GUNNAR ANDERSSON PERSONAL INFORMATION JAN 2013 Work address: Stockholm University, Department of Sociology 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Telephone • email: 0046 8 163261 • 0046 73 768 5724 • [email protected] www.suda.su.se; http://people.su.se/~gande Nationality: Swedish Born: 1962 in Hallsberg, Sweden ACADEMIC DEGREES 2009 Professor in Demography at Stockholm University 2005 Associate Professor (Docent) in Demography at Stockholm University 1999 Ph.D. (Fil. Dr.) in Demography at Stockholm University. Thesis title: ―Trends in Childbearing and Nuptiality in Sweden: A Period Analysis‖. Supervisor: Professor Jan M. Hoem 1997 M.Sc. (Fil. Lic.) in Demography at Stockholm University. Thesis title: ―Nuptiality Trends in Sweden, 1971-1995‖ 1989 B.Sc. (Fil. Kand.) in Statistics at Lund University PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Lecturer in Demography and researcher at Stockholm University since 2006. Associate Director of Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE. Coordinator of ―Register-based Research in Nordic Demography‖, as part of the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM). Previously Research Scientist during seven years at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock. Also seven years experience of forecasting and demographic analyses for the County Council of Stockholm. RESEARCH TOPICS Pathways to highest-low fertility in universalistic welfare states Family policies and fertility behavior: child care, parental-leave policies and childbearing dynamics in Sweden Childbearing and migration: fertility patterns of foreign-born women Family dynamics and life-course perspectives in Europe The demographics of same-sex partnerships Sex preferences for children and family dynamics Advanced demographic methods APPOINTMENTS, CAREER HISTORY AND CONTENTS OF WORK Aug 2006 – present: Stockholm University Department of Sociology Associate Director, Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE (see www.su.se/spade). Project coordinator, Register-based Research in Nordic Demography, financed through the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences, SIMSAM (see www.suda.su.se/simsam). Lecturer in Demography. Coordinator of the Multi-disciplinary Master’s Program in Demography at Stockholm University in 2008. Teacher of ―Population Development and Social Change‖ in the Multi- disciplinary Master’s Program in Demography in 2006-2011. Teacher of ―Family Dynamics in a Changing Europe‖ in the Master’s Program in 2006-2008. In 2007, the course was given simultaneously at Stockholm University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, by means of video classes. Teacher of ―Introduction to Event-history Analysis‖ in the Master’s Program in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. Supervisor of Ph.D. and Master’s students. Editor of Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. Editor of SPaDE Working Paper series. Organiser of Colloquium Series, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009 and Spring 2011. Organizer of project workshops and workshop on ―Economic Uncertainty and Family Dynamics‖, Berlin, July 2009; workshop on ―Register-based Demographic Research‖, Stockholm, September 2010; Framtidsfokus on marriage, Stockholm, September 2010; ―Introduction to Population Issues and Population-related Policies of Sweden‖ for the Chinese National Population and Family Planning Commission, Stockholm, November 2010. Member of organization committee for the European Population Conference in Stockholm, EPC 2012. Associate Director of the Swedish Generations and Gender Programme. Oct 1999 – April 2007: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research – Research Scientist Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Contemporary European Fertility and Family Dynamics; research on such dynamics mainly based on longitudinal analyses of register data of the Nordic countries. Head of a Research Team on Transnational Vital Events, in collaboration with Professor Caroline Bledsoe of Northwestern University, 2004-07. Convenor of the Laboratory’s working group for analyses on register data. Member of a working group in 2000-01 to develop questionnaires for the European ―Generations and Gender Programme‖. Supervisor/mentor of several Ph.D. students. Teacher in charge of ―Introduction to regression analysis for duration data (event-history analysis)‖ at the International Max Planck Research School for Demography in 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05. Teacher in charge of ―Regression analysis for duration data incorporating selectivity/unobserved heterogeneity‖ at the International Max Planck Research School for Demography and Stockholm University in 2005-06. Assistant teacher to Professor Jan M. Hoem