Dear all,

Please find below details of the annual ‘PopFest’ event to be hosted in 2010 
by The University of St. Andrews, along with a second call for papers.  
Registration is now open, and we are making our second call for papers. The 
event is organised by postgraduates for postgraduates and is supported by 
the Economic and Social Research Council, the Bristish Society for Population 
Studies, University of St. Andrews GradSkills, University of St. Andrews School 
of Geography and Geoscience, The Centre for Population Change and the 
University of Dundee (Geography, School of Social and Environmental Science).

Please note that you can now:

Find out more about how to register and what’s included:  
http://www.popfest.org.uk/about-popfest/popfest-2010/registration

Register and pay online (including both attendance fees and accommodation):
https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?
compid=1&catid=12&modid=2&prodid=100&deptid=29 

View abstract submission guidelines:
http://www.popfest.org.uk/resources/Abstract_Submission_Guidelines_PopFest
2010.pdf

Find out more about our sponsors:
http://www.popfest.org.uk/about-popfest/popfest-2010/sponsors

Please also note the following key dates:
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1st March 
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 7th June
EVENT DATES: 28th, 29th and 30th June 

We would be extremely grateful if you would consider passing on details of this 
event to those you feel would be interested, please accept our apologies for 
any cross posting. For full details please visit www.popfest.org.uk

**WHAT IS POPFEST?**

PopFest is a postgraduate conference celebrating the many applications and 
contexts of Population Studies. It is open to postgraduates from all disciplines 
across the social sciences studying any aspect of population and demography 
providing a supportive and stimulating environment for students to meet, 
present their work and exchange ideas. It is well established, having been 
organised by postgraduate students for the last eighteen years, and is this 
year hosted over three days by the University of St. Andrews on the beautiful 
East coast of Scotland.

PopFest is a great opportunity for postgraduate researchers at all stages to 
meet other students in the same area, practise presentation skills and get 
useful feedback from peers. You may share your work through either a short
presentation followed by questions, and/ or a poster session.  Even if you do 
not give a presentation of your work, PopFest will give you a feeling for the 
research being conducted by others and allow you to make valuable contacts 
for the future.

Full details of the programme are still to be confirmed but will include: parallel 
sessions running over three days, poster presentations, keynote speaker 
addresses, and this year will offer an innovative panel session, allowing with 
contributors drawn from a range of backgrounds (e.g. public sector and 
charity) showing how aspects of population studies might be appliedin 
different contexts.

PopFest will be held from Monday 28th June – Wednesday 30th June 2010.

**CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 1ST MARCH**

The second call for papers has now been made, and is open to all 
postgraduate researchers engaged in the study of human populations from any 
social science discipline. Submissions for works-in-progress or completed 
reports are all welcome.

Themes might include, but are certainly not limited to:
*Health and populations
*Migration
*Reproductive and sexual behaviour
*Social participation and active citizenship
*Fertility and contraception
*Childhood and youth
*Innovative data uses and methodological approaches in population studies

Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. There 
will also be one dedicated poster session.


**REGISTRATION: DEADLINE 7TH JUNE**

For full details of the event including a downloadable call for papers, 
submission guidelines, how to register, how to arrange accommodation, travel 
information, information about the area and details of the organising 
committee, please visit: www.popfest.org.uk, or click on the relevant links 
above. 

You can also register for email updates about the event, and contact us 
directly with any questions via [log in to unmask]

We hope to hear from you soon!

The POPFEST 2010 organising committee.