Posted 22/03/2018 10:46
CPC recently welcomed Dr Francisco Villavicencio who gave a seminar on his model for explaining the sex distortion at birth in India and South Korea.
Posted 22/03/2018 11:23
The work of CPC members Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, Saara Hämäläinen, Maja Palmer and Athina Vlachantoni was included in a recent report ‘Demographic Change and Migration’, published as part of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “More Years, Better Lives”. Their contributions were included in chapters on ‘Migrants in the health and social care workforce’; ‘Migrants in the pension system’; and in the UK’s country report.
Posted 06/03/2018 14:38
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, has been appointed as a member of the new ESRC Council, due to come into effect with the launch of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on 1 April 2018.
Posted 06/03/2018 12:32
CPC was delighted that Professor Christina Gibson-Davis visited to give a seminar on her work on non-marital births and child well-being.
Posted 06/02/2018 14:25
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has today announced that the Centre for Population Change, along with a further seven established research centres, has been awarded funding to continue its work under a new model designed to secure the long term sustainability of social science research excellence in the UK.
Posted 24/01/2018 11:09
CPC was delighted that Professor Jonathan Portes gave our January Seminar.
Posted 30/01/2018 16:01
An article ‘Mental Well-Being Differences in Cohabitation and Marriage: The Role of Childhood Selection’ written by CPC Associate Professor Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris and Marta Styrc has recently been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family on Wiley Online Library.
Posted 05/01/2018 11:49
Congratulations to CPC’s Professor David Bell, who has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his outstanding service to economics and public policy.
Posted 06/12/2017 10:38
CPC Administrator, Florence Barrett, has been awarded the ‘Outstanding Commitment’ Award by the University of Southampton ‘Bringing Research to Life’ Roadshow organisers.
Posted 22/11/2017 15:10
22 November 2017 – Agnese Vitali and Jennifer Holland, who are both working within the fertility and family strand of CPC, have written a paper with Dilek Yildiz, Jo Munson and Ramine Tinati that was published in Demographic Research today.
Posted 15/11/2017 16:40
On 8 and 9 November, CPC's Jason Hilton, Maja Palmer and Natalia Permyakova gave thought provoking speeches about migration, ageing and welfare, to educate and celebrate Social Science during the fifteenth year of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
Posted 14/11/2017 12:04
Dafni Papoutsaki’s new publication "Job separation rates of immigrants and natives in the UK during the Great Recession" assesses the probability of job separations of immigrants and natives in the UK before and after the economic crisis of 2008 and is now available for free download.
Posted 24/10/2017 10:08
24 October 2017 - Today a special issue of Population Studies has been published. We are delighted to share that CPC's Professor Jakub Bijak joins Frans Willekens, Anna Klabunde and Alexia Prskawetz as Guest Editor for this edition, providing the introduction 'The science of choice: an introduction'.
Posted 18/09/2017 09:44
This summer, CPC experienced being part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life Roadshow'. Forming a key exhibit at the Thomas Hardye School, Winchester Science Festival, BBC Countryfile Live and Bournemouth Air Festival, we were delighted to 'make learning fun' and engage with over 800 members of the public.
Posted 31/08/2017 14:21
A new CPC survey which provides much-needed insight into the intentions of UK-based international students following their higher education studies has prompted calls to remove international students from the government's net migration target.
Posted 18/08/2017 09:54
CPC is pleased to announce the publication of the 2017 Survey of Graduating International Students Technical Report, which forms part of the Office for National Statistics quarterly migration release today (Thursday, 24th August 2017).
Posted 02/08/2017 13:40
29 - 30 July 2017 - CPC was delighted to join a packed programme of speakers and exhibitors at the Winchester Science Festival last weekend to champion and celebrate science with the public.
Posted 15/03/2017 11:28
The CPC Carers and Time Use project team would like to find out the views of anyone who informally cares for older adults, that is those who are carrying out some caring tasks for an older person but are not employed as carers. We want to learn more about the activities people do as part of their care role and better capture carers' experiences of providing support. The team aim to provide better information for policymakers on which to base their decisions, ultimately benefitting all those who provide unpaid care for older people.
Posted 23/05/2017 15:38
How do changes in the labour market and workers' life course affect the pension provision, and how are pension schemes reformed in different parts of the world? These questions were addressed at the international conference Changing Labour Markets, Life-Course and Pensions at the Finnish Centre for Pensions in Helsinki on 19 May 2017, where CPC's Professor Traute Meyer presented a recent study and joined nearly 130 top experts from around the globe to discuss the direction and impact of changes in the labour markets, life courses and pensions.
