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First FReDA User Conference in July

The first FReDA user conference is just around the corner: Titled "3 Years of FReDA: Families and Partnerships in Germany and Europe", analyses will be presented from 3 to 5 July 2023 that were predominantly developed with data from the first wave of the FReDA panel or with data from pairfam or the GGS. The contributions not only present the latest research findings, but also show some of the potential of the datasets used, explain methodological challenges in the analysis of panel data and present innovative methodological approaches.

A total of 24 papers during six sessions will be presented at the conference:

- Gender Ideology and Partnership
- Division of Household Labour
- COVID-19 and Mental Health / Methods
- Family Relations
- Fertility and Family Planning
- Arrangement of Paid Work and Care Work

With Prof. Dr Anne Gauthier, Director of the Generations and Gender Programme at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, and Prof. Dr Karsten Hank, Principal Investigator for FReDA at the University of Cologne, two extraordinarily renowned researchers have been won as keynote speakers who will contribute important impulses to the discussion.

The FReDA user conference "3 Years of FReDA: Families and Partnerships in Germany and Europe" will take place at the Federal Statistical Agency in Wiesbaden. The deadline for submission of papers was November 2022.

The FReDA user conference is part of the conference "Turning Gold: Conference on the Occasion of BiB's 50th Anniversary", which takes place at the same time in Wiesbaden. As the title suggests, the occasion is the 50th anniversary of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in 2023.

The complete program of the event including the FReDA User Conference (Strand1) can be found here.

FReDA Autumn School

A three-day workshop in September 2023 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz will provide a practical introduction to working with FReDA datasets. Don't hesitate: the deadline for registration is 30 June.

FReDA is organising the FReDA Autumn School in cooperation with Interdisciplinary Public Policy (IPP) Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The three-day workshop will take place from 18-20 September 2023 in Mainz and is aimed at researchers who would like to work with the FReDA data. At the event, researchers from the FReDA team will provide a practical introduction to working with the panel's datasets. Speakers include Prof. Dr. Martin Bujard (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and University of Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. Reyn van Ewijk (JGU Mainz) and PD Dr. Tobias Gummer (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). Participants will also have the opportunity to work with the data themselves. Participants will also have the opportunity to work with the data themselves. The workshop is aimed at advanced bachelor's and master's students, doctoral students and postdocs with knowledge of STATA.

The preliminary programme of the workshop can be found here.

Registration is possible via the Institute of Sociology at the University of Mainz. The registration deadline is 30 June 2023, places are limited - but there are still some available!

Upcoming Events

European Sociological Association’s Interim Meeting of the Research Network „Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives“
31 May-2 June 2023, University of Madrid

Hybrid speaker series on analytical-empirical sociology
14 June 2023, Academy of Sociology and Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne.
Lecture by FReDA project leader Prof. Dr. Karsten Hank; here you can find the link for registration

European Survey Research Association ESRA
17-21 July, University of Milano

GGP User Conference
13-15 September 2023 in Warsaw

Annual Meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS)
24-27 September 2023, University of Regensburg