🌞On Monday, DEMO members participated in a one-day retreat. This was an opportunity to reflect on our work-life balance & our team dynamics. With a picnic in the woods at the end of the day, it was also an opportunity to share informal moments together before closing the summer break.

#MeetDEMOmembers series is back! A few weeks ago, we welcomed Afua Durowaa-Boateng. She started a postdoctoral position & will be working on the world #fertility database project. Her research interests are male & female fertility as well as family dynamics, notably in sub-Saharan Africa.

📢New publication from DEMO members! Kassoum Dianou, @brunomasquelier.bsky.social & al. compared mobile-phone & face-to-face surveys to estimate under-5 #mortality in contexts of conflict and displacement in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📸 Throwback to #EPC2026 From presentations & posters to networking, & memorable moments around Bologna, last week was an inspiring experience for our team. Thank you to organisers & @eaps.bsky.social who made this conference such a success.

Last day of #EPC2026 already, hope you enjoyed yesterday's party as much as DEMO members! 2 more things before you leave: 1️⃣Our colleague, Ilia, is presenting at 9:00 today on seasonal components of life expectancy (Room B) 2️⃣Give us your best caption for this group picture Safe travels everyone!

#EPC2026 is fast approaching! Many DEMO members will participate this year. Here's a summary of when & where to find us! Safe travels & see you in Bologna 😎☀️

Some DEMO members are attending CUDEP2026 in Bordeaux netx week Valentin Bope will present joint research with @phbocquier.bsky.social on demographic vulnerability, political instability & changes in the burden of crisis- related injury #mortality in sub-saharan Africa

🎉 #MeetDEMOmembers series is back! Today, meet Marie-Laurence Flahaux, associate researcher at DEMO & researcher at the French Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). Her research interests include return #migration, migrants’ administrative trajectories, & the effect of migration #policies.

Je recrute un·e doctorant·e en sciences sociales pour mon projet MIS-FNRS 3CoBe 🎓 Objectif : collecter et analyser les trajectoires contraceptives des femmes en Belgique 🇧🇪 Intéressé·e ? Postulez ici 👇 #PhD #SciencesSociales #JusticeReproductive

Join us at 1pm today for our #LunchSeminar ⏬

Do not miss our next #LunchSeminar! Next Tuesday, we welcome Carren Ginsburg, who'll present on the effects of internal #migration on #health in South & sub-saharan Africa. 📆 26/05 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

🎓 Soutenez le Fonds Démographie pour l’ #Afrique ! Il récompense les meilleur·es étudiant·es africain·es du Master DEMO à l'UCLouvain, en couvrant leurs frais de logement durant leur seconde année de master. 🔎 Pour en savoir plus: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...

📢NEW in Quetelet Journal, by A. Durowaa-Boateng & E. Beaujouan: Literacy lowers #fertility for unschooled women in sub-Saharan #Africa but years of schooling matter far more. Education quality drives reproductive choices. ⏩Read full paper: ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

Reminder: we welcome Jenny Garcia today for our #LunchSeminar

🔎New publication from our colleagues @didierndombe.bsky.social & Ester Rizzi on intimate partner violence & unmet need for family planning in DRC. Their study notably highlights the moderating role of reproductive coercion. Read more: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Next Tuesday, we will welcome Jenny Garcia for a new session of our #LunchSeminar! She will present her work on the reconstruction of the demographic dynamics of Venezuela in the 21st century. 📆 12/05 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Our colleague Alice Rees @ayrees.bsky.social is attending the #INVESTConference 2026 in Turku this week. Tomorrow, she will present joint work with Marika Jalovaara on life-course trajectories of partnership, income, residential independence & #childlessness in 🇫🇮 Finland and 🇧🇪 Belgium.

📢NEW Quetelet Journal publication: Ageing migrants often plan to return 'home'—but what about their final rest? New research reveals that religion matters, but origins shape choices more than assimilation. #Migration #Aging #Transnationalism #TeO2 #France Read more: ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

Some DEMO members are attending #PAA2026 this week! ⏩07/05 - 11:00 am: Fabio Pastor will present on Education Expansion, Urbanization and #Fertility Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

This week, our colleague Didier Ndombe Mbombo @didierndombe.bsky.social will be at the WCA special issue author workshop on child marriage & sexual violence. 📆April 29 – May 1, 2026 📌Dakar, Senegal | Hybrid

Only a few days left to submit your abstract for the 2026 #QueteletSeminar! 📆Deadline this Friday ⏩Read the call: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...

Do not forget our first #LunchSeminar of the week today! ⏬

REMINDER: submit your proposal for the 2026 #QueteletSeminar before 01/05! More information on the call: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...

😲Next week, we'll have not one but two #LunchSeminar! On Tuesday, Detlev Lück (BiB) will present on the effects of #data collection modes on measuring demographic indicators, using #GGS data. 📆 14/04 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Reminder: we have a #lunchseminar today at 1pm!

