Welcome
Facts and Figures January 2021 – June 2021
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elcome to this edition of Changing Populations. We are now over a year into the pandemic, and CPC research continues apace to understand its effects.
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And finally, we meet some of the research team in our researcher spotlight, with Professor Athina Vlachantoni celebrated as part of the UN’s Women in Science Day, and Dr Joanne Ellison discussing her PhD journey, see page 16.
Indeed, research from our team investigating societal ageing has highlighted the pressures faced by the ‘sandwich generation’ during the pandemic, and how many people are providing informal care for older loved ones as well as supporting grown-up children or caring for younger children, read more on page 9.
I wish you a good summer!
We celebrated International Women’s Day in March, taking a closer look at the careers of Professors Jane Falkingham and Jackie Wahba and how they have contributed to the advancement of science in their respective fields.
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On page 4, we explain Professor Ann Berrington’s forecasts of the UK’s fertility in the context of the pandemic, and what the projected trends could mean for society as a whole. A popular topic in the media in recent months, declining birth rates can be a cause for alarm for many different reasons, from the opportunities for young people to fulfil their childbearing intentions, to being able to adequately support an ageing population in the future.
CPC members continue to provide comment and speak about our research across the media. Professor Jane Falkingham OBE, CPC’s Director, has appeared in news shows and podcasts in recent months, speaking about demographic changes and CPC’s Covid-19 research.
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The CPC Modelling strand members have been working with ONS on new methods to overcome the challenges of missing data resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Find out how Professor Peter Smith and his team are innovating research methods on page 8.
With my colleagues on the MigrantLife project, I have been examining how partnerships and childbearing patterns change for immigrants and their descendants in the UK. You can read about our findings on page 6.
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As always, I hope you enjoy finding out more about our research activities. If you have any questions or comments, please email cpc@southampton.ac.uk
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Upcoming events: 6 July: Emerging Researchers in Ageing: BSG pre-conference event 7 July: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 7 July: Social Policy Association Annual Conference 7 July: 18th annual IMISCOE Conference 16 July: CPC Webinar - Maarten Bijslma 16 July: Webinar - The demography of COVID-19 and older people in low and middle-income countries 23 July: CPC/CRA Webinar – Yazhen Yang 6 September: CPC session on Statistical Demography at the Royal Statistical Society Conference 6 September: FemQuant Conference - Beyond the binary variable: Feminist quantitative analyses of gendered inequalities 14 September: The British Society for Population Studies Conference 5 December: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population International Population Conference
For further details about our events, please visit www.cpc.ac.uk/ activities/full_events_ calendar To keep up-to-date with our latest news, events and publications, visit www.cpc.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter @CPCpopulation and Facebook. For all the latest CPC news and comment, visit our ‘Centre for Population Change in the news’ page on Scoop.it! www.scoop.it/topic/ centre-for-populationchange 02
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