A warm welcome to all participants

The organising committee welcomes everyone to the first of three ESRC-funded cyberseminars on ‘Family demography: Advancing knowledge about intergenerational relationships and exchanges’

The seminar series has been organised by the IUSSP Panel on Family Demography in Developing Countries, in collaboration with the University of Southampton, the IUSSP Secretariat and the INDEPTH Network.

The University of Southampton is hosting the seminar and on behalf of the staff and students in the School of Social Science and its research centres, Professor Jane Falkingham, has recorded a short introduction.

Welcome Video – Jane Falkingham

The Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Southampton is one of the partner organisations involved in hosting this seminar series. On behalf of this multi-disciplinary group of reserachers that includes demographers,  Professor Maria Evandrou its Director has recorded a welcome message for participants.

Welcome Video – Maria Evandrou

Discussion forums opened on Thursday 9th January 2013

Strand 1 Concepts and methods. Advancing demographic studies of intergenerational relationships and support

Strand 2 Family demography. Contributing to understanding intergenerational relationships and support in contemporary low and middle-income countries

Discussion forums opened on Friday 10th January 2013

Strand 2 continued. Special session on China

Strand 3. Demographic datasets

 

The first cyberseminar, ‘Family demography: Advancing knowledge about intergenerational relationships and exchanges in low- and middle-income countries,’ takes place on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January, 2014.

The seminar will officially start from 9am GMT on Thursday 9th January. There are no formal presentation time slots and the seminar site can be accessed at anytime irrespective of timezone. All papers, powerpoint slides and videos submitted by authors and discussants will be available to read and view. We will post the discussant comments and open the moderated discussions boards for strands 1 and 2 (General papers) from 10am GMT on Thursday 9th January 2014, and similarly for strands 2 (Special China session) and 3 from 10am GMT on Friday 10th January 2014. The seminar website will also be open for one week afterwards.

If you would like to be added to the cyberseminars mailing list to receive updates about the seminars, please send an email to intergen@soton.ac.uk.

A special note to authors and discussants

Authors – if you have any additional material please DO NOT attempt to submit anything to the IUSSP website. The submissions site is now closed. Please email anything you would like to upload to us at the intergen@soton.ac.uk Discussants – please can you also send your comments to us via the intergen email site.

Special note on videos and voice recordings

Please do not be shy if you would like to record a little video presentation or comments. We welcome between 2-4 minute recordings. These could be about your paper, to introduce yourself, to make a comment on a paper, or about the IUSSP Family Demography panel and cyberseminar initiative more generally. We would prefer if you could keep these video locally and send us a URL link for example, to You Tube or another video hosting site. If you would like to send us the recording, video files are large so could you send us an email first at intergen@soton.ac.uk and we can discuss how best to share the file.

We would like to thank our video pioneering authors Chia Liu and Albert Esteve whose introduction to their paper you can see on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/vB3pKW1AjUw

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