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Congratulations to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research's DPhil student Jiaxin Shi for winning the Otto Hahn Medal in Munich for his doctoral thesis on 'Mortality Inequality and Its Implications for Retirees'.

Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2024, a novel study by Jasmin Abdel Ghany investigates the relationship between temperature irregularities, armed conflict and forced migration flows in West Asia and North Africa.

On Thursday 27 June, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Centre for Care are hosting a free RobustiPy hackathon at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Find out more and register by Thursday 13 June.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is excited to be presenting and exhibiting at this year’s European Population Conference in Edinburgh, 12-15 June, with more demographic talks and branded goodies.

A new paper, co-authored by Dr Francesco Rampazzo, suggests that the number of European migrants living in the UK decreased in the run up to Brexit, with the most significant decline occurring amongst those aged 20-29 and those with tertiary education.

In a recently published chapter of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, DPhil student Linda Hong Cheng proposes novel approaches and applications for decolonial Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Methods in Chinese-Language Contexts.

How did Romania’s abortion ban in 1966 shape the next generation’s family formation decisions? Find out in our next LCDS Seminar on Wednesday 22 May by Selin Köksal, Assistant Professor in Demography in the Population Studies group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Congratulations to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Dr Charles Rahal who has been promoted to Associate Professor in Data Science and Informatics at the University of Oxford.

On Monday 29 April, Professor James Raymer will kick off this term's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) Seminar series with a talk on new insights into the demographic effects of immigration across Australia.