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Steven Alvarado, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver our third LCDS seminar of Michaelmas Term on Wednesday 22nd October, 3:15-4:30pm, in the Butler Room at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He will speak on the topic: Success by Address: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and College Enrollment Across Demographic Cohorts 

We are delighted to announce our Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting line-up of talks from leading scholars in demography, population health, and quantitative social science. We are also delighted to co-host the Metrics and Models seminars which have launched this term and are free to attend.

Timothy Adair, Principal Research Fellow at the Nossal Institute, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, will deliver our second LCDS seminar of Michaelmas Term on Monday 13 October, 2:00–3:30 pm, in the Redwood Room at the Malthouse, University of Oxford.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and Nuffield College are delighted to welcome Bill Morneau as a Visiting Fellow for the coming academic year. Morneau will be working and meeting with our team and researchers to think about deeper connections with industry and government, strategic thinking and horizon scanning in demography. 

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS), Oxford Population Health, invites expressions of interest from outstanding early-career researchers who wish to apply for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026.

Felix Elwert, PhD, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will deliver the first LCDS seminar of Michaelmas Term on Wednesday, 8 October, 2:00–3:30 pm, in the Butler Room at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

A new study from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford Population Health, published in Social Science & Medicine reveals that night shift work is linked to shorter sleep duration among middle-aged and older adults, with women, parents, and less-educated workers facing the greatest impact.

Researchers and PhD students from across Europe gathered in Oxford for two days of advanced training in social science genetics, combining hands-on labs, expert lectures from science and industry, and critical discussions on the latest methodological developments and ethical discussions.

Wen Su, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science recently won the Charles Price Prize in Demography.