Posted 02/05/2017 16:16
CPC's Albert Sabater, with colleagues Elspeth Graham, Fran Viciana and Diego Ramiro, has won a poster prize for 'Parental Support and Transition to Second Birth in a Low-Fertility Setting: The Case of Andalusia in Spain' at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting that was held from 27 - 29 April 2017 in Chicago.
Posted 26/04/2017 15:08
A new blog by Dr Jakub Bijak, 'Migration: illusion of prediction, illusion of control' is now live on The UK in a Changing Europe website.
Posted 19/04/2017 14:09
A new paper exploring ethnic differences in patterns of returning home among young adults in the Netherlands has been published open access, free to download.
Posted 11/04/2017 15:27
On 29 March 2017, CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham presented her keynote speech 'Population Change in the UK (and in the World)' at the Museums Association one day conference 'Future of Museums: Audiences'
Posted 28/02/2017 12:27
CPC is delighted to share a new 3 year fully funded PhD Project (UK Students Only) opportunity 'Silver Splitters: Partnership dissolution and re-formation in later life', supervised by CPC's Professor Maria Evandrou, Professor Jane Falkingham and Dr Athina Vlachantoni.
Posted 22/02/2017 13:13
CPC's Professor Asghar Zaidi has contributed to the development of a new Index of Wellbeing in Later Life in collaboration with Age UK, finding that taking part in social activities has the most direct influence on improving a person's wellbeing in later life. Activities such as; going to a cinema, museum or historical site; taking part in arts events; being a member of a social or sports club; or engaging in a community or voluntary group are all beneficial.
Posted 08/02/2017 15:08
An article 'The combination of 'insider' and 'outsider' strategies in VSO-government partnerships: the relationship between Refugee Action and the Home Office in the UK' written by CPC's Professor Derek McGhee and CPC Associates Claire Bennett and Sarah Walker, has been announced as one of the top five most read articles published in Voluntary Sector Review in 2016.
Posted 27/01/2017 14:24
CPS's Professor Ann Berrington has provided a significant contribution to a new book 'Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences' edited by Professor Michaela Kreyenfeld, and Professor Dirk Konietzka and published by Springer as Open Access. The book contains a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists, revealing reasons for high levels of childlessness in Europe and indicating that historical patterns may be on the verge of shifting in some countries.
Posted 11/01/2017 16:33
On Thursday 9th February CPC members will present their latest research findings at the Italian Association for Population Studies Conference 2017. CPC's Dr Francesca Fiori and Professor Elspeth Graham will present their paper 'Women's labour market trajectories, economic precariousness and the intention to have a second child in Italy: realization, postponement or revision?' which details their most up-to-date work on their project investigating fertility in Italy using a range of quantitative data sources and interviews.
Posted 16/12/2016 09:21
Congratulations to CPC's Dr Jakub Bijak, Associate Professor in Demography, who has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project 'Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies: Transforming Simulation Models of Human Migration'.
Posted 06/12/2016 16:06
How are attitudes to marriage changing across the world? CPC Associate Professor, Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris was invited to discuss her research on BBC World News on Thursday 24 November. Drawing on her extensive research on marriage and cohabitation in Europe, Australia and America, Brienna discussed current variations in marriage trends and the value of marriage in Europe and the USA. The panel debate was hosted by BBC's Matthew Amroliwala, with Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent and Karen Cinnamon, a Wedding blogger.
Posted 26/10/2016 16:50
On 19 October 2016 the Academy of Social Sciences announced that it had conferred the award of Fellow on Professor Derek McGhee, Head of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton and joint coordinator of CPC's migration stand of research.
Posted 23/02/2016 17:54
Researchers from the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton and Statistics New Zealand have recently published an article arguing that Bayesian methodology, a statistical tool introduced by Rev. Thomas Bayes in the 18th Century, is vital in providing solutions to many difficult statistical problems, particularly those presented by 21st Century population studies.
Posted 25/10/2016 12:20
Earth is not a place of stability, disturbances such as shocks from wars and pandemics or ongoing changes such as those caused by agricultural intensification cause fluctuations in the way our population grows. In Europe, the Second World War left millions dead, but its survivors produced a baby-boom generation. Both the war and its demographic aftermath can clearly be seen in the number of people at different ages in many European populations. So seemingly short-lived, transitionary events can leave a quantifiable imprint in the age-structure of populations.
Posted 03/09/2016 08:56
CPC scholar Brienna Perelli-Harris has been presented the prestigious Dirk van de Kaa award for social demography. The award, which honours outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in social demography was presented to Brienna during the closing ceremony of the European Population Conference 2016 for her outstanding research on cohabitation and childbearing across Europe.
Posted 19/09/2016 15:57
Congratulations to CPC members Albert Sabater, Elspeth Graham and Nissa Finney whose poster on "The Spatialities of Ageing in Britain: Is Residential Age Segregation increasing?" won a prize at the European Population Conference 2016 in Mainz Germany. An expert panel judged the poster to be the best of the 80 posters displayed in the session.
Posted 03/09/2016 09:28
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham has been made Vice-President of the European Association of Population Studies (EAPS). Council for EAPS is selected bi-annually and responsibility is transferred at the Association's conference. Professor Zsolt Speder takes over the role of President from Professor Francesco Billari.
Posted 26/08/2016 11:54
We are excited to announce the launch of our new bulletin 'Changing Populations', updating you on all of the latest news from our research teams and knowledge exchange activities.
Posted 03/08/2016 12:04
Improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to higher education have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for white students. Political rhetoric often explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among white, working class boys. In a new paper 'Understanding Gender, Class and Ethnic Differences in Educational Aspirations among UK Teenagers' in the British Educational Research Journal, CPC Member Ann Berrington, along with Steven Roberts and Peter Tammes, examine how gender, class, and ethnicity influence educational aspirations among teenagers born in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Posted 21/07/2016 10:49
A special issue of the journal AIDS Care has been published to coincide with the start of the 21st International AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, including work by CPC's Nuala McGrath. The theme of the special issue is 'Universal test and treat' (UTT). UTT aims to increase uptake of HIV testing and immediate or early initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) at the population level. In this special issue, papers present new research on the psychological and socio-medical aspects of testing and treatment based on large-scale clinical trials and implementation studies in six African countries.
Posted 08/07/2016 13:59
CPC is proud to announce Jane Falkingham has been voted as the new Vice-President of the European Association for Population Studies following a vote open to over 640 EAPS members.
Posted 20/06/2016 09:57
This article was originally posted on 'The UK in a Changing Europe' website and is based on work done as part of the Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe research project. This research was funded as part of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
Posted 13/06/2016 10:04
This article was originally posted on 'The UK in a Changing Europe' website and is based on work done as part of the Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe research project. This research was funded as part of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
Posted 09/06/2016 13:17
Do women from different countries, who migrate to England and Wales, have children as soon as they arrive? Or do they wait until some time has passed before having children? In a new paper, published in the journal Demographic Research James Robards and Ann Berrington have studied the timing of fertility among migrants to England and Wales.
Posted 03/06/2016 16:55
This article was originally posted on the 'Ageing Issues' website and is based on work done as part of the Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe research project. This research was funded as part of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
Posted 27/05/2016 10:29
In general, all migration flows are notorious for being difficult to model and forecast, but those generated by shocks, such as political crises, armed conflict or persecution are especially so. The movement of asylum seekers and refugees are some of the most unpredictable forms of migration, yet they have very high policy, political and societal impact. In many cases, it is not even possible to provide accurate estimates of migrant flows, yet the assumptions behind the existing migration forecasts do not reflect that uncertainty and are often unjustifiably precise.
Posted 18/05/2016 12:19
This article was originally posted on the ESRC 'The UK in a Changing Europe' website and is based on work done as part of the Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe research project.
Posted 22/04/2016 16:11
In the 1980s Phil Brown stated "there is an invisible majority of ordinary pupils who neither leave their names engraved on the school honours board nor gouged into the tops of their desks."
Posted 19/04/2016 17:02
This article was originally posted on the ESRC 'The UK in a Changing Europe' website and is based on work done as part of the Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe research project. This research was funded by the ESRC as part of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
Posted 11/04/2016 13:37
CPC is pleased to announce that it will once again provide supplementary support for the annual population postgraduate conference 'PopFest'.
Posted 19/06/2017 12:14
Call for papers: CPC's Dr Agnese Vitali and Dr Bruno Arpino of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra will be holding an ESS ERIC Academic Workshop from 18 - 19 January 2018 at the University of Southampton.
