Posted 05/07/2019 16:16
Last week the University of Southampton welcomed visiting guest, Professor Chenganng Yang from the Southwestern University of Finance & Economics (SWUFE). Professor Yang is the Director of the Population Research Institute at SWUFE and Vice President of China Population Association, and spoke to University staff and students on the topic of ‘Population Ageing and Sustainable Economic Growth in China’.
Posted 19/06/2019 17:39
Thursday 11 July 2019 is World Population Day. This year’s theme is reproductive rights and gender equality, to mark 25 years since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, where 179 governments recognised that reproductive health and gender equality are essential for achieving sustainable development.
Posted 19/06/2019 14:31
Researchers from the Centre for Research on Ageing and CPC have been working with colleagues at African Population Health Research Centre (APHRC) Kenya on the ESRC-DFID funded project examining the “Impacts of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations”. The interdisciplinary project team led by Dr Gloria Chepngeno-Langat, includes CPC Directors Prof Maria Evandrou, Prof Jane Falkingham, and Research Fellow Dr Nele van der Wielen as well as Dr Isabella Aboderin, who leads the Ageing Programme at APHRC.
Posted 13/06/2019 13:13
CPC members will be attending the Understanding Society Scientific Conference between 2-4 July. Along with a CPC exhibition stand, members will be presenting their latest projects using data from Understanding Society and the British Household Panel Survey. Professor Hill Kulu, CPC’s newly appointed Co-Director, is one of this year’s keynote speakers.
Posted 06/06/2019 10:40
On 24 April, Professor Maria Evandrou, CPC Co-Director, chaired a research dissemination workshop at the charity AgeUK in London for the ESRC project on ‘Informal carers in mid-life’. The project was funded under the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative and led by Professor Athina Vlachantoni with Dr Ning Wang, Dr Zhixin Frank Feng and Professor Jane Falkingham. Journal articles are being prepared to be submitted.
Posted 06/06/2019 10:29
Members of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology were well represented at a meeting with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at the University of Southampton on 22 May. The meeting, arranged by Public Policy|Southampton, saw 17 policymakers from the DWP attend to hear how researchers from across the Social Sciences at the University contribute to the DWP’s Areas of Research Interest.
Posted 31/05/2019 10:51
Daniele Vignoli gave a CPC seminar on 16 May 2019 on his study exploring macro- and micro-level evidence on the relation between economic uncertainty and fertility.
Posted 25/04/2019 12:21
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham OBE, was in London today (25 April) to chair a seminar launching the House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision report on ‘Tackling intergenerational unfairness’.
Posted 25/04/2019 11:57
The term ‘female breadwinner’ conjures images of power-dressing corporate businesswomen who are bucking traditional gender norms to ‘have it all’. However, high-earning women make up only a small proportion of female breadwinners, the majority of which tend to work less hours than their male counterparts do, and are less likely to be in managerial positions.
Posted 12/04/2019 13:28
PAA is a large gathering of international researchers – and a large gathering means a lot of organisation is required! Two CPC staff members, Ann Berrington and Brienna Perelli-Harris have been working hard to ensure that PAA 2019 is a success. The call for submissions covered 11 topics representing a diverse range of research. This resulted in the 151 session organisers reviewing almost 4,000 submissions (that’s 150 submissions per organiser!). View the online programme.
Posted 08/04/2019 11:23
Congratulations to CPC member Ann Berrington who has been appointed to the ESRC Strategic Advisory Network (SAN).
Posted 08/04/2019 11:09
Corrado Giulietti gave the CPC seminar on 4 April 2019 on his study exploring the impact of local-level immigration on the location choices of UK-born residents.
Posted 29/03/2019 14:11
Nicholas Campisi is a St. Andrews-Max Planck funded PhD student researching spatial variation in urban-rural fertility patterns across Europe. He is supervised by Hill Kulu and Julia Mikolai at the University of St Andrews, Mikko Myrskylä, and Sebastian Klüsener at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Posted 29/03/2019 09:22
Nicolò Cavalli visited CPC on on 21 March 2019 to give a seminar on his study using Twitter data to study family change. This approach provides an innovative way to map the cultural footprints that underlie family change, updating the Goffmanian research project concerned with the presentation of self in everyday life to the “Internet era”.
Posted 28/03/2019 11:20
CPC members will be heading to Austin, Texas, for the Population Association of America (PAA) 2019 Annual Meeting between 10-13 April. The meeting brings together demographers, social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Since PAA’s first conference in 1930, much important research has been presented and discussed on topics ranging from migration to sexual reproductive health to race and gender issues.
Posted 12/03/2019 14:07
The Southampton Science & Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) - including Science & Engineering Day - is back for 2019 with more exciting hands-on activities, shows, demonstrations, talks and tours!
Posted 25/02/2019 11:07
The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) is now accepting papers for its 2019 conference, with a deadline of 29 April 2019.
Posted 15/02/2019 10:08
In 2019, the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) celebrates its 10th anniversary year. Since 2009, CPC researchers have been busy investigating society’s most critical questions about population change. Here, we take a look back at some of the highlights and achievements of the last 10 years.
Posted 14/02/2019 08:55
CPC is set to showcase its highly successful ‘How to get to 100’ exhibition on the international stage, as today marks the start of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
Posted 01/02/2019 10:56
CPC PhD student Francesco Rampazzo is using social media data to provide a clearer picture of the numbers of migrants in the UK. International migration to the UK has become a hot topic both in research and in the media, but there are still huge limitations on the availability of timely data for measuring migration. Detailed data on migrants’ characteristics are also much needed for producing accurate statistics and informing policy. Facebook is a nonrepresentative source of data for the whole population of a country, but it is a digital source updated in real time, with numerous possibilities to filter information.
Posted 01/02/2019 10:43
Forecasts of mortality provide vital information about our future population of elderly citizens, with implications for pension and health-care policy as well as for decisions made by private companies about life insurance and pensions. Fertility is a dynamic social process that is influenced by a range of economic and cultural factors. This complicates the process of forecasting future numbers of births, as the direction and magnitude of changes in fertility rates are consequently much less predictable than they are for death rates.
Posted 01/02/2019 10:27
Extending the work of CPC’s ‘Exchange between the generations’ strand, Professor Jane Falkingham has recently been appointed as Special Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness & Provision.
Posted 01/02/2019 09:24
Researchers Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Athina Vlachantoni and Zhixin Frank Feng have been exploring partnerships between individuals of different nationality in the UK against the background of an impending Brexit. The study, which uses data from the UK Census and Understanding Society, is also examining the association between the type of partnership and the preferences of respondents on whether the UK should remain in, or leave the European Union.
Posted 25/01/2019 13:19
CPC member David McCollum has published a blog post on the The UK in a Changing Europe analysis website. His post, ‘International students in Scotland, Brexit and beyond’ considers Scotland’s position in attracting and continuing to attract international students in the face of stiff competition, and the current climate of immigration policy, rhetoric and Brexit. It presents findings from a recent roundtable meeting, attended by representatives from key stakeholder organisations, which took place in Edinburgh at the end of 2018.
Posted 24/01/2019 13:11
CPC welcomed Dr Jonas Radl on 17 January 2019, who gave a seminar on the effects of the perceived sustainability of public pension systems on social policy preferences, with evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, Spain and the United States.
