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Join us for the upcoming seminar on Occupational Structure in the Congress Kingdom of Poland in the 19th Century with Marcin Kamecki, PhD candidate in Economics and Finance, University of Warsaw. On Monday 2 November 2026 at 2-3.30 PM in Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Dr Wen Su, a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS), has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for his project, Rethinking socioeconomic inequalities in mortality through comorbidity at death.

Sai Campbell, Dphil student at the LCDS, has been awarded a Best Student Poster prize at this year's Oxford Population Health's OxPop Showcase for her research examining the contribution of infections to premature mortality in England.

A new study led by researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, has been featured on the cover of the October 2026 issue of Nature Medicine, presenting the first in-depth analysis of health and disease patterns among 1.9 million participants in the UK's Our Future Health programme.

The LCDS will welcome Prof Pieter Vanhuysse, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of Southern Denmark, for an upcoming seminar exploring the fiscal and ethical implications of free movement of workers. Please join us on 19th of October at 2pm in the Butler room at Nuffield college, tea and coffee will be provided. 

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.