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Ahead of Mapineq Link – an online interactive geospatial dashboard and database – launch later this year, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford and University of Groningen team reveal the demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle variables within the database.

Published in a special issue of the Population and Development Review, Dr Joshua Wilde and Jasmin Abdel Ghany provide the first dynamic birth forecast for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google search data.

A new paper published in Science Advances today finds that life expectancy in India was 2.6 years lower in 2020 than 2019, with women and marginalised social groups suffering the greatest declines.

Congratulations to our DPhil student Antonino Polizzi who received the Günther Beyer Award for Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar at this year’s European Population Conference.

Last month, members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science presented at a workshop aimed at unlocking the ways consumer data from businesses and organisations can be used in demographic research. 

Congratulations to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research's DPhil student Jiaxin Shi for winning the Otto Hahn Medal in Munich for his doctoral thesis on 'Mortality Inequality and Its Implications for Retirees'.

Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2024, a novel study by Jasmin Abdel Ghany investigates the relationship between temperature irregularities, armed conflict and forced migration flows in West Asia and North Africa.

On Thursday 27 June, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Centre for Care are hosting a free RobustiPy hackathon at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Find out more and register by Thursday 13 June.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is excited to be presenting and exhibiting at this year’s European Population Conference in Edinburgh, 12-15 June, with more demographic talks and branded goodies.