Ingrid van Dijk

Seasonal variation in births at Lund Hospital. We added a pearl to August for our newborn son Arthur Ejnar.

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
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On the way to the Nordic Demographic Symposium 🥸 #NDS2025

📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health
📅 June 25 | ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 CET | 💻 Online

Planning to apply for an individual research grant? Join our interactive workshop focused on crafting strong proposals in the field of health inequalities. 🧵⬇️

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

Ahhh we can do our retirement party together! 🎈

Permanent position, they said👀

And another one in the books

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

And, not sure who brought it up, but that US data on stillbirths is problematic because of a financial incentive to register a newborn as a live birth. There's an interesting parallel to the problems in historical data in Catholic regions (where a newborn needs to be born alive to be baptized). 👀

This was such a great session. One of the excellent comments (by @jnobles.bsky.social) I was thinking about later was that events of stillbirth & neonatal mortality should also be thought of as health events happening to the *mothers*.

Happy to see that journals are making sharing preprints easier 👏

Packed room for our session on #perinatal-demography at #paa2025 with Payal Hathi, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, Tim Bruckner, Haley Comfort @ihmeuw.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social as inspiring discussant.

You can download their submissions here:
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Washington impressions (1): Pink

If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat 😊
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I'll present another poster on top survivors (maybe looking less nervous) this Saturday at 16, shared work with Niels van den Berg. Also on Saturday at 14, Isa Barraclough is presenting our paper on trends in intergenerational persistence of lifespan in Sweden 1860-2020.

Very happy to be in Washington for #PAA2025! I've only attended once before and presented a poster of what's still one of my favorite papers. Me EIGHT years ago presenting a poster and not looking nervous at all;

Bike commuting is great year-round but in april it's the best ❤️ (km1, km2, km5)

Nothing like an exhibit of iron lung machines to remind us how life was before polio vaccines

My hotel in Washington for PAA just confirmed and comically emphasized its *free* Wifi in the lobby. Wait, no wifi in my room? I'll have to bring a pile of books! 😂

Lund Population day is on May 8th

Doctoral student in Economic History – Colonial maternal health legacies The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and PhD. candidates. The department has a la

Forgot to add the link to the vacancy for a doctoral student working with Jeanne Cilliers. The topic is colonial-era investments in maternal healthcare and how these continue to shape health outcomes today: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I can highly recommend working with Martin and Jeanne. The positions are all exciting, combining historical with contemporary registers or surveys and investigating demographic change from an innovative angle. Join us at the Centre for Economic Demography / Department of Economic History in Lund!

And finally, Jeanne Cilliers is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in health developments in Africa in her VR-funded project "Birthing Inequity: Legacies of Colonial Maternal Health and Child Welfare Services in Africa".

Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Everything I touch turns into null results. 🌟

Some nice ones coming up at PAA next week.

The question of this morning: AI re-constructed, AI constructed, or AI hallucinated
#ESSHC

Of course, I could leave it as it is and then just read the titles out without looking up once so everyone gets their bingo card full

The conference bingo has convinced me to increase the size of the legends on my slides 👀

(If you're at ESSHC in Leiden, I'm presenting on inequalities in stature in Sweden at 0830 tomorrow morning)