Newsletters

The eighth and final newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes interviews with the co-leaders of Work package 2 (Dimitri Mortelmans - University of Antwerp, and Ariane Pailhé - Institut national d’études démographiques), Work Package 4 (Melinda Mills - University of Oxford) and Work Package 10 (Bernhard Riederer - Vienna Institute of Demography) and brief information on research news and events.

The seventh newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes an interview with the co-leader of Work Package 9 Gerda Neyer (Associate Professor of Demography and Senior Research Associate at Stockholm University) and brief information on research news and events.

The sixth newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes two interviews, the first with the co-leader of Work Package 8 Hill Kulu (Professor of Demography and Quantitative Geography at University of Liverpool), and the second with the co-leader of Work Package 3 Rudolf Richter (Dr., University Professor of Sociology at University of Vienna). Read also about Pearl Dykstra (Professor at Erasmus University), co-leader of Work package 7 being appointed to the European Commission’s High Level Group of Scientific Advisors.

The fifth newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes two interviews; the first with the co-leaders of Work Package 4 Melinda Mills (Professor at University of Oxford) and Maria Letizia Tanturri (Senior researcher at University of Padova), and the second with Barbara Hobson (WP11 co-leader and Professor at Stockholm University) and Zenia Hellgren (Researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) the main authors of a recent report from FamiliesAndSocieties on migrant care/domestic workers in Spain and Sweden.

The fourth newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes two interviews; the first with Amparo González-Ferrer, Work Package 8 co-leader, senior research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid), and the second with Pearl Dykstra, Work Package 7 co-leader, Professor at the Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam. See also the new data portal PERFAR, which offers a broad collection of policies related to population developments throughout Europe, a catalogue with links to socio-economic and demographic data, and an online repository for related research results.

The third newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes two interviews; the first with the co-leaders of the Work Package 5 Fabrizio Bernardi, Professor at the European University Institute (Italy), and Juho Härkönen, Associate Professor at Stockholm University (Sweden), and the second with Chiara Pronzato, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin (Italy) and member of the FamiliesAndSocieties research project.

The second newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties includes an interview with Marc Goffart (Scientific Officer at the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Unit, and responsible for the FP7 FamiliesAndSocieties project) and brief information on research news and events.    

This is the first newsletter of FamiliesAndSocieties, including an interview with Project Coordinator Livia Sz. Oláh, brief information on research activities and first research news in the project, and the launch of the FamiliesAndSocieties website.