The Team
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Directors
Prof. Alison Bowes
Alison Bowes (FAcSS) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Stirling and co-Director of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Her research focuses on improving the lives of older people, including people with dementia.
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- Rural ageing, migration and care
Project contributors: Bell D, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Schröder-Butterfill E, - Capturing useful data on carers
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Dr. Mike Brewer
Mike Brewer is Chief Economist and Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation and co-Director of Connecting Generations. Mike's research interests include inequality in income and wealth, including the role of the labour market and the tax and benefit system.
Projects Mike has been involved in:
- Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts
Project contributors: Brewer M, Falkingham J, Broome M, Hale S, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V,
Prof. Maria Evandrou
Maria Evandrou is a Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Her research interests include inequalities in later life; informal carers, paid employment and resources and the retirement prospects of future generations of elders.
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- Sandwich generation
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Gomez-Leon M, - Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Living arrangements in mid-life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Berrington A, Evandrou M, Demey D, - Pension protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Feng Z, - The patterns, processes and impacts of post-student migration
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Baschnonga-(Sage) J, - The timing of parental divorce and filial obligations to care for parents later in life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Baschnonga-(Sage) J, - The transition to living alone and mental health in later life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Stone J, - Understanding pathways into institutional care
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Maslovskaya O, Vlachantoni A, - Understanding resilience in later life in a low resource setting
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Aboderin I, Kyobutungi C, Chepngeno-Langat G, Baschieri A, - Understanding quality of life and well-being of older people: Case studies of China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Project contributors: Zaidi A, Scobie J, Evandrou M, - Ageing unequally? Extended working lives and inequality in later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations
Project contributors: Chepngeno-Langat G, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Aboderin I, - Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, Chepngeno-Langat G, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S, - The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S, - Exploring informal care provision in mid-life by linking qualitative and quantitative data in the NCDS
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Wang N, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Reciprocity of care between parents and adult children. The impact of caring on employment
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Gomez-Leon M, - Extending working lives: implications for work-life balance
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Understanding the implications of increasing partnership dissolution in mid and later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations
Project contributors: Chepngeno-Langat G, Aboderin I, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Van-Der-Wielen N, - Sleep loss during the coronavirus pandemic
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of Covid-19 on informal care and living arrangements
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Prof. Jane Falkingham
Jane Falkingham (CBE, FAcSS, FRSA) is Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Director of Connecting Generations. She is a Professor of Demography and International Social Policy and Vice President (International & Global Engagement) at the University of Southampton. She was awarded an OBE for services to Social Science in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2015, and a CBE for services to demographic research in the King's first New Year's Honours list 2023. Her research focuses on: the drivers and consequences of population change, both in the UK and internationally. Ageing, intergenerational relations and the changing life course. Population ageing and social security, in particular the design of pensions systems and their impact upon resources in later life.
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- Sandwich generation
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Gomez-Leon M, - Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Coping with the Urban Environment? Gender Disadvantage, Social Inequalities and Well-being of Economic Migrants in China
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Qin M, Padmadas S, Brown J, Li B, Wu Z, Zheng Z, Madise N, - Leaving and returning home in the UK
Project contributors: Berrington A, Falkingham J, Stone J, - Living arrangements in mid-life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Berrington A, Evandrou M, Demey D, - Pension protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Feng Z, - The patterns, processes and impacts of post-student migration
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Baschnonga-(Sage) J, - The timing of parental divorce and filial obligations to care for parents later in life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Baschnonga-(Sage) J, - The transition to living alone and mental health in later life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Stone J, - Understanding pathways into institutional care
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Maslovskaya O, Vlachantoni A, - Understanding resilience in later life in a low resource setting
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Aboderin I, Kyobutungi C, Chepngeno-Langat G, Baschieri A, - How to get to 100 and enjoy it! Interactive exhibition and educational resources
Project contributors: Falkingham J, McGowan T, Edel A, - Ageing unequally? Extended working lives and inequality in later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations
Project contributors: Chepngeno-Langat G, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Aboderin I, - Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, Chepngeno-Langat G, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S, - The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S, - Exploring informal care provision in mid-life by linking qualitative and quantitative data in the NCDS
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Wang N, - Dynamics and policy implications of changes in student mobility
Project contributors: Findlay A, Falkingham J, McCollum D, Prazeres L, Malmberg G, Krisjane Z, Sander N, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Reciprocity of care between parents and adult children. The impact of caring on employment
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Gomez-Leon M, - Residential mobility
Project contributors: Finney N, McCollum D, Kulu H, Falkingham J, Lundholm E, Malmberg G, So V, - Extending working lives: implications for work-life balance
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Understanding the implications of increasing partnership dissolution in mid and later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations
Project contributors: Chepngeno-Langat G, Aboderin I, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Van-Der-Wielen N, - Sleep loss during the coronavirus pandemic
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of Covid-19 on informal care and living arrangements
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - International students
Project contributors: McCollum D, Kulu H, Prazeres L, Falkingham J, Giulietti C, Wahba J, Nicholson H, - Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts
Project contributors: Brewer M, Falkingham J, Broome M, Hale S, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Prof. Hill Kulu
Hill Kulu is Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews and Co-director for the ESRC Centre for Population Change and for Connecting Generations. He is also Director of the Fertility Trends project. His substantive research interests lie in the field of family, fertility, migration and health studies; his methodological interests include the development and application of longitudinal models in social science research.
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- Dissolution of mixed ethnic unions in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Finney N, Mikolai J, Keenan K, Graham E, - Residential mobility, housing and childbearing in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Graham E, - Residential mobility
Project contributors: Finney N, McCollum D, Kulu H, Falkingham J, Lundholm E, Malmberg G, So V, - Covid-19 and household factors
Project contributors: Kulu H, Keenan K, Mikolai J, - Covid-19 infection rates in Great Britain, by geographical area
Project contributors: Kulu H, Dorey P, - The impact of Covid-19 on trends in Fertility
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Ellison J, Kuang B, Christison S, - International students
Project contributors: McCollum D, Kulu H, Prazeres L, Falkingham J, Giulietti C, Wahba J, Nicholson H, - PartnerLife Project
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Mulder C, Wagner M, Krapf S, Thomas M, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - Connecting generations across geography
Project contributors: Kulu H, Demsar U, Li S, - MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Prof. Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills (MBE, FBA) is Nuffield Professor of Sociology and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford and co-Director of Connecting Generations. Her research interests include demography, empirical sociology, statistics and genetics.
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- Connecting generations through genetics and genealogy
Project contributors: Mills M, Kashyap R, Benonisdottir S,
Researchers
Dr. Mary Abed-Al-Ahad
Mary Abed Al Ahad is a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews working on the Migrant Life project.
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- MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Dr. Saddaf Naaz Akhtar
Doctor Saddaf Naaz Akhtar is a research fellow at the Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Social Science, University of Southampton. As a statistician and demographer, her research interests broadly lie on ageing, mortality, longevity, causes of death, public health and social demography including methodological challenges, data quality, mortality forecasting, gender and regional mortality gaps, death registration, hospitalisation, and lifespan inequality and healthy ageing. Her research also considers the role of country policy context on middle-aged adults and older adults health and wellbeing in India and other low-middle-income countries.
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Dr. Emily Barker
Dr Emily Barker is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton in the QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy project. Emily utilises DSGE models and applied macroeconometrics in her research.
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- QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project contributors: Bijak J, Wahba J, Smith P, Barker E, Di Iasio V, Aristotelous G,
Dr. Joe Barrass Butterick
Joe Barrass Butterick is a Research Fellow in Modelling of Population Processes at the University of Southampton working in the Connecting Generations Programme. Joe's research interests cover implementing and analysing matrix models of kinship, stochastic demographic projections, and models of Evolutionary Game Theory.
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- Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Prof. David Bell
David Bell (CBE) is Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling. He is co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. David's main research interests are labour economics and fiscal federalism.
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- Fiscal aspects of constitutional change
Project contributors: Bell D, - Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S, - Rural ageing, migration and care
Project contributors: Bell D, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Schröder-Butterfill E, - Linking longitudinal studies of ageing with administrative data
Project contributors: Bell D, Rutherford A, Gasteen A, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Deaths in Scottish care homes and COVID-19
Project contributors: Bell D, Henderson D, Lemmon E, - The impact of COVID-19 Fear: evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery
Project contributors: Douglas E, Dawson A, Bell D, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Social and spatial mobility within and across generations
Project contributors: McCollum D, Bell D, Dulout G, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Stefania Benonisdottir
Stefania Benonisdottir is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford working in the Connecting Generations programme.
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Projects Stefania has been involved in:
- Connecting generations through genetics and genealogy
Project contributors: Mills M, Kashyap R, Benonisdottir S,
Prof. Ann Berrington
Ann Berrington is Professor of Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Southampton. She is co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Ann's main research interests are family change, the lifecourse and inequalities.
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- Leaving and returning home in the UK
Project contributors: Berrington A, Falkingham J, Stone J, - Living arrangements in mid-life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Berrington A, Evandrou M, Demey D, - Young adulthood: aspirations and realities for living and learning in the 21st Century
Project contributors: Berrington A, Roberts S, Tammes P, - Factors facilitating fertility recuperation
Project contributors: Berrington A, Pattaro S, - The development of an improved data resource on fertility and partnership
Project contributors: Berrington A, Ní-Bhrolcháin M, Beaujouan E, - Family dynamics and inequality
Project contributors: Berrington A, Stone J, - Fertility dynamics in the context of economic recession
Project contributors: Berrington A, Stone J, - Partnership, fertility, housing, and labour market transitions across the life course
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chao S, - The impact of Covid-19 on trends in Fertility
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Ellison J, Kuang B, Christison S, - GGS methodology
Project contributors: Maslovskaya O, Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chang G, Kuang B, - GGS Survey findings on partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Kuang B, Chang G, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - GGS data collection
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Chang G, Kuang B,
Prof. Jakub Bijak
Jakub Bijak is Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton. He is co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations, and Director of QuantMig. His main research interests include statistical demography, migration, demographic uncertainty, population and migration models and forecasts, the demography of armed conflict, and paleodemography.
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- Modelling and forecasting UK mortality
Project contributors: Dodd E, Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, - Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A, - Forecasting Scottish migration after the 2014 referendum
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, McCollum D, Wiśniowski A, - Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S, - Independent review of population projection methodology of the Greater London Authority
Project contributors: Hilton J, Bijak J, Forster J, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H, - Transient Demography
Project contributors: Bijak J, Dooley C, Ezard T, Townley S, Zincenko A, Hogson D, - The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S, - Combining data for demographic estimation
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Smith P, Wiśniowski A, Raymer J, - Complex models of demographic change
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Gray J, - Survey of methodology on the quantitative assessment of the phenomenon of asylum-related migration
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Forster J, - QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project contributors: Bijak J, Wahba J, Smith P, Barker E, Di Iasio V, Aristotelous G, - Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Higham P, Nurse S, Smith P, Uhrmacher A, Modirrousta-Galian A, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Dr. Paul Bridgen
Paul Bridgen is an Associate Professor in Social Policy at the University of Southampton and co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change. Paul's research interests include pension policy and politics.
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- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Free movement, pension costs: the projected pension outcomes of European Union migrants to Britain in comparative perspective
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Andow C, - The pension rights of intra-EU migrant workers
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Barbulescu R, - The social rights of EU Migrants retiring in their host country
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Davison L,
Molly Broome
Molly Broome is an Economist at the Resolution Foundation and a Research Fellow in Connecting Generations. Molly's research interests include intergenerational fairness and wealth inequality.
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- Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts
Project contributors: Brewer M, Falkingham J, Broome M, Hale S,
Dr. Alice Butler-Warke
Alice Butler-Warke is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews working within the Connecting Generations Programme.
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- Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Dr. Hector Calvo-Pardo
Hector Calvo Pardo is an Economist at the University of Southampton and co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change. Hector's research builds on decision under uncertainty as applied to firms (international trade), households (expectations, information, household finance, social interactions) and to systems of interacting agents (learning in macro-finance, machine learning, migration, populism).
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- Understanding Migrants' Choices
Project contributors: Calvo-Pardo H, Wahba J, - Migrants and economic uncertainty
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wang C, Wahba J, Calvo-Pardo H, Papoutsaki D,
Dr. Sarah Christison
Sarah Christison is Research Fellow at University of St Andrews working on the Fertility Trends project. Sarah's research interests include fertility, migration and residential mobility.
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- The impact of Covid-19 on trends in Fertility
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Ellison J, Kuang B, Christison S, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Dr. Alison Dawson
Alison Dawson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, co-Leader of the Faculty's Dementia and Ageing Research Group and Deputy Director of the Centre for Environment, Dementia and Ageing Research ('CEDAR'). She is also Research Fellow of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Alison's research interests include dementia and sight loss, the role of technology in providing support services for older people, time use in unpaid care/support, promoting movement and activity in care homes, the role of physical environment design in supporting people with dementia, particularly in the context of Covid-19, and the social, economic and health use impacts of 'Covid fear'.
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- Capturing useful data on carers
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - The impact of COVID-19 Fear: evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery
Project contributors: Douglas E, Dawson A, Bell D, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Dr. Urska Demsar
Dr Urka Demar is Associate Professor of Geoinformatics at the University of St Andrews and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Urka's research interests are in spatial data science, in particular in analysis of movement; a topic on which she is collaborating with movement researchers from other disciplines (human mobility researchers and movement ecologists).
Publications Urska has been involved in:
Projects Urska has been involved in:
- Connecting generations across geography
Project contributors: Kulu H, Demsar U, Li S,
Dr. Valentina Di Iasio
Valentina Di Iasio is Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working on the Connecting Generations programme. Valentina is an applied economist with research interests in economics of migration, development economics, economic geography, applied econometrics.
Publications Valentina has been involved in:
Media Valentina has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Valentina has been involved in:
Projects Valentina has been involved in:
- QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project contributors: Bijak J, Wahba J, Smith P, Barker E, Di Iasio V, Aristotelous G, - Migration connecting generations
Project contributors: Wahba J, Giulietti C, Di Iasio V,
Prof. Erengul Dodd
Erengul Dodd is a Professor of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Southampton. Currently she is the Director of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute. She is also co-investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Her research interest focuses on the application of statistical modelling, inference and prediction to actuarial, demographic and health data using advanced statistical methods
Publications Erengul has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Erengul has been involved in:
Projects Erengul has been involved in:
- Modelling and forecasting UK mortality
Project contributors: Dodd E, Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, - Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Dr. Elaine Douglas
Elaine Douglas is an Associate Professor of Global Ageing at the University of Stirling where she is also Programme Manager within the Healthy Ageing Challenge project and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Elaine's research interests include the social and economic determinants of health, lifecourse and global ageing research, including Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS).
Publications Elaine has been involved in:
Media Elaine has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Elaine has been involved in:
Projects Elaine has been involved in:
- The impact of COVID-19 Fear: evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery
Project contributors: Douglas E, Dawson A, Bell D, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H,
Dr. Joanne Ellison
Joanne Ellison is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working in the Connecting Generations programme. Joanne's research interests include fertility projections, demographic forecasting and Bayesian demography.
Publications Joanne has been involved in:
Media Joanne has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Joanne has been involved in:
Projects Joanne has been involved in:
- The impact of Covid-19 on trends in Fertility
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Ellison J, Kuang B, Christison S, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Dr. Heather Emond
Heather Emond is a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling working on the Connecting Generations programme. Heather's main research interests include dementia and ageing.
Projects Heather has been involved in:
- Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H,
Prof. Nissa Finney
Nissa Finney is Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, member of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CODE) and co-Investigator of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Nissa's research is about residential patterns, their drivers and consequences, and is framed by concern with inequalities and social justice. Much of her work examines ethnicity in relation to these themes.
Publications Nissa has been involved in:
Media Nissa has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Nissa has been involved in:
Projects Nissa has been involved in:
- Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - Dissolution of mixed ethnic unions in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Finney N, Mikolai J, Keenan K, Graham E, - Residential Age Segregation in Britain
Project contributors: Sabater A, Graham E, Finney N, - Residential mobility
Project contributors: Finney N, McCollum D, Kulu H, Falkingham J, Lundholm E, Malmberg G, So V, - Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Dr. Francesca Fiori
Francesca Fiori is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy of the University of Strathclyde, Research Fellow in the Centre for Population Change and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Francesca's research interests include family, fertility and the lifecourse.
Publications Francesca has been involved in:
Media Francesca has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Francesca has been involved in:
Projects Francesca has been involved in:
- Growing Up and Growing Old in Scotland: housing transitions and changing living arrangements for young and older adults
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, - Local cultures of fertility
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, Boyle P, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S,
Dr. Armine Ghazaryan
Dr Armine Ghazaryan is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, working on the research project: Regional Differentials, Changing Working Patterns and High-Skilled Labour Mobility
Publications Armine has been involved in:
Projects Armine has been involved in:
- The effect of media on migration attitudes
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Ghazaryan A, Wahba J, - The Impact of Immigration on the Well-being of UK Natives
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wahba J, Ghazaryan A, Yan Z, - Regional Differentials, Changing Working Patterns and High-Skilled Labour Mobility
Project contributors: Wahba J, McCollum D, Green A, Payne J, Taylor I, Ghazaryan A,
Prof. Corrado Giulietti
Corrado Giulietti is a Professor of Economics and Head of School at the University of Southampton and is also co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Corrado's research interests are in the area of labour economics, particularly on topics related to migration, rural-to-urban mobility in China, well-being and mental health, social networks, discrimination, crime and economic history.
Publications Corrado has been involved in:
Media Corrado has been involved in:
Projects Corrado has been involved in:
- Welfare migration
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wahba J, - International students
Project contributors: McCollum D, Kulu H, Prazeres L, Falkingham J, Giulietti C, Wahba J, Nicholson H, - The effect of media on migration attitudes
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Ghazaryan A, Wahba J, - The Impact of Immigration on the Well-being of UK Natives
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wahba J, Ghazaryan A, Yan Z, - Migrants and economic uncertainty
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wang C, Wahba J, Calvo-Pardo H, Papoutsaki D, - Migration connecting generations
Project contributors: Wahba J, Giulietti C, Di Iasio V,
Prof. Elspeth Graham
Elspeth Graham is an Emeritus Professor in Geography at the University of St Andrews and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. She was a former Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. Her research interests are in population and health geography with a particular interest in: issues related to low fertility in the UK; social deprivation, migration and geographies of health; fertility and family in Singapore; female demographic deficit in South-East Asia.
Publications Elspeth has been involved in:
Projects Elspeth has been involved in:
- Moving on and moving up: the implications of socio-spatial mobility for partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Gayle V, Graham E, Boyle P, Shapira M, - Growing Up and Growing Old in Scotland: housing transitions and changing living arrangements for young and older adults
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, - Local cultures of fertility
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, Boyle P, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A, - Dissolution of mixed ethnic unions in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Finney N, Mikolai J, Keenan K, Graham E, - Residential mobility, housing and childbearing in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Graham E, - Children's educational attainment and the longevity of parents: The impact of upward intergenerational health transfers
Project contributors: Sabater A, Graham E, Marshall A, - Residential Age Segregation in Britain
Project contributors: Sabater A, Graham E, Finney N, - Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Sophie Hale
Sophie Hale is a Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation, where she works on trade and Brexit. She is also a co-Investigator of Connecting Generations.
Publications Sophie has been involved in:
Media Sophie has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Sophie has been involved in:
Projects Sophie has been involved in:
- Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts
Project contributors: Brewer M, Falkingham J, Broome M, Hale S,
Dr. Jo Hale
Jo Mhairi Hale is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and a co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Jo's research interests are in population health inequities, including the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
Publications Jo has been involved in:
Media Jo has been involved in:
Projects Jo has been involved in:
- Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Dr. Qiong He
Qiong He is a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews working within the Connecting Generations Programme.
Projects Qiong has been involved in:
- Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Dr. Jason Hilton
Jason Hilton is a lecturer in Social Statistics and Data Science at the University of Southampton and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. His research focuses on methods for the probabilistic forecasting of the components components of demographic change: mortality, fertility and migration. He works in the areas of population forecasting, applied Bayesian statistics and simulation.
Publications Jason has been involved in:
Projects Jason has been involved in:
- Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Independent review of population projection methodology of the Greater London Authority
Project contributors: Hilton J, Bijak J, Forster J, - The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S, - Complex models of demographic change
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Gray J, - Survey of methodology on the quantitative assessment of the phenomenon of asylum-related migration
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Forster J, - Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Prof. Vicky Hosegood
Vicky Hosegood is a Professor in Demography and Family Health at the University of Southampton and a Research Fellow at the CPC. She is based in Southampton, but also has appointments at the Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies/UKZN and the Human Sciences Research Council.
Publications Vicky has been involved in:
Projects Vicky has been involved in:
- Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Household and family demography in the Global South
Project contributors: Hosegood V, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S,
Dr. Kuoshi Hu
Kuoshi Hu is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews working in the Connecting Generations programme.
Publications Kuoshi has been involved in:
Projects Kuoshi has been involved in:
- Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S,
Dr. Haiyu Jin
Haiyu Jin is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working in the Connecting Generations programme.
Projects Haiyu has been involved in:
- Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Prof. Ridhi Kashyap
Ridhi Kashyap is a Professor of Social Demography and Computational Social Science at the Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Her research interests include different areas of demography, including questions linked to mortality and population health, gender inequality, marriage and family, and migration and ethnicity.
Publications Ridhi has been involved in:
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Policy Engagement Ridhi has been involved in:
Projects Ridhi has been involved in:
- Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A, - Connecting generations through genetics and genealogy
Project contributors: Mills M, Kashyap R, Benonisdottir S,
Dr. Katherine Keenan
Katherine Keenan is a Senior Lecturer in Population Geography/Demography at the University of St. Andrews and a co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Her research focuses on health and demography across the life course. She is currently working on research projects around reproductive health and unintended pregnancy, antimicrobial resistance, and health and family size.
