’ project that CPC member Professor Ann Berrington is collaborating on. The project is led by Professor Ros Edwards and is part of a European Union Twinning initiative to support the development of research methods expertise at the University of Tallinn, Estonia.
In the next open seminar of the TLU Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life-course Studies, Prof Aart C. Liefbroer and Lluís Mangot-Sala from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) will present their work on studying the links between life transitions, socio-economic status and health behaviours using LIFELINES data. First, Aart Liefbroer will introduce the LIFELINES cohort study, that is conducted at the University of Groningen and allows for a wealth of information on changes in health and it determinants and consequences. Apart from the regular flow of data collection over a period already extending more than 10 years, a special series of panel waves have been conducted since the COVID pandemic, making this data sources extremely interesting to study developments in health in general, and during the pandemic in particular. Next, Lluís Mangot-Sala will present some of his ongoing work. In particular, he is going to present results from two different studies that aim at answering different questions within the life-course perspective. First, he will discuss how to disentangle the reciprocal association between unemployment and alcohol consumption using panel data. He will show how the combination of structural equation modelling with fixed effects models can give insights into this reciprocal association. In addition, he will present results on changes in alcohol consumption during the COVID pandemic and the extent to which household types buffered the impact of the COVID lockdown on alcohol consumption of the observed population.
Link to the registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTFUC7mrT5gtzbknHDdvyHqDUaOmQPsa22fNMau87a_QPgoA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Professor Aart C. Liefbroer is Leader of the Research Theme on Families and Generations at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and a Professor of Life Course Demography at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) of the University of Groningen, and Professor by special appointment of Demography of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is interested in determinants and consequences of young adults’ demographic decisions. He also acts as the Dutch National Coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS).
Lluís Mangot-Sala is a PhD candidate at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). He has obtained an MSc in both public health and sociology. His research focusses on the links between life course events and health, with a special interest in the relationship between alcohol consumption and life-course events. For example, his latest paper examined how the association between unemployment trajectories and alcohol consumption (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100434).
The series of open seminars is organized by the TLU Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life Studies (IET), funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ASTRA project "TLU TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle"). In 2021, the seminars are co-organised by the consortium of YouthLife Project which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952083.
Sunday, December 5th 2021 - Friday, December 10th 2021
International Population Conference 2021 (IPC 2021) (Conferences)
Hyderabad, India
Sunday, December 5th 2021
Friday, December 10th 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" while many other CPC members will be presenting their work.
For more details, please visit the Conference website http://ipc2021hyderabad.iussp.org/ or send an email to ipc2021@iussp.org.
Thursday, December 2nd 2021
CPC Webinar - Mothers' Nonstandard Work Schedules, Economic Hardship, and Children's Development (Seminars and lectures)
Afshin Zilanawala
Zoom
Thursday, December 2nd 2021
12:00 -13:00 GMT
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 2 December at 12:00 GMT. Afshin Zilanawala, Lecturer in Demography at the University of Southampton, gave a talk entitled, "Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules, Economic Hardship, and Children’s Development."
Title:Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules, Economic Hardship, and Children’s Development.
Abstract:In the last half century, global economies have faced remarkable transformations to their labor markets. In particular, the growth of the service sector, reduced costs of labor due to technological changes and globalized labor markets, and access to global consumer markets have increased the demand for services during nonstandard hours and, by extension, evening, night and weekend work schedules. Such work schedules are especially common among parents of young children, raising concerns about the potential impacts on children’s early development. In this study, we investigate maternal nonstandard work schedules in early childhood and their associations with children’s development at age 5 using the Millennium Cohort Study. We also explore the economic circumstances of families with mothers who work nonstandard schedules by considering a comprehensive definition of economic hardship; we explicitly measure economic hardship by including income poverty, material hardship, and subjective financial stress. We ask if each of these distinct dimensions of economic hardship moderate associations between nonstandard work schedules and child outcomes. Our findings suggest nonstandard work schedules have delayed effects on children’s verbal ability and are concurrently associated with child behavior.
Additionally, the relationship between work schedules and child behavior may be contingent on experiencing financial stress. The results highlight a potentially challenging work-family interface in the context of working nonstandard schedules and experiencing economic hardship.
Watch the seminar recording here
Tuesday, November 30th 2021
Financial Vulnerability of Scottish Charities during the COVID-19 pandemic (Public engagement events)
Online
Tuesday, November 30th 2021
13:30 - 14:30 GMT
Financial Vulnerability of Scottish Charities during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Professor Alasdair Rutherford
Tue, 30 November 2021
13:30 – 14:30 GMT
Scottish focussed research by the University of Stirling to examine the financial vulnerability of charities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Find out more here
Monday, November 29th 2021
Harnessing data innovation for migration policy in Europe and Africa (Seminars and lectures)
Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin
Monday, November 29th 2021
The Expert-Level Event 'Harnessing Data Innovation for Migration Policy in Europe and Africa: State of the Art and Future Directions' will take place on 29 November 2021, at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin in a hybrid format (online and in-person).
CPC's Professor Jakub Bijak will be in conversation with Teddy Wilkin from the European Asylum Support Office during the Focus Session: Opportunities and challenges of forecasting methodologies in migration-related
policymaking.
Find out more on the event website
Thursday, November 25th 2021
CPC Webinar - Women's family life courses after union dissolution: A comparative analysis (Seminars and lectures)
Sergi Vidal
Zoom
Thursday, November 25th 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 25 November at 13:00 GMT. Sergi Vidal from the Centre for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, gave a talk entitled, "Women's family life courses after union dissolution: A comparative analysis".
Title: Women's family life courses after union dissolution: A comparative analysis
Abstract: Virtually all post-industrial societies have witnessed increased union dissolution rates since the second half of the XXth century. While family dynamics after union dissolution are gathering scholarly attention, little is still known on how individuals bargain post-separation family life courses across contexts that offer different opportunities for family behaviour. We address the following research questions: How do family life courses evolve after the dissolution of the first stable union? How do these processes vary across socio-historical contexts? We deploy sequence analysis on combined relationship and fertility trajectories over 120 months after the dissolution of the first union. Context variation is assessed by comparing family pathways across separation periods (1970-2000) and countries (France, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK) using data from the Harmonized Histories comparative datasets. Preliminary findings show an emerging diversity and complexity in post-separation family trajectories. In most countries, pathways featuring the formation of new families and more complex trajectories became commonplace among recent periods. We also find divergent trends overtime in countries that were forerunners in the diffusion of union dissolution. Results suggest that socio-historical contexts importantly shaped union dissolution and subsequent family behaviour.
