In the Media

We are thrilled that Professor Jennifer Dowd's “Fight Like a Nerdy Girl: The Dear Pandemic Playbook for Combating Health Misinformation” won the 2022 Editor in Chief Award from the American Journal of Health Promotion.

How long people live is less predictable and life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter, in violent countries compared to peaceful countries, according to a new study today [3/2] from an international team, led by Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. It reveals a direct link between the uncertainty of living in a violent setting, even for those not directly involved in the violence, and a ‘double burden’ of shorter and less predictable lives.

Postdoctoral Researcher Mark Verhagen discusses an awarded project involving researchers at the Centre and Amsterdam Health and Technology Institute (AHTI),that will use individual-level health insurance data and administrative records to compare healthcare use before and during COVID-19.

In this episode of The Why Wait Agenda Podcast, Professor Melinda Mills is asked about her paper “Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives” and to assess the social policies.

Led by our Director Professor Melinda Mills, the team will delve into the REF2021 case study dataset to examine the impact of research in the arts, humanities and social sciences across the UK. Also covered by Research Professional News here.

Francesco Rampazzo and Professor Ridhi Kashyap both have chapters published in the recently published Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy.

Our Director Melinda Mills discusses how changing populations are affecting society in this BBC World Service The Inquiry interview on whether countries should adopt Canada's immigration model.

In this episode of the Why Wait Agenda podcast, Professor Melinda Mills discusses with journalist Eleonora Voltolina the most common reasons for the postponement of parenthood.