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24 Nov 2021

Mass shootings sway attitudes towards gun legislation in the United States—among Democratic Voters

New research by LCDS researchers Arun Frey and David S. Kirk suggests that mass shootings in the United States increase support for stricter gun permits, but only among supporters of the Democratic Party. An exception to this occurs with mass shootings that target school facilities, which mobilize broad support for firearm legislation among both Democrats and Republicans.

21 Nov 2021

PhD scholarship Biopsychosocial Theme Moving Beyond Inequality

The University of Oxford will be offering 15 doctoral scholarships from 2021-2023, thanks to a £1.35m grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Students will complete multi-disciplinary research on the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood.

10 Nov 2021

Facebook data reveals that number of migrants in UK has been underestimated

Studying Facebook has helped to reveal that the number of European migrants in the UK has been underestimated by as much as 25%, according to a paper published today by LCDS researcher Francesco Rampazzo in the journal Demography, together with Jakub Bijak, Agnese Vitali, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni.

5 Nov 2021

Few signs of decline in US residential racial segregation from 1990 to 2020

Benjamin Elbers published a new article and data visualization mapping changes in U.S. residential racial segregation from 1990 to 2020 in the journal Socius.

5 Nov 2021

Showcasing ‘low-to-zero’ emission public transport solutions at COP26, Glasgow

If the UK expects to make serious CO2 emission cuts, to avoid 1.5 degrees of warming and safeguard population health, while also retaining the ability to move easily throughout the country, the transportation sector will require a major overhaul.

Visualisation of data from 'Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries'

27 Sep 2021

COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II - new LCDS study

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, led by scientists at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

23 Sep 2021

Covid-19: Life expectancy is down but what does this mean?

Read this comprehensive BBC article published 23 September 2021, which highlights LCDS's most recent work on COVID-19 and life expectancy. An excerpt from the article above featuring our own Ridhi Kashyap and Jose Manual Aburto.

23 Sep 2021

LCDS wins Impact Prize for data driven policy interventions during COVID-19

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, led by Professor Melinda Mills, has been at the forefront of COVID-19-related research into patterns of COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality, ‘hotspots’ of infection, support bubbles, face coverings, and the deployment of vaccines – influencing both national and international policy.

10 Sep 2021

Education and urbanisation boost women's control over health in sub-Saharan Africa

Women’s ability to make decisions about their own health increased in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the early years of the 21st century, but the picture varied greatly across the region, according to new research published in the journal Demography from LCDS researchers Liliana Andriano and Christiaan Monden, together with Julia Behrman, published today.