Training in the Population Sciences at UC Berkeley takes place in many forms and settings, for students at different levels.
Demography Department
The UC Berkeley Demography Department offers training for advanced degrees in demography. The Department also holds two NIH T32 training grants – one in demography and another in aging. Both training grants fund predoctoral candidates and the one in aging funds qualified postdoctoral candidates.
Workshops in Formal Demography
A program for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career researchers, sponsored by the Berkeley Population Center, funded in the past by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R25HD083136), and this year by the Berkeley Population Center. The Workshop is annual, weeklong, and for training in formal demographic methods and applications. Typically the Workshop consists of three days of training followed by two days of presentations by invited scholars.
NextGenPop
NextGenPop is an undergraduate program in population research that trains and nurtures the next generation of population scientists. NextGenPop Fellows study population composition and change through the lens of pressing contemporary issues in population health, including health disparities, family change, immigration, and social mobility. The program includes a 2-week, in-person, on-campus summer experience and subsequent virtual components focused on research and professional development, as well as opportunities for mentorship and networking at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA).
Biodemography Lectures
Biodemography: A Complete Video Guidebook. Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods by James R. Carey and Deborah A. Roach, is the first book that fully integrates formal (human) demography methods with the demography-related literature in population biology, ecology, evolution, entomology and conservation biology. UC Davis Distinguished Professor and CEDA senior scholar James R. Carey, turned the book’s text into storyboarded script and its graphs, schematics, tables and equations into the content of animated slides. And with teleprompter assistance, he narrated and video-recorded a total of 175 separate presentations totaling over 12 hours.