Welcome

Professor Jane Falkingham OBE

Welcome

Welcome to the 10th edition of Changing Populations. We’ve had a busy six months, in which we launched the new Connecting Generations project. You can read more about our planned work and find a link to my talk which marked the start of the project on page 4.

Also in this edition, we hear from Brienna Perelli-Harris and colleagues on their research on life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk (page 5). We also find out more about how points-based immigration policy increases the poverty risk for migrant families (page 7). On page 8, we take a look at whether headlines about terrorism increase support for right-wing populism.

On page 10, we find out about the marriage and cohabiting behaviours of those born in the 1970s and 1980s, and on page 11 we report on the effect of Covid-19 lockdowns on birth rates in the UK.

And finally, we meet some of the research team in our researcher spotlight. We congratulate Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jackie Wahba on being conferred to the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Andrew Hind discusses his PhD journey, see page 17.

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

Professor Jane Falkingham OBE CPC Director

Facts and Figures

January 2022 – June 2022

PRESENTED 53 PAPERS

TOOK PART IN 39 ONLINE EVENTS

HOSTED 9 CPC SEMINARS & WEBINARS

MENTIONED IN 173 NEWS AND MEDIA ARTICLES

47 PUBLICATIONS

194,000 TWITTER IMPRESSIONS

3,146,064 WEBSITE HITS

Events:

6 July: Boomers, snowflakes and avocado on toast: Are generational stereotypes harming our futures? | Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk with Professor Bobby Duffy, King’s College London

6-8 July: 3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities

6-8 July: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference

19 July: The problem of the 'Covid Generation' | Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk with Dr Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University

21 July: Unequal transitions to adulthood in low- and middle-income countries | CPC Webinar with Ewa Batyra from the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona

5-7 September: British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference

25 October: Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk with Professor Maria Grasso, Queen Mary University London

December (TBC): Connecting Generations Thought Leader Talk with Professor James Sefton, Imperial College London

To keep up-to-date with our latest news, events and publications, visit www.cpc.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter @CPCpopulation @ConnectingGens and Facebook. For all the latest news and comment, visit our ‘Centre for Population Change in the news’ page on Scoop.it! www.scoop.it/topic/centre-forpopulation-change

For further details and full events calendar, please visit www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar