News | Leverhulme Centre For Demographic Science, Oxford

10 Apr 2020

The Likely Progress of COVID-19 in the UK

Bottom line: expect 55,000 registered Covid-19 deaths by 29 June; the rate of increase in the UK’s confirmed cases remains high relative to other large European countries

15 Mar 2020

Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

Now out and open access in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

5 Mar 2020

Launch of new real-time monitor of genetic discoveries

Real-time monitor of genetic discoveries pushes for equality and accountability to expand medical advances in genetics beyond European ancestry groups

24 Feb 2020

Hear Melinda Mills discuss the intersection of genetics and fertility

Centre Director Professor Melinda Mills was the guest on the latest episode of the Insight podcast, discussing the intersection of demography and genetics.

23 Feb 2020

New book provides students and researchers with the tools to take advantage of genetic data

An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis, published in February 2020, will allow students and researchers to incorporate this fast-growing field into their work.

18 Feb 2020

Professor David Kirk: Uber linked to a reduction in serious road traffic injuries in the UK

Professor David Kirk, co-leader on our Ethics, Truth & Trust programme, today had his paper on Uber and traffic injuries published in Social Science & Medicine.

13 Feb 2020

How new information is changing our understanding of social mobility

“I’m tackling one of the oldest questions we have in Sociology”, says Postdoctoral Research Fellow Per Engzell. He’s investigating the age-old question of why it is that the children of rich people grow up to be rich, and the children of poor parents stay that way. “We’ve been asking it for centuries, and you might think we’d know all about it by now – but that’s not the case.”

19 Sep 2019

LCDS welcomes six new colleagues

We are delighted to announce that six new employees have joined the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. They will begin their posts over the course of 2019 and start of 2020. We are thrilled to be launching into the first year of the Centre - stay tuned for more exciting research updates, opportunities to visit & collaborate with LCDS.

8 Sep 2019

Our director writes in Science about genetics and same-sex behavior

On August 30, our Director, Melinda Mills published a Perspective article in Science entitled 'How do genes affect same-sex behavior?'. In this she explains and puts into perspective the recent study by Ganna et al. (2019), which identifies genetic variants associated with same-sex behaviour.