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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.

Published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford outline how Our Future Health — one of the UK’s new flagship health research programmes — can achieve its full potential by tackling bias in medical research, harnessing genetic data, and the potential for collaborating across international biobanks.

A new study published by Édith Darin, Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from LCDS in Population, Space and Place delivers the clearest assessment yet of how satellite-derived settlement maps can estimate populations where recent censuses are missing or incomplete.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is delighted to launch a new series of Short Courses, offering in-depth training across key areas of demographic research.

Nuffield College intends to appoint with effect from 1 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter, two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs) in sociology, demography, criminology, social and medical statistics, public policy, and social policy. The College particularly welcomes applications from candidates who work or plan to work in the field of one or more of the College’s Sociology, Demography and Social Policy Fellows, but this is not a requirement.