IMPRS-PHDS

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🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, Henrik Schubert🎉🎉🎉

Henrik is proud recipient of an award-winning doctorate. He successfully defended his thesis, "The #fertility puzzle. Trends and patterns of male and female fertility" at the Sociology at Oxford at the University of Oxford.
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‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅3-7 November 2025
💻Online 💸no tuition fee
📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025

@imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
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@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

🏆Congratulations🎉@juliahellstrand.bsky.social, alumna of
@imprs-phds.bsky.social and fellow at the MaxHel Center who has been honored with the prestigious European Demographer Award. @populationeu.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
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Group Pic of the EDSD cohort 2025. A very diverse group of young people standing at a waterside surrounded by green bushes. There is a litte ferry on the water in the background and you can see the other side of the river Warnow.

✨20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography✨On this day 20 years ago(Sept 1, 2005) the EDSD opened its doors @mpidr.bsky.social for the 1st time. Today, we welcome the 21st cohort. We wish everyone a great year of study, research & networking! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025.

Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

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Big congratulations to @larabister.bsky.social, alumna of the EDSD and IMPRS-PHDS programs, on winning first prize in the Social Sciences section of the Körber Foundation's German Thesis Award for her doctoral thesis on economic crises and health!
Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

This week, @jschoeley.com from @mpidr.bsky.social shares his experience in designing and implementing impactful scientific data visualizations in a 5-day @imprs-phds.bsky.social elective course. Participants create, critique and refine visualizations, culminating in a final project. We are excited!

Does space matter? This week we are hosting an IMPRS-PHDS elective course on GIS and spatial analysis, led by our experts Stefan Leyk and @alekberg.bsky.social and attended by PHDS researchers and guests. We wish everyone a productive and exciting week of study!

It's fabulous to welcome our students and alumni back to @mpidr.bsky.social for the 6th IMPRS-PHDS Graduate Workshop! We are looking forward to two days of research updates and networking as well as mini-workshops on science communication and mastering Q&A sessions!

I’m excited to share my first Bluesky post featuring my first PhD paper! We found that some 1.5 generation women consistently show higher risks of first, second, and third births compared to British natives, while some 2.5 generation display distinctive pattern of fertility rates.

🚨Job Offer🚨
St Andrews–Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population, Health and Data Science
3.5-year St Andrews–Max Planck PhD studentship in Population, Health and Data Science.
Deadline: June 11
@mpidr.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social
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Student in front of tower at Nuffield College

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

Ever heard of the European Doctoral School of Demography? No? Here is your chance to learn about it first hand. At #PAA2025 Alex Sheridan, current participant, will be at the MPIDR booth #212 & inform about the program. Friday to Sunday: 10 am-12 pm. @eapsphd.bsky.social eaps.nl/page/europea...

The deadline to apply for the EDSD is next week (March 25 at noon). Don't miss the opportunity to join us at @ined.bsky.social !

Apply now for our free five-day course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research, 16-20 June 2025, presented by Stefan Leyk!
Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
Application deadline is 31 March 2025.

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open!

This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography.

Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon).
More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

🚨JOB OFFER🚨PhD Student | Research Group Migration & Health Inequalities
@mpidr.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a full-time PhD student to join the Group of @loisilvia.bsky.social.
📅Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Admitted students take part in the @imprs-phds.bsky.social.
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The @imprs-phds.bsky.social team worked hard to make it happen: We're happy & proud to announce that the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science has been made permanent by the
@maxplanck.de . IMPRS_PHDS Team, you rock!
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Congratulations, Maria Gültzow!
Maria successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Digging Deeper: Exploring mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health” at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.
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🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Studentship in Social Statistics with focus on Digital & Computational Demography: 3.5-year @official-uom.bsky.social doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the University of Manchester and @mpidr.bsky.social.
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Say hello to the 2024 cohort! International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science. We are having a lovely time here in Rostock 🇩🇪 @mpidr.bsky.social

Many thanks to all who attended and contributed to the 6th IMPRS-PHDS Academy @mpidr.bsky.social in person and online, and congratulations to Chiara Micheletti, @parthpandya.bsky.social, @courtneyallen.bsky.social and @anaguv.bsky.social for winning the Best Poster Award!

💡💡💡We are delighted to welcome @imprs-phds.bsky.social students and their supervisors to the Annual Academy 2024 @mpidr.bsky.social. We're looking forward to two more days of student and faculty presentations, networking, and sharing future research endeavors. 🎓🎓🎓
#demography #phdlife #PhD

We're thrilled to have bright students from around the world join us this week for our hybrid course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, presented by our researchers @akbaritabar.bsky.social, @ezagheni.bsky.social, Tom Theile, @jiisu.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social!

Last day of the "Intro to Bayesian Statistics for Demographic Science"@mpidr.bsky.social: It was a great week with lab sessions & great instructors guiding through prior & posterior probability distributions to understand Bayesian inference. Thanks@imprs-phds.bsky.social! @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

The @mpidr.bsky.social welcomes the 2024 cohort of EDSD students! They will spend 8 weeks in Rostock for the preparatory courses & move to INED in Paris in November for the EDSD core program. Enjoy your stay, the research & networking. Learn more: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Xinyi Zhao standing next to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science sign after her viva

🥳 Huge congrats to Xinyi Zhao who sailed through her viva with no corrections 👏Her thesis is on the gender inequality in academia: opportunities and challenges in the era of globalisation and digitalisation

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