Publications Katherine has been involved in:
Media Katherine has been involved in:
Projects Katherine has been involved in:
- Dissolution of mixed ethnic unions in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Finney N, Mikolai J, Keenan K, Graham E, - Covid-19 and household factors
Project contributors: Kulu H, Keenan K, Mikolai J, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S,
Dr. Bernice Kuang
Bernice Kuang is a Research Fellow in Demography at the University of Southampton. She is working with Dr. Olga Maslovskaya and Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris on the Gender and Generations Survey (GGS).
Publications Bernice has been involved in:
Media Bernice has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Bernice has been involved in:
Projects Bernice has been involved in:
- The impact of Covid-19 on trends in Fertility
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Ellison J, Kuang B, Christison S, - GGS methodology
Project contributors: Maslovskaya O, Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chang G, Kuang B, - GGS Survey findings on partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Kuang B, Chang G, - Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Bijak J, Dodd E, Falkingham J, Kuang B, Ellison J, Christison S, - GGS data collection
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Chang G, Kuang B,
Dr. Sen Li
Sen Li is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews working in the Connecting Generations programme.
Projects Sen has been involved in:
- Connecting generations across geography
Project contributors: Kulu H, Demsar U, Li S,
Dr. Olga Maslovskaya
Olga Maslovskaya is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, working on the Gender and Generations Survey (GGS).
Publications Olga has been involved in:
Media Olga has been involved in:
Projects Olga has been involved in:
- Understanding pathways into institutional care
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Maslovskaya O, Vlachantoni A, - GGS methodology
Project contributors: Maslovskaya O, Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chang G, Kuang B, - GGS Survey findings on partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Kuang B, Chang G, - GGS data collection
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Chang G, Kuang B,
Dr. David McCollum
David McCollum is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of St Andrews and a co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. His research interests include the welfare state, labour market change and labour migration.
Publications David has been involved in:
Media David has been involved in:
Projects David has been involved in:
- Forecasting Scottish migration after the 2014 referendum
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, McCollum D, Wiśniowski A, - Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S, - Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - International labour mobility - The changing patterns of recruitment and employment of central and E. European migrants working in England and Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, McCollum D, - Dynamics and policy implications of changes in student mobility
Project contributors: Findlay A, Falkingham J, McCollum D, Prazeres L, Malmberg G, Krisjane Z, Sander N, - Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M, - Residential mobility
Project contributors: Finney N, McCollum D, Kulu H, Falkingham J, Lundholm E, Malmberg G, So V, - International students
Project contributors: McCollum D, Kulu H, Prazeres L, Falkingham J, Giulietti C, Wahba J, Nicholson H, - Post-pandemic working practices and residential preferences: implications for people and places
Project contributors: McCollum D, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Social and spatial mobility within and across generations
Project contributors: McCollum D, Bell D, Dulout G, - Regional Differentials, Changing Working Patterns and High-Skilled Labour Mobility
Project contributors: Wahba J, McCollum D, Green A, Payne J, Taylor I, Ghazaryan A,
Prof. Derek McGhee
Derek McGhee is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling. He previously worked as Professor of Sociology and Head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Southampton, and a co-Investigator at the CPC.
Publications Derek has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Derek has been involved in:
Projects Derek has been involved in:
- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - International labour mobility and its impact on family and household formation among Polish migrants living in England and Scotland
Project contributors: McGhee D, Heath S, Trevena P, - Tried and Trusted? The role of NGOs in Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrant Voluntary Returns
Project contributors: McGhee D, Anderson B, Bennett C, Walker S, - Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Vlachantoni A, Troccoli G, - Examining the drivers, impacts and long-term trajectories of Polish migration a decade after accession
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E, - The Sociology of Brexit Seminar Series
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E,
Prof. Nuala McGrath
Nuala McGrath is a Professor of Epidemology and Sexual Health at the University of Southampton and also a Research Fellow at the CPC.
Publications Nuala has been involved in:
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Projects Nuala has been involved in:
- Partnerships and sexual behaviour in the era of ART in South Africa
Project contributors: McGrath N,
Prof. Traute Meyer
Traute Meyer is a Professor in Social Policy at the University of Southampton and a co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change.
Publications Traute has been involved in:
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Policy Engagement Traute has been involved in:
Projects Traute has been involved in:
- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Free movement, pension costs: the projected pension outcomes of European Union migrants to Britain in comparative perspective
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Andow C, - The pension rights of intra-EU migrant workers
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Barbulescu R, - The social rights of EU Migrants retiring in their host country
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Davison L,
Dr. Julia Mikolai
Julia Mikolai is a Lecturer in Demography/Quantitative Population Geography in the Population and Health Research Group at the University of St Andrews and is also a Senior Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Her research interests include partnerships, families, and fertility; residential mobility and housing; life course research; cross-national comparisons; and longitudinal data analysis.
Publications Julia has been involved in:
Media Julia has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Julia has been involved in:
Projects Julia has been involved in:
- Dissolution of mixed ethnic unions in Britain
Project contributors: Kulu H, Finney N, Mikolai J, Keenan K, Graham E, - Covid-19 and household factors
Project contributors: Kulu H, Keenan K, Mikolai J, - PartnerLife Project
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Mulder C, Wagner M, Krapf S, Thomas M, - Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S, - MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Dr. Spela Mocnik
Spela is a Research Fellow in Inclusive Ageing based in the Department of Gerontology and the Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Southampton. She is currently working on the ESRC research project titled Promoting inclusivity in pension protection and other forms of saving among men and women from black and minority ethnic communities in the UK: a mixed methods study. Her role in the project is to lead the qualitative data collection and analysis, and the mixed methods design of the study.
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Dr. Christian Moreh
Chris Moreh is Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. He was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, where he worked within the migration and constitutional change strands of the Centre for Population Change. His research interests are in the areas of ethnic and migration studies, nationalism, and political discourse.
Publications Christian has been involved in:
Projects Christian has been involved in:
- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Vlachantoni A, Troccoli G, - Examining the drivers, impacts and long-term trajectories of Polish migration a decade after accession
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E, - The Sociology of Brexit Seminar Series
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E,
Dr. Aasli Abdi Nur
Dr. Aasli Abdi Nur
University of Oxford
Aasli Abdi Nur is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Demography at the University of Oxford working in the Connecting Generations programme.
Publications Aasli Abdi has been involved in:
Projects Aasli Abdi has been involved in:
- Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Dr. Cate Pemble
Cate Pemble is a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling working on the Connecting Generations programme. Cate's main research interests include dementia and ageing.
Publications Cate has been involved in:
Media Cate has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Cate has been involved in:
Projects Cate has been involved in:
- Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H,
Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris
Brienna Perelli-Harris is a Professor in Demography within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. She is also the lead researcher for The Generations and Gender Survey in the UK. Her research interests include family, fertility, marriage and cohabitation.
Publications Brienna has been involved in:
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Policy Engagement Brienna has been involved in:
Projects Brienna has been involved in:
- Relationship quality and family transitions: The UK in international comparison
Project contributors: Blom N, Perelli-Harris B, - Non-marital childbearing project
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Styrc M, Sanchez-Gassen N, Amos M, - The consequences of new living arrangements in cross-national comparison
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Hoherz S, Styrc M, - Partnership, fertility, housing, and labour market transitions across the life course
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chao S, - GGS methodology
Project contributors: Maslovskaya O, Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chang G, Kuang B, - GGS Survey findings on partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Kuang B, Chang G, - GGS data collection
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Chang G, Kuang B,
Prof. Judith Phillips
Judith Phillips is Professor of Environmental and Social Gerontology at the University of Stirling. She is also a co-Investigator of Connecting Generations. Judith was appointed as Research Director for the Healthy Ageing Challenge delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) between 2020-2024. She was also Director of the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research and the Older People and Ageing Research and Development Network in Wales (OPAN Cymru). Judith has extensive links with policy and practice, and local business interested in ageing issues. Following a Geography degree at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, she went to study at Stockholm University, Jesus College, Oxford and UEA, Norwich, where she worked as a researcher and a lecturer before joining the Centre for Social Gerontology at the University of Keele in 1993. Judith returned to Wales in 2004 to set up the Centre for Innovative Ageing. Judith has held visiting Senior Research Fellowships at the universities of Umeå and Lund, Sweden; New College, Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Publications Judith has been involved in:
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Policy Engagement Judith has been involved in:
Projects Judith has been involved in:
- Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Dr. Min Qin
Min Qin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations and the Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Southampton. She has a PhD in Demography and Social Statistics and has a medical background. Her research interests include work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life; Intergenerational flows of support in later life.
Publications Min has been involved in:
Media Min has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Min has been involved in:
Projects Min has been involved in:
- Coping with the Urban Environment? Gender Disadvantage, Social Inequalities and Well-being of Economic Migrants in China
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Qin M, Padmadas S, Brown J, Li B, Wu Z, Zheng Z, Madise N, - Sleep loss during the coronavirus pandemic
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of Covid-19 on informal care and living arrangements
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Dr. Vincent Jerald Ramos
Vincent is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working in the Connecting Generations programme. His current research interests are on the causes and demographic consequences of employment uncertainty, mainly using quasi-experimental and experimental methods
Publications Vincent Jerald has been involved in:
Projects Vincent Jerald has been involved in:
- Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
Project contributors: Kulu H, Berrington A, Keenan K, McCollum D, Mikolai J, Bell D, Brewer M, Ramos V, - Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S,
Prof. Alasdair Rutherford
Alasdair Rutherford is a Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Stirling and a co-Investigator of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. His research focus is the analysis of administrative and survey data in the fields of health, social care and the third sector.
Publications Alasdair has been involved in:
Media Alasdair has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Alasdair has been involved in:
Projects Alasdair has been involved in:
- Rural ageing, migration and care
Project contributors: Bell D, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Schröder-Butterfill E, - Linking longitudinal studies of ageing with administrative data
Project contributors: Bell D, Rutherford A, Gasteen A, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Prof. Peter Smith
Professor Peter WF Smith is Professor of Social Statistics within Social Statistics & Demography at the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is also co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. His research interests include developing new statistical methodology, including methods for handling non-response and for modelling longitudinal data, and applying sophisticated statistical methods to problems in demography, medicine and health sciences.
Publications Peter has been involved in:
Projects Peter has been involved in:
- Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A, - Modelling and forecasting UK mortality
Project contributors: Dodd E, Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, - Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H, - Combining data for demographic estimation
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Smith P, Wiśniowski A, Raymer J, - QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project contributors: Bijak J, Wahba J, Smith P, Barker E, Di Iasio V, Aristotelous G, - Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Higham P, Nurse S, Smith P, Uhrmacher A, Modirrousta-Galian A, - Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Project contributors: Hilton J, Kashyap R, Bijak J, Dodd E, Ellison J, Smith P, Barrass Butterick J, Nur A,
Prof. Athina Vlachantoni
Athina Vlachantoni is a Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton where she is also a co-Investigator of the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Her research interests include informal care provision and receipt, unmet need for social care and pension protection.
