News from the Network

Contemporary Social Science has released a themed issue on ‘Family change, intergenerational relations and policy implications’, guest edited by Linda Hantrais, Julia Brannen and Fran Bennett.

The Centre for Population Change (CPC) has won the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Prize for the Outstanding Public Policy Impact category.

Led by an all-female group of researchers across continents, Dear Pandemic is a new website where you can stay updated on factual information related to COVID-19.

Two excellent teams of researchers at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) have received significant grants from Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council.

Ben Wilson receives a new ERC Starting Grant to study the inequalities that are faced by the children and grandchildren of refugees living in Sweden.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie has launched a German-language podcast, 'Demography and Society in Focus' ('Demografie und Gesellschaft im Fokus').

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 EAPS Awards from our network: Elizabeth Thomson (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Daniele Vignoli (University of Florence), Martin Kolk (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo) and Liili Abuladze (Tallinn University).

Congratulations to Zsolt Spéder, Director of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (HDRI), for receiving the title of Doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences!

Congratulations to Dr José Manuel Aburto (University of Southern Denmark) and Dr Carlo Giovanni Camarda (Institut National d'Études Démographiques) on being awarded the 2021 European Demographer Awards, a prize donated by the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin.

Guest edited by Phil Rees (School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK) and Nikola Sander (German Federal Institute for Population Research), Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is now publishing a special issue on the role of internal migration as a driver of regional population change in Europe.