IUSSP Bulletin - Issue 51

In this issue: IPC2021 Call for Papers ● Sponsorships and Research Leader Sessions ● Conference hubs ● Nominations for 2021 Council elections ● Call for 2021 IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award nominations ● New panel with CODATA on FAIR vocabularies ● Updates on the Urban Family Planning Fellowship Project ● Upcoming IUSSP webinars ● News from members ● Honour based discount on membership dues ● Regional population associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training opportunities ● Job opportunities ● Calendar

International Population Conference

IPC2021 Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for IPC2021 is now open. Authors can submit abstracts up until 15 May 2021. This article provides tips to prepare your submission, explaining how organizers will create sessions and why it is critical to select the right keywords. 

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Sponsorships and Research Leader Sessions

IPC 2021 presents a unique opportunity for organizations to showcase their services and products and inform and engage with a global audience. The sponsorship package includes “Research Leader Sessions” in which institutions can raise awareness of their organization's work in the population field.

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Conference hubs

IPC2021 will be a hybrid conference, with a small number of in-person sessions in Hyderabad, India, while most of the scientific programme will be virtual. Conference Hubs are one way to promote networking and in-person discussion around the conference.

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IUSSP elections

Nominations for 2021 Council elections

The Committee on Nominations has prepared its list of candidates. Members can make additional nominations of IUSSP members for the 2021 Council Elections up until 15 June 2021.

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IUSSP awards

Call for 2021 IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award nominations

This Award honours a scientist of high international renown for the contribution of his or her work to the development of studies of population that draw on the perspectives of different disciplines and for the importance that this work has accorded to international comparisons. Deadline for Nominations: 15 September 2021.

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IUSSP Panels

New Panel with CODATA on FAIR vocabularies

To support the growing movement to make data “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” (FAIR), the IUSSP Council has approved a new Panel, which will be a joint initiative with the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA). The Panel is co-chaired by George Alter (University of Michigan), Arofan Gregory (DDI Alliance) and Steven McEachern (ANU and DDI Alliance).

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Urban Family Planning

Updates on the Urban FP Fellowship Project

The Panel on Family Planning, Fertility and Urban Development is pleased with the Urban Family Planning fellows' progress. All four members of the first cohort have published (or are in the process of publishing) their studies results. Despite some delays caused by the COVID pandemic, the second cohort of 11 fellows has also begun their work.

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IUSSP Webinar Series

Upcoming webinars include:

FP Research under COVID-19

Register in advance to attend the IUSSP webinar on “Family Planning Research under the COVID-19 Pandemic: How is it going and what are we finding?” on 23 March at 15:00 UTC. Tanmay Mahapatra, Anita Raj, Mohan Ghule, Modupe Taiwo, Dinah Amongin, Anoop Khanna, Danish Ahmad and Georges Guiella will share findings from experiences on collecting data under the pandemic. Priya Nanda will moderate this webinar.

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Population, Food and the Environment

Register in advance to attend the joint IUSSP-PAA webinar on Population, Food and the Environment on 9 April. The webinar's starting point is the outcome of a bet on food prices made ten years ago between panellists David Lam and Stan Becker. Leiwen Jiang will moderate the webinar, which includes speakers Shirley Mustafa, John Bongaarts, and Raya Muttarak.

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News from the members

Members' new publications

• Production of a Vital Statistics Report: Guide (Revision 1), 15 contributors, including: Helge Brunborg, Petra Nahmias, Tim Adair, Philip Setel, Farnaz Malik

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New IUSSP members

Seventeen new members and 27 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 December 2020 and 1 March 2021.

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Honour-based discount on membership dues

Aware of the particular difficulties created by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Council decided that members who have difficulty paying the full rate of their membership dues will now have the option to pay a special 2021 Covid-19 reduced rate of Euro 25 for one year of membership. We trust that those who can afford it will continue to pay the regular fees.

In memory

• Anatole Vichnevski (1935-2021)

Anatole Vichnevski passed away on 15 January from Covid-19. Until this terrible pandemic struck him down, he had continued his exceptional career of demographic research as head of the Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). 

• Parameswara Krishnan (1936-2021)

Parameswara Krishnan passed away on 17 February 2021 in Kerala, India where he was born 84 years earlier. Most of his career is associated with the University of Alberta (Canada), where he taught from 1974 to 1998.  

Regional population associations

PAA 2021 annual meeting

The Population Association of America (PAA) 2021 Annual Meeting will be organized entirely as a virtual conference on 5-8 May 2021. For more information on the programme and the registration fees, visit the PAA website.

EAPS Events

On 20 May 2021, the EAPS PhD Network is organizing an online event for PhD students (+1 year). On 20-22 September 2021, the EAPS Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group is planning a meeting in Prague with a call for papers on “New Challenges: New Issues”. Deadline: 28 May 2021.
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News from ALAP

UNFPA & ALAP published a new book (in Spanish): The implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges. ALAP's journal, la Revista Latinoamericana de Población (RELAP), has issued a call for papers in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

5th APA virtual conference

The Asian Population Association will hold its 5th APA Conference as a 3-day virtual conference on 20-22 July 2021. It will include live sessions, pre-recorded video sessions, and poster sessions. For more information, visit the APA website.

Other announcements

Demography and COVID-19 in Africa

The Government of South Africa and AFIDEP co-hosted a very successful Webinar Series titled ‘Demography and COVID-19 in Africa – Evidence and Policy Responses to Safeguard the Demographic Dividend’ from 21 October to 2 December 2020. Visit the resource page, which includes recordings of all five webinars, the series report, and related infographics. 

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5th Prof. John Caldwell Memorial Lecture

The Fifth Prof. John Caldwell Memorial Lecture of the Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH) was held on 18 December 2020. Prof. Tim Dyson of the London School of Economics delivered the lecture on the theme- “India's population and health through the ages”. Watch the recording. 

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Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI)

The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), the world's largest longitudinal ageing survey, released its wave one report and data set in Jan. 2021. LASI is a collaborative venture of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Harvard School of Public Health and University of Southern California (USC). It interviewed 72,000 individuals across India covering the socio-economic and health dimensions of India's growing elderly population. (Click for Data Request Form)

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University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Department of Demography of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka is organizing several events, including World Population Day Celebrations on 11 July 2021. For more information about these events and the programmes taught at the University of Colombo, read more...

N-IUSSP

Recent articles

• COVID-19 pandemic: demographic highlights, Joseph Chamie
• Grandparents looking after grandchildren in England, Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto, Karen Glaser
• Are demographic indicators really converging in post transitional countries? Maria Castiglioni, Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Letizia Tanturri
• Trends in age at menarche in low- and middle-income countries, Tiziana Leone, Laura Brown
• From deprivation to neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Bolivia, Filippo Temporin
• Religion as a moderating factor in the education-fertility relationship, Nitzan Peri-Rotem
• Internet: a tool for promoting contraceptive uptake in sub-Saharan African countries, Veronica Toffolutti, Hai Ma, Giulia Menichelli, Ester Berlot, Letizia Mencarini, Arnstein Aassve
• U.S. immigrant men’s earning trajectories vary by country of origin, Leafia Ye, Michal Engelman
• Strong combined impact of smoking, obesity, and alcohol on survival improvements in Europe, Fanny Janssen, Sergi Trias-Llimós, Anton Kunst
• Health at older ages: childless adults not always worse off than parents, Nekehia T. Quashie, Bruno Arpino, Radoslaw Antczak, Christine A. Mair
• Women’s employment 1996-2016: US vs Europe, Jennifer L. Hook, Eunjeong Paek

