Career and study opportunities

The Statistics and Population Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is part of the Faculty of Natural Science The Department specializes in the following two areas: Statistics and Population Studies / Demography. Joint programmes in Computational Finance are offered in conjunction with the Department of Mathematics and the School of Business and Finance. The Statistics and Population Studies Department offers programmes up to the level of PhD. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key responsibility areas:

Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)

Deadline for application: 19 September 2016

3 vacancies for Research Fellows in Gerontology at the University of Southampton (United Kindgom).

Deadline for applications: 6 August 2016

• ·           Understanding family dynamics in later life and the implications for intergeneration transfers

• ·           Life course events and pensions, health and well-being in later life

Job Opportunity: Associate Professor or Professor in Demography, School of Demography, Australian National University

Deadline for Applications: 5 September 2016 

Salary Package:  Academic Level D $136,843 - $145,576 or Academic Level E $169,586 per annum plus 17% superannation

Building on our main area of strength, The Department of Sociology at Western, http://sociology.uwo.ca , invites applications in the general area of Population Dynamics and Social Inequality for two full-time faculty positions.

Successful applicants’ rank and tenure status will be determined by their qualifications and experience. The starting dates for these appointments is July 1, 2017 or as negotiated.

Two Research Officer vacancies, Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), University of Oxford

See more at www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 1st July 2016.

Technical Advisor, Senior Statistician, Population & Development Branch, Technical Division, UNFPA

Closing date: 14 July 2016 - 5:00pm (New York time)

IIASA and the Joint Research Centres (JRC) of the European Commission have formed a partnership to establish a joint “Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration” to assess the implications of different migration scenarios on future population ageing in Europe, in a multi-dimensional way with a focus on age, gender, education and labor force participation. The Centre will also focus on scenarios (demographic, economic and environmental) for potential sending countries in Africa and Western Asia. The Centre will be lead jointly by Wolfgang Lutz (IIASA) and Delilah Al Khudhairy (EC-JRC).

Chair of Excellence in Population Sciences

Bordeaux University and the “Individuals, Populations and Societies” (iPOPs) Laboratory of Excellence are creating a Chair of Excellence in population sciences for a period of 3 years. The prospects of maintaining this position will be considered at the end of this period.