✨Gezocht:✨ Onderzoeksmedewerker (0,3 fte) bij de @frw-rug.bsky.social ! Werk mee aan het project 'Een thuis voor Home & Place Making: methodiek & trainingen implementeren voor mensen met niet-aangeboren hersenletsel'. 📅 Solliciteren kan tot 28 sept. Meer info & eisen 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Last week, our colleague @billiedehaas.bsky.social joined the talk “Wil ik een kind?” at Forum Groningen. She shared her insights on what shapes couples' choices about having kids today. Really interesting discussion on personal decisions, power dynamics, and societal trends! Photo by: Ykka de Jong

Vanavond in het Forum in Groningen: Wil ik een kind? Waar onder andere Billie de Haas de normen en aannames rondom een kinderwens onder de loep neemt forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

Join us for the European Researchers' Night 2025 in Forum Groningen 🙌 Everybody is welcome, whether you are a researcher, student or just interested in all kinds of science 🧪 Get your tickets now 🎟️ forum.nl/nl/agenda/eu...

Our colleague Rolando Gonzalez Martinez has received a grant from the Jantina Tammes School to develop "Lines of Tension: Human-AI Co-Creation or Antagonism?"🎉 He will present this #art & #AI project at the upcoming European Researchers’ Night 2025 @ Forum Groningen, Sept 26!🎨💻

The NWO recently funded the €3.8M BEAT Project (Building Equitable Accessibility Together)! Louise Meijering leads the #Geographies of #Inclusivity work package, with Farzaneh Bahrami & Bettina van Hoven, focusing on the everyday #barriers that quietly undermine #accessibility tinyurl.com/3jzdp2da

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

This Wednesday, our colleague Billie de Haas will be at the #Forum in #Groningen to discuss her research on conversations around couples' desires of having children & her card game (hetkinderspel.nl) that helps couples in their decision process👶🧩 🕑20:00 - 21:30 (in Dutch) forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe. 👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration. 📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

🆕 New paper by our colleague Rolando Gonzales Martinez in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics! 🔎 He introduces a nonlinear morphogenetic model of fertility shifts, linking micro- and macro-level patterns—grounded in our “oliebollen theory.” 🍩 📄👉 doi.org/10.1515/snde...

📄 New article! Our colleague Clara Mulder, together with Niels Kooiman, wrote in Demos (Aug 29, 2025) that while living closer to family can matter, care needs hardly influence moving—neither for adult children nor for older adults. 🔗 In Dutch: nidi.nl/demos/zorgbe...

At the #IUNS-ICN2025 conference in Paris 🇫🇷, Hinke Haisma & Rolando Gonzales Martinez spoke on “Health, Nutrition, and the Ethics of Leaving no Child Behind in a World Shaped by Wars and Climate Change.” 🌍 The symposium highlighted justice-oriented strategies for resilient child #nutrition & growth.

New academic year, Le-Go! 🧱👩🏽‍🎓 Our research master student, Kate Lehane, is building a Lego Serious Play workshop for our colleague @billiedehaas.bsky.social’s qualitative research course. Being a student-assistant at the PRC means having all the right pieces in your skill set! ✨ #BuildingKnowledge

🏆 Call for nominations! The Christiaan Eijkman Award honors outstanding researchers in the field of global health. Know someone who deserves recognition? Submit your nomination by 15 September. 🔗 www.kit.nl/news/the-chr... #GlobalHealth #GlobalHealthResearch #ChristiaanEijkmanAward #KIT

Last week we received wonderful news from our former PhD candidate Lara Bister: her thesis at the Population Research Center, University of Groningen, supervised by Fanny Janssen & Tobias Vogt, was awarded the German Thesis Award 2025! 🎉 📰🔗👉 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🔔 Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025: Leo van Wissen & Becky Arnold examine recent urbanisation trends in Europe and the role of migration in shaping population change. Read the full article here: austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0... #migration #populationdynamics

🚨Publication alert! Our colleague Marieke published a new paper in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition! It’s about predicting total body water in babies and the impact of a new equation on measuring human milk intake using the dose-to-mother technique ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

Are you working at the intersection of #SRHR, #globalhealth & #internationaldevelopment?📢🌍 Submit your abstract now for the 14th Linking Research, Policy & Practice Conference! #LRPP Details: tinyurl.com/584xjhu8

Last week, 3 of our #populationstudies master students presented their thesis research during the biannual Graduate Research Day! Congratulations on almost finishing your studies🥳

Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social

Broaden your horizon with one of our Double Degrees! 🌍 Choose Demography & Social Inequality (University of Cologne) or Social Demography (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). 🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/VJkL8... ℹ️ www.rug.nl/frw/educatio... @rug.nl @frw-rug.bsky.social

