Seminars, conference papers and posters
Fertility
- Health and Mortality - Religious trends - Happiness
Paper presented at the 7th Generations and Gender Programme Users Conference, Warsaw, September 2023
Paper
presented at the British
Society for Population Studies annual conference, University
of Keele, September 2023
"Association
of religiosity with partner relationships"
Seminar at Te
Ngira, Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato,
February 2023
"The
fertility curve: an under-used trove of demographic
information"
Paper presented at the British Society for Population Studies annual conference, University of Winchester, September 2022
"Why
has the TFR fallen in many western countries over the past
decade?"
Paper
presented at the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting, virtual
conference programme, October 2021
"Determinants
of
fertility by religiosity: a life course approach"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, online meeting,
September 2021
"Differentials
and
trends in fertility across the Swiss cantons 2000-2019"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, online meeting,
September 2020
"Expectations
and
reality of childbearing: effect on partner relationship and
finances"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Cardiff, September 2019
"Trends
in
birth intervals for twenty countries"
Lab talk at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
(MPIDR), March 2019
"Attitudes
to
money, sex and religion: do they have any association with
childbearing intentions and outcomes?"
Lab talk at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
(MPIDR), January 2019
"Why
the
TFR gives an erroneous impression of the fertility of migrants
- and how to make a better measure"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Winchester, September 2018
"Why
the
TFR of the foreign population is so misleading. How a better
fertility measure can be developed knowing fertility at
immigration, emigration and naturalisation in addition to
births"
Paper
presented to the LIVES working group, University of Lausanne,
May 2018
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Liverpool, September 2017
"Who
really
wants a child? And who's not so bothered? Comparing countries
and subgroups and the association with childlessness"
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Liverpool, September 2017
"Who
has
more children than their mother?"
Seminar
at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra,
Australia. February 2017
"Interesting
enigmas
in the demography of fertility: examples from Switzerland"
Paper
presented at the Workshop on the Fertility of Migrants and
Minorities, Leibnitz University, Hanover, February 2017
"Foreigners
in
Switzerland boost the country's fertility rate, yet they now
have smaller families than native Swiss: how so?"
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Winchester, September 2016
"Differences
in
expectations and outcomes with respect to childbearing between
the religious 'nones' and the religiously active"
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Winchester, September 2016
"Do
family
policies have an impact on the fertility rate?"
Seminar
at the ISSRC,
University of Lausanne, May 2016
"Why
such
a big difference in family size between the religious and the
non-religious (in Switzerland)?"
Paper presented at the conference 'Advancing
the
Demographic Study of Religion' at the Pew Research Center,
Washington DC, March 2016
"Why
do
religious nones in Switzerland have only half as many children
as the religiously active?"
Poster
presented at the conference 'Education and
reproduction in low-fertility settings' (EDUREP),
Wittgenstein centre, Vienna, December 2015
"Is
education the primary determinant of childlessness in
Switzerland?"
Paper
presented to the LIVES working group, University of Lausanne,
November 2015
"Differentials
in
desires and realisation: 1st, 2nd and 3rd child"
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of Leeds,
September 2015
"Spacing
between
children and trends in mean age of successive birth orders:
quite different stories!"
Paper
presented at a colloquium for users of the Families and
Generations Survey (EFG) at the Swiss Federal Statistical
Office, May 2015
"First
analyses
using EFG data: investigations on childlessness"
Seminar
at the Life
Course
and Inequality Research Centre, University of Lausanne,
November 2014
"Determinants
of
childlessness in Switzerland"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Winchester, September 2014
"Cohort
fertility
trends across Europe: commonalities and anomalies"
Seminar at the Vienna Institute of Demography, July 2014
"Childlessness
trends,
religious trends: are they associated?"
Poster presented at the European
Population
Conference, Budapest, June 2014
"The
rise
and fall of a multi-modal fertility curve"
Paper presented at the 17th
IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, September 2013
"Europe-wide
fertility
trends since the 1990s: turning the corner from declining
first birth rates"
Paper presented at the 7th International Conference of Panel
Data Users in Switzerland, February 2013
"Spacing
of
children in Switzerland: constancy or change?"