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Calls

• Handbook on Feminist Approaches to Women’s Violence. Editors: Stacy Banwell, Lynsey Black, Dawn Cecil, Yanyi Djamba, Sitawa Kimuna, Emma Milne, Lizzie Seal, Eric Tenkorang. Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2021
• Call for Sessions, SciDataCon part of International Data Week, organized by Codata. Seoul, Korea, 8–11 November 2021. Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2021
• Quetelet Seminar. Invisibilities and Uncertainties in Population Sciences. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 27-29 October 2021. Deadline for submissions: 8 May 2021 
• 2021 International Population Conference (IPC2021), Online & Hyderabad, India, 5 to 10 Dec 2021. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2021
• Workshop on pensions and ageing. Paris, France, 7-8 October 2021. Deadline for submissions: 23 May 2021
• EAPS Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group call for papers on “New Challenges: New Issues”. Prague, Czech Republic, 20-22 September 2021. Deadline for submissions: 28 May 2021.
• Gendering Green Criminology. Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2021
• Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics. 13-14 December 2021. (MPIDR) Harnack House, Berlin, Germany. Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2021

Job opportunities

Jobs/Fellowships

• Data Scientist. LABFAM University of Warsaw, Poland. Deadline for Applications:1 April 2021
• Research Fellow or Assistant Professor (RAMMPS). Deadline for Applications: 7 April 2021
• Assistant Professor. LABFAM University of Warsaw, Poland. Deadline for Applications: 30 April 2021

Doctoral / Post-Doctoral Positions

• Wellcome. International Master’s Fellowships. Deadline for applications:13 April 2021
• PhD scholarships University of Groningen. Deadline for applications: 2 May 2021
• New Master Programme on "Global Demography". Department of Demography at the University of Vienna. Deadline for applications: 3 May 2021
• 3 doctoral students on three-year contracts. INED, Paris, France. Deadline for applications: 28 May 2021
• Postdoc Fellow. National University of Singapore for Research Project on Southeast Asian Family Dynamic Study. Deadline for applications: 31 October 2021

Training Courses or Workshops

• Four-week course in R. Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD). Deadline for applications: 31 March 2021
• European University Institute. 17th Migration Summer School, 'Migration and the Pandemic: Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead'. 28 June–9 July 2021. Deadline for applications: 15 April 2021 
• European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2021/2022. Deadline for applications: 15 April 2021

Calendar

Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events

• Berlin Demography Days 2021. Online, 22 to 24 March 2021
• IUSSP webinar on “Family Planning Research under the COVID-19 Pandemic: How is it going and what are we finding?”, 23 March 2021 
• Training Workshop: How to Use Data to Build Back Better Post-COVID-19, organized by Apolitical. Online, 24 March 2021
• Introduction to Population Grids and their Integration with Remote Sensing Data for Sustainable Development and Disaster Management. Online, 30 March to 6 April 2021
• Joint IUSSP-PAA webinar on Population, Food and the Environment, 9 April 2021
• 2021 PAA Annual Meeting. Online, 5 to 8 May 2021
• PERN Cyberseminar on Refugee and internally displaced populations, environmental impacts and climate risks, 10-18 May 2021
• IUSSP virtual workshop on methodologies for measuring pregnancy intention and unintended pregnancy and birth, 13-14 May 2021
• ASMDA2021 International Conference and Demographics 2021 Workshop, Athens, Greece, 1 to 4 June 2021
• 5th Asian Population Association Conference. Online, 20 to 22 July 2021
• EAPS Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group meeting. Prague, Czech Republic, 20-22 September 2021
• IUSSP Seminar on Unintended pregnancy and key outcomes—abortion and unplanned births, New Delhi, India, tentatively postponed to Spring 2022
• Quetelet Seminar. Invisibilities and Uncertainties in Population Sciences. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 27-29 October 2021
• Sixth International Conference on Family Planning. Pattaya City, Thailand, 8 to 11 November 2021
• SciDataCon part of International Data Week, organized by Codata. Seoul, Korea, 8–11 November 2021
• 2021 International Population Conference (IPC2021), Online & Hyderabad, India, 5 to 10 December 2021
• Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics. Berlin, Germany, 13-14 December 2021

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ISSN: 2427–0059