Publications Athina has been involved in:
Media Athina has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Athina has been involved in:
Projects Athina has been involved in:
- Sandwich generation
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Gomez-Leon M, - Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Pension protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Feng Z, - Understanding pathways into institutional care
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Maslovskaya O, Vlachantoni A, - Ageing unequally? Extended working lives and inequality in later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, Chepngeno-Langat G, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S, - The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S, - Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Vlachantoni A, Troccoli G, - Exploring informal care provision in mid-life by linking qualitative and quantitative data in the NCDS
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Wang N, - Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R, - Reciprocity of care between parents and adult children. The impact of caring on employment
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Gomez-Leon M, - Extending working lives: implications for work-life balance
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Understanding the implications of increasing partnership dissolution in mid and later life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, - Sleep loss during the coronavirus pandemic
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - The impact of Covid-19 on informal care and living arrangements
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Qin M, Vlachantoni A, - Promoting inclusivity in pension protection and other forms of saving among men and women from black and minority ethnic communities in the UK: a mixed methods study
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Yin Y, Mocnik S, Akhtar S, - Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
Project contributors: Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Bell D, Douglas E, Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Pemble C, Emond H, - Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Qin M, Bowes A, Dawson A, - Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Prof. Jackline Wahba
Jackline Wahba is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton. She is co-Investigator in the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. She received an OBE for services to Economic Policy in 2020. Her research interests include Labour Economics, Development Economics and Applied Micro-econometrics.
Publications Jackline has been involved in:
Media Jackline has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Jackline has been involved in:
Projects Jackline has been involved in:
- Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Does unemployment cause return migration?
Project contributors: Schluter C, Wahba J, Bijwaard G, - Welfare migration
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wahba J, - Understanding Migrants' Choices
Project contributors: Calvo-Pardo H, Wahba J, - International students
Project contributors: McCollum D, Kulu H, Prazeres L, Falkingham J, Giulietti C, Wahba J, Nicholson H, - QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project contributors: Bijak J, Wahba J, Smith P, Barker E, Di Iasio V, Aristotelous G, - The effect of media on migration attitudes
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Ghazaryan A, Wahba J, - The Impact of Immigration on the Well-being of UK Natives
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wahba J, Ghazaryan A, Yan Z, - Migrants and economic uncertainty
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wang C, Wahba J, Calvo-Pardo H, Papoutsaki D, - Migration connecting generations
Project contributors: Wahba J, Giulietti C, Di Iasio V, - Regional Differentials, Changing Working Patterns and High-Skilled Labour Mobility
Project contributors: Wahba J, McCollum D, Green A, Payne J, Taylor I, Ghazaryan A,
Dr. Rachel Wilkie
Rachel Wilkie is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews working within the Connecting Generations Programme.
Projects Rachel has been involved in:
- Community resilience and social coherence
Project contributors: Finney N, Graham E, Hale J, He Q, Butler-Warke A, Wilkie R,
Prof. Yuanyuan Yin
Yuanyuan Yin is a Professor at the University of Southampton and is working on the research project: Promoting inclusivity in pension protection and other forms of saving among men and women from black and minority ethnic communities in the UK: a mixed methods study.
Publications Yuanyuan has been involved in:
Projects Yuanyuan has been involved in:
Dr. Shunqi Zhang
Shunqi Zhang is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working in the Connecting Generations programme.
Projects Shunqi has been involved in:
- Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Qin M, Bell D, Bowes A, Dawson A, Phillips J, Rutherford A, Jin H, Zhang S,
Associates
Prof. Guy Abel
Guy Abel is a Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. He was previously a Research Fellow for CPC working within the modelling research strand.
Publications Guy has been involved in:
Projects Guy has been involved in:
- Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H,
Dr. Mark Amos
Dr. Mark Amos
Mark Amos is a Senior Biostatistician. He previously worked within the fertility strand of CPC.
Publications Mark has been involved in:
Projects Mark has been involved in:
- Non-marital childbearing project
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Styrc M, Sanchez-Gassen N, Amos M,
Prof. Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson is the Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol and Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. Her post is split between the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Publications Bridget has been involved in:
Projects Bridget has been involved in:
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Dr. Rosalie Ashworth
Rosalie Ashworth is the Lead for NHS Scotland Neuroprogressive and Dementia Network (NDN) 'Patient and Public Involvement' group known as 'Partners in Research'. She was previously a Research Fellow based at the University of Stirling, working within the intergenerational relations research strand of CPC.
Publications Rosalie has been involved in:
Projects Rosalie has been involved in:
- Carers and time use
Project contributors: Bowes A, Evandrou M, Bell D, Dawson A, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Thomas N, Rutherford A, Ashworth R,
Dr. Roxana Barbulescu
Roxana Barbulescu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow for CPC, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at College of Europe, Natolin and a Research Assistant at the University of Sheffield (Department of Sociological Studies and Sheffield institute for International Development). Since 2011, she is a Country Expert for the European Union Observatory for Democracy and Citizenship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Roxana has worked in the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Roxana has been involved in:
Projects Roxana has been involved in:
- The pension rights of intra-EU migrant workers
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Barbulescu R,
Dr. Joanna Baschnonga-(Sage)
Dr. Joanna Baschnonga-(Sage)
Buckinghamshire County Council
Joanna is Director of Service Improvement at Buckinghamshire County Council. She was previously a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Population Geography for the Centre for Population Population Change at the University of Southampton. She has worked within the living arrangements strand of the CPC, looking at lifecourse perspectives on urban and social change.
Publications Joanna has been involved in:
Projects Joanna has been involved in:
Dr. Eva Beaujouan
Eva Beaujouan is associate professor at the Department of Demography of the University of Vienna, within the broader Wittgenstein Centre. After a Ph.D. thesis at the French institute of Demographic studies INED, she joined the ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton, as a postdoc for three years where she worked on fertility postponement. Eva has been part of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography since 2012, first at the Vienna Institute of Demography, then at Vienna University of Economics and Business, and now at the University of Vienna.
Publications Eva has been involved in:
Projects Eva has been involved in:
- Measuring and accounting for fertility trends
Project contributors: Ní-Bhrolcháin M, Beaujouan E, - The development of an improved data resource on fertility and partnership
Project contributors: Berrington A, Ní-Bhrolcháin M, Beaujouan E, - Uncertainty in fertility intentions in Britain, 1979-2007
Project contributors: Ní-Bhrolcháin M, Beaujouan E,
Dr. Claire Bennett
Dr Claire Bennett currently works as an Associate Director at MEL Research - Qualitative Team. Claire previously worked as a Senior Research Assistant at CPC on the migration strand whilst she was finishing her PhD exploring how lesbians navigate the UK asylum process.
Publications Claire has been involved in:
Projects Claire has been involved in:
Dr. Niels Blom
Niels Blom is a Research Fellow at City University of London. Previously he was a Research Fellow in Demography at the University of Southampton, with his focusing on the influence of partner relationship quality and family transitions.
Publications Niels has been involved in:
Projects Niels has been involved in:
Dr. Valeria Bordone
Valeria Bordone is an Associate Professor at the University of Vienna in the Department of Sociology. She previously worked at the University of Southampton in both the Centre for Research on Ageing and CPC. Valeria's main research interests relate to intergenerational relationships within the family (between grandparents, parents and grandchildren), with a particular focus on the role of grandparents. She has worked within the intergenerational exchange strand of CPC.
Publications Valeria has been involved in:
Dr. Emma Calvert
Emma Calvert is a Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University in Belfast. She was previously a research fellow at CPC working within the lifecourse strand.
Publications Emma has been involved in:
Projects Emma has been involved in:
- Single young adults and their housing pathways
Project contributors: Heath S, Calvert E,
Nicholas Campisi
Nicholas Campisi is a Data Scientist at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Previously he was a St. Andrews-Max Planck funded PhD student researching spatial variation in urban-rural fertility patterns across Europe.
Publications Nicholas has been involved in:
Dr. Sarah Carter
Sarah Carter is a post-doctoral Research Fellow for the Division of Epidemiologic Department of Research & Evaluation at Kaiser Permanente, California. Previously she was a Research Fellow at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton.
Publications Sarah has been involved in:
Dr. Genevieve Cezard
Genevieve Cezard is a Senior Research Associate in health data science at the University of Cambridge and a HDR UK Big Data for Complex Disease fellow. Formally, she was a CPC Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology at the University of St Andrews.
Publications Genevieve has been involved in:
Dr. Grace Chang
Grace Chang is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the University of Oxford. She previously worked at the University of Southampton, working on the Gender and Generations Survey (GGS). Grace's research interests include inequalities in youth time use, life-course transitions, and skills development.
Publications Grace has been involved in:
Media Grace has been involved in:
Projects Grace has been involved in:
- GGS methodology
Project contributors: Maslovskaya O, Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Chang G, Kuang B, - GGS Survey findings on partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Kuang B, Chang G, - GGS data collection
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Berrington A, Maslovskaya O, Chang G, Kuang B,
Prof. Andrew-'Amos' Channon
Amos Channon is a Professor of Global Health and Demography at the University of Southampton. His main research interest is relating to cross-national comparisons of health inequalities over time in low and middle income countries, especially with regard to maternal and child health. Amos has previously worked within the modelling strand of CPC.
Publications Andrew-'Amos' has been involved in:
Dr. Shih-Yi Chao
Shih-Yi Chao is an Assistant Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica. She was formally a Research Fellow for the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. She is interested in family, gender, and the labour market. Her current research focuses on partnership, fertility, housing, and labour market transitions across the life course.
Publications Shih-Yi has been involved in:
Projects Shih-Yi has been involved in:
Dr. Duygu Cihan
Dr Duygu Cihan is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. She completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Southampton in 2020. She has been involved in the project, EPSRC funded Liveable Cities Programme: Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing
Dr. Alexandra Ciritel
Alexandra is a PhD graduate from Southampton University, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, with a thesis offering new perspectives on intimate relationships and singlehood. Alexandra's research combined sociological, psychological, demographic, and sex research literatures to investigate the satisfaction with intimate life among those partnered and single, using quantitative methods. She attended numerous national and international conferences, published peer-reviews papers in the social and medical fields and taught undergraduate and master's students. She works in social, epidemiological, health care and life sciences fields of research, managing complex research projects, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Publications Alexandra has been involved in:
Dr. David Clifford
David Clifford is an Associate Professor in Demography at the University of Southampton. David has research interests at the interface of demography and social policy, with a particular focus on the voluntary sector and volunteering.
Publications David has been involved in:
Prof. Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Sarah Cunningham-Burley is a Professor of Medical and Family Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Sarah has previously worked within the fertility strand of the CPC.
