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Professor Ridhi Kashyap
1 Sep 2022

Ridhi Kashyap receives full Professorship

Congratulations to the Centre’s Professor Ridhi Kashyap, who has been promoted to full Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science.

Infographic showing Melinda's achievements
31 Aug 2022

Melinda Mills receives Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis

The Centre’s Director Melinda Mills has received the prestigious 2022 James W. Vaupel Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the European Association of Population Studies.

Stock image taken during COVID-19 in US
25 Aug 2022

Research spotlight: How did COVID-19 exacerbate racial ethnic inequalities in the US?

New research from the Centre highlights the dramatic racial ethnic differences in US life expectancy and mortality during COVID-19.

Santiago, Chile
23 Aug 2022

Life expectancy losses unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19

Life expectancy losses were unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19, according to a new study published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, and conducted by Oxford’s Department of Statistics and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

Pipeline of online participation’ (Shaw and Hargittai, 2018)
17 Jun 2022

When, where and how do Londoners access 'real-time' air pollution information?

DPhil candidate Kayla Schulte’s article on this emerging genre of environmental information was published yesterday in the journal Big Data & Society, just in time for Clean Air Day.

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3 Jun 2022

Mapping populations in the DRC using satellite-derived building footprints

Gianluca Boo, Edith Darin, and our own LCDS Doug Leasure together with colleagues from WorldPop, Columbia University, UCLA, and the DRC Census Bureau used building footprints from high resolution satellite imagery to produce up-to-date population estimates broken down by age and sex across thousands of 100m grid squares—not much larger than a football pitch—throughout five provinces of the DRC.

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1 Jun 2022

Family Demographic Processes and In-Work Poverty: A Systematic Review

In a new study, published in Advances in Life Course Research, Nuffield College and LCDS DPhil student Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela Struffolino, and Nuffield College associate member Zachary Van Winkle systematically review 86 analyses on the associations between family demographic processes and in-work poverty in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union (EU) countries.

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1 Jun 2022

What was the impact of the London congestion charge on air pollution & school attendance?

In their recent paper published in Population and Environment, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nuffield College and LCDS affiliated postdoctoral researcher Tobias Rüttenauer investigate the effect of stricter Congestion Charge rules on air pollution and school absences in London.

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1 Jun 2022

Control over the built environment allows communities to reduce crime

A recent article in Criminology by LCDS and CSI Nuffield College researcher Chuck Lanfear reveals that while collective efficacy enables neighbourhoods to reduce crime directly, it also empowers them to reduce crime indirectly by preventing or removing features of the built environment that provide opportunities for crime.

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