Scotland’s populations: regional variations and implications
In partnership with National Records of Scotland, regional variations and trends that exist within Scotland’s populations were discussed along with what they mean for Scotland and Scottish policy.
The David Hume Institute, in partnership with National Records of Scotland, welcomed Professor Michael Anderson, Dr Esther Roughsedge and Rannvá Danielsen from Seafish to discuss regional variations and trends that exist within Scotland’s populations, and what they mean for Scotland and Scottish policy.
Professor Michael Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Edinburgh, and an expert on Scottish demography. Last year, Oxford University Press published ‘Scotland's Populations: from the 1850s to Today’, which, using a comparative framework both internationally and across Scotland, explores population growths and declines, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration.
Dr Esther Roughsedge is a statistician at the National Records of Scotland (NRS), with 15 years’ experience of demographic statistics. She now leads the Statistical Promotion and Analysis team, focussing on talking to a wider audience about the implications of statistical trends. Before moving to NRS, she worked as a statistician in the Scottish Government.
Rannvá Danielsen is an economist at Seafish, a public body that supports the UK seafood industry. Her expertise is in fisheries economics and policy. Seafish collects extensive data on the seafood industry and has written a series of reports on the impact of migration policy on labour availability and recruitment in the seafood processing sector.
A copy of the slides from each presentation is available for download here:
Jonathan Portes on Immigration policy: challenges for the UK and Scotland
Professor Jonathan Portes is a Senior Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council's "UK in a Changing Europe" initiative spoke at the David Hume Institute about immigration policy and challenges for the UK and Scotland.
Professor Jonathan Portes spoke at the David Hume Institute on “Immigration policy: challenges for the UK and Scotland”.
Professor Jonathan Portes is a Senior Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council's "UK in a Changing Europe" initiative, based at King’s College London, which promotes high quality research into the complex and changing relationship between the UK and the European Union. His current research concentrates on issues related to immigration and labour mobility, both within the European Union and outside; and the economic implications of Brexit. Jonathan's latest book is called 'What Do we Know and What Should We Do About Immigration?'.
He has spent most of his career working as a civil servant, serving as Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2002 to 2008 and Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2011. He led the Cabinet Office’s economic analysis and economic policy work during the financial crisis and on the G20 London Summit in April 2009. From 2011 to 2015, he was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
A copy of the slides from Jonathan’s presentation is available for download here: