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Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science are developing Mapineq Link, an open-access interactive data dashboard and database with API access that will revolutionise inequality and life course research.

Congratulations to Dr Francesco Rampazzo, Lecturer in Demography at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, who has received an honourable mention for the Italian Society of Statistics’ (Società Italiana di Statistica) award for best thesis in demography.

Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science have launched a new edition of their interactive web dashboard to monitor global digital inequality in real-time.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is part of a winning consortium to establish a £3.72 million REAL research unit for the Health Foundation that will transform our understanding of health and social care.

A new Population Studies paper by Emeritus Professor of Family Demography John Ermisch from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science finds that women across all educational groups had fewer children and later on in life.

An innovative study published today in Science Advances finds that baseball and basketball players whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster had significantly shorter lifespans. Those who peaked earlier had a 1.2 year shorter adult life expectancy whilst those who maintained athletic performance for longer had an 0.8 year higher life expectancy, according to the study by Dr Saul Newman from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

As this years’ Mental Health Awareness Week gets underway in the UK, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science explore the role of genetics and sleep in understanding our mental health.

We are looking forward to Alison Buttenheim’s visit to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the end of this month. During her visit, Alison will give a talk on whether behavioural economics boosted COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, using evidence and insights from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic) and LMIC countries.