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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations
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Improving understanding of the drivers & implications of population change & intergenerational connectivity. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UKRI, incl. Unis of Southampton, St Andrews, Stirling, Oxford, and Resolution Foundation.
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 2d
📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar ⬇️

@jiaxinshi.bsky.social from HKUST will present 'Internal #migration and #longevity in the United States'

Register to join us online on 23 October: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
Image shows person presenting a seminar at the front of a classroom, with an audience with their back to the camera and a person in the foreground with their hand up to answer a question. Image credit: istock.com/Giuseppe Lombardo. Text advertises: This CPC-CG seminar will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025 at 12:00-13:00 UK Time. Jiaxin Shi, Associate Professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will be delivering a presentation entitled, 'Internal Migration and Longevity in the United States'.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 6d
Looking forward to those applications!
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 6d
thinking about your next academic home? 🏡✨

imagine: an office where people actually show up, hang out, and do brilliant research on #Demography in Oxford!

that’s us 👋

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFellowships See below 👇

📅 deadline: 15 Dec 2025
🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 2d
📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar ⬇️

@jiaxinshi.bsky.social from HKUST will present 'Internal #migration and #longevity in the United States'

Register to join us online on 23 October: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
Image shows person presenting a seminar at the front of a classroom, with an audience with their back to the camera and a person in the foreground with their hand up to answer a question. Image credit: istock.com/Giuseppe Lombardo. Text advertises: This CPC-CG seminar will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025 at 12:00-13:00 UK Time. Jiaxin Shi, Associate Professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will be delivering a presentation entitled, 'Internal Migration and Longevity in the United States'.
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 5d
NEXT WEEK - CPC-CG member Athina Vlachantoni will be participating in an @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar:

👩‍💻 Exploring #ageing through national #datasets

🗓️ Thursday 9 October at 13:30

Register to attend online: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f9d99b... @bspsuk.bsky.social
Exploring Ageing through National Datasets Webinar Details The Data Resources Training Network welcomes you to the second webinar in our 2025 series: Exploring Ageing through National Datasets The webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. It will take place on Teams on the 9th of October from 13:30 - 15:00. The speakers will be: George B. Ploubidis who will consider a cross-generational life-course approach to healthy ageing in the 21st century, arguing that understanding, addressing the challenges, and seizing the opportunities of an ageing population requires robust evidence spanning the entire life course and multiple generations. Drawing on the UK’s nationally representative birth cohort studies, he will present key insights into the social, economic, and biological factors that shape health and discuss how generational differences illuminate ways to delay chronic illness, promoting health, functioning, and productivity. Athina Vlachantoni who will explore pension protection among minority ethnic communities in the UK. Drawing on a three-year ESRC-funded project, she combines nationally representative data with interviews and focus groups to reveal persistent ethnic and gender gaps in pension membership and saving behaviour as well as culture-specific approaches to later-life finance. The talk discusses how UK pension protection can become more inclusive for future cohorts. Bram Vanhoutte who, drawing on 10 years of data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, examines the gap between subjective and chronological age, the role of functional health, and differences between birth cohorts.
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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 6d
Come along to this @cpc-cg.bsky.social webinar today at 1pm UK time if you are interested in #family #complexity and the #lifecourses of #children in #Europe

To find out more about the @childlives.bsky.social project, visit the website childlives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

@phrg-standrews.bsky.social
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Sanny Afable @sdafable.bsky.social · 9d
Many thanks to my amazing supervisors and co-authors Y. Vierboom, M. Evans, @jmikolai.bsky.social, H. Kulu, and M. Myrskylä. Special thanks as well to the @imprs-phds.bsky.social and @cpc-cg.bsky.social for the support!
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Sanny Afable @sdafable.bsky.social · 9d
Amid welfare retrenchment in many countries, the findings of this study point to the importance of centering family networks, home-based care, and ageing in place in discussions of residential (im)mobilities in later life.
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Sanny Afable @sdafable.bsky.social · 9d
Population ageing raises the question of where and with whom people live as they grow older. We find that the answers can be different but also in many ways similar for parents and childless adults, especially when they face physiological health challenges.
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Sanny Afable @sdafable.bsky.social · 9d
Hot off the press 🔥 My first PhD chapter is now published as a research article in Population, Space and Place! @mpidr.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe
Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whethe...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 9d
‼️ Closing THIS WEDNESDAY - Apply: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 4
📌 New opportunity to work with @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

