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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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📕 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.
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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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🧑‍🏫 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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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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‼️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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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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🧑‍🏫 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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🕛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
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THIS WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar on Thurs 23 Oct

@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 online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...
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 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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📍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'.
October 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🗓️ 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".
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🗓️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".
September 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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“ #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
September 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🗓️ 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
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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
September 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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📕 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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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📕 NEW @migrantlife.bsky.social paper by @jmikolai.bsky.social and Hill Kulu, published in Advances in Life Course Research

Investigates how #partnership, #fertility, and #employment changes interact in the lives of #immigrants’ descendants in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Image shows screen grab of publication information: Advances in Life Course Research Available online 29 August 2025, 100703 In Press, Journal Pre-proof Advances in Life Course Research Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703 Highlights • European/Western descendants and natives have similar trajectories. • Caribbeans have diverse family patterns, but similar employment to natives. • South Asians have conservative family patterns and low labour market attachment. • Heterogeneous family trajectories co-exist with low labour market participation.
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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We ♥️ #BSPS2025 - thanks @bspsuk.bsky.social!

Just some of the great talks: Hale on racism & loneliness in UK Asian communities; Finney on EVENS; Butterick on kin number probabilities; Li on intergenerational proximity; Lyu on parental support & homeownership; Nur on childlessness & kinlessness 👏👏
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📌 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.
September 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Great day #BSPS2025, incl. @migrantlife.bsky.social's Baek on #fertility & #employment of UK women with #migrant backgrounds; Harrison & @maryabedalahad.bsky.social on migrants' life events in France & Sweden; @sarahchristison.bsky.social on UK family & housing transitions by migrant group & origin
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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At #BSPS2025, CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale provided useful practical tips on navigating #PhDs/#postdocs, as well as how to take advantage of training and opportunities.

The session was co-organised with Rachel Wilkie and Alice Butler-Warke as part of the CPC-CG #ECR network
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At #BSPS2025, CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale provided useful practical tips on navigating #PhDs/#postdocs, as well as how to take advantage of training and opportunities. The session was co-organised with Rachel Wilkie and Alice Butler-Warke as part of the CPC-CG #ECR network At #BSPS2025, CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale provided useful practical tips on navigating #PhDs/#postdocs, as well as how to take advantage of training and opportunities. The session was co-organised with Rachel Wilkie and Alice Butler-Warke as part of the CPC-CG #ECR network At #BSPS2025, CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale provided useful practical tips on navigating #PhDs/#postdocs, as well as how to take advantage of training and opportunities. The session was co-organised with Rachel Wilkie and Alice Butler-Warke as part of the CPC-CG #ECR network
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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👋 Head to the CPC-CG stand during the 10:30am refreshment break at #BSPS2025 for a coffee and a catch up, and to nab some conference stationery essentials ☕️🧋✏️🗒️ @bspsuk.bsky.social

Find out which sessions our members are taking part in today at: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...
September 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM