IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the Mattei Dogan Foundation share a common objective: to promote interdisciplinary and comparative international work in the social sciences. In 2004, the Mattei Dogan Foundation and the IUSSP came to an agreement to offer an Award for Comparative Research in Demography.

The award honours a scientist of high international renown for the contribution of his or her work to the development of studies of population that draw on perspectives of different disciplines and for the importance that this work has accorded to international comparisons. The Award carries a $3,500 USD prize and is granted every four years at the IUSSP International Population Conference to a demographer or to a researcher in another discipline who has contributed to the development of the science of demography and who has a solid international reputation among demographers. The Awardee shall be invited to give a lecture on a subject of his or her choice at that Conference.

Conditions of Eligibility

There is no age limit for nominees for the Award but the goal is not only to honour work already completed but also to encourage active researchers with potential to continue their international comparative research in the years ahead.

Candidates must be IUSSP members and nominated by the IUSSP membership. No member of the current IUSSP Council or the Mattei Dogan Award Committee may be nominated for the award. No member should promote in any way his or her own nomination.

Nomination Procedure:

A call for nominations shall be sent out by the Secretariat 12 to 18 months preceding the International Population Conference. Documentation to be submitted for each nominee should include: (a) a nomination letter signed by at least 6 members of the IUSSP of at least three different nationalities; (b) at least two letters of recommendation by prominent population scientists who did not sign the nomination letter; (c) a curriculum vitae that includes the complete list of publications of the nominee.

Selection Procedure:

The Awardee shall be selected by a Mattei Dogan Award Committee composed of five members designated by the elected Council of the IUSSP. The Award Committee shall elect its president. Its decisions are final and taken by secret ballot. In case of a tied vote, the Committee may vote a second time, or may propose to the IUSSP Council that the award be divided between two nominees.

2013 Laureate

The IUSSP Council has selected Gunner Andersson for the 2013 IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography.

Gunnar Andersson is Professor of Demography and Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Demography at Stockholm University. He is Associate Director of the Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE), and coordinates "Register-based Research in Nordic Demography", as part of the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM). 

The 2013 IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Comparative Research in Demography Award will be bestowed during the Closing Ceremony at the XXVII International Population Conference in Busan, Korea from 1:30-3:00 pm on Saturday 31 August 2013. As part of this award Gunner Andersson will give a short speech on his research.  

Nomination Letter for Gunnar Andersson

The winner of the 2009 Award for Comparative Research in Demography is Wolfgang Lutz, who works for theInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) as Leader of the World Population Program. Wolfgang Lutz is also Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria).

For this award, Wolfgang Lutz gave a presentation at the XXVI International Population Conference during the IUSSP Plenary on “Climate Change: Does Population Matter”, on Thursday 1 October, on: Population and climate interactions: demographic perspective: 

Nomination of Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

The winner of the 2005 Award for Comparative Research in Demography is Vladimir Shkolnikov (Russia) who works at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

For this award, Vladimir Shkolnikov gave a presentation at the XXV International Population Conference, during the Closing Ceremony on 23 July 2005, on: Towards the understanding of mortality divergences and reversals