Posted 22/01/2019 16:36
CPC member Maria Evandrou is leading a Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarship programme for MSc Gerontology/ Global Ageing at the University of Southampton in 2019-20.
Posted 22/01/2019 11:27
CPC welcomed Dr Anna Rotkirch on 23 November 2018, who gave a seminar on why older people fall in love.
Posted 22/01/2019 10:59
A feature article on Albert Sabater, Elspeth Graham and Nissa Finney's research has been published in the winter 2018 issue of ESRC Society Now magazine.
Posted 22/01/2019 10:07
CPC member, Professor Jackie Wahba, has been reappointed to the UK Home Office sponsored Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for a further two years until November 2020.
Posted 10/12/2018 13:06
CPC recently welcomed Julia Mikolai who gave a seminar on the connections between partner relationships, residential relocations and housing.
Posted 19/11/2018 10:27
New research published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies by CPC member Ann Berrington is exploring whether young people’s expectations of living together, marriage and parenthood differ by ethnic group, and whether the expectations of the UK second generation are becoming similar to those of their white British counterparts.
Posted 09/10/2018 13:55
CPC have issued a policy briefing to accompany a report published today on the findings from a survey of international students in the UK that compares their intentions to stay or leave the UK with their actual movements once they graduate.
Posted 02/10/2018 11:37
The Centre for Population Change, along with International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP), will be running a free workshop on the ‘Uncertainty and Complexity of Migration’ in London next month. The 2-day workshop will take place at the British Academy on 20 and 21 November and has been organised as a part of the ERC project on Bayesian Agent-Based Population Studies.
Posted 17/09/2018 13:25
We were delighted to attend the British Society of Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, at Winchester University, in September 2018.
Posted 14/09/2018 13:48
The ESRC Centre for Population Change is delighted to be collaborating on the latest lecture in the University of Southampton’s Distinguished Lecture series, which will be delivered by Lord Willetts, Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation and former Minister for Universities and Science.
Posted 07/09/2018 16:19
University of St Andrews, 15 and 16 November 2018
Posted 06/09/2018 16:22
Wednesday 11 July 2018 marks World Population Day, with this year's theme: “Family Planning is a Human Right”.
Posted 29/06/2018 09:39
Last week two members of CPC were promoted to the role of Professor at the University of Southampton. Dr Corrado Giulietti has been promoted to Professor of Economics and Dr Athina Vlachantoni has been promoted to Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy. Corrado has also been appointed as Head of Department for Economics.
Posted 26/06/2018 11:47
CPC recently welcomed Dr Christian Dudel who gave a seminar proposing a general framework for the estimation of pension adequacy standards.
Posted 29/05/2018 14:07
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, was announced as President of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) following recent Council elections.
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 22/03/2018 10:45
CPC was 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 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 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 24/01/2018 11:09
CPC was delighted that Professor Jonathan Portes gave our January Seminar.
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 23/10/2017 11:11
25 October 2017 - CPC's Dr David McCollum will be part of the Brexit means?...for peace and security roundtable conversation that will discuss 'Immigration and Britain', 'Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice', 'Northern Ireland and the Border' and 'Scotland and Indyref' taking place the the Byre Theatre.
Posted 06/10/2017 12:20
8-9 November 2017 - CPC will open its first Festival of Social Science public engagement events organised in collaboration with other Southampton ESRC funded Research Centres: the Administrative Research Data Centre - England (ADRC-E), National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the University of Southampton Public Engagement with Research team. An invitation is extended to all, to attend two evenings of informal and interactive talks designed to educate and celebrate Social Science. Two nights, two questions:
Posted 03/10/2017 11:43
4 October 2017 - Dr Agnese Vitali gave a keynote speech at the 'Momketing: new moms, new marketing' Conference in Milan.
Posted 03/10/2017 10:15
14 November 2017 - CPC's Director Professor Jane Falkingham has been invited to Chair the demography session 'Small area denominators and confounders' at the Big Data, Small Area Symposium at The Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London.
Posted 18/09/2017 11:37
29 October - 4 November 2017 - CPC is delighted to be part of the 28th International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference taking place in Cape Town, South Africa.
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 15/09/2017 11:10
CPC's Professor David Bell presented the opening keynote speech 'If you build it, they will come' on Wednesday 11 October at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2017 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Stirling.
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 29/08/2017 16:56
31 August - 1 September 2017 - CPC shared our interactive 'Migration' themed exhibition with visitors to Bournemouth Air Festival as part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow
Posted 29/08/2017 15:07
6 - 8 September 2017 - CPC were delighted to share papers at the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Annual Conference 2017 which was held at the University of Liverpool.
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 02/08/2017 12:10
3 - 6 August 2017 - CPC was delighted to have joined BBC Countryfile presenters, the National Trust Theatre and a full programme of exciting exhibitors and talks to share our interactive 'Migration-themed' exhibition with visitors of BBC Countryfile Live in Oxford as part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow.
Posted 27/06/2017 10:47
11 July 2017 - A special session on comparative research using harmonised fertility and partnership history data took place from 15:30 - 17:30 on Tuesday 11 July at the Understanding Society UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) biennial research conference at the University of Essex.
Posted 21/06/2017 17:11
29 - 30 July 2017 - CPC was excited to share our interactive and educational 'Migration-themed' exhibition with visitors of Winchester Science Festival as part of the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow. Using engaging activities including a giant connect four game, the CPC exhibition shared world leading social science research in a fun, easy to understand and accessible way to help tackle public misconceptions about Brexit and EU migrants.
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.
Posted 19/06/2017 12:08
CPC's Dr Agnese Vitali and Dr Bruno Arpino of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra request papers for their ESS ERIC Academic Publishing Workshop: Going beyond the country: Exploring sub-national effects on socio-demographic phenomina with European Social Survey data, that will be held from 18 - 19 January 2018 at the University of Southampton.
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 19/05/2017 12:32
22 - 23 May - CPC was delighted to welcome attendees of the Third Workshop on the Economics of Migration to Southampton in May.
Posted 19/05/2017 11:01
11 - 13 July 2017 - CPC presented a broad selection of fascinating research findings as part of the Understanding Society Conference which was held at the University of Essex in July.
Posted 15/05/2017 12:19
The Centre for Population Change was delighted to sponsor the 25th Annual Postgraduate Population Studies Conference (PopFest), that took place at Stockholm University from 31 May - 2 June 2017.
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 02/05/2017 15:25
4 May 2017 - CPC are delighted to present a new Brexit exhibition for the 2017 University of Southampton 'Bringing Research to Life' Roadshow. Using bespoke interactive activities such as giant puzzles and question games, the CPC exhibition will share world leading social science research in a fun, easy to understand and accessible way to help tackle public misconceptions about Brexit and EU migrants.
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 24/04/2017 11:42
25 April 2017 - CPC's Dr Jakub Bijak presented his research in a University of Liverpool Seminar on the topic of '(Population and Spatial Analysis) - Migration, demography and Bayesian statistics'.
Posted 24/04/2017 10:23
24 April 2017 - CPC was delighted to host a policy roundtable event: 'Tales of Migration', in collaboration with Public Policy Southampton, The UK in a Changing Europe and Hilary Benn MP at the Palace of Westminster.