Watch the seminar recording here
Friday, November 12th 2021 - Tuesday, November 16th 2021
Sankey Plots: Visualizing Complex Pathway and Systems Flow Data (Workshops)
Mary Abed Al Ahad
Online via Microsoft Teams
Friday, November 12th 2021
Tuesday, November 16th 2021
Sankey Plots: Visualizing Complex Pathway and Systems Flow Data
November 12 @ 3:00 pm - November 16 @ 4:30 pm
A Sankey diagram is a visualization used to depict a flow from one set of values to another. This half day workshop divided into 2 sessions will take place on Friday 12 November and Tuesday 16 November 2021 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm and it will consist of 1-hour theory session on the applications and structure of Sankey plots, 1-hour practical hands-on session on RStudio, half an hour group-work exercise, and half an hour of discussion/questions from the workshop participants.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Understand the usage of Sankey plots in different research domains (e.g. public health, social sciences, demography, and business)
Prepare the data format needed to construct a Sankey plot using R studio and excel software
Construct a Sankey plot using R studio software
Interpret the constructed Sankey plot
Apply what was learnt in the workshop on their real-life research projects
The event will be capped at a maximum of 30 students to allow interactive teaching. The workshop will be delivered online through Microsoft Teams. Workshop participants should have installed R and RStudio software on their computers and should have access to Excel. R and RStudio are freely downloadable, and instructions will be provided by the workshop tutor prior to the workshop date. It is preferable for participants to have a beginner working level in RStudio software; though this is not mandatory as the tutor will provide all the guidance and codes needed to work with the software.
CPC's Mary Abed Al Ahad is the event organiser. For further information see the event website here
Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - Sunday, November 14th 2021
GSA 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting (Conferences)
(Virtual) Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Wednesday, November 10th 2021
Sunday, November 14th 2021
Professor Athina Vlachantoni will be presenting:
Presentation Title: Dynamics of unmet need for social care in England
Session Name: Family Caregiving II (SRPP Poster)
Presentation Date: Thursday November 11, 2021
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Find out more at: https://www.gsa2021.org/
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Friday, October 29th 2021 - Saturday, October 30th 2021
7th International Workshop on the Socio-Economics of Ageing (Conferences)
Professor David Bell
Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Friday, October 29th 2021
Saturday, October 30th 2021
7th Workshop on the Socio-Economics of Ageing
29-30 October 2021
Lisbon School of Economics & Management
“Economics of long-term and informal care”
Professor David Bell gave the keynote speech, '“The Economics of Dementia”.
Thursday, October 28th 2021
CPC Webinar - Life expectancy changes during the pandemic in low mortality countries (Seminars and lectures)
José Manuel Aburto
Zoom
Thursday, October 28th 2021
13.00 - 14.00 BST
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 28 October at 13.00 BST. José Manuel Aburto, Newton International Fellow from the University of Oxford gave a talk entitled, Life expectancy changes during the pandemic in low mortality countries.
Title: Life expectancy changes during the pandemic in low mortality countries.
Abstract: Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well as differences in population sizes and age structures make cross-national comparisons of the cumulative mortality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic challenging. Life expectancy is a widely-used indicator that provides a clear and cross-nationally comparable picture of the population-level impacts of the pandemic on mortality. We leverage ongoing efforts on gathering all-cause mortality data to produce life tables by sex for 29 countries, including most European countries, Chile, and the USA for 2015-2020. Life expectancy at birth and at age 60 for 2020 were contextualised against recent trends between 2015-19. Using decomposition techniques, we examined which specific age groups contributed to reductions in life expectancy in 2020 and to what extent reductions were attributable to official COVID-19 deaths.
Watch the seminar recording here
Thursday, October 28th 2021
Uncertainty across the “Contact Line”: armed conflict, COVID-19, and perceptions of fertility decline in Eastern Ukraine (Seminars and lectures)
Brienna Perelli-Harris
Virtual
Thursday, October 28th 2021
12:00
Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris will give a talk entitled, "Uncertainty across the “Contact Line”: armed conflict, COVID-19, and perceptions of fertility decline in Eastern Ukraine" as part of Seminar Series of the Population and Society Unity (UPS) of the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications of the University of Florence.
For more details see the website here
Wednesday, October 27th 2021
Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era (MIMODE 2021) (Conferences)
Lyon, France and Virtual
Wednesday, October 27th 2021
Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era (MIMODE 2021)
Date of Event: October 27, 2021
The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have profoundly revolutionized research on migration and mobility, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns at different granularities as generated by human activities in their daily life. Harnessing such digital data offers many new opportunities to study migration and mobility and fill in the gaps left by traditional data. At the same time, such innovative data sources also come with several limitations, biases, and challenges, which have led to diverging research methodologies and frameworks, requiring even greater effort in their operationalization and communication to stakeholders and policy makers.
The aim of this satellite session is to bring together researchers from different fields and practitioners from around the world to facilitate a conversation on the use of innovative digital data sources, new methodologies, empirical findings, and critical challenges of studying migration and mobility in the digital era.
Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton, Martin Hinsch, Sarah Nurse, Toby Prike and Oliver Reinhardt will be resenting their paper:
Bayesian model-based migration studies: Connecting data and theory
Monday, October 25th 2021
Science in Policymaking - Understanding the Use of Science in Migration Policy (Workshops)
Zoom
Monday, October 25th 2021
Science in Policymaking: Understanding the Use of Science in Migration Policy
Oct 25 2021
The objective of this meeting is to discuss how policymakers and actors involved in policymaking in the area of international migration make sense and use science in their daily routines. We want to shed light on science information and communication habits by different actors involved in policymaking and are interested in institutional strategies for improving evidence-informed policymaking.