Publications Sarah has been involved in:
Projects Sarah has been involved in:
- Twenty+ Futures: Recession, global threats and young people's anticipated futures as partners and parents
Project contributors: Jamieson L, Rawlins E, Cunningham-Burley S,
Dr. Lisa Davison
Lisa Davison is a researcher on the project Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing (DesHCA) at the University of Stirling. Previously they was a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Southampton, working within the Migration and Mobility strand of the CPC and on the project researching the social rights of EU migrants retiring in their host country.
Publications Lisa has been involved in:
Projects Lisa has been involved in:
- The social rights of EU Migrants retiring in their host country
Project contributors: Bridgen P, Meyer T, Davison L,
Dr. George Disney
George Disney is a Senior Research Fellow In Social Epidemiology at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. George completed his PhD in Social Statistics on "Model-based estimates of UK immigration" at the University of Southampton and then worked as a Research Fellow within the CPC modelling strand.
Publications George has been involved in:
Projects George has been involved in:
- Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A,
Dr. Adriana Duta
Adriana Duta is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD in Social Statistics and Demography and worked as a Research Associate at the University of Southampton within the CPC fertility strand.
Publications Adriana has been involved in:
Annemarie Ernsten
Annemarie Ernsten
National Records of Scotland
Annemarie Ernsten was a Research Fellow in Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. She was previously a PhD student within CPC, researching the role of social norms, housing and partnership related to family formation in Scotland. Annemarie is currently working at the National Records of Scotland.
Publications Annemarie has been involved in:
Projects Annemarie has been involved in:
Prof. Thomas Ezard
Thomas Ezard is a Professor in Evolutionary Ecology within Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton.
Publications Thomas has been involved in:
Projects Thomas has been involved in:
- Transient Demography
Project contributors: Bijak J, Dooley C, Ezard T, Townley S, Zincenko A, Hogson D,
Paolomaria Fabrizio
Paolomaria Fabrizio
University of Florence
Paolomaria Fabrizio is a PhD student in Statistics at the University of Florence working of the economic uncertainty and fertility in Europe. Paolomaria's research interests include NLP, machine learning, time series modelling, social statistics, fertility and demography.
Publications Paolomaria has been involved in:
Dr. Zhixin-Frank Feng
Dr. Zhixin-Frank Feng
Zhixin Frank Feng is a Senior Research Fellow based in the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education at the University of Southampton. Prior to this, Dr Zhixin Frank Feng was a Research Fellow in Gerontology at the University of Southampton. His research focussed on two countries: ethnicity, ethnic density and health outcomes in the UK, and health inequalities among elderly people in China. He worked within the lifecourse and constitutional change strands of CPC.
Publications Zhixin-Frank has been involved in:
Projects Zhixin-Frank has been involved in:
- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - Pension protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Feng Z, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S, - Exploring informal care provision in mid-life by linking qualitative and quantitative data in the NCDS
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Wang N,
Dr. Zhiqiang Feng
Zhiqiang Feng is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography and Geographical Information Science in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications Zhiqiang has been involved in:
Projects Zhiqiang has been involved in:
- Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - Growing Up and Growing Old in Scotland: housing transitions and changing living arrangements for young and older adults
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, - Local cultures of fertility
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Fiori F, Boyle P, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A, - Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, Chepngeno-Langat G,
Prof. Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay is an Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews. His research and teaching interests focus on international migration and population mobility. Allan took a key role in two projects with the Future of the UK and Scotland program; the first with the ESRC Centre for Population Change and the Scottish Independence Debate and the second on Student Mobility and Constitutional Change.
Publications Allan has been involved in:
Projects Allan has been involved in:
- Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A, - Forecasting Scottish migration after the 2014 referendum
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, McCollum D, Wiśniowski A, - Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S, - Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - International labour mobility - The changing patterns of recruitment and employment of central and E. European migrants working in England and Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, McCollum D, - Non-labour market implications of family migration
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, Van-Ham M, Nowok B, - Dynamics and policy implications of changes in student mobility
Project contributors: Findlay A, Falkingham J, McCollum D, Prazeres L, Malmberg G, Krisjane Z, Sander N, - Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M,
Prof. Jonathan Forster
Jonathan Forster formally worked at the Centre for Population Change within the modelling strand. He is now Head of Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.
Publications Jonathan has been involved in:
Projects Jonathan has been involved in:
- Modelling and forecasting UK mortality
Project contributors: Dodd E, Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, - Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A, - Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Independent review of population projection methodology of the Greater London Authority
Project contributors: Hilton J, Bijak J, Forster J, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H, - Combining data for demographic estimation
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Smith P, Wiśniowski A, Raymer J, - Survey of methodology on the quantitative assessment of the phenomenon of asylum-related migration
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Forster J, - Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Higham P, Nurse S, Smith P, Uhrmacher A, Modirrousta-Galian A,
Irene Frageri
Irene Frageri
Irene is currently a PhD student at the Department of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", University of Bologna, and a research visitor at the University of Southampton.
Dr. Maja-Emilie Fuglsang-Palmer
Maja Emilie Fuglsang Palmer is a Research Manager at NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. She was formally a Teaching Fellow in Gerontology at the University of Southampton.
Publications Maja-Emilie has been involved in:
Dr. Paulina Galezewska
Dr. Paulina Galezewska
Office for National Statistics
Paulina is a Senior Research Officer at the Office for National Statistics. She completed her PhD in Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton within the CPC fertility strand.
Publications Paulina has been involved in:
Dr. Anne Gasteen
Anne Gasteen is a Labour Economist and was previously a CPC Research Fellow based at the University of Stirling, working on The Linking Longitudinal Studies of Ageing with Administrative Data project within the life course strand of CPC.
Publications Anne has been involved in:
Projects Anne has been involved in:
- Linking longitudinal studies of ageing with administrative data
Project contributors: Bell D, Rutherford A, Gasteen A,
Prof. Vernon Gayle
Vernon Gayle is a Professor of Sociology and Social Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications Vernon has been involved in:
Projects Vernon has been involved in:
- Moving on and moving up: the implications of socio-spatial mobility for partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Gayle V, Graham E, Boyle P, Shapira M, - Non-labour market implications of family migration
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, Van-Ham M, Nowok B, - Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M,
Dr. Madelin Gomez-Leon
Madelin Gomez-Leon is a demographer scientist with a Ph.D. in Demography (Autonomous University of Barcelona-UAB, 2013). She is Lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University and associated researcher at the CNSC Research Group (Open University of Catalonia-UOC, Spain) and University of Southampton (UK). She is engaged with research conducted at the intersection of demography, sociology, gerontology, and epidemiology to understand socio-economic differences and to address demographic challenges such as the drivers of health, mortality, retirement, and social care in later life.
Publications Madelin has been involved in:
Projects Madelin has been involved in:
- Sandwich generation
Project contributors: Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Gomez-Leon M, - Reciprocity of care between parents and adult children. The impact of caring on employment
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Gomez-Leon M,
Joseph Harrison
Joseph Harrison is a Research Fellow in the MigrantLife project at the University of St Andrews. He is currently working on life course transitions of immigrants and their descendants in France. His background is in sociological demography with particular research interests on the health and family trajectories of immigrant populations in Western Europe and longitudinal analysis of administrative data.
Publications Joseph has been involved in:
Projects Joseph has been involved in:
- MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Dr. Martin Hinsch
Dr. Martin Hinsch
University of Glasgow
Martin Hinsch is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. He has done his PhD in Theoretical Biology but has also worked in Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Swarm Robotics and Machine Learning. He is generally interested in modelling complex emergent systems. Martin previously worked within the modelling strand of the CPC.
Publications Martin has been involved in:
Dr. Stefanie Hoherz
Stefanie is a Senior Researcher in the research group "Family and Fertility" at the Federal Institute for Population Research. Stefanie formally worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southampton in the Fertility and Family strand of the ESRC Centre for Population Change.
Publications Stefanie has been involved in:
Projects Stefanie has been involved in:
- The consequences of new living arrangements in cross-national comparison
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Hoherz S, Styrc M,
Dr. Jennifer Holland
Jennifer A. Holland is Assistant Professor of Social Science Research Methods at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jennifer's research investigates the social and economic consequences of family change for individuals and societies in the Europe and the United States.
Publications Jennifer has been involved in:
Andrew Ibbetson
Andrew Ibbetson is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews on the ERC-funded MigrantLife project. He previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy and the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society.
Publications Andrew has been involved in:
Projects Andrew has been involved in:
- MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Prof. Lynn Jamieson
Lynn Jamieson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is also one of the founding co-directers of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), an associate editor of the Families, Relationships and Societies journal and co-editor of the Palgrave series on Families and Intimate Life.
Publications Lynn has been involved in:
Projects Lynn has been involved in:
- Twenty+ Futures: Recession, global threats and young people's anticipated futures as partners and parents
Project contributors: Jamieson L, Rawlins E, Cunningham-Burley S, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A,
Dr. Lucy Jordan
Lucy Jordan is a Social Work Academic and International Consultant at James Cook University.
Publications Lucy has been involved in:
Projects Lucy has been involved in:
- Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y,
Dr. Richard Kapend
Richard Kapend is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Winchester. He is linked to the modelling strand of CPC.
Publications Richard has been involved in:
Prof. John Knowles
John Knowles is a Professor of Economics at the Economics department of Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has worked within the fertility strand of the CPC.
Publications John has been involved in:
Projects John has been involved in:
- Do marital prospects dissuade unmarried fertility
Project contributors: Knowles J, - The economics of fertility: Fertility booms and propagation of the post-war marriage squeeze
Project contributors: Knowles J, Vandenbroucke G,
Dr. Helen Kowalewska
Helen Kowalewska is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Bath, UK. Her research focuses on women's employment and policies, using quantitative and qualitative methods. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford after completing a PhD at the University of Southampton in 2018.
Publications Helen has been involved in:
Projects Helen has been involved in:
Maria-Herica La-Valle
Maria Herica La Valle has recently completed her Phd in Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton. She had an ESRC-Office for National Statistics funded studentship to investigate the thesis entitled 'Life events and changes in health-related behaviours: An investigation using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing'. Her research interests are ageing, health, life events and gender.
Publications Maria-Herica has been involved in:
Dr. Adele Lebano
Adele Lebano is a researcher at the University of Uppsala. Her research interests focus on intergenerational exchanges; young people, women, and work.
Publications Adele has been involved in:
Projects Adele has been involved in:
Dr. Ye Liu
Dr. Ye Liu
Sun Yat-sen University
Ye Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He received his PhD at Department of Geography & Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on migration, labour market, urban neighbourhoods, and regional development. He previously worked within the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Ye has been involved in:
Projects Ye has been involved in:
- Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M,
Prof. John MacInnes
John MacInnes is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean in Quantitative Methods at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include social demography, especially population ageing, the sociology of gender and the sociology of national identity.
Publications John has been involved in:
Projects John has been involved in:
- Flexible ageing: new ways to measure and explore the diverse experience of population ageing in Scotland, using the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Project contributors: MacInnes J, Spijker J, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A,
Dr. Alan Marshall
Dr Alan Marshall joined the University of Edinburgh in 2017 as Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and director of the Q-Step Centre. He has have previously held lecturing positions in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester (where he retains an honorary research position) and the University of St Andrews. He is linked with projects within the lifecourse strand of CPC.
