British Society for Population Studies – Timetable of 2005 Annual Conference
Monday 12
September
11.00am
onwards
Grimond Foyer
12.00 - 1.00pm
Rutherford
Dining Room
1.00-2.00pm
Grimond Lecture
Theatre
Registration
Lunch
Plenary 1. Professor Emily
Grundy (London School of
Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine)
Intergenerational changes
and family support
2.00-4.00pm
Parallel sessions
a. Grimond 3
b. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
c. Grimond 5
d. Grimond 6
Chair: John Hollis
a. Social support &
mortality at older ages
Chair: Cecilia Tomassini
1. Does social vulnerability
predict mortality in older
adults – Melissa Andrew,
Arnold B. Mitnitsky &
b. Migration, population
mobility & ethnicity 1
Chair: Seraphim Alvanides
1. Dispersing from immigrant
cities? Destination choices of
the 1.5 generation – Jamie
Goodwin-White (University of
c. Historical 1
Chair: Christine Jones
1. Through the regional
magnifying glass: Infant
mortality in the Lincolnshire
fens 1870-1900: The ‘Fen
Penalty’ – Sam Sneddon
d. Reproductive health 1
1. State population policies
in India: Evolution &
provision of family
planning services by them
- C. Bhattacharya
(London School of
Kenneth Rockwood
(Dalhousie University,
Canada)
2. Mortality after widowhood
in later life: Short-term &
long-term consequences of
bereavement on mortality
using the co-twin control
method – D. Rasulo, K.
Christensen, C. Tomassini
(Office for National
Statistics)
3. Old-age vulnerability in
Indonesia: A longitudinal
social network approach –
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
(University of Oxford)
4. Who cares when parents
die? Changing marital
histories, intergenerational
ties & mortality – Hilke
Brockmann, Andreas Timm
(Bremen University)
4.00-4.30pm
Grimond Foyer
Tea
Washington)
2. Ethnic population
distribution, immigration &
internal migration in Britain:
What evidence linkage at the
district scale? – John Stillwell
& Oliver Duke-Williams
(University of Leeds)
3. Moving home: How
migration affects London’s
ethnic composition – Marian
Mackintosh (Independent
Consultant) & Eileen Howes
(Greater London Authority
4. Population dynamics in
Oldham and Rochdale: The
nature of dispersal – Ludi
Simpson (University of
Manchester)
(University of Nottingham)
2. Vulnerability among
illegitimate children in 19th
century Scotland – Alice
Reid& Ros Davies (University
of Cambridge)
3. Work patterns, conception
patterns and the registration
of demographic events in
selected localities in late
nineteenth century Britain –
Eilidh Garrett & Ros Davies
(University of Cambridge)
Economics)
2. Reproductive health in
Estonia: Results of
qualitative research – Gail
Grant (University of
Southampton)
3. Changes in reproductive
& lifestyle variables
among first and second
generation Bangladeshi
migrants in London:
Implications for breast
cancer risk– A. Nunez-dela-Mora, DA Napolitano,
GR Bentley (University
College London)
4. Health differentials
between Bangladeshi
migrants in London and
Sedentees in Bangladesh:
Implications for
reproductive function –
Gillian R. Bentley &
Alejandra Nunez-de-laMora (University College
London
4.30-6.30pm
Parallel sessions
a. Subnational 1
Chair: Eileen Howes
b. Evolutionary 1
Chair: Rebecca Sear
a. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
b. Grimond 6
c. Grimond 3
d. Grimond 5
1. Delving deeper:
Estimating unknown multiway relationships at subdistrict level - Paul
Williamson (University of
Liverpool)
2. Putting shape to the 2011
census – Peter Benton
(Office for National
Statistics)
3. The development of the
2011 census in Scotland Ian Máté – GRO-Scotland
4. Developments with ONS’
Small Area Population
Estimates – Andy Bates
(Office for National
Statistics)
1. Helpful grandmothers in
rural Ethiopia: A study of the
role of kin in determining child
survival & growth – M. A.