Professor Jakub Bijak will be a panelist at this event.
Please see the event website for more information.
Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - Friday, October 15th 2021
19th Conference of the European Divorce Research Network (Conferences)
Online
Wednesday, October 13th 2021
Friday, October 15th 2021
European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce 19th Annual Meeting (online) October 13-15, 2021
CPC researchers will be presenting their work as follows;
Friday 15 October
For better or worse: economic strain and relationship quality during the covid-19 pandemic
Brienna Perelli-Harris, Shih-Yi Chao and Ann Berrington
Family complexity and young children's health outcomes in the UK: a longitudinal study
Michaela Kyclova, Julia Mikolai, Nissa Finney and Katherine Keenan
Find out more at:
https://www.divorceconference2021.eu/
Thursday, October 7th 2021
CPC Webinar - Adjusting Non-representative Survey Data using External Data: Analysis of demographic events from survey data (Seminars and lectures)
John Ermisch
Zoom
Thursday, October 7th 2021
14:00-15:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 7 October at 14:00 BST. John Ermisch, Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, will be giving a talk entitled, "Adjusting Non-representative Survey Data using External Data: Analysis of demographic events from survey data."
Title: Adjusting Non-representative Survey Data using External Data: Analysis of demographic events from survey data
Abstract:Empirical analysis of variation in demographic events within the population is facilitated by using longitudinal survey data because of the richness of covariate measures in such data, but there is wave-on-wave dropout (and re-joiners). The main issue is not the extent of attrition in the survey, but whether this attrition is ‘ignorable’ for the consistent estimation of the impacts of covariates on the event, on event probabilities and on statistics based on these probabilities. This may be a particular problem when attrition is related to the event, such as residential mobility of leaving the parental home. The paper introduces an adjustment procedure based on Bayes Theorem that uses information external to the survey sample to convert estimates of event probabilities and marginal effects of covariates on them that are conditional on retention in the longitudinal data (‘panel retention’ for short) to unconditional estimates of these quantities. It does not require the estimation of specific sample selection models. It applies the proposed adjustment method to two problems: (1) estimating the variation in marriage rates within the population in relation to prior fertility; and (2) estimating the age pattern of leaving home and the impacts of covariates on it. In each case, the survey data is the large UK household panel survey called Understanding Society. The two sources of external data are marriage registration statistics and the Labour Force Survey.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcO2urTguHdHaLgY33tGTG-ls_yFK1AIb
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Monday, October 4th 2021 - Friday, October 8th 2021
6th GGP User Conference (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, October 4th 2021
Friday, October 8th 2021
The 6th GGP User Conference brings together researchers working with data from the Gender and Generations Survey, the GGP Contextual Database, or the Harmonized Histories, and invites them to present and discuss their most recent methodological approaches and empirical findings.
In session 3 'Union Formation and Dissolution: Life Course and Comparative Perspectives' on Wednesday 6 October 2021, 13h00-14h00, Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris will be presenting the paper 'Relationship quality and Family Formation in Europe. How country context shapes (un)happy couples' transitions to marriage and first birth' which she co-authored with Niels Blom and Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik.
Thursday, September 30th 2021
CPC Webinar - Menarche: a global health indicator? (Seminars and lectures)
Tiziana Leone, London School of Economics
Zoom
Thursday, September 30th 2021
13.00 BST
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 30 September at 13.00 BST. Tiziana Leone, Associate Professor in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, gave a talk entitled, "Menarche: a global health indicator?"
Title: Menarche: a global health indicator?
Abstract: Menarche (first menstrual bleeding) serves as a critical marker of puberty, and the associated physiological and social changes which collectively symbolise sexual maturation, adulthood and fertility. Recent evidence shows that age at menarche in Low and Middle Income Countries is undergoing a transition similar to that of European countries in the nineteenth century and is generally linked to an improvement in nutrition and health of young women. Age at menarche is influenced by a unique set of genetic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. It is such a fundamental determinant of women’s physiological development that it has been suggested as a key global health indicator. However, so far, we lack evidence on the socio-economic outlook of menarche and whether we can identify structural aspects associated with the evolution of the indicator such as demographic and socio- economic development.
Using micro and aggregated data for 27 countries produced from pseudo-cohort information from all available World Fertility Surveys (n=16) and Demographic and Health Surveys (n=28), we analyse the relationship between mean age at menarche and micro factors such as individual wealth, education, and macro ones such as mean age at marriage, total fertility rate, GDP and life expectancy, among others.
The individual factors vary according to time and place and we cannot generalise the findings. However, at macro level, results show a significant negative correlation development related factors (e.g.: Life expectancy, Literacy), positive with maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy and age at marriage. Less clear is the link with nutritional status such as child obesity. This analysis is key in the wider context of studying transition to puberty. The onset is often neglected and its shifting to earlier ages needs to be monitored.
Watch the recording
Wednesday, September 29th 2021
Survey Methods Day 3: Understanding Society Event History Data (Workshops)
Online
Wednesday, September 29th 2021
Survey Methods Day 3: Understanding Society Event History Data
Wed 29 Sep 2021 02:00 pm - Wed 29 Sep 2021 05:00 pm
Understanding Society provides rich data for researchers who want to study the lifecourse. To support research in this area, Understanding Society provides specialist datasets with event history information. This training afternoon will give an overview of the partnership and fertility history file and the employment history file. The session will cover how the files can be used, the research they can generate and the advantages of using event history calendars to collect this type of data.
Programme
14.00 - 14.05: Introduction from Dr Alita Nandi, Understanding Society Associate Director for Outreach
14.05 - 14.50: The UKHLS Harmonized Histories: Partnership and Fertility histories in comparative perspective, Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Centre for Population Change, Southampton University
14.50 - 15.00: Break
15.00 - 15.10: BHPS and UKHLS harmonised partnership history file, Dr Alita Nandi
15.10 - 15.25: Understanding Society children - the PEACH dataset, Dr Edith Aguirre, Understanding Society Senior Research Officer
15.25 - 15.40: The UKHLS family matrix, Nicole James, Understanding Society Survey Data Officer
15.40 - 15.50: Questions
15.50 - 16.00: Break
16.00 - 16.30: Producing working-life histories in the UKHLS and BHPS, Liam Wright, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
16.30 - 17.00: Parallel memories in autobiographical knowledge: comparing calendars and conventional surveys, Dr Tarek Al Baghal, Understanding Society Associate Director Content Development
Monday, September 27th 2021
Older people in a rapidly transforming digital world (Public engagement events)
Zoom
Monday, September 27th 2021
10.30am UK BST
UK-India Interdisciplinary panel discussion: Older people in a rapidly transforming digital world
Monday 27 September 2021, 10:30-12:00 via Zoom
How do we address inequality in older people's access to digital resources, and how can we empower older people with digital literacy?
