News from the Network

31/03/20

European Research Council Advanced Grant Goes to James Vaupel for Work on Lifespan Inequalities

James Vaupel, a top demographer based at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), has received a European Research Council grant for the new project ´Inequalities in Lifespans before and after Retirement: Trailblazing Demographic Theory and Analysis´. The major innovation of Vaupel’s project is the inclusion of individual lifespan inequalities into the theory on mortality at older ages.

23/03/20

European Demographer Awards 2020 Go to Researchers in Barcelona and London

Berlin, 23 March 2020 – The decision of the international evaluation committee on the European Demographer Awards, a prize donated by the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin, was announced today by the secretariat of the European research network Population Europe.

16/03/20

Demography & COVID-19

Between mid-March to mid-June 2020, we collected the articles below in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This is a comprehensive list of what our partner institutes and experts wrote on the topic during this time. We thank the Population Europe community for their contributions to this valuable collection of early research on demography and the COVID-19 crisis.

24/02/20

Open Call: Editor-In-Chief for the European Journal of Population (Deadline: 21 March 2020)

The Council of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), in collaboration with Springer Nature, is inviting applications for an Editor-in-Chief for its flagship European Journal of Population (EJP).

03/02/20

New Collaboration Partner: UNFPA Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Population Europe welcomes the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Eastern Europe and Central Asia as its newest collaboration partner!

03/02/20

Ageing & Society Seeking a New Editor-In-Chief (Deadline: 6 March 2020)

Cambridge University Press is now inviting applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Ageing & Society, a leading interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts. Deadline: 6 March.

27/01/20

Kick-off for Research Project FReDA

12.5 Million Euros provided by the German Government for a yearly Family Demography Panel based on GGS

FReDA – The German family demography panel aims at better understanding changes in family and demographic development and ensuring the long-term sustainability of research in Germany on this subject.

13/01/20

ESRC Announces New Funding for Research Methods Training

From the Economic and Social Research Council: We are delighted to announce that we will be investing £2.8m in the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) over 5 years until 2024. Continuing into a new phase, the principal aim of the Centre will be to increase research methods capability in the social sciences and beyond through innovative training and capacity-building activities in the application of core and advanced research methods techniques.

06/01/20

Call for Papers: Comparative Population Studies Special Issue (Deadline: 29 February 2020)

Identification of causal mechanisms in demographic research: The contribution of panel data

The aim of the Special Issue is to demonstrate and scrutinize the analytical potential of panel methods in investigating causal mechanisms in demographic research.

17/12/19

Results from the ERC Consolidator Grant 2019

Congratulations to Our Partners and Experts

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. We especially congratulate three of the 2019 recipients, who are affiliated with Population Europe as Experts and/or with one of our partner institutions.