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23 Oct 2020

Impacts of weather shocks on transition to adulthood among women in a low-income rural context

New research led by Liliana Andriano provides a conceptual overview of why and how weather shocks might impact young women’s life course transitions in low-income rural contexts, and explores the model empirically using the case of drought in Malawi: a largely rural and agrarian country that is highly vulnerable to weather shocks, with a large youth population and low ages at first marriage and birth.

21 Oct 2020

Event - New fortnightly Webinar on Historical Social Mobility

Starting Wednesday 21st October at 17:30 BST, LCDS Postdoctoral Researcher Per Engzell is launching a fortnightly webinar on Historical Social Mobility. Each session will be 1.5 hrs and will feature three papers.

19 Oct 2020

Job Opportunity: Media and Communications Officer

We are looking for a creative, inspirational and driven Media and Communications Officer to join the newly launched Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS), an interdisciplinary centre located within the Department of Sociology to lead and develop communications for the Centre. The Centre is committed to work-life balance and flexible working opportunities.

29 Sep 2020

'The US excess mortality rate from COVID-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s' - VoxEU article

In a new article published today on VoxEU.org, Janine Aron and John Muellbauer show that when comparing excess mortality rates, Europe's cumulative excess mortality rate from March to July is 28% lower than the US rate, contradicting some recent public claims.

22 Sep 2020

The Geography of Excess Deaths in England during the COVID-19 pandemic - new preprint

A new preprint by Richard Breen (Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, Oxford) and John Ermisch (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Nuffield College, Oxford) has been published on medRxiv: "The Geography of Excess Deaths in England during the Covid-19 pandemic: Longer term impacts and monthly dynamics".

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18 Sep 2020

José Manuel Aburto receives 2021 European Demographer Award

The Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin and Population Europe have announced that José Manuel Aburto, Newton Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology, is one of two recipients to be honoured with a European Demographer Award 2021, alongside Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques, Paris.

15 Sep 2020

Event: 'Agent-based models of social networks' - workshop with Per Block,17 September

Per Block, Departmental Research Lecturer at Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, will be giving an invited talk this Thursday, 17 September, as part of Social Simulation Week 2020, a global virtual event from 14-18 September.

8 Sep 2020

FAQ's Associate Professor Computational Social Science

By Melinda Mills, Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

8 Sep 2020

Event: Environment x Women's Health workshop with Liliana Andriano - 10 September 2020

Liliana Andriano, postdoctoral researcher at LCDS, will take part in an online workshop this Thursday (10 September) alongside Kathryn Grace, Murylo Batista, Valeria Urbina Cordano, Ileana Rojas and Amanda Veile, as part of Environment x Women's Health.