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International
Population Geographies
Conference Hosted by the Population
Geography Research Group of the Royal
Geographical Society (with the
Institute of the British Geographers) PROGRAMME
AND ABSTRACTS
VOLUME Monday 19th June
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WELCOME
FROM
THE ORGANISING
COMMITTEE
I am the
people – the mob – the crowd – the mass
Do you
know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
Carl Sandburg
“I Am the People, the Mob”,
Complete Poems (1950).
The
people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of
world
history.
Quotations from
Chairman Mao Tse Tung (1966)
A very warm
welcome to the Third
International Population
Geographies Conference, held at the
The conference
programme promises to be a splendid smorgasbord
of the themes of
contemporary population geography. Being population geographers, the
emphasis
is on migration as a force for changing people’s lives and
the places they live
in but there are papers on population and environment, regional studies
of
population, children’s geographies and population ageing. The
conference has
designed to be rather informal – we did not ask presenters
for papers in
advance and we ask all chairs to leave plenty of time for questions,
responses
and discussion. The language of the conference is English but we hope
that all
speakers will use a lucid style of exposition so that those for whom
English is
not their mother tongue can follow the argument.
To ensure that
presentations flow smoothly, we would request
that all speakers for each session meet their session chair ten minutes
before
the session starts so that all powerpoint files can be preloaded on the
lecture
room computers from memory sticks/pen drives or CD ROMs (or diskettes).
We will
collect together the presentations, with author’s permission
and provide them
on the Population Geography Research Group web site after the
conference. If
you need any assistance during the conference, please approach one of
us for
help. We hope you enjoy the conference, meet old friends, make new
acquaintances and forge new international collaborations that will, in
time,
contribute to a shared understanding of our peoples.
Darren P.
Smith, Conferences
Officer, PopGRG
Phil Rees,
Chair, PopGRG and Chair
of 3rd IPGC
Paul Norman,
Treasurer, PopGRG
Seraphim
Alvanides, Secretary,
PopGRG
Paul Boyle,
Chair, 1st and 2nd
IPGCs
Nissa Finney,
Martin Bell
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| The Conference
is very pleased to welcome Professor Martin Bell of the |
| issues and
measures, Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society A, 165(3): 435-464. He has worked with Tom Wilson to
develop new stochastic forecasts of the populations of | |
Plenary
Speakers: ESRC/JISC Census
Programme
In the closing
plenary session, we are very pleased to have
presentations by a team of distinguished population geographers, who
work
together on this very successful
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| We are very
pleased to welcome Professor David Martin from the |
| 2002). David is
the co-author with | |
John Stillwell
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| We are very
pleased to welcome Professor John Stillwell from the |
| Secondary Data
Analysis Initiative (UPTAP), which brings
together researchers from across the social sciences to address key
questions about the British population using micro and macro data.
John’s research
interests include internal and international population migration,
geographical information systems (GIS), and regional development and
planning. In 2004, with colleague Rachael Unsworth, he edited and
published an account of one of Europe’s up-and-coming cities,
Twenty-First
Century Leeds - Geographies of a Regional City, Leeds
University Press, 2004, which is a coffee-table must for any urban
geographer. John will describe the role of CIDS/CIDER and report on the
opening phase of the UPTAP programme. | |
Paul Boyle
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| The Conference
is very pleased to welcome Paul Boyle. Paul was the Chair of the First
and Second International Population Geographies Conferences held at |
| which produced
a recommendation document Inequalities in Health. He is also a member
of the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) Academic Census Advisory Group, the
General Register
Office for Scotland (GROS) Population and Migration
Statistics Committee and the Northern
Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Northern
Ireland Longitudinal Study group. Paul's research interests include
geographical health and demographic issues. For example, he has
published on the relationship between migration and health, health
inequalities, mortality in | |
The Third
International Population Geographies Conference is
sponsored by a number of societies, University departments and
publishers. We
are very grateful to all these organisations for support, either
financially or
in publicising the event. The involvement in a network of organisations
ensures
the continuity of the Conference series, which we hope will migrate to
other
parts of the world after its gestation in the
The Conference
is sponsored by the Population Geography
Research Group, one of the specialist research
groups of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of the
British
Geographers), which has taken local organising responsibility for the
first three
conferences.
The Conferences
have been supported by our sister
professional organisations, the Population
Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
(AAG) (Bruce
Newbold), the British Society for
Population Studies (BSPS) (Nicola Shelton), the European Association for Population Studies
(EAPS) (Guillaume
Wunsch). Our particular thanks are due to EAPS for allowing us to set
up the
TIPGC as a pre-meeting to the European Population Conference 2006
(21-24 June
2006).
