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Entries are open for The Julia Mead Knox Memorial Prize for Research in Demography and Population Health. The prize commemorates the talented demographer and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s DPhil student Julia Mead Knox who tragically passed away in November 2023.

The first Digital Pandemic Preparedness workshop brought together experts from across public health, epidemiology, technology, ethics and the social sciences in Oxford to explore how digital tools and approaches can strengthen preparedness for future pandemics. 

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) had an opportunity to look both at the breadth of demographic research taking place at LCDS today and at the Centre’s ambitions for the future by welcoming representatives from the Leverhulme Trust to Oxford for an afternoon exploring the Centre’s research, development and ambitions for the future. 

The LCDS will host its first seminar of term on Thursday 1st October at 2pm at Nuffield college. Bringing 10 years of experience from across the publishing industry, Joe will discuss some of the common points of confusion and hiccups early career researchers face as they look to build a publication record. 

Led by the University of Oxford in partnership with the World Health Organization and an international consortium of leading research, public health and technology partners, the three-year PANDAI project will develop and deploy advanced AI models to transform the detection, assessment, prediction and response to global infectious disease threats.

An early look at the University of Oxford’s National Conversation research was shared at a Parliament event exploring how communities across the UK can live well together. The event at the House of Commons brought together researchers, policymakers, community organisations and representatives from across public life.

Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science celebrated a successful British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) 2026 Conference at the University of Kent in Canterbury, with LCDS researchers receiving two poster prizes.

A new study led by researchers at Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has provided the first detailed picture of the health, lifestyle and disease patterns of participants in Our Future Health, a UK-wide research programme that is building the largest health data resource of its kind in the country.

Dr Thomas Rawson, Senior Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, has been appointed a Fellow of JUNIPER (the Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research network), joining five other early-career researchers in the scheme's 2026 cohort. The two-year fellowship supports emerging epidemic modellers in building research leadership, expanding cross-institutional collaborations, and developing science communication skills.