GUNNAR ANDERSSON PERSONAL INFORMATION NOV 2020 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; www.su.se/profiles/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: Jan Hoem 1989 B.Sc. (Fil. Kand.) in Statistics at Lund University PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Head of Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) since 2013. Lecturer in Demography at Stockholm University since 2006. Coordinator of Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research, as part of the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences, and Associate Director of Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe, during 2008-2019. 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 Region Stockholm. RESEARCH FOCUS Fertility and family dynamics in the Nordic countries: - Social policy, welfare states and fertility - Family forerunners and new family trends Migrant trajectories Generations and Gender: - Gender preferences - Ageing and mortality APPOINTMENTS, CAREER HISTORY AND CONTENTS OF WORK Aug 2006 – present: Stockholm University Department of Sociology Head of Stockholm University Demography Unit, SUDA (www.suda.su.se). Associate Director, Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE, 2008-2019 (see www.su.se/spade). Project coordinator, Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research, financed through the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences, 2008-2019 (see www.suda.su.se/simsam). Member of the management team of the FP7 project FamiliesAndSocieties, 2013-2017 (www.familiesandsocieties.eu). PI of the Forte program “Ageing Well - Individuals, Families and Households under Changing Demographic Regimes in Sweden”. Steering committee member of the Forte program “Migrant Trajectories: Geographical Mobility, Family Careers, Employment, Education, and Social Insurance in Sweden”. Steering committee member of the RJ program “The Neighborhood Revisited: Spatial Polarization and Social Cohesion in Contemporary Sweden”. Lecturer in Demography. Supervisor of Ph.D. and Master’s students. 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 since 2006. 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. Teacher of “Basic Concepts in Life-course Research” for Mie University; Hacettepe University; Tallinn University. Editor of Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. Organiser of Colloquium Series, 2007-2011. Organizer of project workshops and workshop on “Economic Uncertainty and Family Dynamics”, Berlin 2009; “Register-based Demographic Research”, Stockholm 2010; “Introduction to Population Issues and Population-related Policies of Sweden” for the Chinese National Population and Family Planning Commission, Stockholm 2010; “New Developments in Register-based Demographic Research”, Stockholm 2015. Member of organization committee for the European Population Conference in Stockholm, EPC 2012. Organizer of the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2019. Director of the Swedish Generations and Gender Programme. Swedish member of the GGP Consortium Board. 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. 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 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 (IMPRSD) in 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05. Teacher in charge of “Regression analysis for duration data incorporating selectivity/unobserved heterogeneity” at the IMPRSD 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”, 2004; “Nordic Population Research at Statistics Sweden and MPIDR”, 2004; and the Symposium on “The Demography of Europe”, 2007. Jan 1994 – Oct 1999: Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) – Ph.D. Candidate Jan 1994 – Jan 1998 on Ph.D. student at SUDA. half-time, subsequently Research assistant in projects supported by the Swedish Council for Social on full-time Research, 1994-98, the Research Foundations of Svenska Handelsbanken, 1998, and the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 1999. Lecturer in charge of the population-forecasting courses at SUDA in 1998-99. Administrator of the graduate-course program in Demography during 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 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 the rest of Sweden, disaggregated into smaller geographical areas. Various demographic studies for Regionplane- och trafikkontoret (RTK), 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. 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 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 and editorial group of the fertility commission of the 2001 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. 2010–2018 Board member, National SIMSAM Steering Group. 2010– Board member, SINGS, The Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research. 2011–2016 Member of “Evaluation Panel 5” of the Council for Research Infrastructures at the Swedish Research Council. 2016-2018 Member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Granting Committee for independent projects of the Research Council of Norway. 2012– Member of the Council of Advisors to Population Europe. 2018– Member of the Generations and Gender Programme Consortium Board 2013–2015 Member of the user board for Population, Demography and Education at Statistics Sweden. 2019–2021 Member of the user board for Population, Demography and Integration at Statistics Sweden. 2013 Recipient of the Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography, by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). http://www.iussp.org/node/6521 2014 Visiting researcher, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with research project at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency, July. 2016 Visiting professor, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, November. 2009 and 2018 Visiting Fellow, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University, January through March 2009 and January- February 2018. 2019-2022 Instructor, Doctoral program at Hertie School of Governance and Humboldt University: The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy. 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