Gibson & Ruth Mace
(University College London)
2. Maternal care & child’s
survival in humans: An
evolutionary demography
perspective – Samuel Pavard
(Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research) &
Evelyne Heyer (Musée de
l’Homme, Paris)
3. Reproductive effort,
immunosenescence &
longevity in pre-industrial
Finns – Virpi Lummaa, Samuli
Helle, Jukka Jokela,
(University of Turku &
University of Sheffield)
6.30-7.30pm
Reception & poster session
c. Migration, population
distribution & ethnicity 2
Chair: Tony Champion
1. Montreal nationalism: A
default multidimensional
identity – Yolande Bouka
(Seton Hall University, NJ)
2. Patterns of migration &
community formation among
the Amish in the US –
Elizabeth Cooksey and
Joseph F. Donnermeyer
(Ohio State University)
3. The impact of ethnic
preference policies on interethnic relations: Malaysia &
Sri Lanka – Navaratnam
Ravinthirakumaran (National
University of Singapore)
4. Questions of ethnicity in
the millennium round of
Commonwealth censuses –
AJ Christopher (Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan
University, South Africa)
d. Fertility 1
Chair: Denise Hawkes
1. Fertility transition in
Kenya: A regional analysis
of the proximate
determinants - Ekisa
Anyara & Andrew Hinde
(University of
Southampton)
2. Historical demography
in Tanzania (1920-61)
using census data – Sarah
Walters (University of
Cambridge)
3. Fertility variations in
Scotland 1981-2001: are
there local cultures of
fertility? - Paul Boyle,
Elspeth Graham and
Zhiqiang Feng,
(University of St Andrews)
Grimond Foyer
7.30pm
Dinner
Rutherford
Dining Room
Tuesday 13
September
8.00-9.00am
Breakfast
Rutherford
Dining Room
9.00-11.00am
Parallel sessions
a. Care and carers
Chair: Hilke Brockmann
b. Migration, population
distribution & ethnicity 3
Chair: Robin Flowerdew
1. Demographic implications
for palliative care provision
in the UK – Briony Eckstein
& Angela Armstrong-Costa
(Office for National
Statistics)
2. The dynamics of social
care – Maria Evandrou &
Jane Falkingham (University
of Southampton)
3. Informal care at working
age: Effects of job
1. Comparing health
1. Population changes in
inequalities across time and
Greece during the period 1940- place: An analysis of
51 – Nikolaos Mostratos
Demographic and Health
(University of Newcastle)
Survey data – Kath Moser,
2. The community health index David A. Leon (London
for proxy measures of
School of Hygiene & Tropical
migration in Scotland – Cecilia Medicine)
Macintyre & Gillian Miller
2. Which aspects of socio(GRO-Scotland)
economic status at birth and
3. Factors behind commuting
nine years are most associated
behaviour in England and
with child nutritional status at
a. Grimond 3
b. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
c. Grimond 6
d. Grimond 5
c. Health inequalities 1
Chair: Tiziana Leone
d. Families and
households
Chair: Ludi Simpson
1. The instability of
divorce risk factors in the
UK – Tak Wing Chan
University of Oxford) &
Brendan Halpin
(University of Limerick)
2. Are concensual unions
more “gender equal” than
marriages – Antonella
Pinelli, Francesca Flori
(University of Rome ‘La
characteristics & family
configuration – Ursula Henz
(London School of
Economics)
4. Who becomes an informal
caregiver? A life course
perspective – Harriet Young
& Emily Grundy (London
School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine)
11.00-11.30
Grimond Foyer
11.30-1.00pm
Parallel sessions
a. Grimond 3
b. Grimond 5
c. Grimond 6
d. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
Wales 2001 – Anne Green and
David Owen (University of
Warwick)
4. Ethnic differences in
commuting patterns in London
– Eileen Howes (Greater
London Authority)
the end of childhood – Paula
Griffiths, Noel Cameron,
Shane Norris & John Peffifor
(Loughborough University,
University of Witwatersrand)
3. Spatial inequality in
delivery care uptake in
Ghana: A multilevel analysis
– Fiifi Amoako John son,
James Brown, Sabu
Padmadas (University of
Southampton)
Sapienza’)
b. Health inequalities 2
Chair: Paula Griffiths,
Loughborough University
c. Evolutionary 2
Chair: Sarah Johns
d. Special session
Chair: Cheng Yong Lee
1. Intergenerational transfers
in humans & other animals –
Jan Beise (Max Planck
Institute for Demographic
Research)
2. Causes and consequences
of parental divorce in relation
to child gender: An
evolutionary perspective –
Kent County Council and
the setting of Local Public
Service Agreement
Targets. – Nick Moon
(Kent County Council)
Predicting the numbers of
older people helped to live
at home: A needs-based
model and the implications
The demographic
transition
The Cuban demographic
transition – Sonia I
Catasus Cervera
(CEDEM, University of
Havana)
Coffee
a. Economics & health in
ageing populations
Chair: Maria Evandrou
1. The cost of population
ageing: Forecasting future
hospital expenditure in
Germany – Hilke Brockmann
