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New study: The global impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty
A new international study led by the Centre’s Dr José Manuel Aburto finds that life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14...
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Melinda Mills
- 7 days ago
- 3 min
Doctoral Position at Oxford in Population Health within the European Social Science Genetics Network
One University of Oxford PhD (DPhil) doctoral studentship is available in the sociogenomics group located in the Leverhulme Centre of...
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- Jan 31
- 1 min
Centre part of winning consortium to study excess mortality during COVID-19 in the Netherlands
Andrea Tilstra, Arun Frey, and Mark Verhagen are part of a winning consortium to study excess mortality using registry data, during the...
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- Jan 11
- 2 min
Recruiting now! Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows
The University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Department of Sociology are looking for a Postdoctoral Research...
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- Jan 10
- 3 min
Disentangling sex segregation in occupations
In a recent paper published in Social Networks, former LCDS Researcher and current Associate Member Per Block uses new network science...
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- Jan 6
- 3 min
Melinda Mills speaks at European Parliament’s Special Committee on COVID-19 pandemic
Our Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Professor Melinda Mills was invited to speak at the European Parliament’s...
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- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
GWAS Diversity Monitor partners with Link23
Our GWAS Diversity Monitor has teamed up with a new global initiative Link23, to make genomic tools that work for everyone. The GWAS...
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- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
PhD studentships available at new European Social Science Genetics Network
Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has teamed up with seven other leading Universities in Social Science...
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- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Research Spotlight: How accurate is Facebook’s advertising data for demographers?
Dr Francesco Rampazzo, Lecturer in Demography at the Centre, has co-authored a paper published today in the Royal Statistical Society:...
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- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
New study: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19
New research from the Centre finds that life expectancy in 2021 remained lower than expected across 29 countries in Europe, as well as...
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- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
Doug Leasure awarded 2021 Breheny Prize
Congratulations to Dr Douglas Leasure, Senior Data Scientist at the Centre, and his former colleagues at WorldPop who recently won the...
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- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
José Manuel Aburto awarded Silver Medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Congratulations to the Centre’s José Manuel Aburto who has been awarded the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Silver Medal for...
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- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
Recent study: How does unemployment affect social trust across Europe?
News article for: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102787 Unemployment affects social trust in societies in different ways,...
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- Oct 5, 2022
- 2 min
Centre talk: Why has fertility more than halved?
Earlier this week, the Centre welcomed Norwegian demographer Vegard Skirbekk for a fascinating talk on the social and biological drivers...
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- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
New study: How progressive is Sweden's pension system?
Published here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi/10.1215/00703370-10218779/318522/How-Does-Mortality-Contribute-to-Life...
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- Sep 6, 2022
- 1 min
Nuffield College: Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology
Apply here: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/jobs-and-vacancies/postdoctoral-prize-research-fellowships-in-sociology-two-posts/...
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- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Ridhi Kashyap receives full Professorship
Congratulations to the Centre’s Professor Ridhi Kashyap, who has been promoted to full Professor of Demography & Computational Social...
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- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Melinda Mills receives Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis
The Centre’s Director Melinda Mills has received the prestigious 2022 James W. Vaupel Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the...
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- Aug 25, 2022
- 1 min
Research spotlight: How did COVID-19 exacerbate racial ethnic inequalities in the US?
Interview on: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205813119 New research from the Centre highlights the dramatic racial ethnic...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Life expectancy losses unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19
Press Release for: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/8/e059201 Life expectancy losses were unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19,...
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