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Nottingham, September 2012
"Was
slowing
postponement really the engine for TFR rises in European
countries?"
Seminar at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic
Analysis (NIDEA), University of Waikato, New Zealand, February
2012
"Are
women in Europe still having babies?"
Poster presented at Alp-Pop
conference, La Thuile,
January 2012
"TFRs
have
been rising… Have women been having more babies?"
Paper presented at the Human
Fertility Database Symposium, MPIDR, November 2011
"Visualisation
of
fertility trends: Switzerland as a case study"
Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
(MPIDR), June 2011
"The
value
of detailed fertility data: A case study on divergence and
convergence of fertility behaviour in Switzerland"
Seminar at the United Nations Population Division in New York,
November 2010
"The
value
of detailed fertility data: A case study on divergence and
convergence of fertility behaviour in Switzerland"
Seminar at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra,
Australia. April 2008
"New
fertility
behaviour in Eastern Europe: How it has emerged and future
prospects. Case studies of Bulgaria, Hungary and Georgia"
Presentation of results for MSc module, University of Geneva
(UNIGE), February 2007
"Fertility
trends:
A comparison of Japan and Switzerland"
Seminar at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel,
August 2006
"La
suisse: au seuil
d’un baby-boom ou d’un
baby-bust?" (Switzerland: on the threshold of a baby-boom
or a baby-bust?)
Health and Mortality
Paper presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, online meeting,
September 2020
"Differentials
in
self-assessed health by generation: cross-country comparisons"
Paper
presented at the British
Society
for Population Studies annual conference, University of
Winchester, September 2018
"Cohort
mortality:
what is so special about the people born in 1946?"
Paper
presented at the European
Population Conference, Brussels, June 2018
"After
the
mortality improvements of the Golden Cohort, how has the Baby
Boom generation fared? Good news and bad news"
Religious trends
Sermon preached at Crossroads Church, St Genis-Pouilly, August
2015
"Graphs
and
Prayers"
Paper
presented at the 8th
International
Conference of the Swiss Household Panel Data Users, Lausanne,
June 2015
"If
people
become more religious, do they become happier?"
"Religious
attendance
rates: data evaluation of the ESS, EVS, ISSP and WVS"
Paper presented at the SOCREL
Annual
Conference, Durham, April, 2013
"Changing
levels
of religious observance through the life course (Religiosity
in Switzerland: disentangling age, cohort and period effects)"
Paper presented at the 7th International Conference of the Swiss
Household Panel Data Users, Lausanne, February 2013
"Religious
trends
in Switzerland: disentangling age, cohort, individual flux and
period effects"
Seminar at the ISSRC,
University of Lausanne, April 2012
"Trends
in young people’s religiosity and cohort religiosity trends"
Paper presented at the British
Sociological
Association's annual conference, Leeds, April, 2012
"Dissection
of
a religious revival: a case study of Georgia"
Paper presented at the Symposium on Religion, Religiosity and
Social Indicators – the Special Case of Georgia, University of
Fribourg, June 2011
"Trends
in
religious observance and fertility behaviour: global empirical
results and theoretical models"
Paper presented at SOCREL
Annual
Conference, Birmingham, April, 2011
"Cohort
religiosity:
does it stay at a stable level everywhere and across all
cohorts?"
Paper presented at the Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Annual Conference,
Baltimore, October 2010
"Modernisation
and
secularisation quantified"
Paper presented at SOCREL
Annual
Conference, Edinburgh, April 2010
"Trends
in
religious participation of young people: do they mirror trends
in atheism?"
Presentation at UCSIA
Summer
School, Antwerp, September 2009
"Religiosity,
revival
and secularisation: cross-country comparisons"
Paper presented at the 5th
International
Lausanne Researchers conference, Melbourne, April 2008
"Young
people:
are they less religious than older people, and are they less
religious than they used to be?"
Paper
presented at the 3rd
International European Social Survey conference,
University of Lausanne, July 2016
"Cross-country
variations
in happiness: trends, age differentials and anomalies"