Supported by the Master of Science in Applied Gerontology and the Centre for the Study of Social Inequality at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), PAS hosted its 3rd Annual Meeting on 15-16 May 2025. The event was centered around the theme, "Demography and Inequality: Intersecting Paths".

The conference showcased prominent keynote speakers, including Associate Professor Teo You Yenn, Provost’s Chair in Sociology at NTU, and Professor Sarah Burgard, Professor of Sociology, Epidemiology and Public Policy, and who also serves as Director and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

PAS’s partner, the Tsao Foundation, also organized a panel discussion—The Intersections between Gender, Ageing and Inequality—which brought together leaders from AWARE, Singapore Council of Women's Organisations, and PPIS. The panel explored how the intersection of gender and age across the life course contributes to the gendered inequalities experienced by women in later life. Key highlights from these presentations are summarized in the link above.

We are pleased to announce that the Early Career Award 2025 is presented to Dr Abhijit Visaria in recognition of his outstanding contributions to population studies in Singapore and Asia

We are pleased to announce that the winner of PAS’s 2025 Best Student Paper Award is Ms Jinhan Liu for their outstanding paper titled “Whom to Marry Matters: Educational Assortative Mating and Mental Health Over the Life Course and Across Birth Cohorts in China”.

Jinhan’s paper applies a life course perspective to examine the impact of educational assortative mating on mental health trajectories, with a focus on birth cohort variations. Drawing on nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS), the paper offers a strong theoretical foundation and effectively contextualizes the relationship between educational assortative mating and health outcomes within the Chinese context.