Signe Svallfors

Join me as 3-year #postdoc to study Demography of "Reproductive Ageing"

-menopause 🩸infertility 💉older fathers 👨‍👧 and more
-novel data sources from around the world
-population-level understanding of causes and consequences of reproductive ageing

+ Wonderful research community @mpidr.bsky.social

So excited to see this piece out in Demography. We find that exposure to community-level homicides is associated with higher probabilities of contraceptive first use and provision.

This paper forms the basis of my ERC Starting Grant on how local violent crime affects SRH in Mexico. 🇲🇽 More to come!

Att fà barn efter 40 - en nygammal trend? Fruktsamhetstal för kvinnor 40-44 är och 45-49 ar, 1751-2024 Antal födda barn per 1 000 kvinnor 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 ... 1750 1800 1850 ・・・ 1900 - 40-44 ăr —45-49 ăr — Ảr 1950 2000

Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this

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Yep

We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor!

Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

Very instructive information about upcoming chances to the ERC calls for proposals!

Ben Malinga John began leading a Max Planck Partner Group (UNIMAX) at the University of Malawi in Zomba. Over the next five years, he will study family formation processes among highly educated individuals.
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

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Term card for monthly FemQuant events autumn 2025

Very pleased to announce the (nearly complete) list of our monthly events coming up this term!
Sept: Invisible biases, unequal outcomes
Oct: What is a feminist method
Nov: Panel discussion - Feminist research & data in political turmoil.
Details & sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Pic of the panel and organisers, with (left to right), Laura Sochas, Wendy Sigle, Signe Svallfors, Honorata Bogusz and Ben Wilson

A recent BSPS initiative is a critical demography strand, which thinks about how demography could be even better. This panel organised by Laura Sochas & Ben Wilson w/ Wendy Sigle, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & @honoratabogusz.bsky.social had great ideas about applying critical thinking in demography

Really interesting and important presentation 👏

Congratulations!

Two research projects are looking for PhD students. One of the projects is about how AI is changing the labour market. The other one will examine how violent crime affects sexual and reproductive health in Mexico.

Last application date is 1 October.

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Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.

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@signesvallfors.bsky.social

Thank you so much!! Hope all is well with you!

Thanks, Michelle! Big thanks to the soc dept at Stanford where I wrote the application

Thank you so much, Luca!

Many thanks, Patrick!

Thanks so much, Nick! The pilot study comes out soon in Demography – stay tuned

Thank you, Agostino!

Thanks so much!!! 🙏

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD studentship with qualitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a €1.6M Starting Grant from @erc.europa.eu to study the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health.

I'm so grateful to all who provided their support through this journey.

Ads for 2 fully funded PhD studentships in comments 👇

PowerPoint slide reading: Family, reproductive health and global violence: Demographic perspectives beyond the immediate consequences of armed conflict. Orsola Torrisi McGill University & LSE Early Career Plenary British Society for Population Studies (BSPS), Swansea 3 September, 2025

Dr Orsola Torrisi giving a plenary talk on a podium

🔥 Peak conference moment at #BSPS2025 – An absolutely awe-inspiring Early Career Award plenary by Orsola Torrisi on family, reproductive health and global violence. This award is so well deserved for Orsola’s outstanding contributions to the field of demography.

@bspsuk.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

📣 CSDE Seminar – Panel: Demographic Methods for Estimating Mortality During Armed Conflict

Fri, Jan 26, 2024 (12:30-1:30 PM Pacific)

This panel features Dr. Amy Hagopian, Dr. Abraham D. Flaxman, Dr. Patrick Heuveline, Dr. Orsola Torrisi, Dr. Nathalie Williams
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