Mission
PRL’s primary mission is to stimulate and support high-quality scientific research on population issues affecting Utah, the nation, and the world. Our faculty’s research productivity also supports another key mission—training and mentoring the next generation of demographers and population scholars through the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Sociology.
Director
Eric Reither
Professor | Director, Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory
School of Social Sciences
Core Faculty
Core faculty research endeavors encompass a broad range of local, regional, national, and international projects, and are concerned with environmental, community, and social change. Their topics include areas of migration and population redistribution, health and disability, family demography, life course and aging, population/environment interactions, labor force, and population estimates and projections.
Erin Hofmann
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Hyojun Park
Assistant Professor | Associate Director, Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory
Eric Reither
Professor | Director, Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory