“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Bristish Society for Population Studies, University of St. Andrews GradSkills, University of St. Andrews School of Geography and Geoscience, The Centre for Population Change and the University of Dundee (Geography, School of Social and Environmental Science)
POPFEST is a celebration of the many applications and contexts of Population Studies. It is open to postgraduates from all disciplines across the social sciences studying any aspect of population. Providing a supportive and stimulating environment for students to meet, present their work and exchange ideas. It is well established, having been organised by postgraduate students for the last eighteen years, and is this year hosted over three days by the University of St. Andrews on the beautiful East coast of Scotland.
POPFEST is a great opportunity for postgraduate researchers at all stages to meet other students in the same area, practise presentation skills and get useful feedback from peers. You may share your work through either a short presentation followed by questions, and/ or a poster session. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss your work in a more relaxed and informal environment than traditional academic conferences. Even if you do not give a presentation of your work, POPFEST will give you some idea of the research being conducted by others and allow you to make valuable contacts for the future.
The full details of the programme are still to be confirmed but will include: parallel sessions running over three days, poster presentations, keynote speaker addresses, and this year will offer an innovative panel session, allowing participants to listen to experts drawn from a range of backgrounds (e.g. public sector and charity) showing how aspects of population studies might be applied in different contexts.
The first call for papers has now been made, and is open to all postgraduate researchers engaged in the study of human populations from any social science discipline. Submissions for works-in-progress or completed reports are all welcome.
Themes might include, but are certainly not limited to:
Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. There will also be one dedicated poster session where researchers may explain their research to other delegates. Should you wish to give both an oral and poster presentation, these must be on different aspects of your research.
Full guidelines regarding the submission of abstracts.
Call for papers
Registration to attend the conference will be open until 7th June, whilst the deadline for abstracts is 1st March. You can book both your attendance and accommodation online, whilst you can see just what you're getting for your attendance fee by looking at our short guide.
We look forward to welcoming you to St Andrews for POPFEST 2010
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