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Academy selects new members
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. […]
GGP Newsletter April 2025
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.
PhD defence Daniel Zazueta
Thursday 22 May 2025 Daniel Zazueta will defend 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 […]
GGP Newsletter March 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.
GGP Newsletter February 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.
GGP Newsletter December 2024 & January 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.
PhD defence Willem Vermeulen
Monday 27 January 2025 Willem Vermeulen succesfully defend his doctoral thesis entitled ‘Separation risks of married and cohabiting couples: How important is the social context?‘ at the University of Groningen. More than one in four Dutch couples who start to cohabit, break up within ten years. Not every couple is equally likely to separate. For […]
GGP Newsletter November 2024
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 103, is now available. Read about the GGP Workshop hosted by the Austrian team, the annual meeting of the UNECE Statistics Standing Working Group on Ageing and more: GGP Newsletter November 2024.
European Society of Historical Demography Conference 2025
The 6th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD2025) will be held in Bologna, Italy, from 10 to 13 September 2025. This event aims to provide a platform for scholars and researchers to present their latest findings and to encourage discussions on a wide array of topics in historical demography. Contributions across the […]
IUSSP International Population Conference 2025
The 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) was to take place in Brisbane, Australia from 13 to 18 July 2025. The IUSSP International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on population issues. First organised in 1927, and held every four years since […]
PhD defence Katharina Runge
Monday 21 October 2024 Katharina Runge successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Metabolic syndrome and employment exit: Longitudinal findings from the Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank‘ at the University of Groningen. As many Western countries, the Netherlands face a new demographic reality of an aging working population. To ensure the sustainability of the Dutch welfare […]
Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) will be held in Washington, DC, USA, 10-13 April 2025. The Population Association of America’s annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Here demographers at all career stages are afforded the opportunity […]
Dutch Demography Day 2025
The Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) invites you to join the 17th edition of the Dutch Demography Day on Wednesday 12 February 2025, 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 […]
GGP Newsletter October 2024
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 102, is now available. Read about GGS’s Dutch Data Prize win, how macro-level factors affect European fertility realisation, GGS-II Czechia policy updates, and more: GGP Newsletter October 2024.
GGP Newsletter September 2024
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 101, is now available. Download the new GGS Teaching Datasets and learn more about the GGP-BGR meeting and more: GGP Newsletter September 2024.
GGP Newsletter July & August 2024
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 100, is now available. Learn about some insights into GGS data, COORDINATE visits and the release of Harmonised Histories Uruguay: GGP Newsletter July & August 2024.