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Innovative research from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics uses sharing economy data as a ‘seismograph’ to trace the effects of societal events on attitudes. Results show an immediate and long-lasting uptick in the costs imposed on Arab-Muslim Airbnb hosts after the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.

A recent study led by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Associate Professor Charles Rahal provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on how charities and voluntary organisations contribute to service delivery for the UK's National Health Service (NHS).

What is historical demography and what can demographers learn from it? In this research spotlight, we catch up with Dr Romola Davenport, Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge’s Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and member of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

Published in Nature, a team of researchers from the UK, USA, Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands is calling for a shift towards family-based sampling to advance genetic research.

American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Pandemic Sciences Institute, Ethox Centre, Department of Statistics, and Department of Biology ─ all affiliated with the Pandemic Sciences Institute ─ will co-lead a new programme of work to protect against future pandemics using digital tools.

Published in the Communication Methods and Measures journal, a recent study by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Oriol Bosch Jover investigates bias in digital trace data by looking at blind spots when obtaining data through web tracking.

A novel study published in Climate Policy, and co-authored by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Dr Daniel Valdenegro, exposes the dynamics of competing narratives on climate change between political parties in the UK and the influence that climate protests have on them.