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Disrupting and realigning demography to tackle the most challenging problems of our time
This major new international and interdisciplinary research Centre, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and directed by Professor Melinda Mills, is at the forefront of demographic research that impacts academia, society, government and industry.
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Baseball and basketball players who peak early, die early
Baseball and basketball players, whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster, had significantly shorter lifespans, according to an innovative study by Dr Saul Newman from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science published in Science Advances.
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LCDS Seminar on Tuesday 30 May with Alison Buttenheim
We are looking forward to Alison Buttenheim’s visit to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the end of this month. During her visit, Alison will give a talk on whether behavioural economics boosted COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, using evidence and insights from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic) and LMIC countries.
Peak performance predicts death in baseball and basketball players
An innovative study published today in Science Advances finds that baseball and basketball players whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster had significantly shorter lifespans. Those who peaked earlier had a 1.2 year shorter adult life expectancy whilst those who maintained athletic performance for longer had an 0.8 year higher life expectancy, according to the study by Dr Saul Newman from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Using social media activity to monitor population displacement in Ukraine
A team of researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, led by Dr Douglas Leasure, have published a novel paper that provides one of the only quantitative estimates of internal displacement in virtual real-time.