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Ny styrelse 2026/2027

31/3/2026

Den 30 mars hade vi SDF:s årsmöte. En ny styrelse valdes till föreningen, som nu består av följande:

Helen Eriksson (SUDA) valdes som ordförande.
Erik Carlsson (INVEST, Åbo Universitet) valdes som kassör.
Jani Turunen (Södertörns Högskola) valdes som sekreterare.

Övriga styrelsemedlemmar:

Li Ma (Befolkningssektionen, SCB)
Ana Tramosljanin (Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet)
Samuel Sundvall (CEDAR, Umeå Universitet)
Wooseong Kim (Institutet för miljömedicin, Karolinska Institutet)

Utöver detta valdes Jonas Helgertz (Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen och CED vid Lunds Universitet) till suppleant. Edith Rosenberg är studentmedarbetare.

Varmt välkommen till höstens andra SDF-seminarium! SDF har, tillsammans med Institutet för framtidsstudier och Stockholms universitets demografiska avdelning, bjudit in Rannveig Kaldager Hart och Anna Rotkirch, huvudsekreterarna från de norska respektive finska statliga utredningarna om det låga barnafödandet, att tillsammans med Gunnar Andersson (SUDA) och Martin Kolk (SUDA och IF) presentera det senaste inom nordisk fertilitetsforskning samt de policyförslag som ska överlämnas till de norska och finska regeringarna. Anmäl er genom denna länk.

SDF-seminarium: inrikes flyttningar i Sverige

29/9/2025

Vi vill gärna bjuda in er till vårt första SDF-seminarium i höst. Den 16 oktober kl. 13 välkomnar vi er till SUDA:s lokaler vid Sociologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet. Seminariet sänds även digitalt som webbinariun.

Under seminariet kommer följande presentationer att hållas:
Presentation 1: Flyttningar i olika skeden av livet – Inrikes omflyttningar under 2023 relaterat till demografiska händelser (Filip Dabergott, demograf vid SCB)
Presentation 2: Flyttningar mellan kommuner 2014–2023 (Li Ma, demograf vid SCB)

Vänligen registrera er till seminariet via länken nedan:
https://forms.gle/2oUhp3fhRTFMYadf7

Congratulations to Tommy Andersson, the winner of this year's edition of our best thesis competition!

12/8/2025

Annually, the Swedish Demographic Association issues an award for the best thesis in the field of population studies. All high-quality theses at undergraduate or master level from a Swedish university are eligible. Topics should relate to population issues in a historical, contemporary or methodological perspective. Nominated papers are judged by a Jury on the basis of the following criteria:

Engaging the relevant literature
Written clearly and structured well
Methods of analysis are appropriate for the research question and/or issues
Theoretical framework is appropriate
Interpretation of the results is effective
Significance and contribution

Seven master theses were submitted to this year’s competition, and the choice of a winner was difficult, as all submitted theses were of a very high quality. Finally, the jury decided to award Tommy Andersson for the thesis “The Classes of Death: Socio-economic mortality differentials in Swedish cities during the harvest failure of 1771-72” which was written at Lund University in June 2024.

Tommy's thesis investigates the historical socio-economic gradient in mortality due to economic fluctuations, using the harvest failure in 1771-72 in Sweden as an example. The author employs individual-level mortality data from eight cities in Sweden and aggregated population data from the Tabular Commission's Mortality and Population tables to examine the extent to which socio-economic status was correlated with mortality in Swedish pre-industrial cities during short-term economic stress. The findings suggest that individuals with lower socio-economic status were more likely to experience a higher risk of death during the economic fluctuations of the harvest failure of 1771-72, providing evidence that supports the theory that the detrimental effect of short-term economic stress was linked to malnutrition and lower resistance to disease. The thesis builds on an extensive and thorough review of the existing literature and presents a sound empirical analysis and results that contribute to our understanding of the mechanism between short-term economic stress and population health in pre-industrial societies. In addition, the author showed commendable effort in discussing the study data and challenges in using such data, which benefits future researchers using the same or similar historical data. Overall, this is an excellent thesis, built on a sound theoretical, methodological, and empirical foundation.

We would also like to thank the jury for this year's competition: Signe Svallfors, Wooseong Kim and Filip Dabergott.

Ny styrelse 2026/2027

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SDF-seminarium: inrikes flyttningar i Sverige

Congratulations to Tommy Andersson, the winner of this year's edition of our best thesis competition!