LCDS disrupts and realigns conventional thinking to infuse science into demography

LCDS disrupts and realigns conventional thinking to infuse science into demography

LCDS disrupts and realigns conventional thinking to infuse science into demography

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When, where & how do Londoners access 'real-time' air pollution information?
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 17
  • 1 min

When, where & how do Londoners access 'real-time' air pollution information?

DPhil candidate Kayla Schulte’s article on this emerging genre of environmental information was published yesterday in the journal Big...
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Mapping populations in the DRC using satellite-derived building footprints
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 3
  • 2 min

Mapping populations in the DRC using satellite-derived building footprints

Gianluca Boo, Edith Darin, and our own LCDS Doug Leasure together with colleagues from WorldPop, Columbia University, UCLA, and the DRC...
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Control over the built environment allows communities to reduce crime
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 1
  • 2 min

Control over the built environment allows communities to reduce crime

Credit: Mitchell Henderson (pexel.com) Why is crime concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods? One tradition in criminology finds...
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What was the impact of the London congestion charge on air pollution & school attendance?
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 1
  • 2 min

What was the impact of the London congestion charge on air pollution & school attendance?

In their recent paper published in Population and Environment, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nuffield College and LCDS affiliated postdoctoral...
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Family Demographic Processes and In-Work Poverty: A Systematic Review
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 1
  • 3 min

Family Demographic Processes and In-Work Poverty: A Systematic Review

In a new study, published in Advances in Life Course Research, Nuffield College and LCDS DPhil student Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela...
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What is the effect of mass education on women's autonomy in Latin America?
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 1
  • 1 min

What is the effect of mass education on women's autonomy in Latin America?

Photo credit: Lisa Summer (pexels.com) What is the effect of mass schooling on women's autonomy? In a new article in Demography, LCDS...
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Wolfgang Lutz on the power of multi-dimensional demography & sustainable wellbeing
Melinda Mills
  • Jun 1
  • 3 min

Wolfgang Lutz on the power of multi-dimensional demography & sustainable wellbeing

On June 1st, LCDS welcomed Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography, Austria on 'the power of...
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Is automation good or bad news for social mobility?
Melinda Mills
  • May 31
  • 1 min

Is automation good or bad news for social mobility?

What happens to families when industrial jobs are lost to automation? This asks a recent study by LCDS Research Fellow Per Engzell and...
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Polygenic scores for Plasticity: A new tool for studying gene-environment interplay
Melinda Mills
  • May 31
  • 1 min

Polygenic scores for Plasticity: A new tool for studying gene-environment interplay

New work recently published in the journal Demography, by our LCDS and Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology,...
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Has income become more important in determining the length of life in Finland?
Melinda Mills
  • May 31
  • 1 min

Has income become more important in determining the length of life in Finland?

Figure above: Lifespan distributions of the bottom and top 20% income in Finland. S: Lifespan stratification; ∆e25: Difference in life...
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Twin epidemics: Effects of HIV & systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa
Melinda Mills
  • May 31
  • 1 min

Twin epidemics: Effects of HIV & systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa

Predicted probability of mortality by sex, HIV status and systolic blood pressure, Agincourt, South Africa, 2010-2018 LCDS Postdoc Andrea...
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Do Black Lives Matter to Employers?
Melinda Mills
  • May 30
  • 2 min

Do Black Lives Matter to Employers?

Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/NvMqMxYu3gg Did Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd by a...
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Jenn Dowd's Dear Pandemic chosen as WHO case study for innovative science communication
Melinda Mills
  • May 26
  • 2 min

Jenn Dowd's Dear Pandemic chosen as WHO case study for innovative science communication

Congratulations to our own LCDS Deputy Director Jenn Dowd Editor in Chief and Founding Member of Dear Pandemic, for being chosen as a...
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Ridhi Kashyap appointed as Editorial Member Population & Development Review
Melinda Mills
  • May 26
  • 1 min

Ridhi Kashyap appointed as Editorial Member Population & Development Review

Our own Ridhi Kashyap, Associate Professor of Social Demography and core member of LCDS has been appointed as a new Editorial Committee...
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Lecturer in Demography
Melinda Mills
  • May 16
  • 2 min

Lecturer in Demography

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Department of Sociology, 42-43 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1JD The Leverhulme Centre for...
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Melinda Mills
  • May 12
  • 2 min

Creative Media & Communications Officer wanted

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science 42-43 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1JD Grade 7: £33,309 - £40,927 per annum, with a...
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Become our new Centre Manager!
Melinda Mills
  • May 12
  • 2 min

Become our new Centre Manager!

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Located at: 42-43 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1JD Grade 8: £42,149 - £50,296 per annum, with a...
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Melinda Mills
  • Apr 22
  • 2 min

We're hiring! Personal and Administrative Assistant

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is looking for a new Personal and Administrative Assistant. Grade 5: £26,341 - £31,406 per...
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LCDS Director Melinda Mills appointed as special advisor to the European Commission
Melinda Mills
  • Apr 21
  • 5 min

LCDS Director Melinda Mills appointed as special advisor to the European Commission

Professor Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, has been appointed as of one three Special Advisors...
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Per Engzell, Arun Frey and Mark Verhagen named as Recipients of 2021 Cozzarelli Prize
Julia M. Knox
  • Mar 18
  • 2 min

Per Engzell, Arun Frey and Mark Verhagen named as Recipients of 2021 Cozzarelli Prize

The Cozzarelli Prize, which recognizes “outstanding scientific quality and originality,” was recently awarded to Leverhulme Centre for...
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