Projects
BIC Late: late fertility and life choices
Project
These 5 artworks illustrate the several dimensions (biological, contextual, individual, socio-economical), investigated by the ERC-funded project BIC.LATE, which focuses on late fertility.
Indeed, while the number of people who decide to have children after their 30th birthday is rising in low fertility countries, the factors affecting fertility at these ages are not well known. BIC.LATE studies the biological, individual, and contextual aspects of later reproduction. It will use data from surveys and aggregate cohort fertility in Europe to gauge the effect of biological limits on fertility recuperation. BIC.LATE also uses contemporary data to identify the remaining individual demographic and socio-economic factors of later fertility, understand the role of the structural and cultural context of a country in fertility recuperation, and assess the relationship of these factors with fertility recuperation.
Client
Eva Beaujouan (University of Vienna, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital) is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-Consolidator grant BIC.LATE. Eva studies fertility and family trends in low fertility countries, and more particularly the trend towards later fertility.
She has studied applied mathematics and demography at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Hosted at INED during her Ph.D., she defended her Ph.D. thesis on « Male and female partnership and fertility trajectories after union breakup in France » in 2009. After a postdoc at the ESRC Centre for Population Change (University of Southampton), she joined the Vienna Institute of Demography (Wittgenstein Centre) in 2012 to work on trends in fertility, fertility intentions and partnership, integrating education (level, participation) to her studies.Starting November 2020, Eva Beaujouan is currently TT assistant professor at the Department of Demography, University of Vienna (Wittgenstein Centre). Besides BIC.LATE, she is also the Principal Investigator of the FWF stand-alone project “Later Fertility in Europe” (Jan. 2019-June 2023), studying the consequences of childbearing postponement for fertility levels in low fertility countries.
Eva Beaujouan
Principal Investigator, BIC Late
This work in dialogue with artists was extremely enriching. It has been extremely satisfying to see Fiammetta and Maddalena turn the themes into illustrations with freedom and style. The project and its subject took on a more real dimension by being rendered by Maddalena’s hand.
Artist
Maddalena is an Italian illustrator and graphic designer, living between Livorno and Paris.
After studying at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence, she became a freelance illustrator and worked with many clients, from the fashion industry to scientific magazines to editorial illustration and children books.
She created the official illustrations for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball tour, and illustrations for Brandon Maxwell’s collection for the New York Fashion Week 2015 and 2016. She also works for Verdissima as pattern designer, and for Vespa Piaggio as illustrator and painter.
She works since 2016 for Cancer World magazine and Sharing Progress in Cancer Care as editorial illustrator and graphic recorder.
