📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Is it Mánchester or Manchéster? Either way, I need to learn. From today I’m a Lecturer in Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk - still Italian, still mispronouncing, but very excited for this new chapter!

👏Congrats @francescorampazzo.com @sociologyoxford.bsky.social on #TeachingExcellence Award for teaching #innovations Dr Rampazzo's commitment to inclusivity includes: - inspiring tutorial system reforms - introducing Queer Demography to Sociology curriculum More: www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Wonderful to hear @francescorampazzo.com first BBC interview which features his reseacrch on fertility apps carried out with (amongst others) HumSci alum @alyceraybould.bsky.social

I did my first BBC interview! I spoke to BBC World Service about my research on fertility apps, with @alyceraybould.bsky.social, @peterampazzo.com , Ross Barker & Doug Leasure. Have a listen - and please don’t tell me anything about my voice or grammar! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

📻 Make sure to catch @francescorampazzo.com on BBC World Service's What In The World, discussing the global rise of menstrual tracking apps - and why so many users are turning to them 📱🌍 🕐 Tonight at 6:50pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

🎉 Congrats to @francescorampazzo.com, winner of an @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Award for his innovative and inclusive teaching! His approach includes using creative data sources like digital trace data to enrich student learning 🧑‍🎓 Read more ➡️ socsci.web.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

Honoured to receive a teaching award from @socsci.ox.ac.uk. Grateful to @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social. Proud to have contributed to the Human Sciences degree & supervised students in @sociologyoxford.bsky.social. www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

Grateful to have Vanshika Keshwani (UniPD) and Sabina Bercovich Szulmajster (CED) visiting @sociologyoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social for their PhDs. Vanshika works on mobility in Venice with e-sharing data; Sabina explores sexuality via dating apps. Learning a lot from both!

✍️ New @ox.ac.uk research by @francescorampazzo.com shows Facebook ads can be a cost-effective way to recruit survey participants - especially in the Global South. Comparable data quality to commercial platforms, but at a fraction of the cost 📊 Read ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...

QUEER DEMOGRAPHERS! 📊 Check out this call for proposals for @bspsuk.bsky.social, inviting abstracts for papers that explore LGBTQIA+ populations and related demographic issues. Deadline: 9 May #LGBTQ #queerdata #data #population

Now that #PAA2025 is over, why not think about submitting your work to the Queer Demography session I'm co-organising with @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social at @bspsuk.bsky.social? We welcome abstracts on LGBTQIA+ populations at any stage of development. Deadline: May 9th www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

New paper co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Associate Member @francescorampazzo.com #PoliSky 👇

⌨️Do you need a sample from the Global South—fast and on a budget? ➡️ L. R. Rosenzweig P. Bergquist K. H. Pham @francescorampazzo.com @mattomildenberger.bsky.social: survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With Leah Rosenzweig, Parrish Bergquist, Katherine Hoffmann Pham & Matto Mildenberger, I co-authored a piece in @psrm.bsky.social on Facebook ads for survey sampling in 🇲🇽, 🇰🇪 & 🇮🇩. We assessed sample quality, replicated a canonical experiment & explored trade-offs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great job opportunity: 3-year research fellow in José Manuel Aburto's Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

It was a pleasure to present my latest research with @ercio.bsky.social and @alisto.bsky.social on attitudes toward sexual minorities in Chile at the University of Oxford today 🏳️‍🌈

📢Calling all aspiring demographers! Apply for next year’s EDSD here: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-... and join us in Paris at INED! Deadline March 25 at noon

Huge thanks to Prof Fane Groes for delivering a captivating talk on the unequal battle against infertility at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social. Her research highlights a striking statistic: college-educated women have a 25% higher IVF success rate compared to those who didn’t graduate high school!

Only a few more days left to apply!

My first (short) article from the PhD is out! 👀 Check it out to discover a bit more on the demographics of age at self-disclosure and age at first coming out among LGB people in Europe 📝 (co-authored with my supervisor, @agnese-vitali.bsky.social !)

We kicked off the @sociologyoxford.bsky.social departmental seminar series with the enthusiasm of Grace Chang @gczching.bsky.social, who presented on time-use patterns in adolescence. Her talk featured research from her PhD + findings from the GenTime projects led by Prof. @manyeekan.bsky.social.

What defines the transgender population? We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!

Postdoctoral Opportunity! @sociologyoxford.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc for the DemDialogueAI Project, led by PI @cbarrie.bsky.social. Join his team at the forefront of research on AI, democracy, and trust. 📅 Apply by: 31 January 2025 🔗 Details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Per la prima volta una ricerca studia l’uso delle app di monitoraggio del ciclo mestruale a livello globale, anche nel Sud, dove è più sentito il bisogno di strumenti efficaci per il controllo di fertilità e i download crescono. Feat @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social :) tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2024...

Thrilled to share our study in Digital Health! With Alyce Raybould, @peterampazzo.bsky.social, Ross Barker & Doug Leasure, we explore the global use of menstrual tracking apps across income levels. Key trends revealed! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A novel study by researchers in the UK and Denmark provides the first publicly accessible analysis of global downloads for menstrual tracking apps https://buff.ly/4eBfGmI @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

👋 We're excited to join BlueSky! 🚀 Oxford Sociology is known for its strong analytical, empirical and comparative focus, tackling real-world issues across diverse areas such as #demography, #criminology, #gender, #politicalsociology and more ⭐ Follow us for updates!

New Data Sources for Demographic Research: "we argue that realizing their full potential will demand both innovative methodological developments and continued investment in high-quality, traditional surveys and censuses" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some great posters on display at #BSPS2024 yesterday 😎 Congrats to Micol Morellini who won the best poster award👏 @leverhulme.bsky.social @caseybreen.bsky.social 📷 @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social

🎉🎓Congratulations! Xinyi Zhao successfully defended her dissertation on "Gender inequality in academia: Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Globalization and Digitalization" at the University of Oxford. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

#ICYMI @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social's new paper used Facebook data to estimate the number of European migrants living in the UK which declined in the run up to Brexit ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/faceboo... @leverhulme.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Join @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social next Thursday 30 May for a CPC-CG seminar exploring global family change through over a million @getty.bsky.social family pictures 📸 www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @leverhulme.bsky.social

Join us for session 40 tomorrow at 11.00 am in the Madison Room on how newspapers 🗞️ , LinkedIn 👔, mobile phones 📱, uni admissions 🎓 and everything in between can help us understand demographic behaviours. #PAA2024

Poster sessions will take place in the Regency Ballroom where you'll also find our booth 312, right next to @mpidr.bsky.social 😎 @polizzan.bsky.social @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social @caseybreen.bsky.social @micol.bsky.social @jmaburto.bsky.social

In two weeks, we'll be kicking off our #PAA2024 programme with loads of talks and posters that disrupt and realign #demography ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/see-you... @popassocamerica.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @aashishg.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social @polizzan.bsky.social

📣Happening next week: Our next EAPS-PHS Early Career Seminar on #MediaEngagement & #ScienceCommunication with Bradley Hall-Smith & Austė Aleksandravičiūtė-Šviažienė! 📆Mark your calendars on March, 27th 2024 15:00-16:30 CET 📋Sign up here: tinyurl.com/EAPSPhDComms

I'm delighted to be a visiting scholar at Nuffield College for late April and May 2024! If you're in the area, I'd be happy to meet up for coffee. And if you have a seminar series nearby and a slot to fill during that time, I'd love to hear from you.

Call for Papers for the British Society for Population Studies conference is now out. Conference will be 9-11 September, in the lovely city of Bath. Deadline for abstracts 30 April www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

We are looking for a new doctoral student in Sociological Demography. Hosted by the Department of Sociology / Demography Unit (SUDA) here at Stockholm University. Salaried position with good conditions! Deadline: March 1st. More details via the link below.

📣 New publication on GENUS! Researchers from the CED (Barcelona) led the first global study on trends in household size and composition. 👉They show that households globally are becoming smaller but maintain internal complexity. 🔗https://genus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41118-024-00211-6

New research out led by Alyce Raybould: “9% of 789 UK respondents reported a change in fertility intention after start of pandemic. Changes were in both pro- & anti-natal directions. Health concerns, indirect costs of pandemic & changing work-life priorities listed as reasons"

NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion. I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.

Just a reminder of the deadline for application on January 10. Apply for the 2024 "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... One team works on "Network and Gender Dynamics on Mobility and Migration" @mpidr.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

New position in Computational Statistics & Machine Learning, joint with the Department of Statistics and @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DET460/f...

Did you know there have been 7 cholera pandemics in the last 2 centuries? That cases of bubonic plague are sometimes seen even today? Or that HIV/AIDS used to be 100% fatal, with a median survival time of just 1 year? My new article on pandemics in history: ourworldindata.org/historical-p...

Postdoc opportunity with me in computational demography at Oxford to explore questions about demographic change, kinship, gender and and inter-generational dynamics: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w Keen to apply but need a bit more time to get the application in? Deadline now: Tue, Nov 21, noon (UK time).

Excellent opportunity for students to train with some amazing Demographers! #demography #population