You are invited to submit proposals for presentations and posters for the British Society for Population Studies’ 53rd Conference, to take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury. 

Along with the many and varied sessions in the call, plenaries will come from:

• Madeleine Sumption on How much should immigration policymakers care about demography?
• Stuart McDonald on Forecasting and communicating mortality trends in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

A further plenary will come from the winner of the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award.

Workshops and roundtable discussions will include: 

• Mixed methods in a changing data landscape: Integrating qualitative and quantitative insight,
• Influencing policy with administrative data: Turning research into real-world impact as well as a meet up for local government demographers, and
• The BSPS pub quiz. 

Abstracts for papers and posters across the entire demographic and population studies spectrum are welcomed. Any empirical or conceptual approach is welcome, with a demographic or population studies focus. 

Abstracts for papers reporting on research should clearly outline aims, method(s), and results (even if preliminary at the time of submission). Conceptual papers should offer clear expositions of how the paper contributes to the field. 

Viability of strands and sessions will depend on sufficient submissions being received.