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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
is an indication of that. Among the topics there are important questions
for present day European societies, such as integration of immigrants,
consequences of declining fertility, and changing partnership patterns.
Vitality and Organizational Capacity. The Centre has in the course of
its short lifetime been able to attract researchers from a wide variety of
disciplines at Lund University, and thus to create the interdisciplinary
environment which is essential in order to study important aspects of
demography. The organising of courses and seminars for graduates from
several disciplines is also a good way to mobilise future interest in a
subject which, until now, has been rather weakly represented at Swedish
universities. The interdisciplinary research, which the broad group of
researchers makes possible has, however, not yet been demonstrated in
publications from the Centre.
2.4 Collaboration
The core group of researchers has a wide net of contacts, both in Sweden
and internationally, and the publication list has many examples of
co-authorships with non-Swedish colleagues. Among the initiatives is
participation in a European training of PhD-students in demography in
cooperation with leading centres in Europe. The staff has taken part in
many international meetings and presented papers on these occasions,
and visitors from several foreign demography departments have visited
Lund. Among the partners the Centre cooperates with are also institutions
in China and Japan.
2.5 Research activity and teaching:
Not applicable (not a teaching unit).
2.6 Future plans
In connection with the grants, the Centre has to draw up yearly plans
and reports which demonstrate that the Centre has plans for a range of
specific projects under the general heading of economic demography.
The potential for accomplishing these plans seem to be present in the
group of researchers attached to the Centre, but the real test will be if it
can achieve the interdisciplinary connection between the members of
this group of researchers, in order to give new insight into various topics
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