INTRODUCTION
Stuart Gietel-Basten is chair of the Asian population association scientific committee, convener for fertility of the European population conference, strand organiser for fertility and reproductive health for the British society for population studies, and editor of studies in European population. With Francesco Billari, he co-founded and is editor of openpop.org, a world leading collaborative blogs on population issues.
SUMMARY
Dr. Stuart Gietel-Basten is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention as well as a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
Gietel-Basten studied history and demography at Cambridge, and held short-term positions in Poland, Slovakia, Italy and the United States. Following postdoctoral positions in demography at St. John’s College, Oxford and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, awarded a ‘Future Research Leaders’ grant by the UK ESRC.
Publications
He has written extensively in highly regarded journals and has published over 40 articles on the subject of demographic research in East Asia, social policy in developing countries, fertility change and remeasuring and reconceptualising ageing.
Currently, he is involved in a number of research projects including a large scale project on fertility ideals and intentions in China and Taiwan; a project aimed at designing a comprehensive population policy for Hong Kong SAR and a study of family formation under precarious circumstances in India, China and Europe.