2011 Conference Programme

Wednesday 17 August 2011

2:00 - 4:30pm: Registration
Sir Peter Froggatt Centre Queen's University Belfast

5:00 - 6.30pm: Keynote Speaker
Dr Richard Suzman, Director of Behavioral & Social Research, US National Institute on Aging

6:30 - 8:00pm: Reception at Queen's University



Thursday 18 August 2011

9:30 - 10:45am The Demography of Ageing in developed countries
Dr Wan He, Senior Research Demographer, US Census Bureau
Professor David Coleman, Professor of Demography, Oxford University

Tea and Coffee (10:45am - 11:15am)

11:15 - 12:45pm The Demography of Ageing in developing countries
Dr George Leeson, Deputy Director Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University
Professor Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Professor of Social Policy and International Development, University of East Anglia
Dr Alicia Bercovich, Presidency of IBGE Adviser for the 2010 Population Census and Special Projects, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

Lunch (12:45pm - 2:15pm)

2:15 - 4:15pm Challenges for official statistics of Population Ageing
Mr Guy Goodwin, Director of Population, Health and Regional Analysis, UK Office for National Statistics
Professor Nico Keilman, Professor of Demography, Oslo University

Tea and Coffee (3:15pm - 3:45pm)

Professor Brendan Whelan, Research Director of The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Trinity College Dublin

4:15 - 5:00pm Question and Answer Session

6:00 - 7:30pm Reception at Parliament Buildings, Belfast

For associates there is the option of visiting the Giant's Causeway on Thursday afternoon  



Friday 19 August 2011

9:30 - 10:45am Economic Policy Impacts of Population Ageing
Professor James Banks, Deputy Research Director, UK Institute for Fiscal Studies
Professor David Canning, Professor of Economics and International Health, Harvard University

Tea and Coffee (10:45am - 11:15am)

11:15 - 12:30pm Social Policy Impacts of Population Ageing
Mrs Inna Šteinbuka, Director of Social and Information Society Statistics, Eurostat
Professor Charles Normand, Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin

12:30 - 1:00pm Question and Answer Session

Lunch (1:00pm - 2:30pm)

2:30 - 4:00pm Work of the NI Statistics and Research Agency
or
Opportunity to visit places of interest within Belfast

7:00 - 10:30pm Conference Dinner - Belfast City Hall
 

There will be arranged private bus transportation on Saturday 20 August to Dublin