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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.

Congratulations to the Centre’s José Manuel Aburto who has been awarded the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Silver Medal for his research on inequality.

Unemployment affects social trust in societies in different ways, according to a recent study in Social Science Research, conducted by Dr Leo Azzollini from the Centre and Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention.

Jiaxin Shi, a DPhil Student at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, has recently published a paper on whether individuals with lower socioeconomic status benefit less from pension programmes because of their higher mortality risks.

Nuffield College, a major funder of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, is looking for two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs) in Sociology.