Publications Alan has been involved in:
Projects Alan has been involved in:
Prof. Xavier Mateos-Planas
Xavier Mateos-Planas is a Professor and Director of Research in the School of Economics and Finance at the Queen Mary University of London. He has previously worked within the fertility strand of the CPC.
Publications Xavier has been involved in:
Projects Xavier has been involved in:
- Fertility and the distribution of income and wealth
Project contributors: Schoonbroodt A, Mateos-Planas X,
Dr. Ben Matthews
Dr. Ben Matthews
University of Stirling
Ben Matthews is a Lecturer in Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Stirling.
Dr. Gabriela Mejia-Pailles
Gabriela Mejia Pailles is a Visiting Research Fellow in Demography at the University of Southampton. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow for CPC working on a project linked to the Fertility and Family Change strand with Vicky Hosegood. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de Mexico, carrying out research on the role of demographic interventions to reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in Ghana.
Publications Gabriela has been involved in:
Sarah Morton
Sarah Morton
Matter of Focus
Sarah is the Co-Director of Matter of Focus. Formally she was the co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships based in the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Panagiotis Nanos
Panagiotis Nanos is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sheffield. His research interests lie in the broad field of labour economics. His work focuses on labour markets characterised by trading frictions. Panagiotis has previously been involved in research projects linked to migration.
Publications Panagiotis has been involved in:
Dr. Sarah Neal
Sarah Neal is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. Her interests include maternal and child health (with particular focus on the neonatal period), adolescent sexual and reproductive health, measuring inequities in health and healthcare in fragile states. Sarah is currently researching motherhood in very young adolescents (under 16 years) in developing countries.
Publications Sarah has been involved in:
Dr. Glenna Nightingale
Glenna Nightingale is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications Glenna has been involved in:
Projects Glenna has been involved in:
- Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M,
Dr. Beata Nowok
Beata Nowok is currently a Research Fellow in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and the Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland. She is currently working on the Synthetic Data Estimation for UK Longitudinal Studies (SYLLS) project, for which she is based in Edinburgh. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow within the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Beata has been involved in:
Projects Beata has been involved in:
- Non-labour market implications of family migration
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, Van-Ham M, Nowok B,
Dr. Sarah Nurse
Sarah Nurse is a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Southampton working on the Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies (BAPS) project, focusing on migration data quality and uncertainty. She recently completed her PhD in Social Statistics and Demography at the University which explored the dispersal of asylum seekers and refugees in the context of limited data.
Publications Sarah has been involved in:
Projects Sarah has been involved in:
- Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Higham P, Nurse S, Smith P, Uhrmacher A, Modirrousta-Galian A,
Dr. Helen Packwood
Helen Packwood is a Lecturer in Social Research Methods at the University of Edinburgh. Previously she had a PhD studentship exploring changing ethnic identities of young people in Scotland at the University of St Andrews.
Publications Helen has been involved in:
Projects Helen has been involved in:
- Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S,
Prof. Sabu Padmadas
Sabu Padmadas is a Professor of Demography and Global Health within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. He is also the Head of Teaching Programmes and Co-Director of GHP3 (Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty & Policy). He has worked within the life course, migration and intergenerational exchange strands of CPC.
Publications Sabu has been involved in:
Projects Sabu has been involved in:
- Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on intergenerational support, health and income: the cases of China and South Africa
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Evandrou M, Wahba J, Jordan L, Padmadas S, Zhu L, Wang Z, Cai F, Collinson M, Du Y, - Coping with the Urban Environment? Gender Disadvantage, Social Inequalities and Well-being of Economic Migrants in China
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Qin M, Padmadas S, Brown J, Li B, Wu Z, Zheng Z, Madise N, - Ageing and wellbeing in a globalizing world (AgeGlobe)
Project contributors: Evandrou M, Vlachantoni A, Hosegood V, Falkingham J, Feng Z, Padmadas S,
Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath
Saseendran Pallikadavath is a Professor of Demography and Global Health at the University of Portsmouth. He has previously been involved in the fertility strand of the CPC.
Publications Saseendran has been involved in:
Lydia Palumbo
Lydia Palumbo
University of Turku
Lydia Palumbo is a senior researcher at the University of Turku. Lydia’s research investigates the relationship between economic precariousness and union dynamics among young British adults.
Publications Lydia has been involved in:
Dafni Papoutsaki
Dafni Papoutsaki
Brighton Business School
Dafni Papoutsaki is a lecturer at Brighton Business School. She was previously a Research Fellow for the Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton, for which she was working within the new mobilities and migration strand.
Publications Dafni has been involved in:
Projects Dafni has been involved in:
- Migrants and economic uncertainty
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wang C, Wahba J, Calvo-Pardo H, Papoutsaki D,
Dr. Pathik Pathak
Pathik Pathak is the Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship within the Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology section of the Social Sciences department at the University of Southampton. He is also the Founding Director of the University's Social Impact Lab. His current research is a cross-cultural exploration of social entrepreneurship and discourses of employability in global higher education. Pathik has also become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education.
Publications Pathik has been involved in:
Dr. Serena Pattaro
Serena Pattaro is a Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She is a Co-Investigator with the ESRC-funded Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), part of UK-wide Administrative Data Research UK infrastructure. She has been affiliated with the Centre for Population Change since 2012, where she was involved with work on fertility postponement. She holds a DPhil in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Her research is concerned with understanding how disparities within the labour market, household, social security and health systems combine and lead to subsequent inequalities over the life course. Her current research interests focus on using linked administrative data for the evaluation of social security policies and the application of natural experiments and quasi experimental designs. At the University of Glasgow she convenes a postgraduate course on "Quantitative Data Analysis" and is a member of the teaching team for the SCADR training course "Introduction to Administrative Data Research and Analysis (IADRA)."
Publications Serena has been involved in:
Projects Serena has been involved in:
- Factors facilitating fertility recuperation
Project contributors: Berrington A, Pattaro S,
Natalia Permyakova
Natalia Permyakova is a Medical Statistician within the Macmillan Survivorship Research Group (MSRG) at the University of Southampton.
Publications Natalia has been involved in:
Dr. Emilia Pietka-Nykaza
Emilia Pietka-Nykaza is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of West of Scotland and she is a Co-Director of Centre for Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity within UWS. She holds PhD in education (Strathclyde University), MPhil in Sociology (University of Strathclyde), MSc in Refugee and Migration studies (University of Strathclyde) and Master in Political Science (University of Warsaw). Her research and academic experience span across themes of migrant's citizenship rights and participation, refugee integration, migrant's staying practices from a multidisciplinary and policy-focus perspective. Emilia's recent research is focusing on rural living among migrant and non-migrant communities in rural Scotland, and role of social connections in shaping young people mobility patterns in rural context. Previously, she worked as a CPC research fellow within the migration and constitutional change strands.
Publications Emilia has been involved in:
Projects Emilia has been involved in:
- Examining the drivers, impacts and long-term trajectories of Polish migration a decade after accession
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E, - The Sociology of Brexit Seminar Series
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Pietka-Nykaza E,
Dr. Toby Prike
Toby Prike is a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Previously he was a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Southampton working on the Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies (BAPS) project, focusing on the decision-making process.
Publications Toby has been involved in:
Francesco Rampazzo
Francesco Rampazzo is a Lecturer in Demography at the University of Oxford at the Department of Sociology, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and Nuffield College. He is a demographer with a broad range of research interests, which include digital and computational demography with applications in fertility, migration, and survey research.
Publications Francesco has been involved in:
Prof. James Raymer
James Raymer is a Professor in Demography and Head of the School of Demography at the Australian National University. His areas of expertise include demography, migration and human geography. He has previously worked within the modelling and migration strands of CPC.
Publications James has been involved in:
Projects James has been involved in:
- Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H, - Combining data for demographic estimation
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Smith P, Wiśniowski A, Raymer J,
Dr. Eloi Ribe
Eloi Ribe is a Lecturer in Gerontology at the University of Southampton.
Publications Eloi has been involved in:
Dr. James Robards
Dr. James Robards
Office for National Statistics
James Robards is Head of Populations and Household Projections at the Office for National Statistics. Previous appointments James held at the University of Southampton include: Research Fellow in the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods where he researched the use of automated zone design for the spatial aggregation of census and administrative data in relation to Statistical Disclosure Control (2015-2017). Research Fellow in the ESPRC Care Life Cycle where he engaged with research on ageing, informal care, wellbeing and the drivers of health and social care (2011-2015). PhD candidate in Social Statistics and Demography, supervised by Prof. Ann Berrington and Dr. Andy Hinde, completing a thesis titled 'Estimating the fertility of migrants to England and Wales using the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study' (2012).
Publications James has been involved in:
Prof. Steven Roberts
Steven Roberts is a Professor of Education and Social Justice, and Head of the School of Education, Culture & Society at Monash University in Australia. Previously he was working within the living arrangements strand of the CPC.
Publications Steven has been involved in:
Projects Steven has been involved in:
Dr. Albert Sabater
Albert Sabater is currently the Chair and Director of the Observatory for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence of Catalonia, and also holds his position as Serra Hunter Associate Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences at the University of Girona.
Publications Albert has been involved in:
Projects Albert has been involved in:
- Economic change and internal population dynamics: an innovative study of new residential mobilities in Scotland
Project contributors: McCollum D, Sabater A, Feng Z, Finney N, Findlay A, Ernsten A, Nightingale G, - Fertility in the context of economic recession and international migration: a comparative study of Italy, Spain and the UK
Project contributors: Graham E, Feng Z, Jamieson L, MacInnes J, Fiori F, Sabater A, Lebano A, - Children's educational attainment and the longevity of parents: The impact of upward intergenerational health transfers
Project contributors: Sabater A, Graham E, Marshall A, - Residential Age Segregation in Britain
Project contributors: Sabater A, Graham E, Finney N,
Dr. Nora Sanchez-Gassen
Dr. Nora Sanchez-Gassen
Nordregio, Stockholm
Nora Sánchez Gassen is a Senior Research Fellow at Nordregio in Stockholm. Previously Nora worked as a Research Fellow for CPC within the fertility strand of CPC.
Publications Nora has been involved in:
Projects Nora has been involved in:
- Non-marital childbearing project
Project contributors: Perelli-Harris B, Styrc M, Sanchez-Gassen N, Amos M,
Melisa Sayli
Melisa Sayli
University of Surrey
Melisa Sayli is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York and also a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Southampton, affiliated with the family and fertility strand of CPC. She worked with Dr Agnese Vitali on the project 'Female-breadwinner Families in Europe'. Her main research interests include Labour Economics with a focus on family and gender issues.
Publications Melisa has been involved in:
Prof. Christian Schluter
Prof. Christian Schluter
Aix-Marseille University
Christian Schluter is professor of economics at Aix-Marseille University and Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). He was previously a Reader in Economics at the University of Southampton and worked with Jackie Wahba within the migration strand of the CPC.