Post-doctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation

Apply by 1 October #poptwitter: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @bspsuk.bsky.social
Image shows a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook with the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos. Text in the image advertises the job opportunity: Research Fellow or Research Assistant to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. Based at the School of Geography and Sustainable Developmen, University of St Andrews.
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 9d
🗓️ THIS WEEK - Come along to our #CPCCGWebinar

@jmikolai.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social
will discuss @childlives.bsky.social, which aims to understand trends, inequalities & consequences of family complexity in children's lives in Europe.

Register to join us: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...
Image shows person sitting at a desk watching a webinar, alongside the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logo. Accompanying text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 2 October 2025, 13:00-14:00 . Dr Júlia Mikolai, PI of the ChildLives Project and Lecturer in Demography/Quantitative Population Geography at the University of St Andrews will be presenting: "Family complexity in children's lives: A European perspective".
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 13d
Catch-up 📻 CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni joined the Voice of Islam Breakfast Show yesterday to discuss inequalities in UK social care for older people, highlighting regional, socioeconomic and ethnic disparities, and how to adapt for #demographic changes. Listen ⬇️
Breakfast Show Podcast 24-09-2025: Growing Older Growing Wiser & Youth, Technology, and Faith: Navigating the Digital Age as Muslims
News: Latest News/Headlines | Traffic | Weather| Sports Topic I: Growing Older Growing Wiser

Topic II: Youth, Technology, and Faith: Navigating the Digital Age as Muslims

Presenters:
Imam Muhammad
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 13d
🗓️NEXT WEEK - Come along to our #CPCCGWebinar

@jmikolai.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social will discuss @childlives.bsky.social, which aims to understand trends, inequalities & consequences of family complexity in children's lives in Europe

Register to join us: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...
Image shows person sitting at a desk watching a webinar, alongside the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logo. Accompanying text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 2 October 2025, 13:00-14:00 . Dr Júlia Mikolai, PI of the ChildLives Project and Lecturer in Demography/Quantitative Population Geography at the University of St Andrews will be presenting: "Family complexity in children's lives: A European perspective".
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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 26d
We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690
Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,784 - £46,049 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed term until May 2027, <p st...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · 22d
We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 20d
Loved hosting @essgn.bsky.social in Oxford including @dr-appie.bsky.social & family (& the rest of the ESSGN family as well) - read the post and links below to hear about this great event
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · 22d
We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.
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Fraser of Allander Institute @fraserofallander.org · 22d
Our next episode of Key Figures features the esteemed David Bell, Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling and a core original member of the Fraser of Allander Institute.

Listen here:
Podcast: Key Figures - David Bell | FAI
Our next episode of Key Figures features the esteemed David Bell, Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling and a core original member of the Fraser of Allander Institute.
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 22d
🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing?
New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid.

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...
Can Satellite Maps Accurately Count People Where Censuses Are Missing?
A new study published by our Phd Student Edith Darin, together Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 22d
Just out in Nature Genetics, @melindacmills.bsky.social, @vincentjstraub.bsky.social Straub & team show how the UK’s largest new biomedical dataset Our Future Health (striving for 5M participants!) can set a global benchmark in #genomics and #health
Read: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/unlocki...
Unlocking the global promise of Our Future Health
Published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford outline how Our Future Health — one of the UK’s new flagship health resea...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 22d
“ #Pronatalist policies are ‘impotent’ in budging long-term #fertility rates. The root problems are #economic uncertainty, #housing, #childcare, and household gender inequality,” says CG Co-Director @melindacmills.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Image shows the Telegraph article opening with an image of a newborn baby breastfeeding, Credit: Galina Zhigalova/Moment RF. Text reads: What Russians really think about Putin’s baby boom drive Pregnancy payments, a Ministry of Sex and banning ‘child-free propaganda’ all feature in a plan to make large families ‘the norm’ again Phoebe Hennell Related Topics Global Health Security, Russia-Ukraine war, Russia 15 September 2025 10:48am BST The president wants Russian women to have eight or more children to head off the looming demographic crisis
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 23d
🗓️ Date for your diaries

CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:

'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'

Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca...
Image shows event details with NCRM logo. Text reads: Exploring Digital Life, Technology Change and Attitudes to AI through National Datasets Details The Data Resources Training Network welcomes you to the final webinar in our 2025 series: Exploring Digital Life, Technology Change and Attitudes to AI through National Datasets. The webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. It will take place on Teams on the 19th of November from 14:00 – 15:30. The speakers will be: Athina Vlachantoni who will examine patterns of intergenerational digital contact before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Wave Nine and the first wave of the ELSA COVID-19 Sub-study, this talk overviews shifts in digital communication use among older people during the pandemic and reflects on the gender gap and family relationship closeness. Plus Roshni Modhvadia and Mark Elliot
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Aug 21
🗓️Save the Date!

CPC-CG Member, Athina Vlachantoni, will be participating in the @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar, ‘Exploring Ageing Through National Datasets’ on Thursday 9 October at 13:30.

Sign up to attend here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f9d99b...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 26d
Are you 65+ or know someone who is?

We're seeking participants aged 65+ who play or have played digital/video games to complete an online survey to inform research on how #gaming can enhance later life wellbeing- please share! @ageingbetter.bsky.social

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/e...
Image shows two older women enjoying gaming on a sofa, holding controllers and expressing excitement and joy, credit: istock.com/mediaphotos, with Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos. Accompanying text reads: Take part in research. Calling all gamers aged 65+: Shape understanding of how gaming influences wellbeing. Are you 65 or older, and have played some form of digital/video games? Take part in our online survey and help us discover how gaming can be used to improve wellbeing in later life
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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Sep 8
Registration is open for the NCRM Annual Lecture 2025!

A panel of four experts will discuss how to use #AI responsibly in #research.

The free event takes place on 1 October 2025 at the @BritishAcademy_ and will be streamed online.

Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/lecture25/index.php
A promotional graphic for the NCRM Annual Lecture 2025, which will take place on 1 October 2025 and will explore responsible AI in research.
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 27d
📕 New paper by @vincentrramos.bsky.social

Examines #childbearing decisions in societies experiencing #birthrate decline - how might worries about #caring for #ageing parents and job insecurity affect expectations of starting a #family? @populationeu.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Image shows title page of journal article: Future Caregiving Responsibilities, Employment Uncertainties, and Expected Childbearing Behavior: Survey Experimental Evidence from Germany Published: 08 September 2025 Volume 44, article number 48, (2025) Population Research and Policy Review Vincent Jerald Ramos, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Paul Gellert, Jan Paul Heisig & Julie Lorraine O’Sullivan Abstract In societies experiencing declining birth rates, understanding factors that influence childbearing decisions is of interest. We used a factorial survey experiment to investigate how scenarios of future caregiving responsibilities toward aging parents and employment uncertainties shape the expected childbearing behavior of a fictitious couple. Respondents from the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) (n = 1,750) were randomly assigned to five vignettes, each describing a hypothetical couple with varying levels of caregiving responsibilities towards an aging parent and employment uncertainties. Respondents subsequently rated their expectations about the hypothetical couple’s childbearing behavior within the next three years using an 11-point scale. Results show that high caregiving responsibilities and dual employment uncertainties reduce expected childbearing behavior by 2.8 and 1.9 units respectively, compared to when these are absent. The negative effect of high caregiving responsibilities is more pronounced among women, while respondents’ own caregiving and employment experiences do not moderate these effects. These results demonstrate how both future-oriented caregiving responsibilities and employment uncertainties alter expectations about family formation and highlight the scenarios that are regarded as more or less favorable for childbearing.
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