PASA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Theme: Demographic Dividend and Population Dynamics in a changing African Society.

Call for Abstracts

Date: 1^st - 2^nd October 2014
Venue: Eastern Cape - Walter Sisulu University
Keynote Speaker: Mr Pali Lehohla (Statistician General)

The Population Association of Southern Africa (PASA) is pleased to be hosting its ninths annual population conference.

The PASA Conference is a general scientific conference aimed at advancing population scholarship in the region through sharing of population related research and programs, interaction of scholars and practitioners, as well as exposure to new methods and issues in demography.

This year’s conference which was scheduled to take place at Eastern Cape from 9th -11th July, 2014, has been postponed to be held in Eastern Cape, hosted by Walter Sisulu University – East London Campus from the 1st to the 2nd of October 2014 and the pre – Conference Training to the 29th and 30th of September 2014.

Demographers, population scholars, academics, students and practitioners globally, and particularly in the sub- region are invited to submit abstracts. The conference is organized around Regular Sessions and Poster presentations covering the population sub-themes listed below. Papers on Demographic dividend and populations dynamics are encouraged.

Sub-Themes

The conference is organised around the following sub themes but are not restricted to these:

• Population Data and Methods
• Population Policy and Programmes
• Age Structural Transitions
• Population and Gender
• Population, Education and Development
• Population, Development and Environment
• Regional Migration, African Diaspora Remittance Flows and Urbanization
• Population Ageing and Intergenerational Relationships
• Population and Poverty
• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Families and Households
• Children and Youth
• People Living with Disability
• Fertility and Nuptiality
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Health, Morbidity and Mortality
• HIV Interventions: Clinical and Social

Contributions

You can submit three types of contributions for the conference:

1. Conference papers - Contributions have to be original unpublished works.
2. Posters - Visual display of research. The posters will be shown and commented on in the foyer of the conference venue. Students with papers that are still ‘under construction’ are welcome and encouraged to prepare a poster presentation with your proposed study and preliminary findings. A prize in this category will be awarded.
3. Student writing competition papers - Students are encouraged to submit papers on completed research for the PASA student paper awards competition. The winners will be announced at the conference and will receive a prize.

Anyone wishing to present a paper or a poster should submit an abstract. All authors shall be notified. Then a month before the conference, full papers, or extended abstracts of accepted papers SHOULD be submitted for circulation to discussants.

NB: PASA is proposing to prepare conference proceedings publication on author’s choice basis. That is: anyone wishing to present a paper or a poster should indicate whether that paper, if accepted, can be considered for publication as part of the conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

The abstract should generally consist of the following sections:

1. Background: Indicating the reason(s) for your investigation, objectives and hypotheses.
2. Methods: Indicating the methods used (including for example sample size, etc)
3. Results: The essential results observed in summary form including sufficient quantitative data and statistical tests.
4. Conclusion(s) and policy implications: Conclusions should be supported by the findings within your results

All contributions should be submitted in electronic format preferably MS Word/RTF-Format before the deadline. Contributors should specify clearly the category to which they are contributing, i.e. conference paper, poster or student writing competition and sub-theme in which one is submitting to. Please provide the full postal and e-mail addresses, as well as the telephone of the corresponding author as well as any co-authors. We will correspond exclusively with the corresponding author.

Deadlines

Abstracts: 04 July 2014
Author Notification: 18 July 2014
Final Papers: 15 August 2014

Contacts

For abstracts, papers and posters or more information, please send to both:

Thabo Rakhetsi: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Vusimuzi Maduna: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.