Maria Gargiulo, an MPhil student in Sociology and Demography at Nuffield College, was awarded a prestigious human rights prize as a member of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, whose motto is, "Statisticians for Human Rights."
New research by LCDS researchers Arun Frey and David S. Kirk suggests that mass shootings in the United States increase support for stricter gun permits, but only among supporters of the Democratic Party. An exception to this occurs with mass shootings that target school facilities, which mobilize broad support for firearm legislation among both Democrats and Republicans.
Studying Facebook has helped to reveal that the number of European migrants in the UK has been underestimated by as much as 25%, according to a paper published today by LCDS researcher Francesco Rampazzo in the journal Demography, together with Jakub Bijak, Agnese Vitali, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, led by scientists at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, led by Professor Melinda Mills, has been at the forefront of COVID-19-related research into patterns of COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality, ‘hotspots’ of infection, support bubbles, face coverings, and the deployment of vaccines – influencing both national and international policy.
