[colombiamigra] Fw: [NIEM] Bourses postdoctorales - Postdoctoral fellowships (Research Center in Demography and Societies of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) [2 Anexos]

  • From: william mejia <wmejia8a@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "colombiamigra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <colombiamigra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 18:28:25 -0700 (PDT)

De NIEM:

The Research Center in Demography and Societies of the Catholic University of 
Louvain - Belgium (www.uclouvain.be/demo) informs you of  the launch of the 
call for postdoc fellowships by the Academy Louvain (www.academielouvain.be). 
These fellowships - for a period of 12 to 24 months - are addressed to 
researchers who have not stayed or

worked in Belgium more than 12 months over the last 3 years. The callis also 
open to people completing their PhD in the coming months.

All information on this call and the application forms are
available in the attached documents.

www.uclouvain.be/461.html (French version)
         
 www.uclouvain.be/369565.html (English version)

 The application for a postdoctoral fellowship needs to be supported by the 
research center in which the applicant intends to work. The  Research Center in 
Demography and Societies offers to support postdoctoral candidates on the 
following topics:

 Internal and international migrations

  - Patterns, causes and consequences of migrations between
 Africa and Europe (MAFE project) - Prof. Bruno Schoumaker

 - Comparative analysis and modeling of migration and
 mortality interactions  using data from Health and Demographic Surveillance 
Systems - Prof. P. Bocquier

  - Migrants' health follow-up : design and analysis of
 objective and subjective health indicators among migrants before and after
 their migration (data to be collected through Health and Demographic
Surveillance Systems) - Prof. P. Bocquier

 - Analysis of interactions between migration and fertility
in Belgium (retrospective individual data from population censuses) -
 Prof. T. Eggerickx

  - Residential trajectories of Belgian baby boomers and post
 baby-boom generations - Prof. T. Eggerickx

-Fertility and family
- Religiosity and fertility – Prof. E. Rizzi
- Explaining the stalling gender revolution – Prof. E.
 Rizzi
- Life course events and well-being - Prof. E. Rizzi

 Methods
  - Reconstruction of fertility trends in developing
 countries in the presence of large measurement errors - Prof. B. Schoumaker

 - Unconventional approaches to estimating adult mortality
 in countries with deficient demographic data - Prof. B. Masquelier

  - Contrôle de l'attrition non-aléatoire dans les analyses biographiques de 
données d'observatoires de population : - Prof. P. Bocquier

 - Event history modeling controlling for non-random
attrition to produce demographic estimates net of migration effect using data  
from Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems - Prof. P. Bocquier

Ageing and intergenerational relations

- Dependency of elderly people in Europe: institutional,
formal and informal support - Prof. C. Gourbin

- Intergenerational downward ties – Prof. E. Rizzi

Demographic transitions

 - Comparative analysis and spatial modeling of long-term
demographic and urban transitions in Belgium, Quebec, France, Japan and
 other countries -Prof. P. Bocquier
 - Comparative analysis of fertility decline in the French  and Belgian cities 
(1870-1940) (retrospective individual data from population
censuses) - prof. T. Eggerickx

 Population and environment

 - Projections of households and simulation of production
 and consumption of household energy (solar panels, private wind turbines, 
geothermal etc.) - Prof. F. Bartiaux  & B. Schoumaker

 Interested candidates are invited to follow this procedure:

  - For Friday, September 7, 2012: send a CV (first three
 pages of the  attached form) and a preliminary project (1 page), preferably on 
one of the topics suggested above. This should be sent via email to 
catherine.gourbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Applicants are also invited to contact the
 person responsible for the research topic (see
 www.uclouvain.be/demo for  contacts).

  - Tuesday, September 11: shortlisted candidates will be
 informed by the  research center.

  - September 12 to October 1: Preparation of application,
 with the support of  the research center.

  - October 1, 2012: deadline for submission of applications
 by the Academy Louvain.
 Isabelle Theys
 Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés
 Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les
 sociétés
 contemporaines
 Université catholique de Louvain
 1, PLace Montesquieu bte L2.08.03
 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
 Tél. ++32 (0)10 47 29 51
 Fax ++ 32 (0)10 47 29 52
 e-mail : isabelle.theys@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 http://www.uclouvain.be/demo

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