🎉Congratulations to Lekshmi Prasannan Reeba from LSE who won the #PopFest2025 conference poster competition last week with a poster on:

Women's empowerment and #fertility intentions among youth in #India

Lekshmi wins a £50 voucher gifted Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton - well done 🙌🙌

To end #PopFest2025, this year's organising committee chair Parth Pandya from the University of St Andrews gives the closing speech. Well done to all this year's committee members: Clara Girault and Sai Joshi from the University of Southampton and Izzi Carter from LSE.

Volunteer now for the next PopFest organising committee!

As we wrap up #PopFest2025, we'd like to say thanks and farewell to the delegates who made it a fun and informative two days. We also thank the sponsors listed below.

The search is now on for next year's student organising committee - get in touch if you think that could be you...

#populationstudies #socialscience #demography #conference #population #phd #postgraduate #postgraduatenetwork

Our second keynote speaker at #PopFest2025 was Dr Antonino Polizzi, discussing his PhD thesis on the causes and consequences of growing #lifeexpectancy shortfalls.

Antonino also discussed his #PhD journey so far, giving delegates lots of useful insights to use in their own work

🧾What a great poster session last night at #PopFest2025 - thanks to our presenters!

We learned more about international research across #population studies, all sponsored by Social Statistics & #Demography in the School of #Economic, #Social and #Political Sciences at the University of #Southampton

The EAPS PhD Network is running their session at #PopFest2025, featuring a brilliant Bingo-inspired networking game.

The Network encourages all #population studies PhD students to join up to meet other ECRs in their field, so even if you couldn't make the conference, you can still connect with others through the network and its events in the future.

More info: https://www.eaps.nl/page/phd-network

👋We are pleased to welcome so many people from the international community to #PopFest2025 over the next 2 days at the University of #Southampton.

CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham welcomed delegates with a keynote on 'Lessons from the life course of a #demographer'

‼️ Extended deadlines for #PopFest2025

UK/Europe based? We need your papers and posters! Send a short abstract to [email protected] by 5pm BST on 13 June - bursaries are available too.

Registration to attend is also now open until 15 June.

Full info: http://cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/

#postgraduate #population #postgraduateconference #demography #socialscience #ageing #mortality #geography #health

⏰ Hey #population #postgraduate students - only TWO WEEKS left to submit your abstracts on all things #demography, #migration, #health, #data and #population for #PopFest2025.

Head to the info page for more about the research strands and to submit:
https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/

📑You can also apply for a bursary to attend #PopFest2025, designed to support accepted presenters facing barriers to participation.

📨 Submit your bursary application for consideration by 4 April at: https://southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lLg3lPQJDbm5sW