Would you like to do a #PhD on #family #complexity and #inequalities in #children’s lives in #Scotland'? New #BAME PhD Scholarships available @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. More info www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su... (current funded opportunities tab) and www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
💼 Job opportunities
3 x Research Fellows to work on @ukri.org ESRC-funded Connecting Generations projects, based @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social
📨 Apply by 29 June. More info: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/vacanci... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations
Julia Mikolai
🎉 Congratulations to Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz on receiving the prestigious EAPS Award for Population Studies, the highest award of @eaps.bsky.social!
🔗 More: tinyurl.com/432fte86
Previous laureates: www.eaps.nl/page/EAPS-aw...
Our latest publication presents policy advice from the Age-It programme.
Age-It is perhaps the largest research initiative ever funded on ageing in Europe, by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Research, and led by demographer Daniele Vignoli.
Read it now: tinyurl.com/ms8bd7bb
Read more about the incredible work being done by @drjenndowd.bsky.social and her team in the context of her ERC grant on mortality 👇
Thanks to all the experts with whom we got to chat at #EPC2026 in Bologna. Check out policy take-aways from the conference on our Linkedin!
Skills mismatch: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"Age of Inheritance": www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Health & wealth: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Are you working with FReDA, pairfam, and/or GGS Data?
Yes 👉 Consider applying for the FReDA User Conference in Cologne until 21 June
No 👉 Check out our Data (now including Wave 4 from 2024)
More Info on www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/Startseite.html
The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online!
Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna!
See the working paper here:
dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
@ezagheni.bsky.social @theiletom.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social
Is Germany's middle class eroding? In this piece, 3 experts give a differentiated answer, among them our director @steffenmau.bsky.social. He warns that faith in progress has faded: under 10% think the next generation will fare better. He points to 'clear fault lines' that could deepen polarization
New preprint: WorldPop researchers detail the methodology behind the subnational population dataset powering Global 2.
The research highlights a growing global population alongside increasingly diverse demographic futures.
Learn more: www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping...
WorldPop reveals the methodology behind Global 2, harmonising 716,000+ subnational units to map population change at 100m resolution worldwide.
www.worldpop.org
Viele Deutsche fürchten sozialen Abstieg und Spaltung. Forscher erklären die Ursachen – und zeigen, wie Politik und Bürger gegensteuern können.
FReDA - Das Familiendemografische Panel - ist eine wissenschaftliche Studie, die sich mit dem Thema Beziehungen und Familienleben in Deutschland befasst.
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University
Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Jan Brülle
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
Extended proposal submission deadline - #CfA for the 4th Int. #FReDA User Conference
26–27 November 2026 in Cologne, Germany
Extended Submission deadline: 21 June 2026
Submission: Abstracts (max. one DIN-A4 page) should be sent by to [email protected]
www.freda-panel.de/F...
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Year after year, life expectancy rose. Until it didn’t ⏳
ERC grantee Jennifer Dowd @ox.ac.uk investigates the social, economic, and biological forces shaping mortality trends today.
🔗 Read the full story here: buff.ly/BH8l63N
#LifeExpectancy #PopulationHealth #FrontierResearch
