NZ Population Conference

NZPopCon 2025

New Zealand’s Population Conference 2025 will be held 10-11 July at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. This year’s theme is Population, Growth and Social Cohesion. Click here to download the conference flyer.

Our keynote speakers this year are:
Wokje Abrahamse, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Irina Grossman, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, RMIT School of Computing Technologies & Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Terry Fleming, Associate Professor, School of Health, Victoria University of
Wellington
Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, Professor, School of Māori and Pacific Studies, University
of Auckland

Early Bird registration still available – click here to book tickets on Eventbrite.

There are hotel discounts available for registered NZPopCon attendees.

As always, the conference is organised by the Population Association of New Zealand | Te Roopu Waihanga Iwi O Aotearoa. The call for papers is live, and the abstract submission deadline is 18 April. Submit your 300 word abstract here using our simple online form.

Submissions for the Stats NZ Jacoby Prize for best student essay and PANZ Newell Award for best student poster are now open, with submission deadline of 9 May. Winners will be notified by 6 June. Here are the full submission guides for the Jacoby Prize and the Newell Award, but before that, submit your essay abstract or notify us of your intent to submit a poster using our online abstract submission form

Make sure to check back here for more NZPopCon news and updates soon.

Key dates

10 March: Early Bird Registration opens
Apr 18: Abstract submissions due
May 9: Jacoby Prize & Newell Award submissions due (student prizes).
Notification of all other paper/poster acceptance by this date.
May 23: Registration deadline for presenters
Jun 6: Early Bird Registration closes
Jacoby Prize & Newell Award winners notified by this date.
July 10-11: CONFERENCE

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