(Bremen University) & Jutta
Gampe (Max Planck Institute
for Demographic Research)
2. Children & standard of
1. Where not to live: A geodemographic classification of
mortality – Nicola Shelton,
Mark Birkin, Danny Dorling
(University College London,
University of Leeds, University
of Sheffield)
2. Calculating low birth weight
1.00-2.00pm
Rutherford
Dining Room
2.00-4.00pm
Parallel sessions
a. Grimond 5
b. Grimond 3
c. Grimond 6
d. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
living in old age – Gustavo
De Santis, Chiara Seghieri,
Maria Letizia Tanturri
(University of Florence)
3. Unhealthy life expectancy
at age 65 across time and
space: What do we know
now? – Judith Shapiro
(University of Kent at
Canterbury)
Lunch
from DHS: Can mothers’ help
improve estimation? – Amos
Channon (University of
Southampton)
3. Neonatal mortality in
developing countries: What
can we learn from DHS data –
Sarah Hall (University of
Southampton)
David Lawson (University
College London)
3. Is the gender gap in
religiosity a legacy of
evolution? – David Voas
(University of Manchester)
– Simon Adams (Tribal
Secta)
3. Integrated approach of
local level planning by
local government
considering population as
a weighting factor–
Jagannath Ojha (Ministry
of Local Development,
Jawalakhel)
a. Intergenerational
relationships at older ages
Chair: Karen Glaser
b. Migration, population
distribution & ethnicity 4
Chair: John Stillwell
c. Reproductive health 2
d. Local government,
census and national
issues
Chair: John Hollis
1. Intergenerational relations
& support in Italy – R.
Fraboni, C. Freguja, B.
Baldazzi, L. L. Sabbadini
(ISTAT)
2. Ageing & daughter
preference: Comparative
perspectives from Indonesia
– Philip Kreager (University
of Oxford)
3. Relationships between
1. Choosing a permanent
contraceptive method: A
1. The likely impact of
comparative analysis of the
globalisation on internal
age & parity effects of
migration, urbanisation, and
sterilization in Brazil and
international migration with
India - Tiziana Leone & Sabu
special reference to India–
Padmadas (Institute of
Atreji Majumdar (University of Education & University of
Delhi)
Southampton)
2. Measure of the integration
2. The uptake of modern
of foreign migrants in Italy:
contraception in a Gambian
Some new experiences – G.
village: The spread of a
Baio & M. Blangiardo
cultural innovation over 25
1. The policy Delphi: A
tool to shape the future –
Maura Misiti & Adele
Menniti (Istituto di
Richerche sulla
Popolazione e le Politiche
Sociali, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Richerche,
Rome)
2. Enumerating the
disruptions in family (and
work) life and social support
at older ages in the United
Kingdom – Rachel
Stuchbury, Karen Glaser,
Cecilia Tomassinin, Janet
Askham (King’s College
London)
4.00-4.30pm
Grimond Foyer
4.30-5.30pm
Grimond Lecture
Theatre
Tea
Plenary 2 – Professor Ron
Lee (University of
California at Berkeley)
Intergenerational
transfers: A broad view
(LSHTM & Milan, Imperial &
Milan)
3. Immigration & labour
accessibility in Madrid, Spain
– Vicente Rodrigues, Ricardo
Mendez, Ascension Calatrava,
Ana Melero (Institute of
Economics & Geography,
Madrid)
4. Highly skilled migration &
ethnic networks – Fei Qin
(Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
years – R. Mace, N. Allal, R.
Sear & A. Prentice
(University College London)
3. Condom use between &
within relationships among
young people in Kabale &
Mukono districts in Uganda –
N. Tumwesigye, R. Ingham,
D. Holmes (University of
Southampton)
4. Consistency in reporting
contraception between
spouses in Bangladesh:
Evidence from a recent
Demographic and Health
Survey – MA Islam, SS
Padmadas, PWF Smith
(University of Southampton)
Republic of Moldova
census, 2004 – Malcolm
Brown (Cornwall County
Council) & Maia
Godonoga (University of
Plymouth)
3. Making use of the 2001
census in Cambridgeshire
PCTs – Vicky Head
(Cambridgeshire County
Council)
4. Using the 2001 census
microdata to explore
household formation &
ethnicity; A multilevel
modelling approach –
Abdelouahid Tajar & Ludi
Simpson (University of
Manchester)
5.30-7.00pm
Parallel sessions
Chair: Mike Murphy
a. Evolutionary 3
Chair: Virpi Lummaa
a. Grimond 6
b. Grimond 5
c. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
d. Grimond 3
1. A life history perspective
on size, health and adult
mortality in the Gambia –
Rebecca Sear (London
School of Economics)
2. Understanding why
teenage motherhood occurs
in deprived environments:
An evolutionary approach –
Sarah E. Johns (University
of Kent at Canterbury)
3. Fertility decline driven by
poverty in Addis Ababa
(Ethiopia)– Ruth Mace &
Eshetu Gurmu (University
College London)
7.30pm
Dinner
b. Historical 2
Chair: Eilidh Garrett
c. Sub-national 2
Chair: Robin Edwards
d. Migration 5
Chair: Nick Bailey
1. The Victorian Panel Survey:
An overview – Christine
Jones, Kevin Schurer & A.
