Population Europe

📢| Call for applications | Graduate School in Gender and Sexuality Studies (EUR GSST – @ehess.fr , INED) is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers (18-month contracts) to work at The French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), in one of the institute’s research units.

🆕📰Parenthood with Multiple Partners: A new study by Stefano Arnolfo, Nicole Hiekel & Aart Liefbroer reveals that gender & social background shape family complexity through distinct life-course pathways. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/MP-parenthood

📺 Catch up on last week's #CPCCGWebinar with Kathy Burrell @livunigeog.bsky.social, who joined us to discuss research on the material culture of welcome, hosting and guesting within the UK's Homes for #Ukraine private hosting scheme @ukri.org @populationeu.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

🎂Happy Birthday to us!🍾 MPIDR is turning 30 on this very day. 🎉 Thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way, helps moving demography forward and, overall makes MPIDR such a fantastic place! www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30yMPIDR | English www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30jMPIDR | Deutsch

In @the-independent.com - Research by CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni, examining whether people who received support from their parents earlier in life, such as help with childcare from grandparents when raising young children, are more likely to provide support to their parents in later life @ukri.org

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Congratulations to our Director @janefalkingham.bsky.social on being elected a fellow of @britishacademy.bsky.social, seen here being welcomed to the Academy yesterday by Prof Susan J. Smith PBA, British Academy President Find out more: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_... @ukri.org @uosmedia.bsky.social

#Veranstaltungstipp: Heute sprechen Ina Czyborra (Sen. Wissenschaft, Gesundheit & Pflege), Markus Dröge (Stiftung Zukunft Berlin), Paul Gellert & Michaela Kreyenfeld (Einstein Center Population Diversity) über Berlins demografischen Wandel. @bbaw.bsky.social ▶️ einstein-diversity.com/event/the-be...

Sweden is about to elect a new parliament. As of late, birth rates have been debated in the country. What’s a realistic policy approach to low fertility, one that avoids doomsaying as well as sugarcoating? Read our newest Policy Insight by Gunnar Andersson 👇 🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdeetuhs

📢 The LISER Policy Lab team is pleased to share a new Policy Brief "The Impacts of Return #Migration on Countries of Origin" by @jackiewahba.bsky.social 🔗Discover the publication: www.liser.lu/news/policy-... Bonus: watch an interview from when Jackie visited LISER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnV...

What happens to the younger generations when birth rates drop and we live longer? 📖 In a new Expert Voices article in Science @anne-goujon.bsky.social of @iiasa.ac.at and VID discusses dejuvenation: the reduced "demographic, economic, cultural and political weight of younger generations in society".

Childhood in Sweden is really becoming dramatically stratified. Household-equivalized disposable income among children (0-18) in Sweden. The poverty threshold is 60% of the median income in 2022. A novel visualization by Aradhya, @rafgrotti.bsky.social, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social t.co/WwWBKcO5O4

What affects success in school? The research story is complex, genetic research is one part of it. In this article, experts from the Einstein Center Population Diversity explain how family structure shapes educational success. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Funded by @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Adapting in a fair way: In light of the new Demography Report by the European Commission, our experts present their key points for an adaptation strategy. "These policies are meant as a full life-course package, not a menu": www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...

Our paper "Sleeping With the Enemy" is featured in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in "Wie viel Gegensatz verträgt die Liebe?" (how much opposition can love bear?), Sebastian Herrmann uses our study to make a point that political difference between partners has stopped being only a matter of taste.

New #Debate piece! Nina Dippold and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social summarize the views from five experts on what assisted reproductive technology (ART) means for the future of reproduction at the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2024 1/5👇: @demographyvienna.bsky.social austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0...

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

I'm Matt Wallace and this is my TEDx talk 👇🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMA... @uos-health-society.bsky.social @salforduni.bsky.social @ukri.org @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

📢 Applications are now open for the PhD Programme in Life Course Research! We offer 10 PhD scholarships in Demography & Social Statistics. 🗓️ Deadline: August 6, 2026. A great opportunity to join a stimulating research environment! 🌍

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Conference Recap: Researchers Discuss Kinship, Care, and Inequality Call for papers for special issue in Demographic Research https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/researchers_discuss_kinship_care_and_inequality_15594

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

Remarquable contre-attaque de François Héran au @lefigaro.fr qui ouvre sans complexe ses colonnes à l'extrême droite. www.lagrandeconversation.com/societe/line...

Measuring the human cost of an ongoing conflict is exceptionally difficult. Researchers from our network have developed a demographic framework to estimate population loss in Gaza more accurately. Read it now: tinyurl.com/ycyh3ark

💡New European Demographic Datasheet 2026 available! The datasheet explores, visualizes and compares population indicators for European countries. It highlights demographic divides in fertility, health, work and welfare. Available as printed poster and online. 🔗 More: eds2026.populationeurope.org/en/

📨 The first newsletter of June is now out! 📨 🎉 The European Population Conference (EPC) 2026 is behind us, what an incredible event it was! We hope you enjoyed Bologna as much as we did. 📸 The photos from the conference are now online, so relive all the highlights! lnkd.in/enENGSuF

“Childcare Services & Ukrainian Refugee Mothers in Germany”: Gambaro @mathiashuebener.bsky.social et al explore whether refugee mothers benefit from childcare, finding that it leads to ↑ employment & ↑ German language skills & social contact. @unimainz.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Curious about the recent claims that the iPhone led to huge declines in births? @drjenndowd.bsky.social breaks down the analyses and brings some much needed skepticism.

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...

Read more about the incredible work being done by @drjenndowd.bsky.social and her team in the context of her ERC grant on mortality 👇

💼 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

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

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...

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/...

🎉 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...

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

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

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

“Countries sharing very low fertility levels increasingly follow divergent demographic trajectories. A single threshold no longer captures this diversity, calling for a less fertility-centered, more multidimensional perspective on population change”

Check out our newest #PopDigest by @mimmilou.bsky.social and find out why employment uncertainty does not translate into lower fertility intentions in a uniform way across populations. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4ftnxa

| Just released | Historically low fertility in the Maghreb A new study of this issue presented in the latest issue of #Population&Societies www.ined.fr/en/publicati... #INEDJournal

New by Spoorenberg & Skirbekk: "Is your country producing too many or too few births to keep its population size stable? We introduce a simple ratio that captures the immediate numerical balance between births and deaths, Bₒ/Bₙ.” #Demography #OpenAccess www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I will soon be recruiting researchers for SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, a FIS-2 project on ageing, digitalisation, social relations, and wellbeing. Expressions of interest are now welcome.

Easy to use for teaching! #population #teaching #demography

Come and join us for our 2nd Zurich Population Research Conference from February 1-2 2027! The call for abstracts is now open. www.prc.uzh.ch/en/conferenc... @populationeu.bsky.social @karstendonnay.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

The fabulous folks at @ourworldindata.org have created an simulation model where you can plug in different fertility, mortality, and migration rates to see how population size and composition will change in the future at different levels. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

!!! JOBS !!! Come work with us in Florence @florenceups.bsky.social 5 posizioni tra post doc e pre doc per lavorare sui temi di data integration e data analysis su bullismo e violenza tra minori. Info su call e scadenze qui www.disia.unifi.it/upload/sub/d... www.disia.unifi.it/upload/sub/d...

Our department is hiring a postdoc to study the educational experiences of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia / Europe, over long time periods. See these links for full details on this EduTrack project www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro... www.mpg.de/26445995/one...