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 17:02
27-29 April 2017 - CPC colleagues were delighted to present nine research titles at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting.
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 31/03/2017 15:57
CPC were delighted to have attended the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference which took place at the University of Manchester from the 4 - 6 April 2017.
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 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 24/02/2017 12:04
1 March 2017 - What is a Millennial and how different are they? 'Millennials', also referred to as 'Generation Y', are typically defined as the demographic cohort born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. Industry and academia are keen to develop strategies to understand them, their motivations and how they are different to the 'Generation X' and 'Babyboomers' cohorts that they follow.
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 22/02/2017 12:37
27 - 28 March 2017 - CPC's Professor Traute Meyer presented a paper on 'Democracies, economies and social protection: Understanding welfare state development in Asia and Europe' during a two day workshop in Taiwan.
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 03/02/2017 11:53
29 March 2017 - In a new collaboration with the Museums Association, CPC's Director Professor Jane Falkingham presented a keynote speech at an event to explore how our rapidly changing society will affect the relationship that museums have with audiences in the future.
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 25/01/2017 14:22
22 March 2017 - Seminar: Intergenerational relations in the context of changing family and household structures held at the Academy of Social Sciences, 33 Finsbury Square, London.
Posted 16/01/2017 09:36
31 March 2017 - Following the Brexit vote the future status and rights of EU citizens living in the UK has become uncertain. This, the third and final seminar in our series examining how to 'think sociologically' about Brexit, looked at the changing relationship between mobility and citizenship. We discussed mobility and naturalisation decision-making and the meaning of 'citizenship' in the context of social uncertainty.
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 13/12/2016 16:47
7 December 2016 - Single parents in the UK have been affected by cuts to welfare support, pressure to be in employment and obligations to pay high childcare costs. What is the real cost of benefit changes to those that rely on them, and how can risks and insecurity be mitigated in the future?
Posted 13/12/2016 14:01
1 December 2016 - Migration and fertility patterns are changing. What impact is this having on UK population growth? A Seminar organised by CPC with Dr Sylvie Dubuc of the University of Oxford explored the tangible effects of migration on UK population change.
Posted 07/12/2016 12:13
18 February 2017 - How have statistics been used in the arguments for Britain remaining in or leaving the EU? The 'Radstats 2017 Conference and AGM' at Edinburgh Central Quaker Meeting House, organised by Radical Statistics explored this question and others.
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 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 12/10/2016 17:52
14 October 2016 - Professor Traute Meyer was part of a panel of distinguished speakers debating the pension system at the National Conference for Justice in Pension Policies of the Green Party, Berlin.
Posted 12/10/2016 17:02
Professor Traute Meyer will be part of a panel of distinguished speakers debating 'What's in the pension system. Basic pension form taxes on retirement pension by allocation?' at 11.30am on Friday 14 October 2016 in the German Bundestag, Berlin.
Posted 28/09/2016 11:00
26 - 29 September 2016 - One in three children born in Europe today will live to reach 100, what does this mean for society, public policy and the life course of individuals? A CPC and Population Europe event organised in the European Parliament attempted to unpick some of the issues and think about how social policy might be shaped in the future to adapt to our changing lifespans.
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 19/09/2016 12:00
26 - 29 September 2016 - CPC has been working with Population Europe to take the popular 'How to get to 100 and enjoy it' exhibition to the European Parliament. The opening event took place on 26th September from 5:30pm, attendance was free and open to all.
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 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 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 02/08/2016 17:24
12 - 14 September 2016 - Many CPC members contributed to this year's British Society of Population Studies Conference (BSPS) conference at the University of Winchester.
Posted 25/07/2016 10:25
31 August - 3 September 2016 - CPC members were busy preparing presentations, posters and the exhibition booth for this year's European Population Conference (EPC). The conference was hosted at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Twenty-six presentations from CPC members paid special attention to this year's theme 'Demographic change and policy implications'.
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 15/07/2016 18:00
18-22 July 2016 - Findings from HIV studies and intervention trials involving CPC researchers were presented at The 21st International AIDS Conference, which took place in Durban, South Africa. Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and Ban Ki-moon were among those speaking at the conference which had the theme 'Access Equity Rights Now'. Over 18,000 delegates from around the world listened as Scientists, NGOs, world leaders, policy makers and people living with HIV shared new findings and experiences in order to improve the health and wellbeing of around 36.7 million people living with HIV worldwide.
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 04/07/2016 13:42
5-6 July 2016 - CPC was delighted to host the second workshop of the International Network on Transnational Families at the University of St Andrews.
Posted 30/06/2016 14:51
4 - 6 July 2016 - CPC continued to support the annual PopFest Conference by providing additional funding to the organisers and supporting student attendance.
Posted 24/06/2016 15:56
27 - 28 June 2016 - Derek McGhee, Chris Moreh and Emilia Pietka-Nykaza were delighted to be presenting their latest research at the 'Political Citizenship and Social Movements' conference.
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 16/06/2016 15:14
For further reading and a more in-depth look at the research projects, please have a look through our briefing papers.
Posted 16/06/2016 15:10
We held two events in Westminster on 10 May. The morning event saw the CPC research teams present their interim findings to an audience of policy-makers, academics, charity workers and journalists, followed by questions and discussion which will feed into their continuing research. Videos of the presentations can be seen on our YouTube channel:
Posted 16/06/2016 15:02
Interim findings from the projects have been discussed in more depth through four blog posts:
Posted 16/06/2016 14:57
Mapping the characteristics of the EU population in the UK
Posted 16/06/2016 14:54
In the lead up to next week's EU referendum, researchers at the Centre for Population Change (CPC) have been uncovering the characteristics of the EU population in the UK, investigating EU migrants' attitudes to potential changes resulting from the referendum, and examining their welfare entitlements in the context of changing social policies. This work forms part of an overall project, 'The UK in a changing Europe', which aims to provide an independent source of information and insight about UK-EU relations ahead of the referendum. With only a week to go, we have included information about all CPC research and activities relating to the EU referendum below, and we hope that you will find our blog posts, videos and briefing papers helpful in making your decision next Thursday 23 June.
Continue ReadingPosted 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 31/05/2016 17:27
17 June 2016 - A one day seminar hosted at the University of Southampton looked at the potential consequences of the EU Referendum from a sociological point of view. With keynote speeches by Professor Adrian Favell (University of Leeds) and Dr Michaela Benson (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Posted 31/05/2016 11:38
14-16 April 2016 - Since the EU's pledge to remove obstacles to migration in 1957 movement of labour within the EU has increased. During the last 60 years this has generally been viewed as beneficial in the social science literature. Migrants have become better off as a result of moving, the countries they have moved to have benefited from increased productivity while their home countries have seen reduced spending on social policies and benefit from money sent from those abroad to relatives still living in the country. However, after years of increased migration from Eastern and most recently Southern Europe, in 2015 governments in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria are discussing plans to restrict EU migrants' welfare entitlements. The Court of Justice of the European Union has recently taken a more restricting approach in recent judgements, confirming to the member states that they can deny EU citizens access to special non-contributory benefits.
Posted 17/03/2016 13:17
EU citizens living in the United Kingdom do not have a right to vote in the referendum on EU membership. Yet the outcome of Britain's renegotiation of its terms of membership and the referendum will affect them most directly.