🔔New publication from our colleague @brunoschoumaker.bsky.social & David Sanchez-Paez on the contribution of educational changes to #fertility declines in low-& middle-income countries. 🔎Their analysis reconstructs fertility trends by educational level in 72 countries using 414 surveys

Check this new publication on #fertility transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, using 155 DHS surveys, by David Sanchez-Paez & our colleague @brunoschoumaker.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/psp....

One more day to submit your proposal for the 2026 Demog-Crazy Award! ⏬

Join our next #LunchSeminar! Emmanuel Pont (INED) will present on the carbon footprint of procreation. How much does having a child really impact the #climate? His talk revisits this widely debated topic. 📆 7/04 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

A new session of our #LunchSeminar is happening today! ⏬

[FR] Les mamans solos comptent parmi les plus touchées par les réformes actuellement débattues en Belgique. Denise Musni (DEMO) et Olivier Malay (ACV-CSC) mettent en lumière les défis structurels rencontrés par les parents solos ainsi que les politiques qui pourraient mieux les soutenir ⏬

Join us for our next #LunchSeminar! Juliette De Vestel will present research on how #gender attitudes shape #fertility ideals and how these relationships vary across social contexts among young women in Sub-Saharan Africa. 📆 17/03 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Reminder: join us today for our #LunchSeminar!⏬

For students and professionals, the Population Studies Group at @lshtm.bsky.social offers a self-study course: "Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis". See if any of the 28 interactive lectures are for you! No prior training required. www.population-europe.eu/resources/te...

📢 Call for Papers! We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demography and Human Capital", taking place from Dec 1-2, 2026 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna. 📆 Deadline: April 30, 2026 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve... #demography

NEW PUBLICATION in Quetelet Journal: Can we move beyond grand narratives & micro-causal blind spots? 🔍 Andreu Domingo argues for a #CriticalDemography —intersectional, systemic, and politically engaged. Time to challenge the 'demographic common sense'! 📊✊ #PopulationStudies #SocialTheory ⏬

Join us next week for a new #LunchSeminar! We'll learn more about the work of our colleague Ilia Klimkin @klimkin.bsky.social on Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium 🇧🇪 📆 24/02 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

📢CALL FOR PAPERS Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜. Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

📢CALL FOR PAPERS #QueteletSeminar 2026: historical, comparative, spatial analyses, advanced methodologies, interdisciplinarity, conceptual frameworks, policy responses... on inequalities in & through #health across past, present, & future societies. ⏬More details

This week, 4 DEMO PhD students are attending the #YoungDemographers conference in Prague! They'll be presenting posters from their thesis research 1️⃣ Ibraheem Ahmed's poster is entitled "Identifying Attributable Risk Factors of Age-Specific Mortality in Older & Adolescents"

Reminder: Join us at 1pm! ⏬

📆We are pleased to share with you the stimulating programme of our #LunchSeminar for this semester! (Starting again tomorrow 🎉) Join us monthly, either on-site or online, to explore various research in #population studies.

📣 Lancement de l'appel à communications pour le prochain colloque de l'AIDELF, qui se tiendra @umontreal.ca à l'été 2027 😎 Grande fierté et enthousiasme à l'idée d'accueillir la communauté de démographes francophones sur notre campus 💙 Soumettez d'ici le 15 avril 2026 : aidelf2027.sciencesconf.org

Opening a discussion on the relative perception on fertility decline.

Next week, our colleague Hequn Wang will kickstart this semester's #LunchSeminar, presenting on healthcare disruption among older Europeans during COVID-19 "Family ties influenced the likelihood of having treatments postponed or denied" 📆 03/02 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Appel à communications L’Association internationale des démographes de langue française (AIDELF) organise son XXIIIe colloque international "La démographie dans tous ses états", du 1er au 4 juin 2027 à Montréal, et invite à soumettre des propositions de communication orale et d’affiche scientifique.

I recorded a series of short 📽️ to explain Fundamental Cause Theory (of diseases) proposed by B. Link, J. Phelan and S. Clouston: what are "cause", "fundamental cause" & "fundamental cause theory"? How to test FCT? How can structural modelling help? Please share! 😉 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📢JOB OFFER Postdoc fellowship within the project “Climate change-related #mortality in different population groups in urbanized Belgium” (TEMPUR), funded by the FNRS and FWO. 🔎Full details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/399708 📆Deadline: 15/02

Nice introduction to #demography: experiment a random birth www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

📢New methodological paper on data management of register data, from our colleagues Josué Begu, @phbocquier.bsky.social & @brunoschoumaker.bsky.social in #QueteletJournal Belgian Register data gives valuable insights, but has limitations & may bias the measurement of re-emigration intensity.