Join us for our opening reception on Friday, where you can hear about exciting news regarding our new T32 Training Program, learn about new initiatives our trainees have undertaken or accomplished this summer, and meet some of our new staff members and new members of our leadership team. For a full schedule of this autumn’s seminar schedule, you can click here for a pdf version. To register, please click here.

     When: Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 (10.00am - 1.00pm)
     Where: Zoom
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     When: Thursday, Oct 15, 2020 (1.00 - 2.00PM)
     Where: Zoom
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Welcome to the 2020-21 academic year. While we’re still mostly virtual at CSDE, we are looking forward to a productive year with lots of events, seminars, working groups, and collaborative initiatives. Our seminar series for this autumn will be an engaging one. CSDE Affiliate and School of Nursing Professor Maria Bleil is chairing this year’s seminar series. You can download a printable PDF poster here. Join us for our opening reception on Friday, where you can hear about exciting news regarding our new T32 Training Program, learn about new initiatives our trainees have undertaken or accomplished this summer, and meet some of our new staff members and new members of our leadership team.

Kam Wing Chan, Professor of Geography, is quoted in an Economist article titled “Worlds Apart: Changes to China’s hukou system are creating new divides”. Chan explains how restrictions on migration will double Beijing’s population over the age of 65 to 22% in a decade and to 47% by 2050. Read the full article here.

Assistant Professor of Law, Societies and Justice Dr. Rawan Arar studies the Sociology of refugee migration. Her work has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.  This summer she was awarded a UW Royalty Research Fund grant to study Syrian Refugees and their relationship to governance mechanisms in Jordan. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego.

Dr. Tom Burch is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, with research interests in family and household demography, demographic modelling, and fertility theory. His research focuses on the relations among theory, models, and data in empirical social science, particularly demography. Dr. Burch has recently published in World Economics and is the author of the book Model Based Demography.

Dr. Jacqueline E. Darroch is a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. She is the author or coauthor of more than 100 articles and publications on sexual behavior, fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, teenage pregnancy and abortion. Recently, Dr. Darroch, along with co-authors, published a report titled “Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health 2019” on the unmet need for contraception in low and middle-income countries.