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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
🧑‍🏫 NEXT WEEK's CPC-CG/CRA webinar ⤵️

Spela Mocnik @cra-soton.bsky.social will discuss how factors like financial mindsets, access to knowledge & social context interact to influence financial resilience in later life.

Register to join us: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @britishgerontology.bsky.social
Promotional banner for the CPC-CG seminar series. The image shows a man working on a laptop at a desk with notebooks and papers. The text on the right reads: “CPC-CG seminar series. CPC Centre for Population Change. Connecting Generations. Spela Mocnik, University of Southampton. Lenses on later life: Exploring financial planning and resilience through participatory and design-led research. Online 20 November 12:00–13:00 GMT.” The background is mainly blue with white and green accents.
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📕 New insight paper by CPC-CG member @jackiewahba.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Discusses the impacts of return #migration on #entrepreneurship, #investment, human capital accumulation, and transfer of knowledge and norms.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @populationeu.bsky.social
Screenshot of an academic article page from World Development titled Return migration and economic development: opportunities and challenges by Jackline Wahba. The page shows publication details, sharing options, the DOI link, and a highlights box listing five bullet points about migrant return patterns, financial resources, skills, investment, entrepreneurship, overseas work experience, and the need for supportive policies.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Explore the full paper and interactive dashboard for deeper insights and country/region-level breakdowns.

Study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dashboard: digitalgendergaps.org

Authors on here: @ridhikashyap.bsky.social @caseybreen.bsky.social
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐:

It finds that in low- and middle-income countries

- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men

( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access
A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🧑‍🏫 NEXT WEEK's CPC-CG/CRA webinar ⤵️

Spela Mocnik @cra-soton.bsky.social will discuss how factors like financial mindsets, access to knowledge & social context interact to influence financial resilience in later life.

Register to join us: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @britishgerontology.bsky.social
Promotional banner for the CPC-CG seminar series. The image shows a man working on a laptop at a desk with notebooks and papers. The text on the right reads: “CPC-CG seminar series. CPC Centre for Population Change. Connecting Generations. Spela Mocnik, University of Southampton. Lenses on later life: Exploring financial planning and resilience through participatory and design-led research. Online 20 November 12:00–13:00 GMT.” The background is mainly blue with white and green accents.
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A research dissemination event led by CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni has brought findings from a @ukri.org ESRC-funded project to stakeholders, contributing important insights to academic and policy debate about #pension protection and pension reform.

Read the full story: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_...
CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham opens the pension protection project dissemination event, presenting 'Bridging experiences and policy: Designing fairer pension futures' Professor Athina Vlachantoni presents at the pension protection event. Dr Spela Mocnik presents at the pension protection event.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🗞️"A recent study carried out by the ESRC Centre for Population Change @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social found a ‘clear link’ between public health #funerals and #poverty. It also found Lambeth had the 2nd highest number of public health funerals in the country." Read the full article in the SW Londoner ⬇️
Council funerals more than double in Lambeth as cost of dying soars across London | South West Londoner council funerals in Lambeth more than doubled
Council funerals have more than doubled in Lambeth – raising concerns about deprivation and the soaring cost of dying in the capital.
www.swlondoner.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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📰The November 2025 edition of the WorldPop Newsletter is out!

🌍Explore new data releases, research updates & impact stories.

✒️Don't miss out - sign up for our next edition!

🔗https://www.worldpop.org/worldpop-newsletter/
Two photos showing WorldPop capacity building in action - left Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi and right Dr Natalia Tejedor Garavito
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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📙New journal article

Led by CPC-CG Co-Director Alison Bowes, the paper discusses scaling home designs for healthy cognitive #ageing from a realist evaluation perspective, with CPC-CG's Catherine Pemble, @lisadavisonphd.bsky.social and Alison Dawson.
Scaling home designs for healthy cognitive ageing: a realist evaluation perspective
We present an empirically grounded theory of change (ToC) to support delivery at scale of home design for healthy cognitive ageing. Using a realist ev…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Research by CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni and @janefalkingham.bsky.social reported by the National Child Development Study @clscohorts.bsky.social for its importance in shedding light on which #carers might be more likely to cut back on work, and the possible reasons why: ncds.info/caring-respo...
Screenshot of a webpage from the National Child Development Study titled “How do caring responsibilities impact working life?” dated 20 October 2025. The page discusses how providing unpaid care for elderly or dependent family members affects employment. On the right, there is a photo of an older man using a walking frame, accompanied by a younger man and a child walking beside him on a tree-lined path in autumn.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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‼️Coming up next week - still time to register to attend: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca... @ncrm.ac.uk @bspsuk.bsky.social @elsa-study.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social @cra-soton.bsky.social
cpc-cg.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 15
🗓️ 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
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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👋 Meet CPC-CG member Athina Vlachantoni, Professor of #Gerontology and #SocialPolicy.

