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A new paper, co-authored by Dr Francesco Rampazzo, suggests that the number of European migrants living in the UK decreased in the run up to Brexit, with the most significant decline occurring amongst those aged 20-29 and those with tertiary education.

In a recently published chapter of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, DPhil student Linda Hong Cheng proposes novel approaches and applications for decolonial Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Methods in Chinese-Language Contexts.

How did Romania’s abortion ban in 1966 shape the next generation’s family formation decisions? Find out in our next LCDS Seminar on Wednesday 22 May by Selin Köksal, Assistant Professor in Demography in the Population Studies group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Congratulations to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Dr Charles Rahal who has been promoted to Associate Professor in Data Science and Informatics at the University of Oxford.

On Monday 29 April, Professor James Raymer will kick off this term's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) Seminar series with a talk on new insights into the demographic effects of immigration across Australia.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science will be back at this year’s Population Association of America conference in Columbus Ohio, 17-20 April, with more demographic talks and branded goodies at booth 312.

The Centre's Professor Ridhi Kashyap has compiled the first ever ‘World Cybercrime Index’, alongside other researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Sociology, Monash University and Sciences Po. The Index identifies the globe’s major cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.

Launched today, the Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD) will become a leading institution in biosocial research. ECPD is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together leaders in social and health sciences across Berlin and Oxford, including members of the Berlin University Alliance, the University of Oxford in Berlin, and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS).

This spring, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) will be welcoming back Dr Ramina Sotoudeh as an Academic Visitor. In this alumni spotlight, Ramina reflects on her career journey from an Associate Member at LCDS between 2021-2023 to Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics & Data Science at Yale University.