In this issue: Preparing the Call for Papers for IPC2025 ● Everything you always wanted to know about IUSSP… ● IUSSP booth and events at PAA2023 ● New IUSSP Early Career Awards ● 2023 IUSSP Laureate - Krishnamurthy Srinivasan ● Call for 2024 IUSSP Laureate ● New Panel on Population registers, ethics and human rights ● Report on Measuring pregnancy intention and unintended pregnancy ● International Migration Panel at the 3rd IFMS ● Mining migration trajectories with R ● Assessing the state of urban science in contemporary global policy debates ● PERN Cyberseminar on the habitability concept in the field of population-environment ● Training video on Extracting spatial data on the environment ● Upcoming webinar on Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death ● News from the Members ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar
International Population Conference Preparing the Call for Papers for IPC2025  The International Organizing Committee (IOC) for the forthcoming International Population Conference in Brisbane (13-18 July 2025) held its first meeting in February to prepare for the Conference. The main topic of discussion was the Call for Papers. We thank IUSSP members for their session suggestions. To learn more about plans for Conference and the Call for Papers...
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IUSSP membership feedback Everything you always wanted to know about IUSSP…  We would like to thank the many members and former members (930) who answered the recent membership survey (Oct-Nov 2022). There were many useful questions and comments including one which suggested we inform members of all the interesting features that are offered and which many members are unaware of.
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IUSSP at PAA 2023 Annual Meeting IUSSP booth and events at PAA  If you are attending the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in New Orleans on 12-15 April 2023, come visit the IUSSP exhibit booth to meet IUSSP Council members and members of the Australian National Organizing Committee to learn about upcoming IUSSP activities and the International Population Conference (IPC2025) in Brisbane, Australia. Several preconference events are organized by IUSSP Panels as Member-Initiated Meetings on 12 April:
IUSSP Awards IUSSP Early Career Awards A new IUSSP Early Career Award has been established by the IUSSP Council in collaboration with ALAP, APA, EAPS, PAA and UAPS. The Award aims to honour outstanding contributions to the field by early career scholars in various regions of the world. The Call for Nominations is open now and closes 1 June 2023. (Read more)
2023 IUSSP Laureate - Krishnamurthy Srinivasan  The IUSSP Laureate ceremony in honour of Professor Krishnamurthy Srinivasan, was held online on 9 March. Former colleagues and students from all over the world highlighted his contributions to the field and his impact on their careers own research and own careers.
(Watch a video of the ceremony.)
Call for 2024 IUSSP Laureate The IUSSP Laureate Award honours exceptional achievements in the population field. Nominate a deserving colleague. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Laureate Award is 1 November 2023. (Read more)
IUSSP Panel activities Population registers, ethics and human rights  The IUSSP recently launched a new Panel on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights whose aim is to draw on perspectives from law, history, economics, public policy, demography, and public health, to address the ethical and human rights challenges that are emerging as population register systems are modernized and digitized.
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Measuring pregnancy intention and unintended pregnancy A report written by Susheela Singh, Fatima Juarez, Kazuyo Machiyama and Rishita Nandagiri summarizing the key points from the IUSSP workshop on “Methodologies for measuring pregnancy intention and unintended pregnancy and birth”, held virtually on 13-14 May 2021, is now available on the IUSSP website. (Read more)
International Migration Panel at the 3rd IFMS  The IUSSP Panel on International Migration was well represented at the 3rd International Forum on Migration Statistics, 24-26 January, Santiago, Chile. Marcela Cerrutti and Diego Iturralde contributed to the opening Plenary session while Guy Abel and Marie McAuliffe participated in other sessions.
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Mining migration trajectories with R  The IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration organized a training workshop led by Panel co-chair Sergi Vidal on “Mining migration trajectories with R” at the 3rd International Forum on Migration Statistics, 24-26 January, Santiago, Chile.
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Assessing the state of urban science in contemporary global policy debates  Each year IUSSP organizes a lecture featuring the work of an IUSSP member at the “Monday at INED” lecture series. This year Dr. Susan Parnell, member of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Fertility, Family Planning, and Urban Development, spoke on “Assessing the state of urban science in contemporary global policy debates”.