Crockett (University of Essex)
2. Migration in a rural area: A
comparative study of East
Yorkshire from the nineteenth
century to 2003, with special
reference to the Yorkshire
Wolds – Andrea Armstrong
(University of Newcastle upon
Tyne)
3. Geographical perspectives
on the epidemic emergence of
poliomyelitis in Europe:
England and Wales, 1900-55–
Sam Sneddon, Matthew
Smallman-Raynor & Andrew
Cliff (University of Nottingham
& University of Cambridge)
1. From household to
population – Briony Eckstein
(Office for National Statistics)
2. The use of administrative
data sources in local
population estimates – Piers
Elias (Tees Valley Joint
Strategy Unit)
3. Methodology for producing
the revised back series of
population estimates – Julie
Jefferies (Office for National
Statistics)
4. Residents & staff in
communal establishments:
Data quality issues in the
2001 Census – Levin Wheller
& Madhavi Bajekal (Office
for National Statistics)
1. Geographical analysis
of fine level population
changes in Greece: 19512001 – Seraphim
Alvanides (University of
Newcastle)
2. Comparisons between
survey & population
estimates of recent UK
emigration – Michael
Rendall, Emma Wright,
Giles Horsfield (Office for
National Statistics)
3. Are our cities still losing
human capital? The
evidence of the “moving
group” data from the 2001
census – Tony Champion
& Mike Coombes
(University of Newcastle)
Wednesday 14
September
8.00-9.00am
Rutherford
Dining Room
9.00am –
10.00am
Breakfast
Plenary 3 – Alison
O’Connell (Pensions Policy
Institute)
Grimond Theatre
Reforming UK pensions for
today’s and tomorrow’s
older people
10.00-10.30am
Grimond Foyer
10.30-12.30
Parallel sessions
a. Grimond
Lecture Theatre
b. Grimond 5
c. Grimond 3
Chair: John Hollis
Coffee
a. Migration, population
mobility & ethnicity 6
Chair: Paul Boyle
1. Comparative geographical
study of out-migration
between England and Wales
& Japan using global & local
statistical models – Stamatis
b. Health and mortality
1. Identifying cohorts with
favourable mortality
experience – Mike Murphy
(London School of Economics)
2. Jewish population and death
rates in England and Wales,
2001 – Steven Haberman &
c. Fertility 2
Chair: Steve Smallwood
1. An explanation of the
positive cross-country
correlation between fertility
and & female employment
among Western European
countries – Tomas Kogel
Kalogirou (London School of
Economics), Tomoki Nakaya,
Keiji Yano (Ritsumeikan
University Japan)
2. Analysing the 2001 interdistrict migration matrix –
Robin Flowerdew &
Zhiqiang Feng (University of
St. Andrews)
4. Population turnover for
deprived neighbourhoods:
Structural or pathological? –
Nick Bailey & Mark
Livingstone (University of
Glasgow)
4. Twenty-first century
migrants: Who are they, and
where are they going? –
Daniel Vickers & Phil Rees
(University of Leeds)
Close
Marlena Schmool
3. Non- independent persons:
Definitions & statistical
methodologies for correct
identification– Alessandra
Battisti, Alessandro Solipaca
(Italian National Institute of
Statistics)
(Loughborough University)
2. Early motherhood in the
UK: Micro & macro
determinants – Denise
Hawkes, Heather Joshi
(Institute of Education)
3. Fertility preferences and
intentions: Some results from
an Italian survey – Adele
Menninti & Maura Misiti
(Institute for Population
Research & Social Policies)
4. Current trens and issues in
British fertility analysis –
Jessica Chamberlain (Office
for National Statistics)