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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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LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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,...
LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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/...
LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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...
LCDS Media
- 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,...
Melinda Mills
- Jun 17, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- Jun 2, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- Jun 1, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- Jun 1, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- Jun 1, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- May 31, 2022
- 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,...
Melinda Mills
- May 31, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- May 31, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- May 30, 2022
- 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...
Melinda Mills
- May 30, 2022
- 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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