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 18/01/2016 17:08
Dr Agnese Vitali has won a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant. Dr Vitali's research will investigate the prevalence of female-breadwinner families (families in which women are the sole or main income provider) in Europe. Despite the increase of female-breadwinner families in developed countries, little is known about who these couples are, how and why they emerge, and what trends in female breadwinning mean for women, men and children.
Posted 08/01/2016 14:03
There are many factors which affect a person's choice to migrate to a different country and many other factors which affect their life after they arrive. The reasons for migrating have been well documented, including more buoyant labour markets and more flexible housing tenures, but what do these benefits lead to in terms of lifestyle? Do migrants take longer to 'settle down' due to their new found freedom living away from their existing family support structures?
Posted 30/11/2015 16:09
The ESRC has published their annual 'Britain in' magazine, including two articles by CPC Members.
Posted 30/11/2015 13:38
Population Europe have launched a new blog 'Population & Policy Bites', with the first post written by CPC Member Jakub Bijak.
Posted 18/11/2015 16:05
'Changing Determinants of Low Fertility and Diffusion: a Spatial Analysis for Italy' looks at Italy as a case study in lowest-low fertility and how its internal heterogeneity is substantial and changing over time; contributing to bringing space back into the analyses of fertility behaviours. The work suggests that the theoretical framework offered by the diffusionist perspective to fertility transition could still be relevant in explaining fertility changes in contemporary advanced societies.
Posted 26/10/2015 12:24
In the UK about one in three women in cohabiting or married couples earned more than 50% of their household income in 2010, according to the Family Resources Survey, up from one in ten in 1980.
Posted 21/10/2015 12:23
New work by CPC members investigates the influence of women's education on the timing and number of children they have, and how these relationships have changed over time. The findings show that the average age of entry into motherhood has increased for all groups. However, the change has been most pronounced for those with advanced ('A' level) or Degree qualifications.
Posted 13/10/2015 12:57
Migration is a global phenomenon and the UK is an important destination, as well as origin, for many migrants. In recent years, migration has become an important topic in the UK policy debate. Having accurate knowledge of actual and predicted migration flows can be very useful for the planning and implementation of new policy tools and instruments, so what is the best way to forecast international migration?
Posted 07/10/2015 09:00
CPC Member Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris, along with Professor Laura Bernardi, has edited a Special Collection of articles for the journal Demographic Research. Together, the papers present the findings from an ERC funded collaborative project, led by Dr Perelli-Harris, that endeavoured to better understand cohabitation and marriage in Europe and Australia through a series of standardised focus groups across 9 countries.
Posted 09/09/2015 07:57
CPC member Professor Asghar Zaidi's contribution to the 2015 edition of the HelpAge International Global AgeWatch Index, released on 9 September, has placed the work of the University of Southampton's Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) at the forefront of efforts to raise awareness about the rights and inclusion of older people in the post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Framework.
Posted 04/09/2015 10:04
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the English Life Tables No. 17 (ELT17) on 1 September 2015, using data prepared by the University of Southampton.
Posted 04/09/2015 09:32
CPC members Professor Derek McGhee and Dr Emila Piętka-Nykaza have recently had their article 'Stakeholder citizenship: the complexities of Polish migrants' citizenship attachments in the context of the Scottish independence referendum' published in the journal Citizenship Studies.
Posted 04/09/2015 13:02
CPC member, Dr Jakub Bijak, recently gave a talk as part of the Minnesota Population Center's seminar series, entitled 'Numbers in Court: Demographic Evidence in War-Crimes Trials'.
Posted 07/09/2015 09:43
Three CPC researchers, Agnese Vitali, Athina Vlachantoni, and Jakub Bijak, have recently been added to the Population Europe webcast series 'Population Europe Inter-Faces'. They are featured answering demographic questions on female breadwinners, work-life balance, and forecasting and projections, respectively.
Posted 14/09/2015 09:16
CPC members Professor David Bell and Dr Alasdair Rutherford have recently launched the University of Stirling-led Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) study, the first in Scotland to follow individuals and households through time.
Posted 31/03/2015 09:44
CPC and CRA members Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, MadelÃn Gómez León, James Robards and Athina Vlachantoni have prepared an evidence review on Local Government and the Demography of Ageing. This review forms part of the 'Need to Know' series, a joint commission by the Local Government Knowledge Navigator and the Local Government Association (LGA).
Posted 05/05/2015 12:02
CPC, along with the Centre for Research on Ageing and the Care Life Cycle Project were delighted to host a delegation of ageing specialists from China during on Monday 17 April 2015.
Posted 07/05/2015 11:02
CPC members Juliet Stone, Ann Berrington, Jeroen Spijker and John MacInnes contributed to winning posters at the Population Association of America 2015 conference in San Diego.
Posted 12/05/2015 11:51
CPC members, David McCollum and Allan Findlay have published an article in British Sociological Association journal: Work, Employment and Society.
Posted 14/05/2015 15:00
CPC member, Brienna Perelli-Harris has published an article in the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Posted 18/05/2015 13:36
CPC research just published in Demography provides a new, flexible platform for forecasting populations.
Posted 20/05/2015 12:01
The accepted manuscript addresses 'Informal caring in England and Wales' and was written by CPC members, James Robards, Athina Vlachantoni, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham.
Posted 22/05/2015 08:42
The General Household Survey (GHS) data were originally collected and compiled by the Office for National Statistics and made available by the UK Data Archive. CPC members Eva Beaujouan, Maire Nà Bhrolcháin, Ann Berrington and Jane Falkingham have worked to extract and harmonise the GHS data across annual rounds.
Posted 26/05/2015 12:33
The article entitled 'New Mobilities Across the Life Course: a Framework for Analysing Demographically Linked Drivers of Migration' was written by CPC members, David McCollum, Allan Findlay and Vernon Gayle, along with colleague Rory Coulter.
Posted 30/03/2015 16:38
CPC member, Agnese Vitali, along with colleagues Arnstein Aassve and Trude Lappegård, has published an online article in the journal Demography, entitled 'Diffusion of Childbearing Within Cohabitation'.
Posted 23/03/2015 09:02
CPC Director Professor Jane Falkingham is one of 33 leading social scientists to be conferred the award of Fellow by the Academy of Social Sciences.
Posted 20/03/2015 14:33
Dr Jakub Bijak was awarded the Allianz European Demographer Award 2015 for his outstanding contributions in the field of population studies on demographic change.
Posted 10/03/2015 11:37
Professor Jackie Wahba publishes an article in the evidence-based policy making section of IZA World of Labor.
Posted 02/02/2015 09:30
Professor Jane Falkingham contributes to Age International publication "Facing the facts: The truth about ageing and development"
Posted 13/01/2015 16:52
On Friday 16 January, the ESRC Centre for Population Change will be appearing on BBC Breakfast as part of their Living Longer series. The appearance is a climax of the highly popular UK tour of the 'How to get to 100 - and enjoy it' exhibition, which has seen CPC take cutting-edge demographic research to the public across the UK.
Posted 30/10/2014 14:41
30 October 2014 - CPC Researcher Professor Ann Berrington was involved in the launch of the 2014 Findings from Understanding Society at Westminster.