What research evidence do we have to understand and quantify the impact of digital connectivity on older people's health and wellbeing?
How can we ensure safer digital platforms and reduce older people's vulnerability to increasing online cyber crimes? How can we design the digital technology interface more user friendly for older people?
Opening address by Professor Jane Falkingham.
Professor Maria Evandrou will be speaking on the distinguished panel.
Appraisal by Professor Athina Vlachantoni.
RSVP, please register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4CW3J7JrQJqakCrj6o0egA
Thursday, September 23rd 2021
CPC Webinar - Understanding low subjective well-being among IDPs in Ukraine: current deprivation, loss of status, and trauma (Seminars and lectures)
Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
Zoom
Thursday, September 23rd 2021
12:00-13:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 23 September at 12:00 BST. Brienna Perelli-Harris, Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton will be giving a talk entitled,"Understanding low subjective well-being among IDPs in Ukraine: current deprivation, loss of status, and trauma".
Title: Understanding low subjective well-being among IDPs in Ukraine: current deprivation, loss of status, and trauma
Abstract: Although Internally Displaced Persons outnumber refugees globally, few studies have examined their well-being and assimilation into the local population. Here we investigate Ukraine, which hosts the largest IDP population in Europe. In 2014, war erupted in eastern Ukraine, resulting in around 1.7 million people forced to resettle throughout Ukraine. Despite being ethnically and culturally similar to the local population, IDPs encountered severe economic, housing, and social challenges, as well as residual trauma from violence. In this study we examine to what extent the subjective well-being (SWB) of IDPs differs from locals who were not displaced. We explore whether the IDP/local SWB gap is due to economic hardship, inadequate housing, and/or weak social support. Using a unique survey conducted in 2018 and OLS regression methods, we find a sizable gap in SWB between IDPs and locals. The gap shrinks after accounting for economic and housing status, and support from local networks. Measures of loss in housing and social networks additionally account for the gap. However, none of the factors can account for the difference between locals and IDPs who reported only leaving due to violence, pointing to the enduring impact of trauma on SWB.
Watch the recording here
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - Wednesday, September 15th 2021
BSPS 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Tuesday, September 14th 2021
Wednesday, September 15th 2021
The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) holds an annual conference each September and, like last year, it will be hosted online on 14 and 15 September 2021.
Attendees of BSPS 2021 can hear more about CPC research in the sessions below, and you can follow our live tweets on twitter, @CPCpopulation or by following the event #BSPS2021.
Monday 13 September 2021
14:00-15:00
Session: Training sessions/workshops aimed at early‐career researchers
Title: Panel discussion on 'How to get a postdoc'
Panel
Professor Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton, CPC
Dr Alice Goisis, UCL
Dr Abigail Page, LSHTM
Dr Francesca Fiori, University of St Andrews, CPC
Convenors: Júlia Mikolai (University of St Andrews, CPC) & Alyce Raybould (UCL)
Tuesday 14 September 2021
09:15-10:15
Session: Health & mortality: Child & adolescent health
Title: BMI over the life course among only children & siblings
Authors: Chanfreau, Goisis, Barclay, Keenan
Session: Families & households: Relationships
Title: Parental socioeconomic status & young Britons' family expectations: Do family structure & educational aspirations, during adolescence, mediate this relationship?
Authors: Palumbo et al.
Session: Ethnicity: Education, employment, place & ethnic inequalities
Title: Documenting the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in the pandemic: Reflections from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)
Authors: Finney, Nazroo, Shlomo et al.
Session: Ageing: Social participation, work & retirement
Chair: Maria Evandrou
Session: Covid‐19: Impacts on families, fertility & vaccine hesitancy
Title: Changing living arrangements, family dynamics and stress during lockdown: evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK
Authors: Evandrou, Falkingham, Qin, Vlachantoni
12:00-13:00
Session: Migration: Union & family formation among immigrants & their descendants
Chair: Julia Mikolai
Title: Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries
Authors: Kulu, Mikolai, Delaporte, Liu, Campbell, Andersson
Session: Ageing: Understanding wellbeing & social care preferences across the life course
Chair: Athina Vlachantoni
Title: Attitudes and preferences towards future old‐age support amongst tomorrow's elders in China
Authors: Qin, Falkingham, Evandrou, Vlachantoni
14:00-15:00
Session: Reproductive health & infertility
Chair: Heini Väisänen
Title: Cross-national differences in the use of contraception and abortion services between England, Wales and Scotland
Authors: Kuang, Berrington
15:15-15:45
Session: Early career plenary
Title: When a pregnancy does not end in a live birth: quantifying the untold stories of sexual and reproductive health
Speaker: Väisänen
16:00-17:00
Session: Migration: Family & employment of migrants & their descendants
Title: The impact of childbearing & partnership changes on the employment outcomes of immigrants & their descendants in France: A multistate approach
Authors: Delaporte, Kulu
Session: Migration: Family & employment of migrants & their descendants
Title: Employment and family trajectories of immigrants in the UK: An application of multi-channel sequence analysis
Authors: Mikolai, Kulu
Session: Migration: Family & employment of migrants & their descendants
Title: Work and family pathways of immigrant women in Germany
Authors: Liu, Kulu
Session: Determinants of fertility
Title: Moving home or having a baby: what comes first? Understanding the realisation of jointly held childbearing and mobility intentions in UK
Authors: Christison, Kulu, Fiori, Keenan
Wednesday 15 September 2021
09:00-10:00
Session: Migration: Internal migration, space & place
Title: Examining new spatial and social mobilities to understand the shaping of geographical inequalities across the UK
Authors: So, Finney, McCollum, Kulu
Session: Fertility: Low fertility trends & projections
Title: Recent trends in UK fertility and scenarios for impact of Covid-19
