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Andrea Tilstra, Arun Frey, and Mark Verhagen are part of a winning consortium to study excess mortality using registry data, during the peak of COVID-19 in The Netherlands.

In a recent paper published in Social Networks, former LCDS Researcher and current Associate Member Per Block uses new network science methods to understand the self-organising mechanisms driving occupational sex segregation.

Our Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Professor Melinda Mills was invited to speak at the European Parliament’s Special Committee on COVID-19 pandemic on 29 November 2022. 

Our GWAS Diversity Monitor has teamed up with a new global initiative Link23, to make genomic tools that work for everyone.

Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has teamed up with seven other leading Universities in Social Science Genetics to establish the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN).

Dr Francesco Rampazzo, Lecturer in Demography at the Centre, has co-authored a paper published today in the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, on the accuracy of Facebook advertising data for use in social science research.

New research from the Centre finds that life expectancy in 2021 remained lower than expected across 29 countries in Europe, as well as Chile and the US, had pre-pandemic trends continued.

Congratulations to Dr Douglas Leasure, Senior Data Scientist at the Centre, and his former colleagues at WorldPop who recently won the 2021 Breheny Prize.