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Congratulations to our alumni Per Engzell and Bastian Betthaeuser who have both been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants in Social Sciences and Humanities.

A new study by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Morten Kjær Thomsen is the first-ever to document the diverse demographic outcomes of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Danish population registers.

Linda Hong Cheng, DPhil student and co-founder of Mung!, hosted Oxford’s first-ever student-led event dedicated to addressing the digital exclusion of older people.

Published in Nature Reviews Urology, a Comment piece by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science calls for researchers and policymakers to take a closer look at the relationship between male fertility, mental health, and sexual function.

A new study published in Population Studies looks at the impact of extreme temperatures on fertility across Spain between 2010 and 2019, covering some of the hottest years since records began.

Following the tragic loss of Julia Mead Knox, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the University of Oxford have established The Julia Mead Knox Memorial Prize for Research in Demography and Population Health in her honour. Entries are open to DPhil students across the University of Oxford and must be emailed to the LCDS Office mailbox by Monday 30 September.

Dr Joshua Wilde introduces a special issue of the Population and Development Review with lessons learnt in studying fertility and family dynamics in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.