The School of Geography
at the University of Leeds (Ruth Bailey,
We are very
grateful to John Wiley & Sons (publisher of Population,
Space and Place) for their
support in providing each delegate with a recent issue of the journal
and in
funding a prize for the best paper presented by a research postgraduate
during
the conference. We would also like to thank Taylor and Francis
(Publishers of
the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies) for hosting a reception on
Monday
evening, following the Guest Lecture.
WELCOME TO
POPFEST ATTENDEES
The Conference
incorporates three sessions of the annual
POPFEST conference. POPFEST is a group of postgraduate students in
population
studies who organise a population studies conference for postgraduates.
The
POPFEST conference sessions have been organised by Albert Sabater
(CCSR,
HONGKONG JULY
2007
The Department
of Geography and Resource Management of The
Chinese University of
Registration Desk
The
registration desk is situated in the Rendall Theatre
Workshop (1st floor), and will be open between
Sessions
There are a
total of 20 sessions for the IPGC2006 conference
(plus 3 sessions organised by POPFEST for postgraduate students). These sessions will take
place in one of the
following venues (please see below programme):
- Rendall Lecture
Theatre 6 (Room A)
- Rendall Lecture
Theatre 9 (Room B)
- Rendall Lecture
Theatre 1 (Room C)
The Guest
Lecture by Martin Bell (Monday evening, 8pm-9pm),
and the plenary session led by David Martin (Wednesday morning, 11am-12
noon)
will both take place in the Rendall Lecture Theatre 6.
Refreshments and meals
All
refreshments (coffee/tea/water) will be served in the
Rendall Foyer.
The buffet
lunch on Tuesday (
The wine
reception hosted by the Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies (JEMS) on Monday evening (9.00pm/2100) will take
place in the
Roxby Senior Common Room (9th floor).
The Conference
Dinner will take place on Tuesday evening at
7pm (1900) at the Est Est Est Restaurant, Edward Pavilion, Albert Dock,
Liverpool L3 4AF, tel 0151 708 6969. See the Map of Liverpool City
Centre map
for the location. It is a pleasant stroll of 2 km (downhill) from
campus. If
you are uncertain of how to get there please ask a member of the
organising
committee to guide you.
Delegates
should make their own arrangements for dinner on
Monday and lunch on Monday and Wednesday.
Message Board
A notice board
in the Rendall Theatre Workshop (1st
floor) will be available for displaying messages.
Computing
Facilities
Arrangements
have been made for delegates to have temporary
access to computing facilities in the Rendall Computer Room (1st
floor).
Car Parking
The University
parking permit requirements will be waived
for conference delegates. Delegates must display a note in their car
indicating
they’re attending the conference.
Windscreen notes can be obtained from the conference
organisers.
Shops
There are a
full set of facilities (shops, café, bar) in the
Student Service Centre (location 36 on the campus map on the inside
back
cover). There is a newsagent nearby on
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR SPEAKERS AND
CHAIRS OF
SESSIONS
Presentations
Please bring
with you your presentation as a powerpoint (if
possible) as a file on a suitable medium, such as a USB port pen
drive/memory
stick/MP3 player or CD-ROM. Alternatively, bring a set of overhead
transparencies (projectors will be provided).
Please see the
Chair of your conference session at least 5
minutes before the start of the session to load all of the session
powerpoint
files ready for use on the lecture theatre PC. Please make sure you
have named
your presentation in a recognizable way, e.g. not
“TPIGC_presentation.ppt” but
something like
“Rees_and_Parsons_Child_Poverty_in_the_UK.ppt.”
We intend to
make the presentations available on the
Population Geography Research Group web site after the Conference, for
general
dissemination, but please let us know if you do not wish this to
happen.
Organising Committee member
Paper copies of
slides or text or
summary
You may wish to
bring with you paper copies of your
powerpoint slides or overhead slides or full paper for distribution to
the
audience in your session. Plan on bringing 50 copies, please. To reduce
the
weight and paper, copy double-sided or as two page prints or both
(though this
is trickier).
Publication of
your papers
We have not
planned a conference publication. Conferences
are for participants to get feedback on their work and to help them
revise
papers for journal or book chapter submission. The conference is also
there for
you to discuss with colleagues collective publication plans. And
don’t forget
that two of our sponsors, John Wiley (Population,
Space and Place) and Taylor and Francis
(
Discussion time
Could session
chairs please agree with their speakers their
allocated times and set aside time for questions to each speaker and
time for
general discussion. Plan on 15 minute presentations and leave 5 minutes
per
paper for discussion and debate.
Language and
style
The language of
the conference will be English, However,
presenters and discussants should remember that for many in the
audience,
English will not be their mother tongue, so please speak reasonably
slowly and
clearly. It is a good idea to stick with the content of your visual
presentation, so that the audience can follow your talk and
“text”. It is
important also to engage the audience in your presentation and avoid
talking to
the screen or to your notes.
We hope this
guidance will help make this conference
something you will remember in later years.