Posthumus affiliates received Honourable Mentions Roger Schofield Award 2025

At the 2025 Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography, held in Bologna, 10-13 September 2025, Posthumus affiliates received an Honourable Mention in the competition for the Roger Schofield Award. The Roger Schofield Award has been established to recognise the best paper presented by a young demographer (under 35 years of age) at the European Society of Historical Demography Conference.

Posthumus alumnus Joris Kok received an Honourable Mention for the paper ‘Adult mortality in Amsterdam, 1856-1926’, co-authored by Angelique Janssens, fellow and former Scientific Director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Dinos Sevdalakis, current PhD Representative with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, received an Honourable Mention for the paper ‘The onset of fertility rise in West Africa: Disentangling fertility change by using parity data in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’, co-authored by Adriaen Remund and Posthumus board member Hilde Bras.

The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates all with these recognitions!

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