The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Demographic Science Unit will be in full force at the fiftieth anniversary of the British Society for Population Studies annual conference at Keele University, 11-13 September. Take a look at our programme below and visit our stand in Chancellor’s Open Space to learn more.
Join us for another packed programme of presentations and poster sessions as we continue to disrupt and realign demography to tackle the most demographic and population problems of our time.
The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is also sponsoring the gala dinner on Tuesday 12 September and will have a joint stand throughout the conference in Chancellor’s Open Space with ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. See you there!
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Monday 11 September
Start the conference by exploring the impact of excess mortality by cause of death during COVID-19 in England and Wales before uncovering the reasons behind falling life expectancy in these regions. Finish the day by gaining a global perspective on the use of online dating apps and poster presentations on a variety of topics.
| Time | Session title | Location | Speaker title | Speaker |
| 13:30-15:00 | Covid-19 | CBA1.077 | Chair | Antonino Polizzi |
| 13:30-15:00 | Covid-19 | CBA1.077 | Excess mortality by cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales | Ridhi Kashyap |
| 16:45-18:15 | Recent life expectancy trends | CBA1.077 | Chair | Andrea Tilstra |
| 16:45-18:15 | Recent life expectancy trends | CBA1.077 | Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind? A decomposition approach | Jenn Dowd |
| 16:45-18:15 | Recent life expectancy trends | CBA1.077 | Long-term mortality and life expectancy trends in post-communist countries: A comparative analysis | Katarzyna Doniec |
| 16:45-18:15 | Digital footprint data for population science 2 | CBA1.072 | It’s a match! A global view on the use of online dating application | Francesco Rampazzo |
| 16:45-18:15 | Historical demography: Transitions & kinship | CBA1.081 | Chair | Romola Davenport |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Do night owls and morning larks flock together? Exploring homophily and convergence on morningness/eveningness amongst 43,000 UK couples | Evelina Akimova |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Sex differences in COVID-19 mortality: A longitudinal, cross-country perspective | Katarzyna Doniec |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Social cartography and satellite-derived building coverage for post-census population estimates in difficult-toaccess regions of Colombia | Doug Leasure |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Beyond the missing link: A network-based procedure to evaluate migration theories | Micol Morellini |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Understanding the Persistence of Socioeconomic Disparities in Smoking during Pregnancy: Starting, Quitting and Continuing Smoking in Finland and Sweden | Rachel Ganly |
| 18:30-20:00 | Posters | Chancellor’s open space | Estimating structural inequalities in the "cost of care" | Daniel Valdenegro |
Tuesday 12 September
Join us on day two of the conference for talks on using a mathematical framework for dynamics in fertility and how climate change effects sex ratios at birth, followed by a plenary on new and future developments in British population studies. Before heading to the gala dinner sponsored by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, join us for talks on using satellite imagery and social media to estimate populations in data-scarce contexts and internal displacement in Ukraine.
| Time | Session title | Location | Speaker title | Presenter |
| 9:00-10:30 | Data science: Innovations in demographic data | CBA1.102 | Chair | Francesco Rampazzo |
| 9:00-10:30 | Methodological innovations in health & mortality | CBA1.077 | Chair | Jose Manuel Aburto |
| 9:00-10:30 | Methodological innovations in health & mortality | CBA1.077 | A mathematical framework for dynamics in fertility and fertility lost | Antonino Polizzi |
| 9:00-10:30 | Climate change & population dynamics | CBA1.081 | Climate change and sex ratios at birth | Jasmin Abdel Ghany |
| 11:00-12:00 | New and future developments in British population studies | Westminster Theatre | Plenary | Ridhi Kashyap |
| 13:00-14:30 | Historical demography: migration & mortality | CBA0.061 | Urban shitscapes and the late decline of infant diarrhoeal mortality in England and Wales: evidence from Medical Officer of Health reports | Romola Davenport |
| 17:30-19:15 | Data science: Estimation and forecasting | CBA1.081 | Estimating population in data-scarce contexts: to which extent can we leverage satellite imagery? | Edith Darin |
| 17:30-19:00 | Demography of disaster and displacement contexts | CBA1.102 | Nowcasting daily population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data | Doug Leasure |
| 20:00 | LCDS sponsored dinner | Keele Hall banqueting suite |
Wednesday 13 September
Refuel and refresh your communications knowledge at the Early Career Researcher Science Communication Breakfast before wrapping up the conference with talks on modelling kinship and investigating the drivers of European student mobilities.
| Time | Session title | Location | Speaker title | Presenter |
| 8:00-9:00 | ECR Science Communication Breakfast | Chancellors central | Communicating your research | Bradley Smith |
| 9:00-11:00 | Data science: Modelling kinship | CBA1.072 | Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method | Casey Breen |
| 9:00-11:00 | Current and future trends in international migration | CBA0.061 | Better schools, better parties, better lives: Investigating the drivers of European student mobilities | Micol Morellini |
| 11:30-13:00 | Health & mortality in early life | CBA1.077 | Chair | Katarzyna Doniec |