Jan M. Hoem Award for Family, Fertility and Social Policy Research (all levels of seniority)

This Award honors outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in the field of demographic research of the family, fertility, and social policy.

The Award is dedicated to the groundbreaking contributions of Jan M. Hoem (1939-2017) to research on social policy in relation to family-demography events and life-course outcomes, as well as his support to the advancement of family demography research in general. It also celebrates his role as educator and mentor of new generations of European family demographers.

This Award is jointly sponsored with the Nordic Demographic Society where Jan Hoem was a co-founder in 1968.

Nominations for this Award can only be made up to two months before the start of the European Population Conference 2028!


Rules of play

Laureates

2024

Eleonora Mussino, Stockholm University, Sweden

2022 

Eva Beaujouan, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, OEAW, University of Vienna), Austria

2020

Trude Lappegård, University of Oslo/Statistics Norway

2018

Sunnee Billingsley, University of Stockholm, Sweden