In this interview, Athina reflects on her path in #academia, the value of taking chances, and the importance of balance and equality in shaping a meaningful career. @uosmedia.bsky.social
Professor Athina Vlachantoni
YouTube video by Social Sciences - University of Southampton
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November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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☹️ Missed our #CPCCGWebinar last week?

Krista Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social joined us to discuss how institutional, cultural, and policy contexts shape #marriage and #divorce in the #US.

The recording is now available so you can catch up 🥳
youtu.be/f9EJB5Tl8LU?... @bspsuk.bsky.social
The Context of Connection: Linking Partnership, Place and Population Data - Krista K. Westrick-Payne
YouTube video by Centre for Population Change Connecting Gens
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November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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‼️The @bspsuk.bsky.social conference 2026 call for sessions and strands is now open - deadline 16 January.

British Society for #Population Studies Conference
8-10 September 2026
@unikent.bsky.social, Canterbury

More info and submissions: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @populationeu.bsky.social
A group of people sit and talk in a busy cafeteria-style room with wooden tables and chairs. Below the photo, text announces the British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, stating it will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, from 8–10 September 2026, with a note in red indicating that the call for sessions and strands is now open.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Check out this new #FutuRes paper giving policymakers an overview of the latest policy-relevant research on #demographic and #population change.

Read how best to support work - by CPC-CG members Jakub Bijak and Emily Barker @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social

➡️ population-europe.eu/files/docume...
Cover of a discussion paper titled "A Resilient Future of Europe: Strengthening families, work and pensions in face of demographic change," published in October 2025 as part of the Population and Policy series, issue number 23. Edited by Kate Dearden and Peter Weissenburger. The right side shows an older man carrying a young girl on his shoulders, both smiling and holding pink candyfloss, with another child reaching up to them in a park setting.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Call for papers!

Join the 16th Supercentenarians Seminar — one of the most inspiring events in our community, organised by@ined-english.bsky.social .

Deadline: 20 December

More information: tinyurl.com/47cmvzjp
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🕑Join us online TODAY at 2pm (UK time) - all welcome, simply register to get the link: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social
cpc-cg.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 12d
🧑‍🏫 THIS WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @populationeu.bsky.social
Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Join us on Thursday at 2pm for our next #CPCCGWebinar. Krista Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will discuss how institutional, cultural, and policy contexts shape marriage and divorce in the US. Details below-
cpc-cg.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 12d
🧑‍🏫 THIS WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @populationeu.bsky.social
Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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🧑‍🏫 THIS WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @populationeu.bsky.social
Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🧑‍🏫 NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista K. Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social
Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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New publication ✍️ Recent work by @jmikolai.bsky.social, Hill Kulu, and @ischiathere.bsky.social, together with Isaure Delaporte, unveils the interrelationship between fertility and employment changes among migrant populations across three major migrant recipient countries in Europe.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🧑‍🏫 NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 6 Nov

Krista K. Westrick-Payne @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social will discuss how institutional, cultural, & policy contexts shape #marriage & #divorce in the #US, drawing on the Theory of Conjunctural Action.

Register to join: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social
Image shows person wearing headphones sitting at a desk attending a webinar on a computer screen. Text advertises: This CPC-CG webinar will take place on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:00 UK Time. Krista K. Westrick-Payne, Assistant Director at the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University will be delivering a presentation, entitled, "The context of connection: Linking partnership, place, and population data".
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The dual-earner model means women are often delaying having children from their 20s to their 30s, which can lead to fewer births or not having as many children as they would've liked. The key is more gender parity in relationships.

CPC-CG's Director @janefalkingham.bsky.social in British Vogue
Fertility Rates In The UK Have Reached An All-Time Low. The Reasons Aren’t As Simple As You Think
Shifting gender roles, modern dating culture and a cost of living crisis... is it any wonder no one’s having kids? Gillian Orr considers the mother of all dilemmas.
www.vogue.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🕛TODAY - #CPCCGWebinar at 12:00(UK)

@jiaxinshi.bsky.social from HKUST presents 'Internal #migration & #longevity in the #US' - research using newly available #populationdata with over 12mn death records for cohorts born between 1912-1930

Register to join: https//www.cpc.ac.... @bspsuk.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'.
October 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Interested in #workforce development, #intergenerational dynamics & evolving #work practices?

Work in #employment support, #businessdevelopment or #community services?

Still time to register for our @ukri.org #ESRCFestival of #SocialScience event this Wednesday: www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...
Image shows event info leaflet for 'Your Workplace is Multigenerational: How Regional Insights Reveal the Challenges and Opportunities of Working Across Generations 22 October 2025 18:00 – 19:30 Logie Lecture Theatre, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA Booking required Free For the event: Today’s workforce spans five generations - from Gen Z to Baby Boomers - all navigating rapid changes in how, where, and why we work. But while age diversity is often discussed nationally, local factors like transport links, housing shortages, or regional history can dramatically shape generational experiences of work. This event shares ground breaking insights from the ESRC-funded Changing Intergenerational Relationships Project, which explored these challenges in Stirling and Clackmannanshire.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM