Canadian Population Society Award
The CPS Award honors a Canadian scholar every two years who has shown outstanding commitment to the profession of demography, and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline in Canada, through publications, teaching and/or service. The Canadian Population Society Award Committee has chosen Professor T.R. Balakrishnan as recipient of the 2010 CPS Award.
Please click here if you would like to read the award presentation citation.
Canadian Population Society 2012 Annual Meeting
The Canadian Population Society (CPS) will hold its 2012 annual meeting on 30 May - 1 June 2012 at the Wilfred Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Ontario.
CPS invites submissions for papers and posters and, especially, encourages graduate students to participate. Click on Conferences to see the Call for Papers for the 2012 meeting.
CPS Newsletter
Canadian Studies in Population
Canadian Population Society Award
Submissions for the Canadian Population Society Award (CPS Award) are welcomed. Send nominations to the following address:
CPS Awards Committee
Barry Edmonston
Department of Sociology
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
V8W 3P5
Membership
Members of the CPS are typically faculty members of Socoiology or Demography departments in Canada, students of those departments, staff of Statistics Canada & other government bodies. In addition, members come from Anthropology, Econmics, Geography & other unversity departments and the business sector. Members are eligible to vote in CPS elections, present refereed papers to conferences, and receive a subscription to the Canadian Studies in Population.
Students
CPS recognizes that the long-term strength and vitality of an organization must have incoming members and so expressly support involvement of student members through reduced membership fees, participation in the CPS Council, invitation to present papers alongside career members in conferences, and an annual award for the best paper presented to the conference. See this area for job postings & curriculum vitae as well.
Publications
The CPS has two media for periodical communication. The CPS newsletter is issued twice a year to CPS members. Non-members may also read it online. The Canadian Studies in Population is a refereed journal that is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and University of Alberta (U of A) funds.
Conferences
The Canadian Population Society (CPS) meets annually as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by different university campuses in Canada each year. The conference is usually 3 days in duration in late May/early June, features 45-50 academic paper presentations, and an Annual General Meeting. Where possible, sessions are designed to be joint with other Societies at the Congress and who share research interests, including geography, economics, and sociology. An annual award is given to the best student paper. Programs and abstracts for 1996-present are available online.
The annual meeting usually includes a separate symposium on advanced analytical methods. This is a one-day workshop introducing such topics as special statistical methods, geographic information systems (GIS) methods, or microsimuation for social scientists. There is usually no expectation of prior knowledge of models or techniques or experience with specific software packages.
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