Lunch & Learn: Rapid changes in family structure have profound implications for the provision of informal support worldwide
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Join us on October 9 at 12PM for the first Lunch&Learn session of the 2024-2025 training year! This session welcomes Dr. , the Head of the Kinship Inequalities Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. During his talk, Dr. Alburez-Gutierrez will share valuable insights into the rapid changes in family structure and their significant implications for informal support systems worldwide.听His current research employs demographic methods to explore how variations in kin presence and availability influence the multi-generational demand for care, the impact of kin loss, and the inter-generational transmission of memory. His recent work includes groundbreaking studies on the projections of human kinship across nations and the evolving role of grandparents in contemporary family dynamics.
Itinerary
12:00 - 12:05 | Welcome and introductions
12:05 - 12:45 | Lunch&Learn presentation
12:45 - 12:55 | Moderated Q&A session
12:55 - 13:00 | Closing and upcoming sessions
Location
This is an online webinar hosted on Zoom. To receive details to enter the event, please register.
Featured Speaker
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez
Head of the Kinship Inequalities Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
leads the Independent Research Group on Kinship Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany. He received his PhD in Demography and Population Studies (2018) and his MSc in Social Research Methods (2014) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2019, he was honored by the Max Planck Society with the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement for his PhD thesis "Beyond excess mortality: the demographic life of a Mayan community after a war of massacres". In 2022, Dr. Alburez-Gutierrez received the BSPS Early Career Award from the British Society for Population Studies and, in 2023, he received the European Demographer Award from Population Europe. He is best known for his work combining formal demography and empirical data to study intergenerational family processes. His research has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, Population and Development Review, and other key disciplinary journals.
Suggested Readings
Hagestad, Gunhild O. 1988. 鈥淒emographic Change and the Life Course: Some Emerging Trends in the Family Realm.鈥� Family Relations 37(4):405. doi: 10.2307/584111.
Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego, Iv谩n Williams, and Hal Caswell. 2023. 鈥淧rojections of Human Kinship for All Countries.鈥� Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(52):e2315722120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2315722120.
The Economist. The Age of the Grandparent has Arrived. 14 Jan 2023, .听
What are Lunch&Learn's?
The CAnD3 Lunch&Learn series is designed to introduce our Fellows, team members, and partners to emerging research on topics related to population dynamics and population aging. These modules will cover the鈥犅�Four CAnD3 Population Aging Axes: (1) family and social inclusion; (2) education, labour and inequality; (3) migration and ethnicity; and (4) wellbeing and autonomy.
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