Posted 28/10/2014 09:57
CPC researchers Ann Berrington and Juliet Stone have contributed a chapter to a new edited volume, published by Palgrave Macmillan, providing one of the first in-depth analyses of youth as an important case for contemporary social policy.
Posted 27/09/2014 15:59
The ICSU (International Council for Science) has endorsed the Sustainable Deltas 2015 initiative (SD2015), which was launched on 26th September 2014 at the 'Deltas in Times of Climate Change II International Conference' in Rotterdam.
Posted 15/09/2014 18:00
CPC member, Nora Sánchez Gassen's latest book "Germany's future electors: Developments of the German electorate in times of demographic change" has now been published by Springer. In this book, Nora Sánchez Gassen analyses how demographic trends and electoral law have influenced the German electorate in the past and projects their future impact.
Posted 12/09/2014 14:16
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham considers this issue in the guardian.com in advance of the big ageing population debate, which took place on Thursday 11th September 2014.
Posted 03/09/2014 22:14
An interview with David McCollum was shown on BBC1 Scotland's Sunday Politics programme on Sunday 31st August at 11.30am. David spoke about the topic of immigration, focusing on Scotland's attempts to attract migrants to Scotland.
Continue Reading Posted 03/09/2014 21:27
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, CPC Co-Director, Professor Maria Evandrou and CPC member, Dr Athina Vlachantoni have contributed to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's anti-poverty strategy - Reducing poverty in the UK: a collection of evidence reviews.
Posted 14/05/2014 11:21
CPC now uses Scoop.it! to collect all of our media coverage. Scoop.it! is an online curation tool, allowing us to quickly add and share links to CPC research in the news.
Posted 15/09/2014 17:59
CPC member, http://www.cpc.ac.uk/people/research_fellows/#SanchezGassenNora">Nora Sánchez Gassen has published a book, in which she analyses how demographic trends and electoral law have influenced the German electorate in the past and projects their future impact.
Posted 14/01/2014 11:07
New CPC research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that the partnership experiences of those who are living alone in late mid-life can affect their psychological well-being.
Posted 17/03/2014 14:17
Sociology at the University of Southampton has moved up the QS World University Rankings from the 101-150 category in 2013, to the 51-100 category in 2014. This marks a rise for the second year running, with the subject area having moved up from 151-200 category in 2012.
Posted 21/01/2014 16:20
A new Office for National Statistics (ONS) report has used research by CPC members Professor Ann Berrington, Professor Jane Falkingham and Dr Juliet Stone to explore how more young adults are now living with their parents.
Posted 12/02/2014 09:52
New research has been looking at how migration to and from Scotland might change following independence and demonstrates the need for a more tailored approach to migration policies whatever the outcome of the independence referendum.
Posted 14/05/2014 11:08
CPC researcher, Dr Juliet Stone, has been quoted in a Times article about people in their twenties and thirties returning to live with their parents.
Posted 25/06/2014 15:22
New research from CPC has been examining how Local Authorities in Scotland plan for and respond to international migration. With the Scottish Government making it clear that it is keen to attract migrants to Scotland, this research looks at the Local Authorities' responses in terms of service provision and community integration. It has found that Local Authorities generally feel confident and better equipped to deal with immigration, however it has uncovered concerns that insufficient resources could limit their capacity to welcome migrants to their communities.
Posted 10/07/2014 14:01
Friday 11 July 2014 marks World Population Day, with this year's focus on investing in young people.
Posted 10/07/2014 10:39
CPC member, Dr Athina Vlachantoni, has published a blog post on Society Central which discusses her research aiming to understand the differences between and within ethnic groups in terms of occupational pension membership.
Posted 31/07/2014 10:34
CPC member, Dr Arkadiusz Wisniowski, has contributed an article to the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.
Posted 12/12/2013 11:35
CPC researcher, Dr Jakub Bijak, has been interviewed for the latest issue of Demographic Insights, a publication from the Population Europe Network.
Posted 11/12/2013 10:38
CPC research examining the timing of parental divorce and filial obligations to care for ageing parents has recently published in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies.
Posted 09/12/2013 15:28
CPC researcher, Dr Dieter Demey, has contributed a blog post to Understanding Society, examining the implications for people living alone in mid-life who may need family and financial support for their care in later life.
Posted 01/12/2015 12:31
In a new report for HEFCE - Investigating an age threshold for independence at postgraduate level; CPC members have investigated the age at which young adults might be treated as independent from their parents in terms of assessment of eligibility for postgraduate funding.
Posted 06/12/2013 10:33
CPC members, Dr Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham, have published a blog post for Pension Watch, examining the gender implications of the design and implementation of old age pension protection systems, taking into account women's increasingly diverse life courses in the context of changing demographic and socio-economic patterns in Asia, such as population ageing and women's participation in the informal labour market.
Posted 06/12/2013 10:21
CPC researchers Francesca Fiori, Elspeth Graham, and Zhiqiang Feng, have recently had an article entitled 'Geographical variations in fertility and transition to second and third birth in Britain' published in Advances in Life Course Research.
Posted 06/12/2013 10:09
CPC researcher, Professor John MacInnes, has recently had an article published in the BMJ entitled 'Population ageing: the timebomb that isn't?'.
Posted 21/11/2013 13:47
A recently published article in the journal Public Health by CPC member, Professor Sabu Padmadas, describes how recent demographic changes in the UK might influence future population caesarean rates within an informed choices service framework.
Posted 20/11/2013 12:21
Demotrends, a blog founded and edited by young researchers in the field of demography, including PhD students from across Europe, aims to connect researchers across topics, institutions, and countries. They are keen to hear from anyone who would like to get involved. You may like to write a one-off post (related to your general research interests), or a research spotlight (which allows you to advertise and discuss your current research). You may even be interested in becoming a regular contributor, and you don't need to be an established (or published) researcher to contribute.
Posted 14/11/2013 14:46
Professor Asghar Zaidi was an invited expert for the 2nd WHO consultation on developing indicators for age-friendly cities, held in Quebec City, with contributions being included from his recent work on the active ageing index and the global AgeWatch index.
Posted 20/11/2013 12:01
A report by CPC member, Professor David Bell, has been examining the level of income inequality in Scotland, and how it compares to the rest of the UK, and to other OECD countries.
Posted 01/11/2013 14:43
What impact has demographic change had on poverty in the UK in the past? What will be the likely future demographic changes and impacts and which groups are most vulnerable? From an anti-poverty perspective, what are the biggest challenges and opportunities presented by demographic change? And how could anti-poverty strategies be informed by experiences of other countries which have seen demographic shifts? These are some of the questions a new review being carried out by CPC researchers Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou and Athina Vlchantoni will aim to answer.
Posted 11/11/2013 14:16
New research undertaken by researchers from the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) at the University of Southampton has found that turning-points in young adults' lives, such as leaving full-time education, unemployment or a relationship break-up, are significant in whether or not they return to the parental home.
Posted 05/11/2013 11:43
A World Health Organisation (WHO) review, examining social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European region, has just published. This landmark review is the result of over two years of research by a cross-disciplinary consortium of Europe's leading experts, chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
Posted 14/10/2013 11:00
Professor Peter Smith, CPC researcher and Director of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, is leading a consortium that has been awarded £7.6 million to help launch and run a project to give access to government data for academic research.