Authors: Berrington, Ellison, Kuang, Vasireddy, Kulu
Session: Fertility: Low fertility trends & projections
Title: Two decades of fertility fluctuation in Great Britain
Authors: Kulu, Kuang, Berrington
Session: Families & households: Work & family
Title: For better or worse: Economic strain and relationship quality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Authors: Perelli-Harris, Chao, Berrington
Session: Ageing: Effects of chronic conditions, comorbidities & multi-morbidity on elderly persons
Title: Understanding sociodemographic inequalities in rapidly developing multi-morbidity trajectories in Scotland: An application of sequence analysis
Authors: Cezard, Sullivan, Keenan
10:30-11:30
Session: Health & mortality: Place and health
Title: The effect of air pollution on health in the UK by ethnic groups: A multi-level analysis
Authors: Abed Al Ahad, Sullivan, Demšar, Kulu
Session: Fertility: Spatial variation in fertility
Title: A Spatial Durbin Panel approach to understanding fertility in the UK 2013-2019
Authors: Dorey, Kulu
Session: Fertility: Spatial variation in fertility
Title: Individual and aggregate conditions of first births in Finland, 2012-2018
Authors: Campisi, Kulu, Mikolai, Klüsener, Myrskylä
12:00-13:00
Session: Data science: Bayesian methods in demography
Title: Extending the Integrated Model of European Migration
Authors: Aristotelous, Smith, Bijak
Session: Data science: Bayesian methods in demography
Title: Combining data sources to develop a Bayesian fertility projection model for England and Wales
Authors: Ellison, Berrington, Dodd, Forster
15:15-16:15
Session: Migration: Health & wellbeing of immigrants
Title: Is a healthy immigrant a wealthy immigrant? Reproductive health among migrant women in Finland 2000-17
Authors: Väisänen, Remes, Martikainen
Session: Migration: Health & wellbeing of immigrants
Title: Transnational healthcare as process: Multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK
Authors: Troccoli, Moreh, McGhee, Vlachantoni
Session: Ageing: The effect of caregiving across the life course
Chair: Athina Vlachantoni
Title: Grandchild caring and late-life depression: A comparative longitudinal study in China and Europe
Authors: Yang
Session: Ageing: The effect of caregiving across the life course
Chair: Athina Vlachantoni
Title: The association between caregiving duration and later loneliness in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Authors: Davison
16:30-17:30
Session: Families & households: Family transitions & child outcomes
Title: Residential mobility and child outcomes: investigating the role of family social background
Authors: Fiori
Session: Families & households: Family transitions & child outcomes
Title: Is parental separation by age ten associated with offspring hypertension at midlife, and what are the potential mediating pathways in childhood? Findings from the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study (BCS70)
Authors: Stannard, Berrington, Alwan
Session: Families & households: Family transitions & child outcomes
Title: Family complexity and young children's health outcomes in the UK: A longitudinal study
Authors: Kyclova, Mikolai, Finney, Keenan
Strand Organisers
CPC members have also been involved in organising the following strands:
Ageing and the life course - Athina Vlachantoni
Data science: Innovative data, methods and models - Jason Hilton
Ethnicity / Ethnicity and Covid-19 - Nissa Finney
Family complexity and child outcomes - Júlia Mikolai and Katherine Keenan
Internal and international migration - Júlia Mikolai and Matthew Wallace
Employment, occupation, and labour market integration of immigrants and their descendants across industrialised countries - Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - Thursday, September 16th 2021
Data for Policy 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Tuesday, September 14th 2021
Thursday, September 16th 2021
The Data for Policy conference series is the premier global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the theories, applications and implications of data science innovation in governance and the public sector.
Professor Jakub Bijak, Professor Peter Smith and Dr Georgios Aristotelous will be presenting at the 6th International Conference, Data for Policy 2021, Lessons for policy-data interactions after Covid-19.
Find out more at: https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2021/
Monday, September 13th 2021 - Tuesday, September 14th 2021
The NCF CEO's Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Tower Bridge, London
Monday, September 13th 2021
Tuesday, September 14th 2021
The National Care Forum CEO's Conference brings together a range of speakers and workshop leaders to discuss the future. Professor Jane Falkingham will be giving a presentation on Changing Demographics at 15.45 on 13/09/2021. Find out more on the conference website here.
Wednesday, September 8th 2021
ICWBN workshop: COVID-19 crisis and children's economic well-being, education and mental health in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (Workshops)
Virtual
Wednesday, September 8th 2021
Dr Julia Mikolai is co-organising the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (ICWBN) online workshop and will be presenting her work on 'The COVID-19 crisis and children's mental health in the UK'.
For further details see:
https://icwbn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/icwbn-workshop/
Wednesday, September 8th 2021 - Thursday, September 9th 2021
Conversations on Ageing (Workshops)
Athina Vlachantoni
Zoom
Wednesday, September 8th 2021
Thursday, September 9th 2021
09.30-12.30 BST
Conversations on Ageing 8-9 September 2021
The event aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, third sector organisations such as charities, and other organisations and services from UK and India to discuss aspects of healthy ageing.
Professor Athina Vlachantoni will be presenting her research: Falkingham, J., Qin, M., Vlachantoni, A., & Evandrou, M. (2017). Children's migration and lifestyle-related chronic disease among older parents 'left behind' in India. SSM - Population Health, 3, 352-357.
Event details:
09:30-12:30 BST via Zoom
Day 1 (8 September)
Speakers and discussion (09:30-11:00)
Workshop session 1 (11:20-12:30 BST)
- Discussion on the concept of ageing and positive ageing
- What does successful ageing look like for India?
- Discussion on research priorities relating to healthy ageing in India.
Day 2 (9 September)
Speakers and discussion (09:30-11:00)
Workshop session 2 (11:20-12:30)
- Discussion on creative ways to promote healthy ageing.
- Lessons from the pandemic in the context of healthy ageing.
