Dorothee Beckendorff
dorobeckendorff.bsky.social
Dorothee Beckendorff
@dorobeckendorff.bsky.social
PhD Student Urban Demography Lab @EPFL | Interested in Migration, Inequality, Climate Change | EDSD 21/22
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Join us for the EAPS PhD Network Seminar:

Academic Careers in Demography 🎓

🗓️ 29 April 2025 | 🕒 15:30–17:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom
Hear from early-career, mid-career and senior scholars on pathways, challenges & more.
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/EAPSPHD2025

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April 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...
Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics
El Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics fou fundat l’any 1984 amb una triple missió: promoure la recerca, la docència i la difusió del coneixement en matèria de població.
ced.cat
March 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The next Wittgenstein Centre Conference will be on “𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆”. 🤓

See the conference call and submit your abstracts here ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/c...
March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🚨The 2nd chapter of my thesis was just published in Studies in Family Planning! Together with Ewa Batyra and Albert Esteve, we find that counteracting fertility and child mortality dynamics contribute to stable levels of out-fostering in Senegal.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
<em>Studies in Family Planning</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In sub-Saharan Africa, child out-fostering is a traditional social practice, and research suggests stable levels of out-fostering over time, yet the underlying demographic and socioeconomic factors d...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
African households: National and subnational trends from censuses and surveys
Using census and survey microdata from 49 African countries across 415 subnational areas, we offer a comprehensive overview of household size and composition in Africa. The study emphasizes the pot...
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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-...
February 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Do you want to build an academic career? We have got the program for you! The 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 (𝗘𝗗𝗦𝗗). More: eaps.nl/edsd How to apply? eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
@mpidr.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
February 8, 2024 at 9:50 AM