2 more weeks before the conference, 3 days before the Referendum, and we have another confirmed speaker for the "careers outside of academia" workshop - Oliver Dormon from the Office for National Statistics will join us! Think of your future today :)

Afternoon everyone, two more speakers will join us for the "careers outside of academia" workshop - Dr Jackie Carter (University of Manchester Q-Step Co-director) and Dr. Rossella Icardi (NatCen Social Research, London (UK)). Prepare plenty of questions for the speakers! :)

Hi all, the conference programme is almost ready! In the meantime, Nicola Wildash from YouGov and Dr. Annika Smits from City of Amsterdam (Netherlands) will join us for "careers outside of academia" workshop on July 5th!

Hi everyone, we would like to kindly remind you that an "early bird" registration is closing this Friday. Don't miss your chance to save £10 (and make our job of finalising the conference programme easier :)

Dear all, we highly encourage you to register for the conference as soon as possible, so that we can finalise the programme and share it with you! Looking forward to meet you all in Manchester this summer

this shiny day up in the North in England brought us very exciting news - Prof Jan Van Bavel (University of Leuven, Belgium) will give a closing keynote speech about the demographic implications of the reversal of the gender gap in education!

thank you everyone for the submissions! we now begin the reviewing process and will keep you posted!

busy conference time, multiple deadlines? sounds very familiar to us! abstract submission deadline is extended till April 7th! wrap up things and send an abstract to popfest.2016@manchester.ac.uk

Hi everyone, Dr. Juho Härkönen (Stockholm University) confirmed he'll join us and give an opening keynote! Don't miss your chance to meet him in Manchester this July!

Hi everyone, new announcement!: Prizes will be awarded for the best poster and presentation and the winners will also have the opportunity to publish their work on Demotrends – an online forum written and curated by young and enthusiastic population researchers. Please visit https://demotrends.wordpress.com/ for more information on their publications!

Apologies for not mentioning the registration fees- it's £50 for the early bird registration, and £60 for the late one.

Great news everyone! Professor Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics) and Professor Cecilia Wong (University of Manchester) have confirmed their participation in the "publishing" workshop on the 4th of July!