New starters and PhD congratulations

Georgios Aristotelous joined the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow as part of the QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy project.

Sarah Christison joined the University of St Andrews to work in the CPC Fertility Strand. Sarah received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh where she evaluated small area population estimates and projections for small areas in Scotland.

Valentina Di Iasio has joined the University of Southampton to work on the QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy project.

Wanting Huang is a PhD student in gerontology at the University of Southampton researching the divergence in the health status and care demands of the older Chinese population. She is supervised by Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Maria Evandrou.

Yazhen Yang is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. She has joined the CPC team to work on an ESRC-SCDTP based research project: ‘Grandchild caring and late-life depression: A comparative study in England, Europe and China’. Haiyu Jin joined as a PhD student researching the association between care-giving and health outcomes for spouse caregivers. She is under the supervision of Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Maria Evandrou at the University of Southampton.

Vivian So has joined the University of St Andrews as a Research Fellow on the internal migration work package.

Sindhu Vasireddy joined the Fertility Trends project as Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.

Susan Watson joined the University of St Andrews as CPC Project Administrator.

Congratulations to Alexandra-Andreea Ciritel who passed her PhD viva successfully. Her research, supervised by Professor Ann Berrington, focused on ‘New perspectives on intimate relationships and singlehood’.