Beaujot, Roderic 1946-

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Beaujot, Roderic 1946-
(R.P. Beaujot)

PERSONAL:

Born 1946, in Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada; son of Leon (a farmer) and Dorothy (a farmer) Beaujot; married Elisabeth van der Meer (a teacher), July 13, 1974; children: Ariel, Natalie, Damien. Ethnicity: "Belgian." Education: Collège Mathieu, B.A., 1967; University of Alberta, B.A. (hons.), M.A., Ph.D., 1974. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada; fax: 519-661-3200. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, demographer, 1974-76; University of Western Ontario, London, demographer and sociologist, 1976—, director of Population Studies Centre, 1985-89. Federation of Canadian Demographers, president, 1987-90; Social Science Federation of Canada, board member, 1987-90; International Conference on Population and Development, member of national advisory committee, 1993-94, member of Canadian delegation, 1994; Action Canada for Population and Development, board member, 1997-2002; Southwest Region Health Information Partnership, board member, 1997-2002, board chair, 2000-01.

MEMBER:

Canadian Population Society (president, 2000-02).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Canada Council fellow, 1972-74; John Porter Award, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 2001, for Earning and Caring in Canadian Families.

WRITINGS:

(Coauthor) Household and Family Projections for Canada and the Provinces to 2001, Statistics Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1975.

(Under name R.P. Beaujot; with K. McQuillan) Growth and Dualism: The Demographic Development of Canadian Society, Gage (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1982.

(With K.G. Basavarajappa and R. Verma) Income of Immigrants in Canada, Statistics Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1988.

(Editor, with J. Légaré and T.R. Balakrishnan) The Family in Crisis: A Population Crisis, Royal Society of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1989.

(Editor) Facing the Demographic Future, Royal Society of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1990.

Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation, Oxford University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991, 2nd edition (with Don Kerr) published as Population Change in Canada, 2004.

(Under name R.P. Beaujot; with K.G. Basavarajappa and T.J. Samuel) Impact of Migration in the Receiving Countries: Canada, International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland), 1993.

(With F. Rajulton, E. Gee, and Z. Ravenera) Family over the Life Course, Statistics Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1995.

Earning and Caring in Canadian Families, Broadview Press (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, summer, 2004, Zoltan B. Kovacs, review of Population Change in Canada, 2nd edition, p. 140.

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, February, 2003, Danielle Gauvreau, review of Earning and Caring in Canadian Families, p. 111.

Journal of Comparative Family Studies, summer, 1993, Paul Gingrich, review of Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation, p. 253.

Population and Development Review, June, 2000, Susan Greenhalgh, review of Earning and Caring in Canadian Families, p. 405; March, 2005, Anatole Romaniuc, review of Population Change in Canada, 2nd edition, p. 171.