(Watch the video of the lecture and discussion)
The habitability concept in the field of population-environment 
The Population-Environment Research Network (PERN), in collaboration with the HABITABLE project and Columbia Climate School’s Managed Retreat conference series, organized a cyberseminar from 13 to 20 March 2023 on “The habitability concept in the field of population-environment studies: relevance and research implications". (View webinar and postings and read expert and background papers)
IUSSP Webinar Series Extracting spatial data on the environment 
On 25 January, the IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives organized an online training workshop led by Ankit Sikarwar on “Extracting spatial data on the environment for research”. The workshop was limited to 50 participants but was recorded. (Watch the video of the training workshop.)
Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death 
The IUSSP Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death is organizing a kick-off webinar on 30 March, with the aim to draw attention to the role played by multi-morbidity in current epidemiological profiles and mortality dynamics and to foster the inclusion of multiple causes of death and multi-morbidity in research. (Read more and register to attend this webinar.)
News from the members Members' new publications - Understanding Human Life. A Methodological and Interdisciplinary Approach, Daniel Courgeau
- Introduction to Migration Studies (in Arabic), Ayman Zohry
- The Journal of Population and Sustainability, Vol 7, No 1, 2023, edited by David Samways
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New IUSSP members Seven new members and 28 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 December 2022 and 28 February 2023. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list)
Other announcements European Doctoral School of Demography 
The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2023-2024 is now accepting applications. The EDSD is a fully funded 11-month program for Master's degree students in demography or related fields. Courses are taught in English and focus on developing students' quantitative and programming skills. Courses begin at MPIDR (Germany) on 4 Sept 2023 and continue at INED (France) for the core courses (Oct 2023 to July 2024). Enrollment in a PhD program is not required. Deadline for applications: 19 April 2023. (Read more)
PhD in Population Sciences – ULisboa  Four schools at the University of Lisbon (ULisboa) have come together to offer a unique, interdisciplinary PhD programme on Population Sciences, starting in 2023/24. This 4-year doctoral programme based at ULisboa is taught in English.
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Master’s Programme Global Demography, University of Vienna 
The University of Vienna Master Programme on "Global Demography" will welcome its third cohort on 1 October 2023. The principal aim of this two-year English language Master’s Programme is to give students a strong scientific grounding in the analysis and forecasting of demographic developments across the globe – in particular, fertility, mortality and migration trends as well as human capital formation. Deadline for applications: 17 April 2023. (Read more)
International Graduate Program at ADRI 
The Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) of Shanghai University offers an International Graduate Program of Population and Sustainable Development Research, an English-taught post-graduate program at both Master and PhD levels. Full and half scholarships are available for outstanding applicants (check deadlines). Deadline for applications: 30 June 2023. (Read more)
Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) 
Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) recently published a Special Issue on "Refugee Migration to Europe - Current Challenges and Potentials for Cities and Regions" guest edited by Rainer Wehrhahn and Zine-Eddine Hathat. CPoS also has an open Call for proposals for a Special Issue in 2024, which should include an introductory paper by the guest editor(s) as well as 5 to 8 individual papers. Submissions Deadline: 1 May 2023. CPoS welcomes submissions at all times.
National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) approves new concepts 
The following concepts were approved at the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) meeting in January 2023. NIA (National Institute on Aging, US) has posted the approved concepts to give interested researchers maximal lead time to plan projects. Please note that not all concepts will necessarily end up converting to a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
N-IUSSP  Recent articles
- Tertiary education and internal migration across Europe, Miguel González-Leonardo, Aude Bernard, Joan García-Román and Antonio López-Gay
- Older adult loneliness on the rise around the world, Lauren Newmyer, Ashton M. Verdery, Haowei Wang and Rachel Margolis
- Racial disparities in the adverse socio-economic outcomes of COVID-19 in the United States, Deepthi Kolady and Weiwei Zhang
- Son preference and birth spacing in Pakistan, Rashid Javed and Mazhar Mughal
- Life course reproductive dynamics and early menopause in Uganda, Murylo Batista, Yvonne Tsitsiou, Sabeera Dar, Giulia Ancillotti, Sonica Minhas and Natania Varshney
- Adolescent fertility hampers education. The case of Chile, Viviana Salinas and Valentina Jorquera-Samter
- America’s high homicide rate, Joseph Chamie
- Reproductive burden and women’s employment in India, Chhavi Tiwari and Srinivas Goli
- Children and (unequal) sharing of housework between partners in Hungary, Zsuzsanna Veroszta
- Health before and after union dissolution among mothers, fathers and children, Øystein Kravdal and Jonathan Wörn
- Labour force participation among older adults in India, Aparajita Chattopadhyay and David E. Bloom
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Calls Calls for papers - 34th REVES meeting, Padova, Italy, 24-26 May 2023. Deadline for submissions: 27 March 2023
