1x #PhD position + 1x #Postdoc at the LIVES Centre, #Lausanne
both renewable up to 4 years, starting September 1, 2026, on an SNSF project examining #subjective #wellbeing across the #lifecourse using 200+ #panel #data from 90 countries. Both candidates should have strong #Rstat or #Stata skills. Applications are due May 25, 2026. #job @sociology

Postdoc: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_ns=job_listing&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH&rcm_site_locale=fr_FR&career_job_req_id=22763&selected_lang=en_US

PhD: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_ns=job_listing&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH&rcm_site_locale=fr_FR&career_job_req_id=22762&selected_lang=en_US

The #Wittgenstein Centre has announced CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington as their first #WICConference2026 keynote speaker, exploring how #education, #family trajectories, and #lifecourse decisions shape #societies and #opportunities over time.

🎓 A must-attend event for #researchers, #policymakers, #students, and anyone interested in the future of #demography and #humancapital.

Find out more: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-events/conferences/demography-and-human-capital

📑 A new paper by CPC-CG members introduces the first method that can predict how many relatives of any kind a person is likely to have at different points in their life, and how likely each outcome is:
https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/54/9

#demography #kinship #mathematicaldemography #populationstudies #lifeCourse #mortality #fertility #probability #matrixalgebra #combinatorics #convolution #kin #familyStructure #analyticModel #populationResearch #population #family #familystructures #demographicforecasting

CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington will discuss #partnership and #fertility trajectories, drawing on #data from the 1970 #British #Cohort Study (#BCS70), as part of the #UCL #Quantitative #SocialScience and Centre for #Longitudinal Studies seminar series.

Weds 26 Nov | 13:00-14:00 | Hybrid

Register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2025/nov/british-parents-trajectories-partnership-and-fertility-and-midlife-mental-wellbeing

#sequenceanalysis #logisticregression #trajectories #wellbeing #birthcohort #lifecourse #childhood #mentalhealth #quantitativesocialscience #population #demography

NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 27 Nov

🧑‍🏫 Ayse Guveli, Professor of #Sociology at the University of #Warwick, will discuss the consequences and long-term impact of #migration on #migrants using research from the 2000 #Families and The Third #Generation projects.

Register to join us online - all welcome: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/955/CPC_CG_Webinar__Ayse_Guveli

#demography #socialscience #immigration #geography #Turkey #socialinequalities #socialmobility #family #lifecourse

📣 On my way to idyllic Duisburg to present a joint paper on 📝 Beyond tradition: Successful career paths to full professorship 📄 with Jasmin Kizilirmak, Lisa-Marie Steinkampf and Sandra Buchholz. Looking forward to the session on life course perspective on educational research oranized by the great Sebastian Lang!

#ConferenceWellness #AcademicCareers #Lifecourse

What comes after cohabitation for young adults? Using sequence analysis, our study maps six common partnership-parenthood trajectories following cohabitation as first unions among early Millennials in the U.S., highlighting its diverse roles in family formation. https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/53/9/

#LifeCourse #Cohabitation