Contact and register:
Dr Lekha Subaiya, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengalaru
lekha@isec.ac.in
Dr Divya Sivaramakrishnan, University of Edinburgh
divya.sivaramakrishnan@ed.ac.uk
Monday, September 6th 2021 - Tuesday, July 6th 2021
Beyond the binary variable: Feminist quantitative analyses of gendered inequalities (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, September 6th 2021
Tuesday, July 6th 2021
CPC researcher Heini Väisänen is a co-organiser of this Femquant conference. Find out more on the Femquant website, and below:
This one-day virtual conference (via Zoom) takes place on the 6th September 2021.
Researchers will discuss and debate the possibilities of a feminist quantitative social science, and to learn from each other’s successes and difficulties in integrating feminist theory with quantitative methods. By bringing together researchers committed to feminist research using quantitative methods to discuss and explore combinations of feminist theory/methods and quantitative methods we seek to bridge existing disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological divides. And we hope to advance a vision of feminist quantitative methods and research as not only interdisciplinary but furthermore committed to “ethical, collaborate, participatory, transformative, intersectional, accountable, accessible, and open” (Leung et al, 2019) production of knowledge.
Conference speakers include:
-Anna Lindqvist (Lund University, Department of Psychology) will give a talk based on her recently published article titled What is gender, anyway: a review of the options for operationalising gender (2020)
-Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning) & Lauren Klein (Emory University, Departments of English and Quantitative Methods) will give a panel discussion on their recently co-authored book, Data Feminism (2020)
This conference is organised by the coordinators of FemQuant. Please get in touch if you have any inquiries about the conference;
-Youngcho Lee, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, yl670@cam.ac.uk;
-Rose Cook, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Institute at King's, rose.cook@kcl.ac.uk;
-Jenny Chanfreau, Research Fellow in Demography, UCL Social Research Institute, j.chanfreau@ucl.ac.uk;
-Heini Väisänen, Researcher, INED/ Lecturer in Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, heini.vaisanen@ined.fr;
-Sara Rose Taylor, Principal Researcher, Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, staylor@balsillieschool.ca
*This conference is supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge
Friday, September 3rd 2021 - Friday, September 24th 2021
Medical Sociology Group 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Friday, September 3rd 2021
Friday, September 24th 2021
BSA Medical Sociology 2021, 3 - 24 September 2021.
Dr Giuseppe Troccoli will be presenting on Friday 10 September 2021, 13.30-14.15 in the Diagnosis, Screening and Treatment/Theory stream.
For more details see the conference website at:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-medical-sociology-2021-medsoc-month/
Friday, July 23rd 2021
CPC/CRA webinar - The impact of grandparenting on late-life depression in England, Europe and China (Seminars and lectures)
Dr Yazhen Yang
Zoom
Friday, July 23rd 2021
12:00-13:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Friday 23 July at 12:00 BST. Dr Yazhen Yang, University of Southampton will be giving a talk entitled, "The impact of grandparenting on late-life depression in England, Europe and China".
Title: The impact of grandparenting on late-life depression in England, Europe and China.
Abstract: Approximately one billion people in the world's population are grandparents, which makes it crucial to examine the impact of grandparenting on grandparents' health. In this study, we examine the cross-national differences in the effect of grandparenting on older persons' depression in England, Europe and China. We look to understand the role of providing childcare, grandparents' gender and the national economy. Country fixed effects models and multi-level linear regression analyses with REML estimation were performed covering 15 countries from the ELSA, the SHARE and the CHARLS 2011, 2013 and 2015. The findings show that becoming a grandparent can lessen the effect of depressive symptoms on grandparents in lower income countries. Conversely, in higher income countries, it can worsen depressive symptoms for grandparents. The effect of providing care for grandchildren on grandparents' depression varied by their gender, country and according to the intensity of care provided. The findings suggest that family and other policies involving older people need to take into account the impact of grandparenting on grandparents' health, and higher income countries in particular should investigate policy instruments that might buffer the negative impact of transitioning to grandparenthood.
Watch the seminar recording.
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 Bijlsma
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.
Watch the seminar recording
Friday, July 16th 2021
The demography of COVID-19 and older people in low and middle-income countries. (Seminars and lectures)
Virtual
Friday, July 16th 2021
14:00-16:00 BST
The Global Platform for the Rapid Generation and Transfer of Knowledge on COVID-19 and older adults in low and middle-income countries.
In partnership with The British Society of Population Studies.
Monthly webinar: The demography of COVID-19 and older people in low and middle-income countries.
Friday 16 July 2-4pm (UK time).
Demographers have a key role to play in terms of charting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with reference to different population age groups. They also have a key role in holding to account agencies responsible for publishing appropriate data to inform decision-making and policy. In LMICs, demographers confront particular challenges of limited data coverage and the need to produce meaningful analysis as quickly as possible.
This webinar will explore the state of available data and related analysis for specific low and middle-income countries that have been especially affected by the pandemic.
CPC's Professor Athina Vlachantoni is discussant.
Register here.
Wednesday, July 7th 2021
BSG Annual Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Wednesday, July 7th 2021
CPC and Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) members will be presenting their research at the 50th anniversary annual conference of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) between 7-9 July 2021. The theme of this year's conference is 'Ageing past, present and future: Innovation and change', and it will be hosted virtually by Lancaster University.
The BSG is a forum for the advancement of gerontological research and knowledge across the UK, and their annual conferences attract attendees from around the world. The conferences are aimed at those new to research on ageing, PhD students, and long-established members who are interested in older people, ageing populations, or intergenerational issues. Providing a diverse and engaging network of academics, students, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, the goal is to advance gerontological research, education, theory, and practice to ensure improved quality of life for all.
