Other events and announcements

Call for Papers: Conference ‘The Demographic Transition: Policy Implications of Fertility and Aging Trends’ – Vilnius (Lithuania), 23-24 May 2025

We are pleased to invite papers for an international conference, “The Demographic Transition: Policy Implications of Fertility and Aging Trends”, organized by the International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research; the University of California Berkeley Center for Comparative Welfare State Research; the University of Maryland School of Public Policy; and the Social Policy Department at Vilnius University, Faculty of Philosophy.

When: 23-24 May 2025
Where: Vilnius, Lithuania

Deadline for abstracts: 3 March 2025
See the call for papers for further details: https://cipe.umd.edu/conferences/TheDemographicTransition/Vilnius_Call%20for%20Papers_25_0124B.pdf

Call for The Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

The Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods between 31 March and 4 April 2025 is now open for applications. Spring School has nine course options, including two new course options for 2025: Time Series Analysis and Large Language Models. Students can study in the heart of Oxford, with accommodation at the historic Brasenose College or online.

Application deadline: 3 March 2025 (or until all places are reserved)
For more information, see: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/spring-school.

Call for Papers: Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) International Research Seminar – Sigtuna (Sweden), 4-6 June 2025

The Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) invites researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to submit abstracts for this annual International Research Seminar. With around 70 participants from across the globe, this conference offers a unique opportunity for young researchers to connect with senior experts in a supportive environment. This year’s theme addresses the challenges of the ongoing polycrisis and its impact on social policy worldwide. We welcome submissions on crisis policy responses, ecological transition and social policy, the digital revolution, and other related topics.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2025
Further information: https://www.fisssocialsecurity.org/

GESIS Spring Seminar 17 March to 04 April, places available

The Spring Seminar will take place from 17 March to 04 April 2025—with two courses onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany, and one course in hybrid format, where participants can choose between onsite and online participation.

In 2025, all courses will deal with Experimental Designs in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials complement lectures in each course.
For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit https://tinyurl.com/GESIS-Spring-Seminar-2025.

For those seeking to expand their skills and proceed to quasi-experimental designs, we offer this online workshop:
18 – 19 Feb 2025: Propensity Score Matching: Computation and Balance Estimation for two and more groups in R

For the full list of workshops on related and other social science research methods, please visit www.gesis.org/workshops.

Call for Papers: First International Conference of the Sustainable Ageing EAPS Working Group – Padua (Italy), 11-12 September 2025

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) is happy to announce its first in-person conference! The conference is open also to people who are not member of EAPS.

When: 11-12 September 2025
Where: Padua, Italy

Submissions should be sent in PDF to sustainableageing@gmail.com by 21 March 2025, including:

  • a short abstract (max 200 words)
  • three to five keywords
  • an extended abstract (1-4 pages) or the full paper
  • full names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of all authors with the indication of the presenter

Deadline for abstracts: 21 March 2025
See the call for papers for further details: https://tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c

Call for Papers: EAPS Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group Meeting – Luxembourg, 10-12 September 2025

We are pleased to announce the EAPS Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group meeting, taking place at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 10-12 September 2025.

Theme: “Living Longer, Living Better? Inequality in Health and Longevity”
The meeting will focus on how social inequalities shape health and longevity across time, countries, and population groups. Contributions on trends, inequalities, innovative methods, and theoretical advances are welcome.

Details and Submissions:

All presentations will be on-site, either as posters or oral presentations (20+10 minutes).

For questions, please contact: hmmwg.eaps@gmail.com

Call for Papers: conference ‘Fertility and Family Dynamics in Migrant and Minority
Groups: Migration, Fertility, and Family Dynamics in Ageing Europe: New
Perspectives and Methodological Approaches’, Bari (Italy), 2-3 October 2025

This conference is a collaboration between Age-It – Ageing Well in an Ageing Society, a Research Programme co-funding from Next Generation EU, in the context of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment PE8, that aims to build an inclusive society for all ages, and the EAPS Working Group on Fertility and Family Dynamics in Migrant and Minority Groups that brings together researchers who work on different aspects of fertility and family dynamics of migrants, individuals with migratory background, and minorities.

The following topics are especially welcome:

  • Ageing and “Replacement migrations”: Impact of migrants and their demographic behaviours in ageing societies. • Data and methods: New demographic approaches and new data to study fertility and family of migrant populations.
  • Old theories, new results: Testing traditional hypotheses of migrant and minority fertility within the current European context.
  • Interrelation of events: To explore the relationship between other aspects of family dynamics, such as partnership formation, and fertility.
  • Beyond demographic birth events: Family planning, reproductive health, family policy uptake, labour market integration.
  • The topics of this conference are not limited to this list but can be extended by other innovative and/or timely ongoing research in the field. Submissions can cover all methodological and theoretical approaches and/or types of data.

Organizers: the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), Ageing Well in an Ageing Society (Age-IT), and the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Political Sciences.

For your contribution to be considered, please email an abstract (up to 500 words) and contact information of all authors (incl. affiliations) to: Eleonora Mussino (eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se), Anna Paterno (anna.paterno@uniba.it).

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025

Call for Papers: Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

The Finnish Yearbook of Population Research is a peer reviewed, open access journal published since 1946 by the Population Research Institute of the Family Federation of Finland (Väestöliitto) in collaboration with The Finnish Demographic Society and The Migration Institute of Finland.

We invite you to contribute to the 2025 volume by submitting your manuscript latest by 30th of April. The Yearbook publishes research articles from different fields of population studies (fertility, mortality, migration, family and population structure), original articles as well as book reviews and commentaries.

If you are interested in publishing your manuscript in the next Yearbook, please submit your language revised article in English through the journal submission system. Read more.

The journal will change its name during the year 2025 and the new issue will be published under the name Nordic Yearbook of Population Research.

Key dates

  • Full manuscript submission deadline: April 30, 2025
  • Publication date: Oct/Nov 2025
  • Submit: https://journal.fi/fypr

Submission deadline: 30 April 2025
Further information: guest editors Elisa Tambellini (elisa.tambellini@vaestoliitto.fi), and Alyona Artamonova alyona.artamonova@vaestoliitto.fi

Call for Papers – Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology

The European Sociological Review is delighted to announce a forthcoming special issue dedicated to celebrating the influential career of Professor Richard Breen. As a leading figure in sociology, Professor Breen’s work has significantly shaped contemporary sociological thought, particularly in the study of social stratification and mobility, as well as social demography and sociological methodology. We invite scholars to submit original theoretically driven empirical research papers that advance the understanding of education and social mobility. While we especially welcome studies that directly engage with themes central to Professor Breen’s work, we also encourage contributions from the broader fields of social stratification and mobility, demography, or sociological methodology, in line with the publication tradition of the European Sociological Review.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal’s standard author guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/esr
  • Submissions must be made through the European Sociological Review online submission system: (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/esr) by 15 June 2025.
  • All papers will undergo the Journal’s standard peer-review process.
  • Manuscripts submitted should clearly refer to the special issue in their cover letter

Important Dates:

  • Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025
  • Notification of first Review Results: 15 Sep 2025
  • Expected Publication Date in 2026
  • Editors: Fabrizio Bernardi, Kristian Bernt Karlson, Jan O. Jonsson, and Berkay Ozcan

Contact Information:
For inquiries regarding this special issue, please contact editor-in-chief, Fabrizio Bernardi at europeansociologicalreview@gmail.com.

We look forward to your valuable contributions to this special issue, which aims to honor Professor Richard Breen’s enduring impact on the study of social mobility and stratification.

Call for Papers: Effects of Spatial mobility on Subjective Well-being, Special Issue in Social Indicators Research

Organisers: Nicolai Netz (DZWH) and Nico Stawarz (BiB)

Spatial mobility is an integral part of individual lives. Therefore, previous research has explored the manifold consequences of spatial mobility for individual life courses. In doing so, it has focussed on outcomes such as the occupational position and wages. However, as human behaviour usually aims to improve quality of life in a broader sense, we advocate a stronger focus on subjective well-being in research on spatial mobility. Accordingly, the special issue aims to provide an overview of the current state of research on how spatial mobility influences subjective well-being. It showcases new theoretical avenues, methodological designs, and empirical analyses of the effects of spatial mobility on subjective well-being. Focussing on different forms of spatial mobility (e.g., internal and international migration, commuting, and virtual mobility).

Submission deadline: 1 October 2025
For more information, see: https://link.springer.com/collections/cgciggfggj

NEPS-Call for Modules 2024 – AI-based systems in educational contexts: Use, knowledge, trust

Proposals for the collection of (educationally relevant) motives for use and knowledge about AI systems can be submitted as part of the thematic ‘NEPS Call for Modules 2024’. In addition, the questions can also relate to trust in AI systems in educational contexts.

Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 October 2025 – More information

Save the date: ‘Understanding recent fertility trends in Europe: what can register data tell us?’, Antwerp (Belgium), 17-18 November 2025

On November 17–18, 2025, the EAPS Working Group on Register-based Fertility Research will organize a meeting at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. We invite researchers at all career stages to discuss the recent developments in fertility in Europe, building on work with register and register-linked data. The meeting will start in the morning of the 17th of November and will end in the beginning of the afternoon on the next day.

More information and a call for abstracts will follow in spring. In the meantime, mark the date in your calendars!

Kohli Prize for Sociology

The Kohli foundation welcomes nominations for the Kohli Prize for Sociology or the Infrastructure Prize for Sociology on an ongoing basis.

Further information: Kohli Foundation – for Sociology