Publications Christian has been involved in:
Projects Christian has been involved in:
- Does unemployment cause return migration?
Project contributors: Schluter C, Wahba J, Bijwaard G,
Prof. Alice Schoonbroodt
Alice Schoonbroodt is a Senior Lecturer at Terry College of Business, University of Georgia and a personal coach and career consultant. Her research interests include macroeconomics, demographic economics and family economics, growth and development. She has previously worked within the fertility and family strand of CPC.
Publications Alice has been involved in:
Projects Alice has been involved in:
- Fertility and the distribution of income and wealth
Project contributors: Schoonbroodt A, Mateos-Planas X,
Dr. Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill is Head of Department, Director of Research and and Academic Integrity Officer for the Gerontology Department.She has an interest in older people's social and support networks in developing and transitional societies. Elisabeth has previously worked for CPC within the migration strand.
Publications Elisabeth has been involved in:
Projects Elisabeth has been involved in:
- Rural ageing, migration and care
Project contributors: Bell D, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Schröder-Butterfill E,
Dr. Bindi Shah
Bindi Shah is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Southampton. She has a special research interest in Migration, Asian American and British South Asian second-generation, Citizenship, Sociology of Religion, Critical Race and Feminist Studies and Youth Activism.
Publications Bindi has been involved in:
Prof. Hanlin Shang
Hanlin Shang is a Professor of Business Analytics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has previously worked within CPC as a member of the modelling strand team.
Publications Hanlin has been involved in:
Projects Hanlin has been involved in:
- Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H,
Dr. Marina Shapira
Marina Shapira is an Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Stirling. She has previously worked within the migration strand of the CPC.
Publications Marina has been involved in:
Projects Marina has been involved in:
- Moving on and moving up: the implications of socio-spatial mobility for partnership and fertility
Project contributors: Gayle V, Graham E, Boyle P, Shapira M,
Dr. Tomas Sobotka
Tomáš Sobotka leads the research group on Fertility and Family and serves as deputy director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austrian Academy of Sciences). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research and co-director of the Human Fertility Database. His research focuses on global low fertility and family changes, family policies, fertility data and measurement, childlessness, assisted reproduction and migration.
Publications Tomas has been involved in:
Jeroen Spijker
Jeroen Spijker is currently a "Ramon y Cajal" Research Fellow at the Center for Demographic Studies, situated near Barcelona, Spain. His previous employers include the Vienna Institute of Demography as well as the University of Edinburgh where he worked on an ESRC-funded project that looked at new ways to measure the diverse experience of population ageing. He is now extending his research by also studying the determinants of coresidence and dependence of the old-age population, with a special focus on Spain. Jeroen obtained a BA (1994) in Sociology and Human Geography from Massey University, New Zealand and a Master (1997) and PhD (2004) in Spatial Sciences (specialisation Demography) from Groningen University, the Netherlands. Jeroen has worked within the CPC life course strand.
Publications Jeroen has been involved in:
Projects Jeroen has been involved in:
Dr. Seb Stannard
Seb Stannard is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Publications Seb has been involved in:
Dr. Juliet Stone
Juliet Stone is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University, UK. Her research centres around poverty and living standards, particularly in relation to UK social policy. Juliet was formally a Research Fellow at the Centre for Population Change as a Research Fellow working within the Family and Fertility strand.
Publications Juliet has been involved in:
Policy Engagement Juliet has been involved in:
Projects Juliet has been involved in:
- Leaving and returning home in the UK
Project contributors: Berrington A, Falkingham J, Stone J, - The transition to living alone and mental health in later life
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Stone J, - Family dynamics and inequality
Project contributors: Berrington A, Stone J, - Fertility dynamics in the context of economic recession
Project contributors: Berrington A, Stone J,
Dr. Sylvia Szabo
Dr. Sylvia Szabo
HelpAge International
Sylvia Szabo is a Global Income Security Adviser at HelpAge International. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow within the Social Sciences department of the University of Southampton, working on the Belmont Forum DELTAS project, which aims to unify scientific understanding of delta regions as coupled socio-ecological systems.
Publications Sylvia has been involved in:
Projects Sylvia has been involved in:
- Sustainable Deltas, 2015 Project
Project contributors: Szabo S,
Dr. Peter Tammes
Peter Tammes is a Senior Quantitative Research Associate at the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. He is currently working on a study investigating primary care factors associated with utilisation of unscheduled secondary care. Previously he worked as a Research Fellow for CPC.
Publications Peter has been involved in:
Projects Peter has been involved in:
Dr. Stephanie Thiehoff
Stephanie Thiehoff is a former PhD student of Social Statistics and Demography. Her research is about the diffusion of new fertility behaviour in England and Wales as well as Germany using spatial statistical techniques.
Publications Stephanie has been involved in:
Dr. Scott Tindal
Dr. Scott Tindal
University of Greenwich
Dr Scott Tindal is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich. Scott completed an ESRC-CPC funded PhD studentship which examined the process of knowledge exchange at the Centre for Population Change. As well as undertaking his PhD, Scott spent a year working as a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews within the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Scott has been involved in:
Projects Scott has been involved in:
- Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S,
Dr. Valentina Tocchioni
Valentina Tocchioni is an Assistant Professor in Social Statistics at the University of Florence since 2019. After her Ph.D. thesis, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florence and a visiting fellow at CPC, University of Southampton.
Dr. Paulina Trevena
Paulina is an affiliate Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. She has been working as a researcher in the field of migration studies since 2004. She has previously worked within migration strand of CPC.
Publications Paulina has been involved in:
Projects Paulina has been involved in:
Dr. Giuseppe Troccoli
Giuseppe Troccoli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Catholic University of Temuco (Chile). Formally he worked on the research project 'Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK' within the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Giuseppe has been involved in:
Projects Giuseppe has been involved in:
- Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK
Project contributors: McGhee D, Moreh C, Vlachantoni A, Troccoli G,
Dr. Michele Tuccio
Michele Tuccio is an economist in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the OECD. His research focuses on the economics of migration, with a specialization on its determinants and its developmental impact, as well as on labour market dynamics. He is also a research fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Previously, he has worked for several international organization, including the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton. He joined the migration strand of CPC.
Publications Michele has been involved in:
Dr. Heini Vaisanen
Heini Vaisanen is a tenured researcher at the French Institute for Population Studies (INED). Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health, population health and social demography.
Publications Heini has been involved in:
Prof. Agnese Vitali
Agnese Vitali is Professor of Demography at the University of Trento in the Department of Sociology and Social Research. She previously worked as a Lecturer in Social Statistics and Demography within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Agnese's research interests include the study of gender roles, transition to adulthood and low fertility.
Publications Agnese has been involved in:
Projects Agnese has been involved in:
- Female-Breadwinner Families in Europe
Project contributors: Vitali A, - Social policies to support women's employment and achieve gender-friendly workplaces
Project contributors: Kowalewska H, Vitali A,
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker has worked for several years in the refugee sector in the UK as both a refugee support worker and a researcher. Sarah previously worked at CPC as a Senior Research Assistant within the migration strand.
Publications Sarah has been involved in:
Projects Sarah has been involved in:
Dr. Chuhong Wang
Dr. Chuhong Wang
Chuhong (Flora) Wang is a former Senior Research Assistant at the Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. Previously, she was a PhD student in Economics at the University. Her main research interests are in the area of economics of migration and economics of health.
Publications Chuhong has been involved in:
Projects Chuhong has been involved in:
- Migrants and economic uncertainty
Project contributors: Giulietti C, Wang C, Wahba J, Calvo-Pardo H, Papoutsaki D,
Dr. Ning Wang
Dr. Ning Wang
Ning Wang was a Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of Southampton and worked within the exchange between the generations strand of the CPC.
Publications Ning has been involved in:
Projects Ning has been involved in:
Prof. Arkadiusz Wiśniowski
Arkadiusz Wiśniowski is a Professor of Social Statistics & Demography and a Head of Department at the Social Statistics Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. His research concentrates on developing statistical methods for modelling and forecasting complex social processes, with a particular focus on migration and mobility, and combining various sources of data. Previously he was working within the modelling strand of the CPC.
Publications Arkadiusz has been involved in:
Projects Arkadiusz has been involved in:
- Probabilistic population forecasting
Project contributors: Bijak J, Hilton J, Smith P, Forster J, Dodd E, Wiśniowski A, - Evaluation of existing migration forecasting methods and models
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, Smith P, Forster J, Disney G, Wiśniowski A, - Forecasting Scottish migration after the 2014 referendum
Project contributors: Bijak J, Findlay A, McCollum D, Wiśniowski A, - Integrated Modelling of European Migration (IMEM)
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Van-de-Erf R, Keillman N, Schoorl J, Christiansen S, - Developing a Dynamic Population Model for the UK
Project contributors: Bijak J, Smith P, Forster J, Raymer J, Abel G, Wiśniowski A, Shang H, - Combining data for demographic estimation
Project contributors: Bijak J, Forster J, Smith P, Wiśniowski A, Raymer J,
Prof. Robert Wright
Robert Wright is an Affiliate, at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
Publications Robert has been involved in:
Projects Robert has been involved in:
- Migration and the constitutional future of Scotland
Project contributors: Findlay A, Bijak J, McCollum D, Wright R, Bell D, Packwood H, Tindal S,
Dr. Yazhen Yang
Yazhen Yang was a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton working on an ESRC-SCDTP based research project: Grandchild caring and late-life depression: A comparative study in England, Europe and China
Publications Yazhen has been involved in:
Media Yazhen has been involved in:
Dr. Lu Ye
Dr Lu Ye is a visiting scholar at the University of Southampton. She is an Assistant Professor at Southwest University in China. Her research interests include population ageing projections and healthy ageing. She has been involved in the project, APEC funded programme: A study of innovations in frontier methods for probabilistic household population projections and their application to elderly care and sustainable development in China and other eight developing countries in Belt and Road Asia.
Prof. Asghar Zaidi
Asghar Zaidi is an Associate Professorial Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Previously, he was a Professor in International Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Asghar's research work covers active ageing and solidarity between generations and issues linked with financial and social sustainability of the European welfare system.
Publications Asghar has been involved in:
Projects Asghar has been involved in:
- Understanding quality of life and well-being of older people: Case studies of China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Project contributors: Zaidi A, Scobie J, Evandrou M,
Dr. Afshin Zilanawala
Afshin Zilanawala is an Associate Professor in Demography at University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the connection between family contexts and children's health and development, with particular focus on parents' economic wellbeing. Her research agenda also investigates children's development cross-nationally between the US and UK.
Publications Afshin has been involved in:
CPC Advisory boards
Prof. Tim Allen
Tim Allen is owner and co-owner of two research consultancies, and combines this with teaching post graduates on public policy, and working in various capacities with UK Research Councils. Previously, Tim was research director for the Local Government Association and a civil servant in the Department for Environment, Food and the Treasury. Earlier roles included head of Corporate Strategy, Research and Corporate Governance for the former Countryside Agency, a regional director for the Countryside Commission, and leading programmes to green agriculture, before which he worked as a property professional in public and private practice. Tim is a Chartered Surveyor, visiting fellow at Cranfield University, a visiting professor at Birkbeck, a Secretary of State appointee to the Local Public Data Panel and a member of the Public Policy Advisory Committee at the University of Southampton.
