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The University of Groningen is looking for a PhD who will work closely with the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s sociogenomics group on an EU funded MapIneq project. Find out more and apply by 19 March here.

The University of Groningen is looking for a Postdoc to work with the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science on an EU funded MapIneq project. Find out more and apply here.

Last week, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) welcomed partners at the Colombian National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) to discuss future collaborations.

To celebrate Demography Day on Wednesday 15 February, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has launched a video with Oxford Sparks on how demographers are understanding and improving our world. Watch the video below!

A new international study led by the Centre’s Dr José Manuel Aburto finds that life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter in violent countries compared to peaceful countries.

Andrea Tilstra, Arun Frey, and Mark Verhagen are part of a winning consortium to study excess mortality using registry data, during the peak of COVID-19 in The Netherlands.

In a recent paper published in Social Networks, former LCDS Researcher and current Associate Member Per Block uses new network science methods to understand the self-organising mechanisms driving occupational sex segregation.