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TweetBSPS Annual Conference 2013 Monday 9 – Wednesday 11 September 2013, University of Swansea CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 25 MARCH. The 2013 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Swansea, 9-11 September. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available at […]
Continue reading »TweetThe Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG are delighted to announce our sponsored sessions for the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers annual conference, to be held at the RGS-IBG headquarters (Kensington Gore, London) on Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th August. Sessions and abstracts are listed below. Should you […]
Continue reading »TweetESRC Studentships at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine We are accepting applications now for social science and public health PhD and MSc funding ESRC 1+3 studentships are available in the Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health and theFaculty of Public Health & Policy for social science research in the following areas: Demography – Demography & Health; […]
Continue reading »TweetKeynote Speakers on Ageing and Population Decline – 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2013 Dear Colleagues, We proudly announce two Keynote Speakers for the 7th International Conference on Population Geographies: Professor Sarah Harper – “Rethinking Global Ageing” Professor Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Dr. Cristina Martinez-Fernandez – […]
Continue reading »TweetRGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013 New geographical frontiers 28 to 30 August 2013, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London ========================================== Call for Sessions and Papers ========================================== The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) is pleased to announce that the Call for Sessions and Papers has opened for its Annual International Conference 2013 […]
Continue reading »TweetPhD Studentship in Human Geography Contemporary European Diasporas in Wales Supervisors Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) Professor Rhys Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) The studentship is supported by the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre for Wales and will involve opportunities for engagement, networking, shared training and possible […]
Continue reading »Tweet17th-18th December 2012 To be held at the RGS-IBG Headquarters, London Background to the conference 20 years ago, Champion and Fielding’s (1992) two volume edited collection on migration patterns and processes was published. This provided a landmark intervention within migration studies and wider human geography, demonstrating how different types of migration in GB were undergoing […]
Continue reading »Tweet Closing date :30/11/2012 Reference :HUM-01939 Faculty / Organisational unit :Humanities School / Directorate :School of Social Sciences Division :Social Statistics Salary : £32,901 to £55,908 Employment type :Permanent Hours per week :Full-time Location :Oxford Road We wish to recruit three Lecturers or Senior Lecturers in Social Statistics / Quantitative Social Science. These posts are tenable […]
Continue reading »TweetPopFest is an annual population studies conference for postgraduate students, organised by fellow postgraduates. This conference will provide an ideal environment for researchers to present and discuss their work with others in the field as well as an excellent networking opportunity. The University of Southampton is pleased to host PopFest from the 8th to the […]
Continue reading »TweetCall for Abstracts now open! 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2013 The Call for Abstracts for the 7th International Conference on Population Geographies is now open! We welcome papers from all fields of population geographies. In particular, we welcome papers for the special sessions on the following topics (more […]
Continue reading »TweetAlp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, among them demography, economics, and sociology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic or geographical area, and meets the challenges of interdisciplinary and international audiences. Submissions are particularly welcome on topics concerning: • population, families, and the welfare state • […]
Continue reading »TweetBusan, Korea, 26-31 August 2013 Call for Papers and Posters – Deadline for Submission: 15 October 2012 Scientific Programme The Conference will open on Monday 26 August 2013 and conclude on Saturday 31 August 2013. It will include 270 regular scientific sessions, poster sessions, and training sessions, as well as plenary and debate sessions, side meetings and […]
Continue reading »TweetThe full report for the recent PopFest conference held at Loughborough University is now available in the conference report page of the website
Continue reading »TweetAn opportunity has arisen for a student to undertake Ph.D. research at the University College London Doctoral Training Centre on a retail topic relevant to the ‘Retail Research and Data’ initiative. The work will be co-sponsored by the Co-Operative Group Limited and will investigate “Open data for improved geodemographic classifications”. An outline summary of the […]
Continue reading »TweetLecturer in the Geography of Migration – SK4745 Description School of Geography and Geosciences, Department of Geography and Sustainable Development,£37,012 – £45,486 per annum, Start: as soon as possible Details Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in the Geography of Migration which is attached to the ESRC-funded Centre for Population Change whose Scottish […]
Continue reading »TweetRural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘interconnected’. Social transformations take place in rural areas as the result of […]
Continue reading »Tweet“New Frontiers Groups (NFG)” (Austrian Academy of Sciences) The NFG programme aims at investigator driven innovative research in order to promote promising academic careers. Applicants must hold a doctoral degree which was conferred no more than 7 years prior to the submission deadline (15thJuly) and have the ability to lead an independent research group. Candidates with […]
Continue reading »Tweet “Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize” This prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna, who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield, died in 2004. The Population Geography Research Group has set up three prizes (£100 for first prize; £50 for second […]
Continue reading »TweetA conference held under the auspices of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) 2nd-3rd July 2012, University of St Andrews We are pleased to announce that participant registration for this conference is now open. The meeting is timed to finish at lunchtime on Tuesday 3rd July […]
Continue reading »TweetAfter six successful and pleasant previous International Conferences on Population Geographies in St Andrews (twice), Liverpool, Hong Kong, Dartmouth and Umea, the Population Research Centre of the University of Groningen is proud to present: The 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, 25-28 June 2013 Note the dates in your agenda! Call for abstracts expected September 2012 […]
