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).

Selected Publications