Events

Celebrating the Life and Work of Professor Gavin W. Jones

Date: 09 Mar 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:45 (SGT)
Venue:

Hybrid (Online via Zoom & AS8 04-04)
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
National University of Singapore @ KRC

Contact Person: YEO Ee Lin, Valerie
Programme

Professor Gavin W. Jones was a leading figure in Asian Demography and a remarkable person who will be fondly remembered in the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and at the National University of Singapore (NUS) more widely. As the leader of ARI’s Changing Family in Asia Cluster from 2003 to 2012, he was instrumental in organising a host of international conferences on changing families and the consequences of those changes in Asian societies. While at ARI, Professor Jones also founded the journal Asian Population Studies and served as its editor from 2003 to 2014. Under his editorship, the journal prospered and was indexed in Social Science Citation Index and Scopus, among others.

In addition to holding a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology for much of this time at NUS, Professor Jones served as the Director of the JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, Global Asia Institute, NUS from 2012 to 2014. During his illustrious career spanning over 50 years, he published about 30 books and monographs as well as 170 refereed journal articles and book chapters. Professor Jones also supervised 42 PhD candidates and served as mentor to many cohorts of postdoctoral fellows (including at ARI) and so contributed to nurturing a new generation of demographers in Asia, Australia and beyond.

This workshop will highlight some of the key contributions that Professor Jones made during his 11 years at NUS, by bringing together speakers to reflect on the impact of his work across five specific thematic strands:

  • Families and Fertility
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • Urbanization
  • Population and Development

The event is intended not only to celebrate and honour Professor Jones’ academic work, but also as an opportunity to remember him as an extraordinary man who touched the lives of many colleagues at ARI, past and present.

PROGRAM

16:00

OPENING REMARKS
Prof Tim Bunnell | National University of Singapore
16:10

PROF GAVIN W. JONES’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH

 

Gavin Jones – Demography Detective and the Mystery of the MURs
Prof Mike Douglass | University of Hawai’i

 

Beyond Later and Less Marriage in Asia: Gavin Jones’ Contributions to the Scholarship on Marriage
Dr Ariane Utomo | University of Melbourne

 

Recent Trends in Divorce in Asia
A/P Premchand Dommaraju | Nanyang Technological University
Dr Shu Hu | Singapore University of Social Sciences

 

Understanding Asia’s Dramatic Fertility Transitions through the Scholarship of Gavin Jones
A/P Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan | National University of Singapore

 

Gavin W Jones – A Life Devoted to Population and Development
A/P Tey Nai Peng | Universiti Malaya
17:25

REMEMBRANCE AND REFLECTIONS

Moderator: Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh | National University of Singapore
17:45 END


WORKSHOP CONVENORS

Prof Brenda S.A. YEOH FBA
Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Prof Tim BUNNELL
Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Ms Stephanie Christine HENG
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore


REGISTRATION

Registration is closed, and instructions on how to participate in this hybrid event have been sent out to registered attendees. Please write to valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend the talk.