Continue reading »TweetThe following courses will be offered by the University of Leeds as part of the TALISMAN project, a node of the National Centre for Research Methods. These training sessions are open to any interested parties; if you have any questions, please contact Amy O’Neill, TALISMAN Project Assistant @ School of Geography, Faculty of Environment, University of […]
Continue reading »TweetBSPS Annual Conference 2012 Monday 10 – Wednesday 12 September 2012, The University of Nottingham SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 11th May 2012. The 2012 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Nottingham from 10-12 September. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available […]
Continue reading »TweetPosts available from 1st September 2012; closing date 27 April 2012; salary range £32,900 to £44,165. The Department of Geography, which sits within the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences, seeks to appoint two lecturers in human geography from 1st September 2012. These posts are offered on standard open-ended contracts; they are not fixed-term […]
Continue reading »TweetHello blog, we haven’t seen each other for a while – I’ve been meaning to call, but you know how it is, just been so busy with work and all that… What do you mean I only visit when I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetThe 2011 UK Census is estimated to cost in excess of £500m. This, together with concerns about timeliness, has led to the government investigating alternative approaches to acquiring information on the population. However, the census also provides a framework for considerable social analysis. It is thus vital that the impact of any replacement to the […]
Continue reading »Tweet PopFest is an annual population studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. PopFest has been organised by various universities with the support of sponsors for nineteen years. The twentieth PopFest is to be held at Loughborough University from the 21st – 23rd June and will reflect on the past 20 years of […]
Continue reading »TweetREGISTRATION DEADLINE: 28th March 2012 Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes Third Biennial British-Irish Population Conference, Belfast, 18-19th April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG The conference programme along with further information, registration form and payment form can now be downloaded […]
Continue reading »TweetThe Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Bob Woods Postgraduate Dissertation Prize. The prize is named in honour of Professor Bob Woods, who passed away in 2011. Bob was an esteemed population geographer, with interests across the sub-discipline. He made an invaluable contribution to population geography for […]
Continue reading »TweetGeographical, social and area type mobility: trajectories of selective sorting over time by health status and ethnic group ESRC White Rose DTC Network Studentship – University of Leeds, School of Geography Session 2012-2013 – Closing Date 17 February 2012 Principal Supervisior: Dr Paul Norman, University of Leeds Co-Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Ballas, University of Sheffield […]
Continue reading »TweetCALL FOR PAPERS Innovative Perspectives on Population Mobility: Mobility, Immobility and Well-being 2nd-3rd July 2012 Hosted by the University of St Andrews under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) and the ESRC Centre for Population Change The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research […]
Continue reading »TweetESRC WHITE ROSE DTC NETWORK STUDENTSHIPS 2012/13 Collaborative Excellence in International Research ESRC WR DTC Network Studentships Available at the University of Leeds ESRC White Rose DTC Network Studentships promote collaboration across Yorkshire’s leading research universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. Each university is offering 4 ESRC WR DTC Network Studentships in Session 2012/13. Each […]
Continue reading »TweetPopulation Geography Research Group-sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 Please find below CFPs for paper sessions sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Edinburgh (3rd-5th July). The deadline for submission of abstracts to session convenors is 20th January 2012. The PopGRG will also sponsor a […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Dismantling diasporas: rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, mobility and development Session convenors: Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University; and Anastasia Christou, University of Sussex This session wishes to re-energise debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in geographical scholarship and beyond. In particular, there is a need to engage […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Rethinking the (In) security/ Migration Nexus Session convenors: Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University (Israel); Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regents College London (UK). While the migration / security nexus is hardly new, as exemplified by anti-migration laws implemented in some countries during both World Wars, the last decade has witnessed […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The geographies of graduate migration and mobility: dealing with (in)security, uncertainty and globalisation Session convenors: Aga Szewczyk (Loughborough University); Kate Botterill (Newcastle University). There has been a growing internationalisation of higher education systems with increasing numbers of people attending university within and beyond their country of origin. […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The spatial and job mobility nexus ‒ Migration and securing security Session Convenors: David McCollum, University of St Andrews; Darja Reuschke, University of St Andrews. The nature of labour market trajectories in post-industrial economies has been the focus of much academic interest, as have the moves that […]
Continue reading »Tweet‘Pop’ goes Population Geography Session convenor: Darren Smith (Loughborough University). For the last few decades, reviews of the state of population geography have been provided seemingly every ten years (e.g. Findlay and Graham, 1991), often highlighting the advances within the sub-discipline and offering some fruitful ways forward. In this panel session, invited contributors will consider […]
Continue reading »TweetJust to prove that I’ve not been twiddling my thumbs for the last 12 months, here’s the first (of hopefully many) working papers to come out of the ENFOLDing Migration stable… Alan Wilson and I have been working on a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetThis time from John Stillwell and me (rather than the other way around!) – paper is titled “A comparison of internal migration by ethnic group in Great Britain using a district classification”. “Oooh, that sounds interesting!” I hear you cry … Continue reading →
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