Posted 30/05/2013 14:18
The journal Population, Space and Place has just published its November/December issue, a special edition featuring articles on Migration and Demographic Change from a number of CPC members.
Posted 01/10/2013 10:06
A professor affiliated with CPC who is working with HelpAge International and an international expert group has developed the Global AgeWatch Index to help highlight the varying quality of life and wellbeing that older people experience in countries around the world.
Posted 26/09/2013 09:28
The Centre for Population Change has been successful in gaining renewed core funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to support a second phase of its research, it has been announced.
Posted 23/09/2013 15:41
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, has been appointed Vice-President of the British Society of Population Studies (BSPS), succeeding Professor Tony Champion.
Posted 17/09/2013 11:01
Two major projects analysing migration to and from Scotland have been launched today (18 September) by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to inform the referendum debate.
Posted 16/09/2013 16:08
New research published in Population and Development Review examines cohabitation in relation to education. It has found that, in Britain, the relationship between the two seems to be reinstating longstanding social patterns usually associated with marriage.
Posted 11/09/2013 13:54
A new paper examining the association between care-giving/receiving and the health and wellbeing of people aged 50 and over in rural South Africa has been published in the journal 'Ageing and Society'. CPC colleagues have worked with researchers at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, to assess the relationship between care-giving and/or care-receiving with functional disability, quality of life/emotional wellbeing, and self-rated health status while adjusting for socio-demographic factors.
Posted 04/09/2013 11:36
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, was invited to comment on the shortage of places facing many schools in coming years.
Posted 04/09/2013 11:08
CPC researcher, Dr Jakub Bijak, was interviewed on BBC Radio Solent on 3 September about the demographic changes affecting Syria as a result of its worsening refugee crisis.
Posted 03/09/2013 13:13
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, was interviewed on BBC R4's Today programme on 3 September, about the future of the Census in light of the Office for National Statistics' consultation: 'Options for the Future of the Census in England and Wales'.
Posted 04/09/2013 15:08
Centre for Population Change (CPC) and Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) researchers, Professor Jane Falkingham and Dr Athina Vlachantoni, have contributed two 'one-pager' papers to the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG).
Posted 07/11/2013 16:23
14 November 2013 - A seminar hosted by the Academy of Social Sciences International Advisory Group addressed questions such as what evidence underpins social policy promoting active and healthy ageing in countries experiencing longevity gains, and how benefits of this strategy can be sustained, be participated in and shared by wider segments of our societies. What policies have worked in the past and what ones haven't? Under what conditions might such policies be implemented in the UK?
Posted 28/10/2013 14:32
19 November 2013 - The Home Office Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) hosted a partner forum with the Centre for Population Change.
Posted 21/08/2013 10:16
In 2012 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) commissioned CPC researcher, Dr Jakub Bijak, to carry out a review of the methodology used in setting migration assumptions for the national population projections and to make recommendations for future methods.
Posted 12/08/2013 10:49
CPC Director, Jane Falkingham, contributed to an article in the Financial Times on the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) annual midyear population estimates.
Posted 11/07/2013 10:39
Thursday 11 July 2013 marks World Population Day, with this year's focus on adolescent pregnancy. To mark this, CPC has released its latest Briefing Paper, 'Longer time spent in education means starting families later in life' which raises the idea that policies aiming to increase educational enrolment rates could potentially have an impact in reducing teenage fertility rates.
Posted 01/07/2013 11:06
CPC is pleased to announce the launch of a new database created to provide tables of migration flows among countries in the European Union and European Free Trade Association, as well as to and from the rest of the world.
Posted 01/08/2013 14:11
The HIV epidemic is still evolving in many countries and some low- and middle-income countries are confronted with multiple challenges in HIV prevention and management. Using the theory and concepts of health promotion developed by the WHO, The Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton, Professor Don Nutbeam, with associates from CPC, members of the EPSRC Care Life Cycle and others, have developed a new framework to evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention and control. The new logic model provides an operational tool for policy-makers and public health practitioners engaged in HIV intervention programmes. It can be used to examine interventions that may be ideal alongside what is achievable in a given context. It can also be used to identify what needs more attention or what may be missing from an intervention. Read more.
Continue Reading Posted 26/04/2013 10:58
On 24 April, CPC researcher Dr Paulina Trevena, was part of a Channel 4 News discussion on immigration in Southampton.
Posted 25/02/2013 10:05
CPC has published a brochure detailing its research activity and highlights 2009 - 2013.
Posted 19/03/2013 10:33
An article in The Economist has highlighted CPC research, looking at how family life has changed in recent years.
Posted 11/03/2013 14:25
CPC research undertaken by Professor Derek McGhee, Professor Sue Heath, and Dr Paulina Trevena has published in the journal Families, Relationships and Society.
Posted 08/03/2013 10:05
CPC research undertaken by Dr Juliet Stone, Professor Maria Evandrou and Professor Jane Falkingham has published in the journal Age and Ageing.
Posted 08/03/2013 14:59
CPC research has found that it is not only important to contemplate the increase of people living alone in middle-age, but also the reasons why people are living alone in middle-age. Changes in family life, highlighted by the Office for National Statistics release on the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey, such as decreasing marriage and increasing cohabitation, imply that the past family experiences of those living alone in mid-life will be very diverse.
Posted 08/03/2013 10:28
CPC research undertaken by Professor Derek McGhee, Professor Sue Heath and Dr Paulina Trevena has published in the journal Environment and Planning.
Posted 27/02/2013 15:40
CPC research undertaken by Professor Sue Heath and Dr Emma Calvert has published in the journal Sociology.
Posted 14/02/2013 11:29
As part of the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, Dr Ann Berrington has been awarded funding to examine 'Young Adulthood: aspirations and realities for living and learning in the 21st Century'.
Posted 14/02/2013 16:35
CPC researchers have been successful in their application to take part in an Office for National Statistics (ONS) scheme to beta test 2011 Census data in the ONS Longitudinal Study.
Posted 14/02/2013 12:36
Dr Aravinda Meera Guntupalli from the Centre for Research on Ageing and CPC researcher, Dr Athina Vlachantoni, have recently won Policy Commission funding from Public Policy@Southampton to examine patterns of fuel poverty and food poverty among older people (those aged 60 and above) in the UK, with a view to contributing to the policy-relevant debate on the choice faced by vulnerable older persons between heating their home and eating nutritious and regular meals.
Posted 30/01/2013 15:04
CPC would like to welcome Mike Daly, from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), as a new member of the CPC advisory board.
Posted 22/02/2013 15:03
CPC researcher, Professor John Knowles, has created a YouTube video explaining 'An economic model of unmarried births' for his paper 'Can technological change account for the sexual revolution?'.
Posted 21/01/2013 14:54
A policy brief written for the Dubai School of Government by University of Southampton PhD student, Sylvia Szabo, has recently been translated into Arabic, extending the reach of population research undertaken at CPC's base institution.
Posted 03/01/2013 15:28
Professor Jackline Wahba has been appointed as a Non-Executive Board Member of the Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). The appointment was made by the Home Office in compliance with the rules set out by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments and run from December 2012 for three years.
