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.
Running from 8 October to 3 December 2025, the series brings together experts from around the world to share cutting-edge research on topics ranging from causal inference and life expectancy inequalities to genetic epidemiology, machine learning, and the social dimensions of family, education, and war.
Highlights include:
- 13 October: Australian Life Expectancy Trends and Inequalities — Prof. Timothy Adair (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
- 22 October: Success by Address: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and College Enrollment Across Demographic Cohorts — Prof. Steve Alvarado (University of Notre Dame)
(followed by)
Disease Prediction Using Nation-Wide Health Data and Genetics — Andrea Ganna, Ph.D. (Mass General Research Institute) - 29 October: Title TBC — Bill Morneau (Nuffield College/LCDS Visiting Fellow)
- 4 November: Family Spillovers of Dementia — Prof. Jane Greve (The Danish Center for Social Science Research)
- 5 November: Utilizing DNA to Measure Within-Race Skin Tone Disparities — Assistant Prof. Sam Trejo (Princeton University)
- 13 November: Authoritarian Pronatalism and the Pyrrhic Defeat — Prof. Philip Cohen (University of Maryland)
- 19 November: Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics — Prof. Weisi Guo (Cranfield University)
- 3 December: From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data — Prof. Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
All seminars are open to members of the University of Oxford and affiliated institutions, with sessions held at Nuffield College and The Malthouse.
For full details, including times and venues, please see the event poster above or email lcds.office@demography.ox.ac.uk.
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