Presentations by CPC and CRA members at the conference include:
Tuesday 6 July
The differences between determinants of loneliness for caregivers and non-caregivers
Emerging Researchers in Ageing - Pre-Conference Event
Lisa Davison
Thursday 8 July
A qualitative exploration of the social network maintenance and management processes of older adults during the COVID-19 national lockdown
09:30-10:30, Session 1E
Ella Moonan-Howard
Co-designing and producing research with people with lived experience
11:00-12:00, Session 2K
Elaine Douglas, Judith Phillips, Alison Bowes
How are the lonely caregivers? The combined effect of caregiving and loneliness on wellbeing
16:30-17:30, Session 3K
Lisa Davison, Rosalind Willis, Gloria Chepngeno Langat
Older and 'staying at home' during lockdown: informal care receipt during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst people aged 70 and over in the UK
16:30-17:30, Session 3L
Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Min Qin, Athina Vlachantoni
Friday 9 July
The impact of COVID-19 fear: Evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery - a healthy ageing in scotland (HAGIS) study
09:30-10:30, Session 4L
Elaine Douglas, David Bell et al.
Social participation and health outcomes among caregivers and non caregivers in Great Britain
14:00-15:00, Session 6H
Athina Vlachantoni, Zhixin Feng, Ning Wang, Maria Evandrou
Generating startups that improve the health and wellbeing of older adults: discussing the role for the academic community
14:00-15:00, Session 6M
Ella Moonan-Howard and Rachel Carey
The full conference programme is available on the BSG conference website where you can also find details about plenary speakers and registrations. For live conference updates on Twitter, follow #BSG2021, @_BSGconference and @britgerontology.
Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - Friday, July 9th 2021
Social Policy Association Annual Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Wednesday, July 7th 2021
Friday, July 9th 2021
This conference invites participants to reflect on local, national and international responses to global challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
CPC researchers Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Min Qin and Athina Vlachantoni will be presenting their work 'Changing living arrangements, family dynamics and stress during lockdown: evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK'
For more information please see the conference website.
Tuesday, July 6th 2021
Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA): Pre-Conference event (Conferences)
Virtual
Tuesday, July 6th 2021
At this pre-conference event CPC associate Lisa Davidson will be discussing the differences between determinants of loneliness for caregivers and non-caregivers.
Find out more on the British Society of Gerontology website
Thursday, June 24th 2021
CPC Webinar - Ongoing research on COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality in Sweden (Seminars and lectures)
Sven Drefahl, Stockholm University
Zoom
Thursday, June 24th 2021
13:00-14:00 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 24 June 2021, 13:00 -14:00 BST. Sven Drefahl, from Stockholm University, will present: "Ongoing research on COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality in Sweden".
Title: Ongoing research on COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality in Sweden
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden reduced life expectancy to levels previously observed during 2018 for women and 2017 for men. This presentation will give an overview of ongoing research on COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality in Sweden between March 1st 2020 and February 28, 2021. The focus will be on excess mortality and mortality due to COVID-19 deaths as well as how inequalities in mortality and excess mortality have evolved throughout the pandemic in Sweden.
This seminar was not recorded.
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.
Watch the seminar recording
Monday, June 14th 2021 - Friday, June 25th 2021
SICSS-Oxford 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, June 14th 2021
Friday, June 25th 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/.
Thursday, May 27th 2021
CPC Webinar - Immigrant health trajectories over time and across generations: the role of family background, material conditions, and adversities over the life course (Seminars and lectures)
Silvia Loi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Zoom
Thursday, May 27th 2021
13:30-14:30 BST
This CPC webinar will be held on Thursday 27 May at 13:30 BST. Silvia Loi, MPIDR, will be giving a talk: Immigrant health trajectories over time and across generations: the role of family background, material conditions, and adversities over the life course.
Title: Immigrant health trajectories over time and across generations: the role of family background, material conditions, and adversities over the life course
Abstract: As immigration flows are increasing in Europe, monitoring health conditions of immigrants becomes of growing importance. Compared to natives, immigrants benefit from a health advantage that vanishes as they age, and across generations. During this seminar we will discuss the immigrant-native health gap and explore some of its main determinants. We will give evidence of: the vanishing health advantage of immigrants over time; the health gap across generations of immigrant children, with a focus on the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources; the vanishing immigrant health advantage over age, and how intersections of migration status, and adverse life events affect the individual health trajectory.
This seminar was not recorded.
Friday, May 21st 2021
Workshop: Dealing with frustration and conflict in Academia (Workshops)
Stuart Gietel-Basten, Jane Falkingham, Rishita Nandagiri, Wiraporn Pothisiri, Tomáš Sobotka & Georgia Verropoulou
Online
Friday, May 21st 2021
10:00-11:30 CET
Chaired by Stuart Gietel-Basten
Panel: Jane Falkingham, Rishita Nandagiri, Wiraporn Pothisiri, Tomáš Sobotka & Georgia Verropoulou
Have you ever found yourself swearing at your computer screen after receiving a terrible or disrespectful peer review, wondering how can you possibly respond to this? What about screaming internally after receiving a rude comment about your work at a conference or on twitter, and contemplating how far you should go to defend yourself? Or what do you do when you see yet another paper published with the same problematic assumptions going unchallenged?
This workshop focuses on these moments of frustration and conflict in academia, and the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of handling these situations. The workshop will begin with a panel discussion where panellists of different viewpoints, experiences and levels of seniority will discuss how they might approach different hypothetical scenarios involving rudeness or conflict.
Following the panel, participants will then be divided into break out rooms to discuss the pros and cons of the different approaches highlighted by the panel, and share their own thoughts on how they might approach the different situations. The scenarios will be sent to participants in advance of the workshop.
Due to the limited number of participants in this workshop, please register early.
Thursday, May 20th 2021
Panel Discussion: How to get published (Seminars and lectures)
Trude Lappegård, Jakub Bijak, Juho Härkönen
Online
Thursday, May 20th 2021
11:30 - 12:30 (CET time)
How does the publication process work? What makes a paper stand out to editors? These kind of questions will get answered during the panel discussion on how to get published. Three editors from the European Journal of Population, Demographic Research and Advances in Life Course Research will introduce their journals, share their experiences and discuss do's and don'ts.
You are invited to include any questions you have to the panel members in the registration form. Or you can ask them during the Q&A at the end of session.
Panel members:
Trude Lappegård - University of Oslo; Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Population
Jakub Bijak - Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton; Editor of Demographic Research
Juho Härkönen - European University Institute and Stockholm University; Editor of Advances in Life Course Research
Register on the EAPS website here.
