Centre Director, Co-Leader Programme 4:

Sociogenomics

Melinda Mills, MBE, FBA

Centre Director, Nuffield Professor of Sociology (Oxford). Research spans genetics, computational demography, diversity, statistics, environmental measures, fertility, assortative mating.

Deputy Director, LCDS

Jennifer Beam Dowd

Deputy Director LCDS; Associate Professor Demography and Population Health (Oxford). Research spans bio-social science, mortality trends, social epidemiology, microbiome, infections & immune function

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British Academy Global Professor

Francis Dodoo

British Academy Global Professor, LCDS and Nuffield College. Research spans gender, power and sexual decision-making, demographic and health outcomes associated with urban poverty, inequality issues among Africans in the diaspora, and building research capacity in Africa.

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Co-Leader Programme 1: Digital & Computational Science

Ridhi

Kashyap

Charles

Rahal

Per

Block

Associate Professor Social Demography (Oxford). Research spans migration, gender, mortality, ethnicity, digital demography, micro-simulation, agent-based models, big data.

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Departmental Research Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Data Science. Research spans demography, sociology, civic technology, applied econometric methods and inequality, typically with 'big' and\or unstructured data.

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Departmental Research Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Data Science. Research spans demography, sociology, civic technology, applied econometric methods and inequality, typically with 'big' and\or unstructured data.

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per.block@sociology.ox.ac.uk

José Manuel Aburto

Newton Fellow at the Department of Sociology and LCDS (Oxford). Research spans population health, mathematical demography, health inequalities and ageing.

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Per

Engzell

Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans intergenerational mobility, origins of institutions, technological change.

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per.engzell@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Valentina

Rotondi

Postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Rotondi is a social scientist with training in applied economics and econometrics and a focus of research on development, and the interactions between population, development, and technological change. Over the next years, she plans to study the neuroeconomic implications of transitioning into parenthood

Yan

Liu

DPhil student in Sociology. Research focuses on the impact of social and environmental factors on cognitive function and how the impact might vary by genetic susceptibility. She is also interested in sex differences in health, health-care quality, health-care reform in China.

Kayla

Schulte

DPhil in Sociology. Research focuses on the collection and communication of local air pollution data. She is also interested in the implementation of participatory research methods for local air quality management. 

Jiaxin Shi

DPhil student in Sociology. Research interests include formal demography, population health, population aging, and social inequality.

Xuejie

Ding

Postdoctoral researcher. Research adopts a biosocial approach integrating life course perspective and fundamental causes theory, to bridge the disjointed knowledge on contextual, social and biological influences on health.

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Leo

Azzollini

Postdoctoral Research Officer at LCDS, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford Martin School, and in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), (Oxford). Research interests include the interplay between socio-economic inequalities and demographic behaviour, with a geographic focus on OECD countries, and more broadly the causes and consequences of inequalities from different social-scientific perspectives, spanning sociology, demography, economics, and political science.

Bastian A. Betthäuser

Postdoctoral Researcher. Research focuses on social inequality, how it accumulates over the life-course, how it is transmitted across generations, and the effectiveness of public policies in reducing it.

Romola Davenport

Senior Research Fellow (Cambridge). Research spans health geographies, 

historical demography, history of public health, urbanisation, 

historical epidemiology, infectious diseases in European societies 

c.1600 - 1945.

Arun Frey

Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans migration, violence, and inequality, using methods from computational social science.

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Web: arunfrey.github.io

Mark

Verhagen

DPhil student in Sociology. Research interest focuses on bridging the gap between advances in statistical computing, notably from the domains of pattern recognition and machine learning, and classical empirical approaches predominantly applied within the social sciences.

Sofia Gieysztor

Research is focused on age segregation and network demographics. Work at the Centre includes data sourcing, systematic reviews, and scientometrics. Interested in the process of bridging the various methods required for causal demographics.

Co-Leader Programme 2: 

Environmental Context,

Demography & Climate Change

David Hendry, Kt, FBA

Professor of Economics, Co-director Climate Econometrics (Oxford). Research spans econometric methods, theory, and modelling, computing, applications, forecasting.

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Co-Leader Programme 2: 

Environmental Context,

Demography & Climate Change

Christiaan Monden

Professor, Head of Department of Sociology (Oxford). Research spans

family size, inequality, wellbeing, mortality, marriage patterns.

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Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity

John Ermisch, FBA

Professor Family Sociology (Oxford). Editor Population Studies. Research spans family economics, intergenerational transfers and transmission.

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Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity

Jan O. Jonsson

Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans intergenerational processes, children’s wellbeing, educational inequality, migration and ethnic integration

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Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity

Nan Dirk de Graaf

Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans social stratification, educational attainment, social mobility, political sociology, religion

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Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics

Augustine Kong

Professor Statistical Genetics (Oxford). Research spans statistics, molecular genetics, parent-child genetic data, methodology, statistical development

Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics

Cecilia Lindgren

Professor Molecular Genetics, Big Data Institute (Oxford). Research spans large-scale genetic datasets, sex differences, obesity.

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Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics

Simon Myers

Professor Mathematical Genomics & Bioinformatics (Oxford). Research spans population and evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, stochastic methods, reproductive biology.

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Co-Leader Programme 5: Causality

Richard

Breen, FBA

Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans causality, statistical methods, education, inequality and mobility.

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Co-Leader Programme 6:

Society & Sustainability

Madeline Sumption 

MBE

Director Migration Observatory (Oxford), member UK government Migration Advisory Committee. Research spans migration statistics, drivers international migration.

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Co-Leader Programme 7:

Ethics, Truth & Trust

David Kirk

Andrew Stephen

Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans demography of crime, experimental research, quantitative methods, urban sociology.

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L’Oréal Professor of Marketing (Oxford). Marketing expert, research spans technology, digital and social media, consumer behaviour.

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Co-Leader Programme 7:

Ethics, Truth & Trust

Luciano

Floridi

Professor Philosophy of Ethics of Information, Director Digital Ethics Lab (Oxford). Research spans information and computer ethics, philosophy of technology

Co Leader 

Programme 1:

Digital & Computational Science

Alice

Reid

Janine Aron

University Lecturer (Cambridge). Research spans geography, historical demographer, infant, early child and maternal mortality and fertility in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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Senior Research Fellow, INET (OMS), (Oxford). Research spans monetary and exchange rate policy, macroeconomics and financial stability, mainly but not only in the emerging market context.  

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John Muellbauer

Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and INET (OMS), (Oxford). Evidence-based research in macroeconomics, household behaviour and housing, with a focus on interactions between financial markets and the real economy.

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