Posted 17/12/2012 11:57
The results of the 2011 Census published on Tuesday 11 December have highlighted that over the last ten years the population of England and Wales has both become larger and more diverse. The total population has grown by 7 per cent, from 52.4 million in 2001 to 56.1 million in 2011, up 3.7 million.
Posted 09/01/2013 12:33
CPC researcher, Professor David Bell, has been awarded funding by the ESRC to provide evidence on the 'Fiscal aspects of constitutional change' for the upcoming referendum on Scottish Independence.
Posted 19/11/2012 11:12
As part of the ESRC's Future of Scotland Project, CPC have been successful in bidding for additional funding for a new programme of work that is directly relevant to the overall Future of Scotland Project's aims.
Posted 19/11/2012 10:44
A study carried out by researchers from CPC, S3RI and the Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy has shown that, among women with 'low-risk' pregnancies, those who intend to give birth in hospital are significantly more likely to experience a postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) than those who intend to give birth at home.
Posted 13/11/2012 15:37
CPC is shortly due to start working alongside another ESRC-funded research centre, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), based at the University of Oxford.
Posted 15/10/2012 16:32
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, appeared on the BBC World Service More Or Less programme, 'Predicting the global population', on 13 October 2012.
Posted 12/10/2012 10:54
An article in The Economist has highlighted CPC research by Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone and Jane Falkingham, looking at the 'boomerang' generation.
Posted 10/10/2012 14:06
As part of the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, Dr Athina Vlachantoni has been awarded a research grant to undertake the project 'Pension protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications'.
Posted 09/10/2012 14:23
An ageing world demands wiser policies, says a new report published by the UN on ageing populations, with the population of over-60-year-olds to reach one billion within the decade.
Posted 20/09/2012 17:29
Professor Eslpeth Graham, co-Director of CPC, gave evidence on 'Demography and our ageing population' at Holyrood's Finance Committee on 19 September.
Posted 13/09/2012 10:56
A study carried out by CPC researchers has shown that women are having children later in life mainly because they are spending longer in education. The research by Professor Maire Ni Bhrolchain and Dr Eva Beaujouan, published in Population Studies, reveals that finishing full-time education and training at an older average age is the main reason why people are having their first child later in life - both in Britain and in France.
Posted 01/10/2012 14:40
CPC Director, Professor Jane Falkingham, attended the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Ministerial Conference on Ageing in September 2012.
Posted 19/07/2012 14:47
The Office for National Statistics estimates the population of England and Wales on Census day 2011 at 56.1 million. The first output from the 2011 census shows that the population of England and Wales increased by 3.7 million between 2001 and 2011. This is the largest increase between censuses since the first census in 1801.
Posted 19/07/2012 16:16
Our Annual Report provides information on all our activities during the previous financial year. The report is submitted to our funders the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) every March for assessment.
Posted 13/07/2012 15:15
The European Population Conference (EPC) is a bi-annual conference organised by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). EAPS is an international and multidisciplinary forum for population studies with a special focus on Europe.
Posted 10/05/2012 14:57
Though the post-accession migration wave from Poland to the UK was initially seen as transient, a clear trend towards settlement and family formation has by now been acknowledged. One of the signifiers of the settlement process is the considerable increase in numbers of Polish children in British schools (DCSF 2007). CPC research published in a new COMPAS Breakfast Briefing explores the issues related to schooling and how these impact on the integration of Polish families and their future migration decisions.
Posted 30/03/2012 15:03
In the UK, annual population and migration statistics are produced to meet a diverse range of requirements relating to resource allocation, policy making, local service provision, commerce and research. They provide information on how populations are changing over time, which is influenced by wider social, cultural and natural environments.
Posted 27/03/2012 15:15
A study of of older people living in Central Asia and the Caucasus finds that substantial number live in poverty and experience economic hardship.
Posted 23/03/2012 10:36
Sociologists and economists have traditionally taken different perspectives on studying phenomena such as migration; in the past sociologists have focused on the social/political consequences of migration while economists traditionally focused on the factors driving migration.
Posted 25/01/2012 11:36
The question of 'how climate change will impact on migration' is currently at the forefront of the UK Governments agenda, leading to the commissioning of a two year study that was published in October. The Migration and Global Environmental Change report, published by Forsight, draws on evidence produced by experts to understand how profound changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years.
Posted 07/12/2011 15:49
The Registrar General's Annual Review of Demographic Trends 156th Edition was published recently by the Office for National Statistics. CPC co-Director Elspeth Graham, along with colleagues David Manley, David McCollum, Frank Popham and Maarten van Ham contributed a chapter entitled 'Scotland's Census as a Research Resource' which showcased two pieces of CPC research that would not have been able to take place without the Scottish census data.
Posted 08/07/2011 13:13
We are pleased to announce The ESRC Centre for Population Change's first Briefing Paper investigating the question 'Does unemployment cause return migration' has now been published, please click here. We do hope you will find this interesting.
Posted 27/09/2011 10:12
More young adults in the UK are living with their parents or are living outside a family compared with 10 years ago, investigators have found. Changes in education and work appear to play a key role in these trends, says the research team.
Posted 22/09/2011 10:41
The latest version of the quarterly journal Population Trends published by the Office for National Statistics has been published today. This special issue produced in association with the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), a joint initiative between the University of Southampton and a consortium of Scottish universities, contains seven articles authored by researchers in CPC;
Posted 22/09/2011 11:00
New research from CPC suggests that over the last 25 years the lives of British men and women in mid-life have become more varied.
Posted 22/09/2011 11:09
New research investigates older people's need for social care, finding that that there is a significant level of 'unmet need' among older people for help with certain activities.
Posted 22/09/2011 11:46
A substantial proportion of contemporary immigration to Britain is by nationals of east and central European countries who have recently joined the EU. A study carried out by CPC published this week in the Office for National Statistics publication 'Population Trends' finds that the recession has seen significant changes in the concentration of 'A8' migrant labour in particular parts of the labour market. This interesting feature merits research at a time when UK unemployment rates are high and when the economy is struggling to recover from recession.
Posted 22/09/2011 12:03
The Civil Partnership Act which came into force in December 2005 allowed same-sex couples in the UK to register their relationship for the first time. New joint research by researchers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), published in the current issue of Population Trends, highlights key trends in attitudes towards same-sex partnerships in Britain and examines the characteristics of those entering civil partnerships between 2005 and 2010. The researchers found that the majority of British people now accept same-sex couples as being "rarely wrong" or "not wrong at all", although there remain differences in attitudes towards same-sex partnerships by age and gender. Registration statistics for England and Wales suggest that same-sex civil partnerships are increasingly being taken up by women and at an earlier age. Comparison of civil partnerships with marriages suggests that, on average, men and women are older when they enter a civil partnership and that there are more likely to be greater age differences between the partners entering a civil partnership than for marriage.
Posted 20/09/2011 15:41
In 2011, PopFest was held for the 19th time and for the first time in its history took place outside the UK. The conference was held at the Population Research Centre of the University of Groningen (RUG), the Netherlands, from 27th to 29th June. PopFest is an annual population studies conference organized by postgraduate students to fellow postgraduates. The 37 presenters and the couple of non-presenting participants came from various universities of different European as well as non-European countries. About one third of the attendees were students in the universities of the United Kingdom, while another third were students in the Netherlands, and the rest represented various institutions across the world. Most distant participants came from the universities of Israel, Australia, and the United States.
