Reflections on the #BSPS2025 conference, one of my favourites (after >20 years of conferencing). This year it was held at the beautiful campus on Swansea Bay (sadly didnโ€™t get a pic of the delicious Welsh cakes that came out at afternoon tea!) ๐Ÿงต

We โ™ฅ๏ธ #BSPS2025 - thanks to BSPS for a great conference!

Highlighting just some of the great talks from CPC-CG members before we say goodbye for another year: Hale on #racism & #loneliness in UK Asian communities; Finney on #EVENS; Butterick on #kin number #probabilities; Li on #intergenerational proximity; Lyu on #parental support & #homeownership; Nur on #childlessness & #kinlessness ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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Proud winners of the #BSPS2025 conference quiz!

Another great day so far #BSPS2025, including presentations from MigrantLife colleagues Baek on #fertility & #employment of UK women with #migrant backgrounds; Harrison & Mary Abed Al Ahad on migrants' life events in France & Sweden; Christison on UK family & housing transitions by migrant group & origin

Find out more about the MigrantLife work: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/projects/117/MigrantLife#overview

At #BSPS2025, CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale provided useful practical tips on navigating #PhDs/#postdocs, as well as how to take advantage of training and opportunities.

The session was co-organised with Rachel Wilkie and Alice Butler-Warke as part of the CPC-CG #ECR network.

๐Ÿ‘‹ Head to the CPC-CG stand during the 10:30am refreshment break at #BSPS2025 for a coffee and a catch up, and to nab some conference stationery essentials โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿง‹โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ—’๏ธ

Find out which sessions our members are taking part in today at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/917/British_Society_for_Population_Studies_Annual_Conference_2025

Early career researcher at #BSPS2025? Don't miss CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews who will be hosting a session on career development later today:

๐Ÿ•›12:00-13:00
๐Ÿ“Great Hall 014
Packed lunches provided

Find out more about Jo's work: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/the_team/1607/Jo_Hale

#population #demography #careerdevelopment #geography #socialsciences #earlycareerresearcher #ECR #postgraduate

๐ŸŽ‰ Congratulations to CPC-CG's Joe Butterick who won the #BSPS2025 ECR poster prize for the poster:

How will kin-networks look by 2070? Future #kin estimated by parity-level with added uncertainty

Find out more about Joe's work: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/the_team/#researchers

Coincidentally, was talking about eugenics again yesterday at the #BSPS2025 conference. Dermot Grenham and Alice Reid organised a very interesting session on similarities in public concern about low fertility in the 1920s and 2020s

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zjkklib5idowk4fhez7gpfsc/post/3lxvzc3gqis2m

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ We are looking forward to attending the #BSPS2025 conference next week at #Swansea University / Prifysgol #Abertawe.

We'll have a stand in the Great Hall so do visit us during the breaks, and look out for our researchers in the sessions - full details linked below:

http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/917/British_Society_for_Population_Studies_Annual_Conference_2025

#population #demography #socialsciences #migration #geography #ageing #economics #sociology #fertility #family #economics #forecasting #modelling #conflict #populationstudies #demographic