- Special issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) on “Population and Climate Change: The Defining Relationship of the 21st Century.” Deadline for Submissions: 31 March 2023
- International Scientific Conference on "Demographic challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world", Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8-9 June 2023. Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April 2023
- EAPS Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group workshop on Changing conditions in a changing world: The comparative analysis of health, morbidity, and mortality, Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 September 2023. Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 April 2023
- 50th anniversary of the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, Keele University, United Kingdom, 11-13 September 2023. Deadline for submissions: 24 April 2023
- Call for paper submissions for a session on "Migration as a life-course trajectory" organized by the IUSSP scientific panel on lifetime migration at the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, Keele University, United Kingdom, 11-13 September 2023. Deadline for submissions: 24 April 2023
- Call for proposals for a Special Issue in 2024 in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS). Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023
- 15th International Seminar on Supercentenarians, Paris, France, 16-17 November 2023. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2023
- Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2023 (WIC2023): “Exploring population heterogeneities”, Vienna, Austria, 6-7 December 2023. Deadline for submission: 30 June 2023
- Special issue of the International Journal for Public Health on "Ageing in Health in Sub- Saharan Africa". Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 August 2023
Training Training courses and workshops - Barcelona Summer School of Demography - BSSD 2023. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023
Career and study opportunities Jobs/Fellowships/PhD Positions/Post-Docs - PhD position in Demography at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) on The Remaking of the Family in East Africa (FamilEA) - Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023
- Pre-doctoral and post-doctoral positions in the CORESIDENCE project (UAB-CED, Barcelona, Spain) - Deadline for applications: 27 April 2023
- Postdocs and/or professor positions at the Asian Demographic Research Institute, Shanghai University - Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
- 3 doctoral students (3-year contracts), French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). Deadline for applications: 18 May 2023
- International Visiting Scholar Program at the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) of Shanghai University. Deadline for applications: 30 June 2023
Calendar Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events - 12e Colloque Francophone sur les Sondages, Aubervilliers (Campus Condorcet), France, 22 to 24 March 2023
- IUSSP Webinar: Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death, organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death, Online, 30 March 2023
- PAA2023 - Annual Meeting of the American Population Association (PAA), New Orleans, United States, 12 to 15 April 2023
- Data and modelling approaches to assessing climate-conflict impact on population dynamics, organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population dynamics under global conflict and climate change, as a preconference event at PAA2023, New Orleans, United States, 12 April 2023
- Demographic microsimulations in R using SOCSIM: Modelling population and kinship dynamics, organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Digital and Computational Demography, as a preconference event at PAA2023, New Orleans, United States, 12 April 2023
- Scholarly migration worldwide: Inauguration of the Scholarly Migration Database, organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Digital and Computational Demography, as a preconference event at PAA2023, New Orleans, United States, 12 April 2023
- 10th Annual International Conference on Demography and Population Studies, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece, 12 to 15 June 2023
- Launch event of the Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network: Towards a transdisciplinary understanding of migration and im/mobilities in the context of environmental and climate change, Vienna, Austria, 10 to 12 July 2023
- 50th anniversary of the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, Keele University, United Kingdom, 11 to 13 September 2023
- Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2023 "Exploring population heterogeneities”, Vienna, Austria, 6 to 7 December 2023
- European Population Conference 2024 (EPC 2024), Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom), 12 to 15 December 2024
- 12th International Conference on Population Geographies, Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), 1 to 3 July 2024
- 2025 International Population Conference (IPC2025), Brisbane, Australia, 13 to 18 July 2025
Submit your announcements Feel free to share news from your institution and region so that we can keep all IUSSP members informed about recent or forthcoming events and opportunities in the population field. IUSSP members are welcome to submit information on conferences, calls for papers, training, career or study opportunities as well their recent publications or peer-reviewed software for inclusion in the newsletter and IUSSP website. Please send the information to contact@iussp.org and remember to include important dates for application deadlines (and photos when appropriate). Information should be sent by email or in a Word document so that it can be edited. For inclusion in the next Bulletin, please send information by 1 June 2023. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
IUSSP Bulletin / Bulletin de l’UIESP Publication Director: Mary Ellen Zuppan, IUSSP Executive Director ISSN: 2427–0059 |