Tuesday, May 11th 2021
How can we project migration? Global challenges at the turn of 2020 (Seminars and lectures)
Online
Tuesday, May 11th 2021
16:00 GMT (10:00 GMT-5)
In this online seminar, scholars will discuss the challenges for projecting future global international migration in the face of COVID-19, demographic changes, and data limitations. This is the third public event from the project “La intersección de la política exterior con la política migratoria en el México de hoy”
With Guy Abel, Jakub Bijak, Helena Crus Castanheira, Victor M. Garcia Guerrero, Frank Lackzko, Adrian Raftery and Claudia Masferrer.
Find out more and register online here.
Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - Saturday, May 8th 2021
PAA 2021 Annual Meeting (Conferences)
Virtual
Wednesday, May 5th 2021
Saturday, May 8th 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".
The seminar was not recorded.
Monday, April 26th 2021 - Wednesday, April 28th 2021
Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference 2021 (Conferences)
Virtual
Monday, April 26th 2021
Wednesday, April 28th 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.
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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
Thursday, April 15th 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.
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Monday, March 22nd 2021 - Friday, March 26th 2021
Understanding Society: Changing Families Mini Conference (Conferences)
Online
Monday, March 22nd 2021
Friday, March 26th 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
Wednesday, March 24th 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.
Friday, March 5th 2021 - Sunday, March 14th 2021
CPC at SOTSEF 2021 (Public engagement events)
Virtual
Friday, March 5th 2021
Sunday, March 14th 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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Study Population Geography at University of Southampton
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
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
Thursday, February 4th 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.
The seminar was not recorded.
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.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlceqoqjkqHdfxvgsYrfH_1CHzmHIKycaS
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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.
The seminar was not recorded.
Monday, December 14th 2020 - Friday, December 18th 2020
Winter Simulation Conference 2020 (Conferences)
Prof Jakub Bijak
Virtual
Monday, December 14th 2020
Friday, December 18th 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
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.
The seminar was not recorded.
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
Friday, December 4th 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
Sunday, November 22nd 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
Thursday, November 5th 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”.
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.
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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
Wednesday, November 25th 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".
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.
The seminar was not recorded.
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.
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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
Friday, October 16th 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/
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Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - Wednesday, September 16th 2020
CPC at BSPS Virtual Conference 2020 (Conferences)
Online
Tuesday, September 15th 2020
Wednesday, September 16th 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|www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/the_team/19/Francesca_Fiori#associate
])
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|www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/the_team/39/Brienna_Perelli_Harris#staff
], 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
Thursday, September 10th 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
Friday, July 10th 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?'
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.
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Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - Friday, June 26th 2020
Beyond EPC 2020 - The webinar series (Conferences)
Webinars
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
Friday, June 26th 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?'.
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.
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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.
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.
The seminar was not recorded.
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'.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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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
Friday, February 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
Thursday, January 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
Wednesday, February 12th 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
Tuesday, January 21st 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
Wednesday, December 11th 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
Saturday, October 19th 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
Wednesday, September 11th 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
Wednesday, September 11th 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
Friday, August 23rd 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
Thursday, July 4th 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
Friday, April 26th 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
Saturday, April 13th 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
Friday, April 5th 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
Associated Downloads
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
Friday, January 19th 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
Thursday, November 9th 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
Saturday, November 4th 2017
CPC was delighted to be part of the 28th International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference that took place in Cape Town, South Africa.
This conference is a major international event drawing over 2,000 scientists, policy makers and practitioners in the global population community to meet and address issues of common concern. The Conference takes place once every four years, providing a unique forum for population experts to take stock of recent research on population trends and issues and to debate possible actions and policy responses to the challenges posed by population phenomena.
This year many CPC researchers including our Directors Professor Jane Falkingham and Professor Maria Evandrou travelled to Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa to present their research in scientific sessions, share papers and giveaways on our exhibition stand, and provide visitors with an opportunity to 'meet the researcher'.
Sessions covered a wide range of topics including international migration, sexual and reproductive health, poverty and inequality, population and environment interactions, the consequences of population ageing and issues related to children and youth, education, the labour force, and gender and human rights.
Registration was open at http://ipc2017capetown.iussp.org/about-the-conference/.
Wednesday, October 11th 2017
CPC's David Bell opens SLLS 2017 Annual Conference (Conferences)
Professor David Bell
Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2017 Annual Conference
Wednesday, October 11th 2017
CPC's Professor David Bell presented the opening keynote speech 'If you build it, they will come' on Wednesday 11 October at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2017 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Stirling.
David is a professor of Economics at the University of Stirling. He is an esteemed member of CPC, working within the Migration, Changing life course and Constitutional change strands and has been involved with or is currently working on projects including: Carers and time use, Rural ageing, migration and care, Fiscal aspects of constitutional change, Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland. David's vast amount of research experience, repertoire of publications, presentations and media activities ensured a fascinating, knowledgeable and thought-provoking speech on 11 October.
The conference was packed with symposiums, poster session, workshops and social events across three days. For further information and the full programme, please visit the SLLS Website conference page.
To keep up to date with the latest news from Professor David Bell, the SLLS and CPC, please follow @DavidNFBell and @SLLShome @CPCpopulation
Wednesday, October 4th 2017
CPC's Dr Agnese Vitali gives keynote speech in family marketing conference, Milan (Conferences)
Dr Agnese Vitali
Milan
Wednesday, October 4th 2017
Dr Agnese Vitali gave a keynote speech at the 'Momketing: new moms, new marketing' Conference in Milan.
The Momketing conference is organised for marketing and communication professionals, including researchers, journalists, students and bloggers to compare successful marketing tools and practices that are targeted at mothers and family.
Agnese, who is currently leading the 'Female-Breadwinner families in Europe' project with CPC, spoke about the changing role of women, and about the fact that advertising may be still targeting the idea of the traditional woman/mother - which is outdated.
Further information is available on the website.
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Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - Sunday, August 6th 2017
CPC makes 'Migration' research fun at BBC Countryfile Live (Public engagement events)
Oxford
Thursday, August 3rd 2017
Sunday, August 6th 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
Sunday, July 30th 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.
