Who are we?

The Population and Society Research Network (GEPS) was founded in the late 1990s at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Over the past two decades, it has generated abundant research on population issues and has received ongoing support from different public and private sources. It has maintained active research collaboration with units located in other countries, both in Europe and around the world. Apart from its specific contribution to scientific knowledge by means of numerous peer-reviewed publications in impact journals, the GEPS has been active in generating applied research and consulting for the private sector, the public administration and non-profit organizations.

Currently GEPS generates research along several different research lines, all of which have received funding from public and/or private sources. The GEPS is run by a steering committee made up of representatives of the different research units. Currently it is integated by research groups located at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Since its inception, the GEPS has participated in many research projects that have led to numerous publications appearing in both national and international scientific journals. Currently, its research efforts cluster around the following general themes:

  • The demography of aging.

  • Fertility and reproduction.

  • Migration.

  • Family and household.

  • Health, nutrition and the quality of life.


The research program currently carried out by the GEPS and its member units has received funding from the Comunidad de Madrid and the European Social Fund (H2019/HUM-5802). Its research agenda is centered on the study of contemporary population issues from a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective. It brings together experts on population from different countries and with different expertise in order to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the demographic transformations taking place in developed societies and the enormous challenges these transformations pose for the present and the future.