Events:

10th September 2012 09:00 - 12th September 2012 17:00

British Society for Population Studies conference 2012

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Overview

The 2012 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Nottingham from 10-12 September. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available at very reasonable rates.

The call for papers is now in operation and can be accessed from the menu on the left. Closing date Friday 11 May 2012.

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Event description

There will be a full programme of simultaneous strand sessions of submitted papers. Proposals or abstracts for papers and posters are invited across the entire demographic and population studies spectrum. Presenters are requested to submit ongoing work with incomplete analyses and findings as posters rather than papers. Oral presentations should include results. For organizational purposes, strand organizers have been allocated to specific themes: email queries may be addressed to the strand or session organizer shown. There is a strand for ‘other papers’ which do not appear to fit the strands announced. Submissions of quantitative and qualitative papers are welcome.

Some sessions within strands have been suggested and these will be organised by the person named as session organiser, within an overall strand. Sessions within strands are shown beneath the overall strand title.

Training sessions: Proposals for training or ‘how to’ sessions are welcome, using the Conference online submissions system or by direct contact with BSPS at pic@lse.ac.uk. One such session will be organised by Piers Elias as part of the local authority stream.

There will be two plenary sessions.

Professor Peter McDonald (Australian National University & President of the IUSSP), provisionally entitled A century of population studies, society and Population Studies’ Societies.

A double plenary, 90 minute session on the 2011 Census and its quality with two speakers and 30 minutes for questions and discussion:

Professor Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield), on Can we trust the 2011 one number?
Glen Watson (ONS Census Director)

Fringe sessions: Proposals for debates or other sessions on demographic matters/history that do not fit into the usual framework of contributed papers can also be positively considered. These should be submitted as soon as possible, using the online submissions system, or by direct contact with BSPS at pic@lse.ac.uk.

Information updates on the Conference will be posted here on the BSPS website as available.

How to book

Booking forms will be available from early June, together with a provisional timetable.