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Roderic Beaujot - Professor Emeritus
Roderic Beaujot is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Growth and Dualism: The Demographic Development of Canadian Society (with Kevin McQuillan, Gage 1982), Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation (Oxford, 1991), Earning and Caring in Canadian Families (Broadview, 2000) and Population Change in Canada (with Don Kerr, 2nd Edition 2004, 3rd Edition 2016, Oxford).
Roderic Beaujot was President of the Federation of Canadian Demographers (1987-90), President of the Canadian Population Society (2000-02), Chair of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Demographic Statistics and Studies (1994-2016), Member of the Canadian Delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), and member of the founding board of Action Canada for Population and Development (1997-2002).
He was awarded the 2001 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award of the Canadian Sociological Association for Earning and Caring in Canadian Families, and the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Population Society.
Born in Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Roderic Beaujot started his education at Golden Plain School of the Rural Municipality of Silverwood No. 123, continuing at Collège Mathieu (Gravelbourg, Sask) and University of Alberta (PhD 1975).
Roderic Beaujot was President of the Federation of Canadian Demographers (1987-90), President of the Canadian Population Society (2000-02), Chair of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Demographic Statistics and Studies (1994-2016), Member of the Canadian Delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), and member of the founding board of Action Canada for Population and Development (1997-2002).
He was awarded the 2001 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award of the Canadian Sociological Association for Earning and Caring in Canadian Families, and the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Population Society.
Born in Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Roderic Beaujot started his education at Golden Plain School of the Rural Municipality of Silverwood No. 123, continuing at Collège Mathieu (Gravelbourg, Sask) and University of Alberta (PhD 1975).
Selected Publications
- 1988 Attitudes among Tunisians toward family formation, International Family Planning Perspectives 14(2): 54 61.
- 2005 Roderic Beaujot and Jianye Liu, Models of time use in paid and unpaid work. Journal of Family Issues 26: 924-946.
- 2013 Beaujot, Roderic, Ching Du and Zenaida Ravanera. 2013. Family policies in Quebec and the rest of Canada: Implications for fertility, child care, women’s paid work and child development indicators. Canadian Public Policy 39(2): 221-239.
- 2017 Beaujot, Roderic, Jianye Liu and Zenaida Ravanera. 2017. Gender Inequality in the Family Setting. Canadian Studies in Population 44(1-2): 1-13.
- 2021 Beaujot, Roderic, 2021. From Horse and Buggy to GPS: Life on a Saskatchewan Farm. Lulu Press: $13.32 CAD, 258 pp. ISBN 978-1-7775989-0-7. Available at: www.lulu.com see Lulu Bookstore and search for “Beaujot”.Also available as OSF preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nzcwe/