Workshop: Uncertainty and Complexity of Migration

The Centre for Population Change, along with International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP), will be running a free workshop on the ‘Uncertainty and Complexity of Migration’ in London next month. The 2-day workshop will take place at the British Academy on 20 and 21 November and has been organised as a part of the ERC project on Bayesian Agent-Based Population Studies.

Migration is multidimensional, complex and uncertain. These features, alongside with the underpinning agency of actors involved in migration, have been recently gaining prominence in academic literature. These developments parallel the exploration of computer simulations as tools of enquiry for population processes. There is a current need for a discussion on the potential and limits of such computational methods, on their knowledge and data requirements, and on the conditions for their usefulness for supporting migration policy. The workshop will explore these topics and more, in order to identify the best ways of implementing the current cutting-edge research ideas in practice.

Aims of the workshop:

• To summarise the state of the art in addressing the complexity and uncertainty of migration through formal modelling, and present current research opportunities in this area
• To discuss the best ways for modelling migration, directions for data collection, and conditions for making the modelling useful for policy support

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The workshop includes entry to the associated public lecture in the evening of 20 November, which has been co-organised and sponsored by the University of Southampton.

There are no fees associated with the workshop, although the participants are expected to cover their own accommodation and travel expenses. Lunches and refreshments will be provided.

Places are limited, so please register by 19 October 2018. Participants will be selected according to the match of their interests and proposed contribution with the objectives of the workshop. Selected participants will be notified of acceptance by 26 October 2018.




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Posted 02/10/2018 11:37

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