External activities 2010

November 11, Billie de Haas held a presentation titled ‘Adolescents’ perceptions on having relationships and sexual behaviours in Uganda’ at Sharenet at KIT, Amsterdam.
December 10-11, Billie de Haas ran two workshops, ‘Role of teacher in comprehensive sexuality education at schools’ and ‘Positive and negative media influences on sexual development’, at the conference ‘Sexuality under 18’ organised by Rutgers WPF in Amersfoort.
December 15-16, Anu Kõu presented a paper on the life course approach to highly skilled migration at the seminar ‘Tapping the brains: Skilled mobilities and development’ held at the University of Utrecht.
October 12, at the invitation of Dr Leigh Tooth (Senior Research Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia), Meredith Tavener gave a presentation to the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health team. The talk was called " My privileged life. Analysing written stories for issues of identity and belonging."
June 16 - 18, at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, Meredith Tavener joined Professor Julie Byles (Director, Priority Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing), to assist with a short course on "Gender and Health", being taught to Bachelor of Science students. She presented on "Populations in Transition."
June 15, At the invitation of Professor Alfonso Souza-Posa (Chair, Department of Household and Consumer Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany), Meredith Tavener gave a presentation to undergraduate "Health Economics" students. The talk was about "The health of Australian baby boomer women: Understanding their ups and downs"
March 23+24, Ajay Bailey teached qualitative reasearch to the students of the European Doctoral School for Demography at the University of Lund, Sweden
March 25, Ajay Bailey attended a research meeting Copenhagen
March 22-24, Meredith Tavener travelled to Southampton to explore the possibilities to write a proposal on ageing, with Prof Maria Evandrou, Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing.
March 24, as a represenative of the Northern Netherlands, Inge Hutter attended a meeting in Brussels on Healthy Ageing.
March 10, within the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD), Leo van Wissen organised a seminar on Emigration (Dutch only).
March 4, Leo van Wissen organised a seminar on population decline, ageing and mobility. The seminar was organised together with 'Goudappel Coffeng. Click here for the programme.
Leo van Wissen was interviewed on local TV-station 'RTV-Noord'. Theme of the program was population decline. You can watch the show online, click here to view (Dutch only).
In the last week of February, Inge Hutter and Biswamitra Sahu went -on request of Cordaid- to Bangladesh. They visited a project of PHREB (Promotion of Human Rights and Education Bangladesh) entitled 'Safe Maternity, Strong Community'. The principle working rule of PHREB is that access to health services is a basic human right. The project thus focuses on the improvement of maternal health through a right based and a participatory community based approach.

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