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Advisory Board

The ESRC Centre for Population Change Advisory Board comprises of national and international academics and representatives of the user community, including national and local government and third sector users. Board members have been chosen for their knowledge, skills and experience. The purpose of the ESRC Centre for Population Change Advisory board is to provide advice, inform, support and make recommendations to the Centre Director's regarding the Centres management, direction, progress and budget. The Advisory Board meets twice a year.

The Advisory board members are;

Tim Allen (Chair)

Tim Allen is Programme Director for Analysis and Research at the Local Government Association (LGA). Prior to joining LGA, Tim headed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Rural Strategy and Research functions, worked in The Treasury on the 2002 Comprehensive Spending Review, headed Corporate Strategy, Research and Corporate Governance for the former Countryside Agency, and was Regional Director (East and West Midlands) for the Countryside Commission leading work on environmental regeneration. Earlier in his career, Tim led a number of pioneering experiments and programmes to ‘green’ agriculture, before which he worked as a property professional in public and private practice.  Tim is a Chartered Surveyor and a visiting professor at Birkbeck, London University.  Find out more about Tim here.

Prof Michael Anderson  

Michael Anderson is Hon. Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Edinburgh. He was Senior Vice-Principal of the University 2000-2007. In the past, Michael served on five different subject committees/boards of SSRC/ESRC and as a member of the ESRC Council, as well as the Council of the British Academy, the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Library Board. He is currently a member of the Research Information Network Advisory Board, of the Advisory Board for the National Statistics Centre for Demography and of the Research Strategic Advisory Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Chairman of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. He also created and chaired the joint funding councils' Research Support Libraries Programme. His current research interests include the sociology and history of forethought, Scottish population history and the recent demographic history of Scotland, and the social structure of nineteenth century Britain as seen through the censuses. Find out more about Michael here.

Carla Clifton

Carla Clifton is senior economist and Acting Joint Head of the Communities Analysis Division, Cohesion and Migration Directorate, Department of Communities and Local Government.  She previously worked in the Economics and Resource Analysis Group in the Home Office

Prof Jane Elliott 

Jane Elliott is Executive Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the Institute of Education. She is currently Acting Head of CLS and also leads the team responsible for developing the content, design and analysis of the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS70 studies. Her main research interests include gender and employment, women's careers, longitudinal research methodology and combining qualitative and quantitative research and narrative. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member of the Social Statistics Section Committee. Find out more about Jane here

Prof John Ermisch 

John Ermisch is Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex University. His research interests focus on the economics of the family; including intergenerational transfers, the economics of household formation and housing economics. He directs and undertakes research on interactions between demographic and economic behaviour. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Find out more about John here.

Prof Anne Gauthier

Anne Gauthier is Professor of Sociology and Comparative Family Policy in the Department of Social Demography at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). She obtained her D.Phil. in sociology from Oxford University in 1991 and has taught in various universities prior to joining the University of Calgary in 1999. Her current research interests lie in the comparative analysis of teenagers and young adults, the transition to adulthood, and family policies. Find out more about Anne here.

Kirsty MacLachlan

Kirsty MacLachlan is Head of Demography at the National Records of Scotland (NRS). Her responsibilities include the production of key demographic information on the people of Scotland and the maintenance of the NHS Central Register. Prior to joining GROS, Kirsty worked as a statistician in HM Inspectorate of Education. Previously she has worked as a lecturer in statistics at Napier University and as a statistician in various Scottish Government departments.

Sam Mold

Following a Master's degree in Mathematics Sam Mould joined the civil service as a Statistician and is currently Head of the Demography Unit in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Unit's purpose is to look at how demographic trends are going to affect the achievement of DWP objectives. As well as providing briefing and analysis on demographic issues, the team maintains the demographic modules in the Department's dynamic microsimulation models, and produce aggregate projections of lone parents and disability/healthy life expectancy.

Prof Judith Phillips

Professor Judith Phillips is Professor of Gerontology and Social Work and Acting Head of the School of Human Sciences, Swansea University. Judith is the director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing and co-director of the Older People and Ageing Research and Development network in Wales. She is President Elect of the British Society of Gerontology. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and is a member of the advisory board for the Canada Research Chair programme. Her research interests are in social aspects of ageing, social work, social care, carers in employment, housing and retirement communities, intergenerational networks, carework and older offenders. She has published over 150 papers and books on these topics. In 2002 she won the Work-life Balance Trust award for non-fiction based on her research on juggling work and care for older people. Find out more about Judith here

Emma Wright

Emma Wright is Head of Longitudinal and Demographic Analysis within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Centre for Demography where her responsibilities include the ONS Longitudinal Study, secondary analysis on fertility, mortality, ageing and families, and the journal 'Population Trends'. Having previously worked on labour market statistics and the 2001 Census, Emma has worked within the ONS Centre for Demography since 2003, leading work on migration statistics and, more recently, population projections.