Population Investigation Committee

The Population Investigation Committee is a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936. It was founded by D.V. Glass, Griselda Rowntree, J.W.B. Douglas and others and since the second world war it has been housed at the London School of Economics.[1] It was founded by the Council of the British Eugenics Society.[2]

It publishes a journal, Population Studies and also offers scholarships to students following a one-year masters course with a high demographic content.[3]

References
  1. "Population Investigation Committee". LSE. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  2. "A brief history of the PIC, with research projects and timeline". LSE. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  3. "Research centres, societies and groups". Population Investigation Committee Department of Social Policy. Retrieved 30 May 2013.


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