Interested in migration, mortality, fertility & more? The Master in Population Studies at the University of Groningen — the only full-time demography programme in the Netherlands — is recruiting! 🎓 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/gIc8g... ℹ️ Info: www.rug.nl/frw/educatio... @frw-rug.bsky.social

On April 11, our colleague Rolando Gonzales Martinez will give a talk at the 8th Applied #AI #Symposium on "Societal Impacts of Ultra Artificial General Intelligence"! 🕚 11:20–12:00 📍 Academy Building, University of Groningen 🔗 Sign up here: forms.gle/GgFpzRNpZn8q... #UniversityofGroningen

We're looking for a Lecturer Cultural & Natural Landscape Geography (0.6-0.8 FTE) to start per 1 September @unigroningen.bsky.social. All info here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Shooting day for the new promotional clip for our #populationstudies master📹 Stay tuned for the final result👏 Already convinced by our program? Applications are open! www.rug.nl/masters/popu...

❗️New Paper Alert❗️ By our colleague Rolando Gonzales Martinez: Spatial machine learning (SML) is applied to enhance the accuracy of Proxy Means Testing (PMT) for poverty targeting. SML can improve the design of more equitable and effective social protection policies. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.04300

Call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026: one week left to apply! More information: ow.ly/1ZOl50V9y65

This week we welcomed Patricia Ndugga - a fellow demographer from the University of Makerere visiting our department! We were pleased to learn more about her work on #fertility, #repoductivehealth and the relationship between #climatechange and #population😊🌍

Call for Submissions – GLEN Open Modules You can now submit proposals for modules to the GLEN study and contribute to environmental and social science research. Submission details: glen-studie.de/en/offene-mo... #EnvironmentalResearch #SurveyResearch #SocialScience

Unlock the power of AI!💻🧠 Our colleague Rolando is giving a training on #artificialintelligence this summer! Interested? Read more here: www.rug.nl/frw/educatio...

📢 Paper Alert! 📢 Fanny Janssen & collaborators (Future Mortality Inequalities project) published a paper about trends in educational inequalities in obesity-attributable mortality (OAM) & its role in all-cause mortality (30+) in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/oby....

We're excited to announce the new health demography research group in the Netherlands Demographic Society!🎉 It connects scholars and creates a platform that unites different approaches & disciplines to advance #healthdemography Feel free to reach out to our colleague Tobias Vogt for more info!

Would you like to learn more about advanced methods in demographic research? Applications for EDSD are now open!📈📖

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

Roselinde van der Wiel shared her findings on the consequences of migration at the time of union formation for an individual’s earnings and employment!

Our colleague, Adrien Remund presented his work on near-miss events as a measure of repeated survival during Dutch Demography Day

Our former student Adrian Kunz presented his master thesis on differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives in Germany

Dutch demography day is coming to an end and researchers across Netherlands and the world joined today. The topics reflected the diversity of demography from twin studies with educational outcomes to health inequalities!

More information and ordering the game at www.hetkinderspel.nl

Check out our colleague Billie de Haas’s new card game! Do you and your partner want no (more) children? Read about it more here www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Are you our new #PhD colleague? Join Sarah Mawhorter, Sara Özogul and Louise Meijering to study Housing governance for Healthy Aging! The project explores how #housinggovernance affects older adults’ #housing and #health, comparing insights across Europe & the US, using #mixedmethods

Last week at the Dutch Participatory Action Research (PAR) conference, Billie de Haas led a workshop, sharing insights from #PAR on fostering inclusivity in our #PopStudies program and navigating informed consent in student-staff collaborations.

Hinke Haisma, Louise Meijering & Adrien Remund won the Demog-crazy Award from the Center for Demographic Research at Louvain-la-Neuve for a humorous, thought-provoking article. They address Ron Lee's doughnut critique 🍩of #Demography, proposing the Dutch #oliebol as an optimistic new metaphor.

Proud of our Research Master students who led a workshop on the use of local #buildingmaterials and diversifying the economy on the island of #Ameland, in the context of our course Joint Multidisciplinary Research Project @frw-rug.bsky.social

This is a very good piece by Vegard Skirbekk and Catherine Bowen www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

🗓️On November 15th, our colleague Billie de Haas will give a workshop at the Dutch Participatory Action Research conference. You can still register via www.windesheim.nl/agenda/2024/...

📢Join in person or online on the 21st of November! Our colleague, Billie de Haas, will participate as one of the book's discussants.

The ODISSEI Conference on Computational Social Science programme is out🎉 Expect poster presentations, 6 parallel sessions, the ODISSEI Marketplace, a plenary on “Infrastructure for Policy Research,” and a keynote by Guido Imbens. View sessions and register: odissei-data.nl/event/odisse... #ccsky