News from the Network

Led by an all-female group of researchers across continents, Dear Pandemic is a new website where you can stay updated on factual information related to COVID-19.

Two excellent teams of researchers at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) have received significant grants from Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council.

Ben Wilson receives a new ERC Starting Grant to study the inequalities that are faced by the children and grandchildren of refugees living in Sweden.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie has launched a German-language podcast, 'Demography and Society in Focus' ('Demografie und Gesellschaft im Fokus').

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 EAPS Awards from our network: Elizabeth Thomson (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Daniele Vignoli (University of Florence), Martin Kolk (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo) and Liili Abuladze (Tallinn University).

Congratulations to Zsolt Spéder, Director of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (HDRI), for receiving the title of Doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences!

Congratulations to Dr José Manuel Aburto (University of Southern Denmark) and Dr Carlo Giovanni Camarda (Institut National d'Études Démographiques) on being awarded the 2021 European Demographer Awards, a prize donated by the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin.

Guest edited by Phil Rees (School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK) and Nikola Sander (German Federal Institute for Population Research), Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is now publishing a special issue on the role of internal migration as a driver of regional population change in Europe.

Congratulations to Diederik Boertien (Centre for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mathias Lerch (MPIDR) and Ben Wilson (Stockholm University Demography Unit, SUDA) for receiving a prestigious ERC Starting Grant!

Starting in August 2020, Pavel Grigoriev, a research group leader at the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), is steering a new five-year European Research Council (ERC) project entitled "Regional Disparities in Cause-Specific Mortality in Europe: The role of local context and national health policies" (REDIM).