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Position Editor European Studies of population (ESPO)
Editor European Studies of Population ESPO
The ESPO book series is published under the auspices of EAPS by Springer (http://www.springer.com/series/5940). The series aims at disseminating population research, with special relevance for Europe. It may analyze past, present and/or future trends as well as their determinants and consequences. The character of the series is multidisciplinary, including formal demographic analyses, as well as social, economic and/or historical population and family studies. Studies which are of interest to the series include internationally relevant studies, European comparative studies, innovative theoretical and methodological studies, and policy-relevant scientific studies. The series may include monographs, edited volumes and reference works.
For additional practical information on the ESPO series contact ms. Evelien Bakker at Springer (evelien.bakker@springer.com).
If you are interested in this position, please send an email including your cv to me with a copy to evelien.bakker@springer.com and do not forget to put “ESPO Editor” as the subject. In case you are not interested yourself but wish to point the Council’s attention to a suitable candidate, please let us know!
Note that non-members may apply as well but they should join EAPS upon acceptance.
The deadline for applications is 15 September 2014.
EAPS Awards at EPC 2014
-Frans Willekens receives the EAPS Award for Population Studies 2014
-Arnstein Aassve laureate of the 2014 Dirk J. Van de Kaa Award for Social Demography
-2014 Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis presented to Annette Baudisch
-Haedong Qi wins 2014 Gunther Beyer Award at EPC
For photos please visit: http://www.population-europe.eu/Search/NewsDetail/5339/en
European Doctoral School of Demography
EPC 2014 in Budapest
The next European Population Conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, June 2014.
On behalf of the Hungarian Demographic Community, Zsolts Speder announced the new venue during the closing session of EPC 2012 in Stockholm.
New Executive Secretary
The new Council of EAPS, which took office at the 2012 General Assembly, has appointed Nico van Nimwegen (NIDI, the Netherlands) as the new Executive Secretary. Nico succeeds Helga de Valk, who held this position since 2007.
The new Council of EAPS
The General Assembly of EAPS which convened during the European Population Conference 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden on 14 June, elected the new Council of EAPS. This Council will hold office until 2016 and is composed as follows:
President: Franceso Billari (Italy)
Vice-President: Anna Cabré (Spain)
Secretary-General / Treasurer: Marc Luy (Austria)
Member: Clara Mulder (Netherlands)
Member: Zsolt Speder (Hungary)
Executive Secretary: Nico van Nimwegen (Netherlands)
The Gunther Beyer Award was won by Stefan Öberg, the University of Gothenburg
The Gunther Beyer Award for the best paper presented at the European Population Conference by a young scientist, was award to Stefan Öberg from the Universtity of Gothenburg for his paper “Socioeconomic differences in height among young men in southern Sweden, 1818-1968”.
The award was presented at the Closing Ceremony of EPC 2012 by the chair of the Jury, prof. Janina Jozwiak, also on behalf of the other members of the Jury prof. Graziella Caselli and prof. Guillaume Wunsch, all Honorary Presidents of EAPS.
EAPS Poster Awards at the European Population Conference 2012
Posters have rapidly developed into a major communication tool for researchers. During the 2012 European Population Conference some 300 posters were presented in three poster sessions. For each session an international jury of three experts selected the best poster which was then awarded with the EAPS Poster Award 2012. The juries were asked to judge the posters with respect to the quality of its content, the richness of information, the clarity of presentation as well as the way in which the poster was presented by the researchers involved.
The Jury for the first Poster Session consisted of Andreas Edel (chair), Thomas Lindh, and Clara Cortina. The EAPS Poster Award for this session was presented to:
Joan Pau Jordà, Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora, Aina Moragues and Anna Cabré of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, for their poster “Approaching migrations through family names: the Barcelona area at the 16th century”.
The Jury for the second Poster Session consisted of Ettore Marchetti (chair), Sunnee Billingsley, and Suzana Koelet. The EAPS Poster Award for this session was won by:
Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Cracow University of Economics; Vegard Skirbekk (IIASA), Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Conrad Hackett PEW Research Center and Brian J. Grim, Pew Research Center and Boston University, for their poster “Religious demography of emerging economies. Age structures and fertility in the BRIC countries and the global religious consequences of their economic growth”.
The Jury for the third Poster Session consisted of Anne Gauthier (chair), Eiwor Hoglund, and Jennifer Holland. The EAPS Poster Award for this session was presented to:
Jonathan Zufferey, University of Geneva, for his poster “Differences in migrants mortality: for a multilevel approach of spatial inequalities using a fine granularity. An application to Switzerland, 1990-2008”.
Poster award Vienna 2010
1. Marc Ajenjo & Joan Garcia Roman (both at the center for demographic studies Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
2. Anne Schulz (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V and Universität Rostock) & Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter (University of Rostock)
Gunther Beyer award Vienna 2010
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (University of Wisconsin at Madison) & Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin at Madison) with their paper "Can multi-stage mortality selection explain a mortality deceleration puzzle?"