In the Media

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science continues to receive widespread media attention, public and policy impact. For media queries, please contact LCDS.Media@demography.ox.ac.uk.

31 Aug 2024

Oxford start-up leads first digital skills event for older people

Dr Linda Hong Cheng, DPhil student and co-founder of Mung!, hosted Oxford’s first-ever student-led event dedicated to addressing the digital exclusion of older people.

Oxford Mail

Report figure: Demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle indicators of Mapineq Link

6 Aug 2024

Policy Insights: Mapineq Link: A new era of equality and insight

Professor Melinda Mills discusses the launch of Mapineq Link and latest report that reveals the demographic, socioeconomic, health and lifestyle variables within the database.

Population Europe

An Indian woman inside her house during lockdown in Kolkata - stock photo

21 Jul 2024

Women hit harder by pandemic: Study flags large, unequal declines in Covid-19 mortality

Dr Aashish Gupta is quoted in this news story about his Science Advance's paper on Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020.

The Telegraph India

20 Jul 2024

What Covid revealed about gender inequality in India

An article on Professor Ridhi Kashyap and Dr Aashish Gupta's Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020 study in Science Advances.

BBC News

16 Jul 2024

Times Radio Breakfast interview with Melinda

Professor Melinda Mills is interviewed on Times Radio Breakfast on the gap between births and deaths in England and Wales being at its lowest level since 1978.

Times Radio

29 May 2024

Global Challenges Programme launched with workshop exploring the impact of AI on human development

Professor Melinda Mills gave a keynote speech at the launch of Reuben College's Global Challenges Programme.

University of Oxford

27 May 2024

The Population Europe Policy Lab

Professor Melinda Mills is a member of the Advisory Board for Population Europe's newly launched Policy Lab. The platform will foster the exchange between policy, the private sector, civil society and academia in order to advance mutual understanding and to cultivate new knowledge about policy relevant demographic developments.

Population Europe

30 Apr 2024

We need a new language to talk about AI that highlights its machine nature

An article by the Centre's DPhil student Vincent Straub on why government leaders need to adopt a more accurate vocabulary to stop the spread of false narratives with the increasing sophistication and adoption of artificial intelligence.

Apolitical

21 Mar 2024

Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation

Professor Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, is interviewed by the New Scientist on a recent Lancet paper on declines in global fertility rates.

New Scientist