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The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September. Programmes, abstracts, and reports of previous conferences can be accessed from the relevant link on the left.
BSPS Annual Conference 2012
The 2012 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Nottingham (Jubilee campus) from 10 - 12 September 2012.
The call for papers is now live with a closing date of Friday 11 May 2012. Strand and session organisers are listed in the call for papers with contact details.
Please read the full call for papers before submitting.
Submissions should be made online at:
The full call for papers can be accessed from the link on the left, as can a PDF version suitable for printing out.
BSPS Less Economically Developed Countries Initiative 2012: Call for proposals
The BSPS Developing Countries Initiative has reserved £1,500 per annum for activities that encourage collaboration between population demographers in the UK and developing countries. This initiative sponsors an annual visit by a demographer from a LEDC, who gives a presentation at the BSPS Conference where they get the opportunity to meet and develop contacts with UK demographers. The overall aim is to encourage long-term collaboration and joint projects, and it is anticipated that contacts will already exist between the person to be funded, and a UK institution or UK demographers.
Previous awards have been made to visitors from Cuba, Brazil, India and Botswana. In 2005, Sonia Catasus Cervera, from the University of Havana visited, and in 2006, Consuelo Martin, also from Cuba, visited. In both instances, they were also supported by the University of Manchester to visit that institution. In September 2007, a visit by Andre Caetano from the University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte Brazil) was funded, to further work with colleagues at the London School of Economics and the University of Southampton. Seminars were held at the London School of Economics and the University of Southampton during the visit. The 2008 LEDC visitor was Niveen Abu R'Meileh from Birzeit University, and in 2009 Dr. Dilip visited from India. The 2010 visitor was Dr. Ramila Bisht from Jawaharlal Nehru University and the 2011 visitor was Dr. Gobopamang Letamo from the University of Botswana
Suggestions for the use of part or all of this fund for the year 2012 should be made by 30 April 2012, to pic@lse.ac.uk| for consideration by the BSPS Council at their next meeting. Suggestions would be best supported by a single typed sheet describing how the money might be budgeted and spent and in what ways this would encourage collaboration. Bids should also include a detailed timetable of the proposed activities, and should come from the UK-based sponsoring individual or institution only.