One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 16, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project! 👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💡 Job alert! 💡 We're seeking a Postdoc Researcher to join the most comprehensive global study of the patterns & determinants of growing within-country disparities in reproductive behaviour 🌏 Full-time for 3 years, working with Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social. Apply ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

💡 Job alert! 💡 We're seeking a Postdoc Researcher to join the most comprehensive global study of the patterns & determinants of growing within-country disparities in reproductive behaviour 🌏 Full-time for 3 years, working with Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social. Apply ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job alert! 📣 I’m recruiting a 3-year postdoc for my ERC Stg project DIVREP, which examines within-country variation in reproductive behaviour and its determinants across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 September 2026 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/events/postd... Please share and apply!

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

New publication: The transition to adulthood is occurring later, despite the fact that puberty now begins earlier than in the past. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Diverging trends in the age of social and biological transitions to adulthood

We discuss how different disciplines vary in their definitions of what constitutes the transition to adulthood and the age at which this transition is…

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🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨 Apply or circulate: A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries" Deadline: July 21 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social

Another excellent piece from a demographer, this time Stuart Gietel-Basten, on how "pronatalism is a dead end" "Without addressing the root causes of low fertility—inequality, instability, and the incompatibility of work and family life—top-down efforts to “encourage” childbearing will fail"

The politics of pronatalism and the two-child benefit cap - British Politics and Policy at LSE

Nigel Farage supports the scraping the two-child benefit cap as a way of encouraging people to have more children. But pronatalist policies that offer a one-off "baby bonus" are not effective.

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Wonderful report on #fertility. Time to reflect about those politicians using the argument of “cultural changes” as a way to save on public policies (and more sustainable societies). Among the authors a fantastic @agnese-vitali.bsky.social ❤️

UNFPA@unfpa.org · last yr.

💶 Cost of parenthood 📉 Job insecurity 🏠 Housing Why would people choose to have children if they can't afford them? It's time we address #TheRealFertilityCrisis. Let @unfpa.org—the #UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency—explain how: unf.pa/rfc

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We're looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on MSc, MPhil and BA programmes - leading on courses in life course research and quantitative methods, as well as examining. Apply by 27 June ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women

Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

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🚨 We're hiring! Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations. Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I want to talk population panic & understanding demography. New estimates from @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social on completed fertility in the US show that, among women 45-50 in 2024, about 15% were childless. Two-thirds of women had 2 or more children. 1/ doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios de Familia de ALAP invitan al Seminario virtual Encuestas longitudinales para el estudio de trayectorias familiares, conyugales y reproductivas en América Latina 📉📊 ✏️ forms.gle/C7ujv8eiDXRD... 📆 Jueves, 15 de mayo 🕑 1pm(ARG/URY), 12pm(CHL), 10am(MEX) #Demography

FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social Strands on: 💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health 🧡 Critical Demography Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!! tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj

Annual Conference

The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

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Selin Köksal@selinkoksal.bsky.social · last yr.

4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡

🆕📰 Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability A study by Mikko Myrskylä et al. shows how money spent on education compensates for the influence of low birth rates on long-term economic sustainability. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/fertilitydecline @angelorenti.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social

As concerns over birth rates that are "too low" become mainstream, it's worth revisiting this excellent short explainer from @unfpa.bsky.social. www.unfpa.org/swp2023/too-...

The problem with ‘too few’

UNFPA State of World Population 2023

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