The Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) invites you to join the 18th edition of the Dutch Demography Day on Wednesday 4 February 2026, in the Academy Building of Utrecht University (Domplein). At the conference, the most recent findings in the field of population studies will be presented, including family and fertility, migrants and migration, health, mortality […]
Friday 17 October 2025 Juul Spaan successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘New horizons in later life: Motives, family ties and return of international retirement migrants‘ at the University of Groningen. With increased life expectancy and growing prosperity, retirement is increasingly seen as a phase of new opportunities. Particularly since the 1980s, more and more […]
To promote the study of population and to especially encourage young researchers in the field, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI and the Netherlands Demographic Society NVD yearly bestow the NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award for the best master thesis in the field of the interdisciplinary study of population/demography. The NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award carries a […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 109, is now available. Read about how to integrate the GGS Teaching Data in your university course, the Infra4NextGen data summaries, Harmonized Histories releases and more: GGP Newsletter September 2025.
The European Population Conference 2026 will convene in Bologna, Italy, from 3-6 June 2026. EPC 2026 is organized by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the University of Bologna. Important dates For more information on the conference visit the EAPS website.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 109, is now available. Come see the GGP at ESRA in July, read about the GGP Council of Partners’ meetings, new team members and more: GGP Newsletter June 2025.
Monday 23 June 2025 Esma Betül Savaş successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Retirement reimagined: The determinants and social consequences of international retirement migration‘ at the University of Groningen. International retirement migrants move abroad to a new country around the age of retirement, often in search of a better quality of life. This thesis explores […]
Monday 16 June 2025 Alon Pertzikovitz successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘The way we move: The role of parents in geographical mobility‘ at the University of Groningen. Parents play a key role in their children’s geographical mobility, both in childhood and adulthood. In childhood, parents shape their children’s mobility experiences by deciding when, where, […]
Monday 16 June 2025 Juul Henkens successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘It moves you: The relationship between adolescent residential mobility and wellbeing‘ at the University of Groningen. Moving during adolescence is a significant life event. Beyond the stress of the move itself, adolescents must adapt to a new home, a different neighborhood, and build […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 108, is now available. Read about the GGP Best Master’s Thesis Award, GGS-II and Harmonized Histories data releases, infrastructure synergies from GGP Poland and more: GGP Newsletter May 2025.
Thursday 22 May 2025 Daniel Zazueta successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘Educational inequalities in life expectancy in Europe: Past trends and their impact on overall longevity trends‘ at the University of Groningen. Socio-economic inequalities in mortality have been large and persistent over time in Europe. This thesis provided detailed insights into past trends in […]
Today, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) announced that NIDI director prof. dr. Helga de Valk has been appointed as a new member of the Academy! Her work advanced the field of demography by taking a life-course perspective on migration, acknowledging the role of family and social connections in the migration process. […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 107, is now available. Read about the CSDI Conference in Skopje, GGP being included on the Icelandic Roadmap, the release of the CRONOS-3 panel and more: GGP Newsletter April 2025.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 106, is now available. Read about the conclusion of the COORDINATE project, the FReDA User Conference and more: GGP Newsletter March 2025.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 105, is now available. Read about the SoGreen project launch in Brussels, Dutch Demography Day 2025, the GGP User Conference 2025 and more: GGP Newsletter February 2025.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 104, is now available. Read about the GGS User Conference in 2025, the release of the first GGS-II Wave 2 country, GGP conference participation and more: GGP Newsletter December 2024 & January 2025.