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 of the Council of the British Academy, the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Library Board, and he chaired the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland for 12 years. He is currently a member of the Office of National Statistics UK Population Theme Advisory Board, but devotes the majority of his time to finishing a wide ranging comparative study of the population histories of the different parts and occupational groups of Scotland for the period since c1850. He also has ongoing interests in the sociology and history of forethought and in the social structure of nineteenth century Britain as seen through the censuses.
Mike Daly
Mike Daly
Department of Work and Pensions
Mike is a career Civil Servant, having worked as a government statistician since leaving Cambridge University in 1980. He has worked in a wide variety of analytical posts, in fields including: consumer price indices; labour supply estimation/projection; small business statistics, analysis and monitoring of training programmes. In 1997 Mike moved to the then Employment Service to work on the evaluation of New Deal for Young People. Over the next ten years he was involved in much of the evaluation activity of UK Welfare to Work programmes. In his current role in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) Central Analysis Division, Mike has responsibilities including; oversight of DWP's research programme, security assurance for research projects, and providing expert support to research and evaluation activity across DWP. Mike has been a member of the Cross-Government Evaluation Group since 2009, and was part of the working group developing the new version of the Magenta Book, the government guide to evaluation. He is also a member of the DWP Data Access Ethics Committee.
Prof. John Ermisch
John Ermisch is Professor of Family Demography at the University of Oxford. His research interests focus on the structure and dynamics of families and their interaction with wider society. Currently he is studying the intergenerational exchange of support and the interaction between housing transitions and fertility. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.
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.
Prof. Gunnar Andersson
Prof. Gunnar Andersson
Gunnar Andersson is Professor of Demography at Stockholm University where he is Head of the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA).
Publications Gunnar has been involved in:
Projects Gunnar has been involved in:
- MigrantLife
Project contributors: Kulu H, Mikolai J, Delaporte I, Andersson G, Abed-Al-Ahad M, Christison S, Ibbetson A, Harrison J,
Connecting Generations advisory board
Prof. Hal Caswell
Prof. Hal Caswell
Hal Caswell is Professor of Mathematical Demography and Ecology at the University of Amsterdam.
Publications Hal has been involved in:
Alison Clyde
Alison Clyde
Alison Clyde is the Chief Executive Officer at Generations Working Together.
Prof. Helga De-Valk
Prof. Helga De-Valk
Helga de Valk is Professor of Migration and the Life Course at the University of Groningen where she is Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). She is currently president of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).
Publications Helga has been involved in:
Prof. Sir Ian Diamond
Prof. Sir Ian Diamond
(Chair)
Prof Sir Ian Diamond is the UK's National Statistician. He is the principal advisor on official statistics to the UK Statistics Authority and the Government, and Head of the Government Statistical Service. The National Statistician is also a member of the UK Statistics Authority Board as Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary.
Publications Sir Ian has been involved in:
Prof. Grant Hill-Cawthorne
Prof. Grant Hill-Cawthorne
Grant Hill-Cawthorne is Director of Research at the House of Commons and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the University of Sydney.
Toqeer Kataria
Toqeer Kataria is Cabinet Member for Communities and Customer Engagement at Southampton City Council.
Sam Mold
Sam Mold
Sam Mold works at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), in the Pensions and Later Life Analysis Division Policy Group.
Prof. Jacqueline O'Reilly
Prof. Jacqueline O'Reilly
Jacqueline O'Reilly is Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management (Management) at the University of Sussex Business School where she is Co-Director of the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre.
Dr. Lucy Peake
Dr. Lucy Peake
Lucy Peake is the Chief Executive of Kinship.
Rich Pereira
Rich Pereira
Rich Pereira is the Deputy Director, Centre for Ageing and Demography at the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Prof. Sally Power
Prof. Sally Power
Sally Power is a Professor at Cardiff University where she specialises in Education and Sociology and is Co-Director of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data).
Julie Ramsey
Julie Ramsey
Julie Ramsey works at the National Records of Scotland.
Rachel Sunderland
Rachel Sunderland
Rachel Sunderland is Head of the Population and Migration Division at the Scottish Government.
Secretariat
Rosie Bishop
Rosie Bishop is the Events and Communications Co-ordinator for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. Following on from her degree in Business and Management from Bath Spa University, Rosie worked in the Communications team for an Independent Children's Services Provider, before joining the CPC-CG team in October 2022.
Lyndsey Cooper
Lyndsey Cooper is a Centre Administrator for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations at the University of Southampton. Her main role is to process claims and expenses for the centre and collate activity data for the Annual report and ESRC/UKRI catalogue. Following on from her degree in Business & IT, Lyndsey spent 10 years working at Southampton City Council as a Business Support Officer in Private Sector Housing.
+44 (0)23 8059 5736
Becki Dey
Becki Dey is a Science Writer for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations at the University of Southampton. Becki's role involves communicating the work of the CPC-CG to, and working with, policy makers, practitioners, the academic community and members of the public through publications, events, the media, the website, and social media to highlight the relevance of the research and facilitate ways that it can be widely used. Following on from her degree in Journalism from Cardiff University, Becki has worked at the University of Southampton since 2005. She has done various communications and events roles at the University's Careers Service, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC).
Publications Becki has been involved in:
Media Becki has been involved in:
Projects Becki has been involved in:
- ESRC Festival of Social Science
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Workshops and subject materials
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Women's Days
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - UN World Population Day
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - European Day of Demography
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Bringing Research to Life Roadshow
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Population Pyramids
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B,
Teresa McGowan
Teresa McGowan has been working at the ESRC Centre for Population Change since its creation in January 2009. In her role as Research Manager she is responsible for developing and managing effective research at the Centre. This includes overseeing all aspects of knowledge exchange, editing the Working Paper and Policy Briefing Series and managing collaborative working among the cross-disciplinary, dual-location research team. Her role also encompasses: grant management and resource allocation; development and adherence to protocol; financial and impact reporting; knowledge exchange strategy, management and evaluation; stakeholder liaison; and human resources. She also carries out research within the remit of the Centre's programme. Teresa previously worked as a Researcher at the University of Southampton and holds a degree in Demography and a Masters in Social Statistics.
Publications Teresa has been involved in:
Media Teresa has been involved in:
Projects Teresa has been involved in:
- Understanding the drivers and consequence of population changes in the UK in the context of a changing Europe
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Bridgen P, Evandrou M, McGhee D, Meyer T, Vlachantoni A, Feng Z, McGowan T, Moran J, Moreh C, Edel A, - How to get to 100 and enjoy it! Interactive exhibition and educational resources
Project contributors: Falkingham J, McGowan T, Edel A, - ESRC Festival of Social Science
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Workshops and subject materials
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Women's Days
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - UN World Population Day
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - European Day of Demography
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Bringing Research to Life Roadshow
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - Population Pyramids
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B, - University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day
Project contributors: McGowan T, Dey B,
Louise Warrington
Louise Warrington is a Centre Administrator for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations at the University of Southampton. Prior to joining the CPC-CG team, she has worked in a number of administrative support roles at the University of Southampton. She holds a BA in History and a Level 4 qualification in Business Administration.
+44 (0)2380 592579
Susan Watson
Susan Watson is a Research Project Administrator at the University of St Andrews. Susan is the CPC-CG Scotland Administrator for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations.
Students
Sanny Afable
Sanny Afable's PhD explores the role of adult children in their ageing parents' health and survival, looking at areas such as care and residential arrangements, residential proximity, and intergenerational relationships. He is supervised by Professor Hill Kulu, Dr. Julia Mikolai, Professor Mikko Myrskyla, Dr. Yana Vierboom, and Dr. Megan Evans under the Max Planck - St Andrews studentship in Population Health.
Publications Sanny has been involved in:
Adam Anthony
Gauthier Dulout
Gauthier Dulout is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews working on the Connecting Generations project Social and spatial mobility within and across generations, under the supervision of Dr David McCollum.
Projects Gauthier has been involved in:
- Social and spatial mobility within and across generations
Project contributors: McCollum D, Bell D, Dulout G,
Yifan Ge
Yifan Ge is a +3 SCDTP-funded PhD student in Gerontology at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham. Yifan's current research focuses on women's pension entitlements in the UK, especially for women born during the 1950s and how do they vary by demographic and socio-economic characteristics.
Clara Girault
Clara is a SCDTP-funded PhD student in the Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton. Clara's research focuses on the analysis of external causes of death registration methods with a particular interest on methods for estimating the burden of suicide misclassification. Clara is currently working on the United States and European countries. Clara is supervised by Jason Hilton and Nikos Tzavidis.
Valentina Hinojosa
Valentina Hinojosa is a SCDTP-funded PhD student in Gerontology at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Maria Evandrou. Valentina’s current research focuses on how sexual health is discussed by older adults in primary health care consultations and how health practitioners’ interventions influence sexual activity and help-seeking behaviour amongst older adults in Chile.
Calum Jarvie
Calum Jarvie is a PhD researcher in the department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Stirling. He is researching Intergenerational perspectives on Changing Work Practices & Health under the supervision of Dr Elaine Douglas and Professor David Bell.
Shu Li
Shu Li is a PhD student in the Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton. Shu Li's research focuses on analysing the impact of social media on fertility intentions in China, specifically from two angles: gender role perceptions and influencer persuasions.
Shuqi Lyu
Shuqi Lyu is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews working on the Connecting Generations project Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange.
Projects Shuqi has been involved in:
- Reproductive strategies, families and intergenerational exchange
Project contributors: Berrington A, Kulu H, Fiori F, Keenan K, Mikolai J, Ramos V, Hu K, Lyu S,
Louis MacPherson
Louis is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde whose research focuses on how growing up in rented accommodation affect children's health, wellbeing, and cognitive development in Scotland. Louis's research is funded by the ESRC (SGSSS) and is supervised by Francesca Fiori, Marion Henderson, and Markus Klein.
Nadine Marshall
Nadine Marshall is an ESRC SCDTP funded postgraduate researcher in Gerontology at the University of Southampton researching health behaviour change and implications for the social care of widows in England under the supervision of Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Maria Evandrou. See her research page at the University of Southampton here.
Eve Maynard
Eve Maynard is an IAS funded PhD researcher in the department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Stirling. She is researching the gamification of healthcare amongst older adults in the UK under the supervision of Professor Alison Bowes and Dr Alison Dawson.
Edward Pomeroy
Edward is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews whose research focuses on socio-economic inequalities in informal care provision in the UK. Edward's research is funded by the ESRC (SGSSS) and is supervised by Francesca Fiori, Julia Mikolai, Katherine Keenan and Giorgio Di Gessa.
Publications Edward has been involved in: