Loved hosting @essgn.bsky.social in Oxford including @dr-appie.bsky.social & family (& the rest of the ESSGN family as well) - read the post and links below to hear about this great event

I’m deeply honoured to have received an Honorary Doctorate from the @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence this week 👇

🎉Congratulations to
@mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social

Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

It was an honour to open as keynote to celebrate the NEW UZH Population Research Center in Zurich!

There are many affinities with our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

I warmly welcome the link of demography, medical sciences, epidemiology, psychology, geography, economics & 🔗 with business, government.

We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social

Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x
Graphical summary below 👇

Has been a fascinating 2 days discussing delayed fertility.
I had the opportunity to present work on biological, genetic & medical factors related to postponement.
And these amazing Vienna VID, ÖAW surroundings! Glad the focus was on the ceiling (and not me, haha) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

Great presentation on the educational gradient & fertility timing in Spain from our MapIneq project by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @cristinasuero.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social at VID Vienna

Congratulations to Charlie Rahal @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for being promoted to Associate Professor at Oxford!
Strong research, teaching and administrative service and one of the brightest & nicest people you will ever meet! 🎉

Excited to start new partnership with Berlin Universities & Oxford!
Yesterday we opened a new Einstein Centre for Population Diversity - combining biomedical, demographic & social science research @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

We had a sad gathering last night to say goodbye to the incredible Dave Kirk after almost a decade at Oxford. We will miss his positivity, respect, intellect & commitment to inclusion. Truly gutted he is leaving….

@nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

Explore results of our recent research impact study on our dashboard: shape-impact.co.uk
Visit the code repository: github.com/OxfordDemSci/I…
Use our Enhanced REF dataset - replicate or reuse (you’re welcome! just don’t forget to cite us, we worked long and hard)
github.com/OxfordDemSci/I���

We looked at the gender case study authors in UK's 2021 research evaluation

Here it is by STEM and SHAPE (social sciences, humanities)
More women (e.g., sociology, health professions)
More men (e.g., physics, economics/econometrics, philosophy)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Real-world impact from University research in the UK is often very interdisciplinary

Social Sciences often with medical sciences
Humanities with social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

High quality research and real-world impact is often highly interdisciplinary

Here is a heatmap of the underpinning research used to drive impact.
It is very spread across multiple areas in the social sciences & in pockets within arts and humanities
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Our study of real-world research impact explores disciplines, topics, words, year, research was published, funding, geography, gender, interdisciplinarity

Shoutout to Charlie Rahal for viz (he doesn't do social media, so let him know when you see him)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

We examined 4000 impact case studies from 2021 UK research evaluation of social sciences (panel c), humanities (panel d) & psychology, psychiatry & neuroscience (UoA 4)

Here's a heatmap of 84 topics we found, across 10 themes and the Unit of Assessments
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/t…

BIG warning from our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social study of UK University research impact.....

When using AI/BERT Large Language Models probabilistic assignment, you MUST have human in loop (it misses ‘meaning’ of language...you get some whacko assignments)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Our recent study used Large Language Models (LLMs) to isolate 84 topics where social sciences & humanities research had real-world impact which cluster into 10 Grand themes
@oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...