Posted 09/09/2011 09:24
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first Factsheet from the ESRC Centre for Population Change. Providing an overview of Fertility trends in Scotland between 2000 and 2010, the factsheet can be viewed by clicking here.
Continue Reading Posted 05/07/2011 11:34
The population of the UK was 62.3 million in mid-2010, up 470,000 (0.8 per cent) on the previous year; the highest annual growth rate since mid-1962 reveals the Office for National Statistics.
Posted 26/07/2011 14:56
What has been the European experience of low fertility, how has African fertility declined, what is the future for low fertility and what is optimal fertility? These are just some of the questions addressed at a seminar on post-transitional fertility in developing countries held at the University of Portsmouth on the 20th -21st July 2011.
Posted 03/03/2011 13:29
Using The Special Licence Quarterly Labour Force Survey Corrado Giulietti, Christian Schluter and Jackie Wahba have been investigating the question 'Does it pay for immigrants to use social networks?'
Posted 15/07/2011 16:46
Circular and return migration between urban and rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa is not a new phenomenon, however the majority of previous research has focused on labour migration. Rather than focussing on migration among people of working age, this new research from the ESRC Centre for Population Change and the Centre for Research on Ageing, explores the determinants of migration in older age groups, recognising that old age also marks a stage in the life course associated with migration.
Posted 24/05/2011 14:54
It is commonly thought that those living in urban areas of lower income countries have better health than those in rural areas - known as the 'urban advantage'. A new study carried out by Nyovani Madise (University of Southampton) with Philippe Bocquier (Université Catholique do Louvain) and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu (African Institute for Development Policy) calls into question this advantage.
Posted 04/05/2011 16:19
Of those alive in 2011 over 11 million will live to see their 100th birthday, a new report by the Department for Work and pensions predicts. Of these, almost 1million are at or over the age 65. Furthermore, 1.4m are currently aged between 51-65.
Posted 28/01/2011 13:30
New research by Tom Sefton with CPC's co-directors Jane Falkingham and Maria Evandrou examines the relationship between UK women's family and work histories and their income in later life.
Posted 11/02/2011 15:57
Prof. Maire Ni Bhrolchain and Dr Eva Beaujouan took their work on uncertainty in fertility intentions to a conference in Vienna in December. The conference, 'From Intentions to Behaviour: Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective,' was organised by the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences which is coordinator of the REPRO project ("Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective"), funded within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The REPRO project is investigating the relationship between reproductive decision-making, childbearing behaviour, and fertility trends. The conference brought together people working in this area from both Europe and the United States.
Posted 16/02/2011 15:36
CPC Researcher Serena Pattaro was selected from a highly talented group of researchers to present her research at this year's ECSR Conference in Bamberg. The conference, that took place in October 2010, brought together 96 researchers for a three day event on 'Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence'.
Posted 17/12/2010 12:07
The annual Population Studies conference for postgraduate students, PopFest, will for the first time in its history be held outside of the UK.
Posted 26/11/2010 11:25
CPC researchers, led by Professor Jane Falkingham, have been involved in adding to the evidence on the future requirements of older people with high support needs in the UK. The work, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, provides an overview of existing knowledge on demographic issues and trends and makes conclusions with reference to likely future trends. The work feeds into the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's 'A Better Life' research programme which focuses on improving the quality of life of those in this group in the future.
Posted 26/11/2010 13:51
Dr Jakub Bijak has just published a book which looks at forecasting international migration from a Bayesian statistical perspective. The book addresses the need for reliable methods of predicting future migration, offers a solution for dealing with the forecasting uncertainty, and suggests the ways, in which the results may be relevant to the end user. The book, entitled Forecasting International Migration in Europe: A Bayesian View, is available now from Springer.
Continue Reading Posted 23/09/2010 10:52
Five papers by CPC researchers have been included in the Autumn 2010 issue of Population Trends.They were chosen to showcase both the range of research topics and the variety of datasets being used within the Centre.
Posted 30/07/2010 10:47
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable has announced the appointment of Professor Paul Boyle as Chief Executive and Deputy Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Announcing the appointment the Secretary of State said: "I would like to welcome Professor Boyle as the new Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council. He has an excellent academic and research background and will be a great asset to the Council. The ESRC is the leading funder of research and postgraduate training in social sciences in the UK. Our quality of life and the economic and social well-being of the UK are two of the priority issues addressed by ESRC's highly regarded research and training activities."
Posted 08/07/2010 11:52
Demopaedia, the Wiki-Based Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, is now available online in 14 language modules at www.demopaedia.org.
Posted 26/11/2010 12:38
Dr Athina Vlachantoni was recently invited to comment on a BBC News Story concerning the Office for National Statistic's projections of median age. Athina noted that in a time of austerity the growing number of older people in the population could lead to greater pressure on services, however not all older people require council services moreover, one third of people over 65 currently provide care to another family member.
Posted 03/03/2011 14:51
A new policy brief written by leading European demographers including CPC Director Prof. Jane Falkingham adds to the debate on meeting the challenge of population ageing.
Posted 12/05/2010 15:57
Two members from the modelling strand of CPC took part in the Joint Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections in Lisbon, Portugal on the 28th to the 30th April 2010. Jakub Bijak contributed a presentation on uncertainty in international migration forecasts while Guy Abel discussed his work on Bayesian methods for population forecasting.
Posted 30/03/2010 14:19
Migration flow data informs policy makers, the media and academic community about the level and direction of population movements. However, reliable migration data for comparisons of international population flows between a set of countries are often lacking. Reported counts are commonly incomplete or produced to country specific data collection and measurement techniques. This results in inconsistencies when comparing countries estimates of the same migration flow.
Posted 30/03/2010 15:19
CPC researcher Dr Athina Vlachantoni has been getting involved in the ESRC initiative to make Social Science more accessible to children. Social Science for Schools is a new ESRC information portal that brings together Social Science resources in an easy to understand manner. Athina's thought provoking opinion piece discusses issues around old age, living longer and pension provision in order to encourage debate. Athina's think piece can be viewed here.
Continue Reading Posted 26/02/2010 11:23
In the age of increasing separation and repartnering have you ever wondered how fertility is affected? Do separations reduce fertility by preventing births? Or do they have the opposite effect, with second unions providing new opportunities for childbearing? To find out the answer read Eva Beaujouan's recent analysis of French data here
Posted 15/01/2010 12:05
CPC researcher Dr Eva Beaujouan has recently published 2 chapters in an edited collection of papers on the contemporary family. Eva's first study "Neither single, nor in a couple: A study of living apart together in France" addresses questions such as; How have non-cohabiting relationships evolved in recent decades? How can we recognise these relationships, and who are the populations concerned?
Posted 12/01/2010 17:12
the 'Independent review of methods for distributing international immigration estimates to regions' authored by CPC researcher, Dr Jakub Bijak, was published today by the Office for national Statistics.
Posted 08/12/2009 13:37
CPC's Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone and Jane Falkingham article on the changing living arrangements of young adults in the UK was published today (8/12/09)in the Office for National Statistics publication, Population Trends. The article examines changes over the past twenty years in the living arrangements of young men and women aged 16-34 years, and how the proportions living with their parents differ by geographical region, education and economic activity.