at the same course in 2000-01 and 2001-02 at IMPRSD. Organiser of the Rostock Demographic Colloquium Series for the winter semester 2002-03. Organiser of the Workshops on ―Contemporary Research on European Fertility‖, April 2004; on ―Nordic Population Research at SCB and MPIDR‖, November 2004; and the Symposium on ―The Demography of Europe‖, November 2007. Jan 1994 – Oct 1999: Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) – Ph.D. Candidate Jan 1994 – Jan 1998 on Ph.D. student participating in the course program at SUDA. half-time, subsequently Research assistant in projects headed by Professor Jan M. Hoem and on full-time sponsored by grants from the Swedish Council for Social Research, 1994-98, the Research Foundations of Svenska Handelsbanken, 1998, and the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 1999. (The last two projects designed by myself.) Lecturer in charge of the population-forecasting courses given at SUDA in 1998 and 1999. Teacher in the same course also in 1996 and in a similar course at the Royal Institute for Technology in 1998. Administrator of the graduate-course program in Demography (as ―Studierektor‖ at the Demography Unit) during Spring Term 1999. Jan 1994 – Jan 1998: Inregia AB (The Institute for Regional Analysis) – Consultant Half-time employed Responsible for the annual population forecast for the County Council of Stockholm: for the whole county and for sub-areas within the county. Reported in: Prognos 94(95,96,97): Befolkningen i Stockholms län och kommunerna. Statistik om Stockholms län, 1994(95,96,97), Stockholms läns landsting. Population forecasts for various municipalities in the Stockholm region: Sundbyberg, Danderyd, Ekerö, Järfälla, Sollentuna. Long-term population scenarios for the County of Stockholm and for the rest of Sweden, disaggregated into smaller geographical areas. Various demographic investigations; for Regionplane- och trafikkontoret, Kommunförbundet, etc. Nov 1990 – Dec 1993: Regionplane- och trafikkontoret (The Office of Regional Planning and Urban Transportation) – Statistician Annual population forecasts for the County Council of Stockholm: for the whole county and for sub-areas within the county. Reported in: Prognos 91(92,93): Befolkningen i Stockholms län och kommunerna. Statistik om Stockholms län, 1991(92,93), Stockholms läns landsting. Long-term population scenarios for the County of Stockholm and for the surrounding counties, disaggregated into smaller geographical areas. OTHER POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2001 Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 10 weeks. Member of the reference group for and participant in the editorial group of the 2001 fertility investigation of the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs: Barnafödandet i fokus: Från befolkningspolitik till ett barnvänligt samhälle, DS 2001:57, Fritzes, Stockholm. 2005 Consultant for the ―Study on Population Related Matters – A Study on Policies and Practices in Selected Countries that Encourage Childbirth‖ for the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 2000 – present Organizer of Nordic network of researchers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland investigating family-demographic developments on the basis of register data from these countries. 2009 Visiting Fellow, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University, January through March. 2010 – present Board member, National SIMSAM Steering Group 2010 – present Board member, SINGS, The Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research. 2011– present Member of the assessment committee ―Evaluation Panel 5‖ of the Council for Research Infrastructures at the Swedish Research Council. 2012– Member of the Council of Advisors to Population Europe. MAJOR GRANTS Co-applicant with Professor Elizabeth Thomson for Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE). 70 M SEK granted by the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, for the period 2008-2018. Welfare, Labor-market Status and Family Dynamics. 2.5 M SEK during 2009- 2011. Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research. Register-based Research in Nordic Demography. 24.7 M SEK granted by the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, by means of the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM), for the period 2008-2013. MEMBERSHIPS Swedish Demographic Association European Association for Population Studies Population Association of America International Union for the Scientific Study of Population SUMMARY OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE: CLASS-ROOM HOURS Stockholm University Course in population forecasting in the Demography program Dept of Sociology 12 lecture hours in 1996; 13 hours in 1998; 13 hours in 1999 Population