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In this issue: A Preview of the International Population Conference in Brisbane ● Practice and training for ECR before IPC2025 ● Building a Stronger Global Population Community with IUSSP Affiliated Institutions ● Member nominations for 2025 Council elections ● Online General Assembly in November ● 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards ● New IUSSP Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities ● Lecture on the highlights of the PDR supplement on contraceptive transitions ● News from the Members ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar International Population Conference A Preview of the International Population Conference in Brisbane
Practice and training for ECR before IPC2025
Building a Stronger Global Population Community with IUSSP Affiliated Institutions The IUSSP Council has scheduled a special session at IPC 2025 and invites population centers and programs from across the world to join this networking event. In a townhall setting, we will discuss how IUSSP can foster closer collaboration with worldwide partners to address topics of common interest to better serve the global population community. The session will spotlight Affiliated Institutions and introduce this recently launched program. IUSSP Elections & General Assembly Member nominations for 2025 Council elections Elections for IUSSP Officers and Council members for 2026-2029 will take place from 15 September to 27 October 2025. Members can make additional nominations of IUSSP members for the 2025 Council Elections up until 15 July 2025. Online General Assembly in November The IUSSP General Assembly will take place online on Thursday 13 November from 13:00 to 14:30 UTC (8:00-9:30 New York / 14:00-15:30 Paris / 18:30-20:00 New Delhi / 21:00-22:30 Shanghai). Save the date. The second half of the meeting will feature breakout rooms where members can exchange with the IUSSP Scientific Panels and other groups. Some background documents, including several Panel reports are already available. IUSSP Awards 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards  The 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awardees were celebrated in an online webinar held on 12 May 2025. Listen to Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Monica Alexander, Nurudeen Alhassan, Igor Cavallini Johansen and Luca Maria Pesando share insights into their research interests and present their current work. (Watch the webinar and read more) IUSSP Panel activities New IUSSP Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities The IUSSP established a new Panel pn "Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities". The Panel is chaired by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR). The aim is to bring together researchers from demography, sociology, public health, and related fields to advance the comparative study of kinship. Lecture on the highlights of the PDR supplement on contraceptive transitions  On 24 March, at the “Monday at INED” lecture series, John Casterline, Jamaica Corker and Nathalie Sawadogo, members of the IUSSP Panel on “Contraceptive Transition Theories: Models for Contemporary Patterns of Use” (2019-2023), presented some highlights from their new review of evidence on contraceptive transitions, based on the recent PDR supplement. entitled “Contraceptive Transitions: Explanations and Evidence”. A video of the lecture is now available. (Watch the webinar and read more) Members News
• W. Ward Kingkade (1954–2025)  William Ward Kingkade passed away on 13 May 2025, at the age of 71. As a statistician and demographer, he made significant contributions to the analysis and forecasting of socio-demographic processes in the United States and the Soviet Union and, after 1989, in the countries that formerly formed the USSR. From 1984 until his death, he worked for the U.S. Census Bureau. • Antonio Golini (1937–2025)  Professor Antonio Golini, a distinguished Italian demographer and statistician and longtime member of the IUSSP, passed away on 10 May 2025. He was professor of demography at La Sapienza and at LUISS University and was, among many other positions, the creator and director, from 1980 to 1997, of the Institute for Population Research (IRP) of the National Research Council and, from 1994 to 2004, director of the journal Genus. • Jorge Martínez Pizarro (1959–2025)  Jorge Martínez, a leading expert on international migration in Latin America, passed away on 17 March 2025 in Santiago, Chile. He had devoted virtually his entire professional career to CELADE. Until his retirement in 2024, he also served as editor of Notas de Población, CELADE's scientific journal. He had been looking forward to his role as convener for the International Migration theme for IPC2025 and was very sad to have to pull out for health reasons. 68 new Members and 66 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 March and 31 May 2025. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list) Regional Population Associations
The Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) has 3 announcements to share: A call for applications for PhD students for a UAPS Workshop on Scientific Writing to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 11-15 August 2025. Application deadline: 30 June 2025. A Call for Expression of Interest for a Data and AI Scientific Panel. Application deadline: 20 July 2025. And a notice of the reconstitution of 2 UAPS Scientific Panels on Gender Equality and on FP/SRHR. Other Announcements Questionnaire on the use of DHS data  The Population Division and Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) would like your help to assess the potential impact of termination of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). If you use, or have used, DHS data, please complete this brief survey. The survey collects information about the aspects of the DHS that you have used and examples of research using DHS data. Your response will help inform the direction and key elements of future demographic and health data collection and dissemination, supporting alignment with user needs and priorities. All responses will be treated confidentially and presented only in aggregate form. Deadline for responding: 30 June 2025. Field Survey Questions to RAND’s American Life Panel Fall 2025 Omnibus Survey  RAND Survey Panels is fielding its semi-regular omnibus survey to the American Life Panel on September 15th, 2025. This is an opportunity for demographers to obtain quick, low-cost survey data based on a random sample of adults that will generalize to the adult population of the United States. Researchers can add questions to this omnibus survey at a cost of $2,000 per question. We will deliver a clean, weighted data set with 2,000 responses within a month of survey close. The RAND American Life Panel is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of about 11,000 adults 18 and older who are regularly interviewed over the internet. In operation since 2004, the American Life Panel has high completion and retention rates. Timeline: Aug 5: First draft of proposed question(s) due to RAND for review; Aug 11: Final questions due. Oct 27: Researcher receives final data file and technical documentation. Please submit your omnibus candidate questions or any inquiries about our survey panels to Sarah Ohls at sohls@rand.org. 8th Prof. John Caldwell Memorial Lecture  The Eighth Prof. John Caldwell Memorial Lecture of Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH) was held on 5th March 2025 at Sambalpur University, Odisha. Prof. P.M. Kulkarni delivered the lecture on the topic- "Fertility Decline in India: From an Alarmingly High Level to a Worryingly Low Level”.  The 20th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH) was held from 5 to 7 March 2025 at Sambalpur University, Odisha on the theme of "Health and Wellbeing in India: Socio-economic and Gender Implications". The conference was attended by more than 200 social scientists across India. N-IUSSP
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Calendar Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events
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 as 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 September 2025. 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 |
